Statements by Mr. H. V. Porter, Secretary, National Basketball
Committee of the United States and Canada

“In my opinion, the work of the Fred Medart Manufacturing Company
in assisting the National Basketball Committee in making improve-
ments in the basketball backboards has been of immeasurable value.
This company cooperated in experimental work designed to deter-
mine the parts of the old backboard which are actually used and the
effect on the game when superfluous space is eliminated. Experi-
mental boards were produced by the Fred Medart Manufacturing
Company without cost to the committee and it is largely through
the use of such boards that the National Committee was able to arrive
at the dimensions which have been adopted and legalized for 1949-1."

 

T am sure that the members of the National Committee and progres-
sive basketball men everywhere appreciate the willingness of your
Company to devote their attention to matters of this kind in the hope
that the experimental work will result in definite game improvements.”

(Signed) H. V. Porter.

MEDART Printed in U. S. A.
ST. LOUIS
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