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of basketball played for the first time in the international com-
petition. “The father of basketball" was sent te Berlin following

a national drive for fumis by spectators, officials, and players who
wanted to have Dr. Naismith present when the teams of all nations
filed in behind flags of their countries. Dr. Naismith addressed the
assembled players before the start of the tournament--and, he said
later, his eyes were misty. :

‘In the spring of 1939 Dr. Naismith and Mrs. Florende Kincaid,
for many years a housemother for Sigma Phi Epsilon at K.U., were
married «

Dr. Naismith's children are Mrs. Thomas L. Daw, of Topeka, Mrs.
Le He Dodd of St. Louis, Wrs. George B. Stanley of Pueblo, Colo.,
John Edwin Naismith, of Topeka, and James Sherman Naismith of Dallas. —

Dr. Naismith was first stricken 111 on Sunday night, Nov. 19, _
at his home on University Drive. He made a remarkable recovery from
effects of the cerebral hemorrage and was released from the hospital

to return to his home on Wednesday, Nove 22. A relapse in his con- |
dition came Thursday, and he died on Nov. 28, 1939, 7