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 improvements in the basketball backboards has been
of immeasurable value. This company cooperated in experi-
mental work designed to determine the parts of the old
backboard which are actually used and the effect on the
game when superfluous space is eliminated, Experimental
boards were produced by the Medart 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
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"I am sure that the members of the National Committee and
progressive basketball men everywhere appreciate the will-
ingness of your Company to devote their attention to matters
of this kind in the hope that the experimental work will re-
sult in definite game improvements."

(Signed) He V. Porter