—~2~ Before March 15, you will receive the printed report of a careful and valuable study in the measurement of physical output in basketball practice, - ; If your membership card does not read “For the Duration", then you owe at least $2.00, Please. send the check payable to the Association with your reply sheet and get the Duration card. Several of our members have become authors or co-authors during the past year. If you know of one, write in about him for the April bulletin. ; Chances seem very good that any member from college ranks (who has business in New York at the time of the tournaments and /” the Executive meeting) can count on getting tickets for the games, The committees in charge really want us there. If you plan to be there, notify Ed Hickox plenty early as to exact dates and as to your desires. Another announcement will reach you before tournament time. telling you what the Executive Committee plans on the basis of your replies to the questions on the return sheet. Several of our members who were in service have been dis- charged. Several others have recently been taken into service. Oswald Tower has written to us the following letter: "May I convey through you to the National Associstion of College Basketball Coaches my deep appreciation of the honor they conferred | upon me through the award of the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee's basket- ball trophy. That the Coaches Association, composed as it is of the leaders in the field of basketball, should consider me entitled to this significant award is the source of greater pleasure than the receipt of the beautiful trophy itself. "The cooperation and support which the Coaches Association has given to the National Basketball Committee are factors of great im- portance in bringing the game to its present high state of popularity and success. Your organization has studied the rules unselfishly and with a view to what is best for the game's development. The result has been Some very constructive changes in the rules as well as the suppression of many suggestions which your study has shown to be undesirable.