PRESIDENT
Maurice V. Murphy, ’20
Hope Valley, R. I.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Rudolph H. Kohlberg, ’20

Auburn, R. I.

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R. 1. Rams Club, Ine. TREASURER

William J. Whelan, ’11
Kingston, R. I.
SECRETARY

William G. Mokray, ’29
Kingston, R. I.

 

Kingston, R. I.

March 14, 1939

Mr. Oswald Tower, Editor
"Basketball Guide
Andover, Mass,

My dear Mr. Tower;

Enclosed please find a resume of the
1938-1939 New England Conference basketball racq,
which you might find interesting for next winter's
basketball guide. Wo doubt, you will have to cut the
long list of insignificant scorers, as you did for the
current Guide,

While writing this letter, I thought
I might impose upon your time and ruminate upon scor-
ing in hopes of convincing you that some action ought
to be taken at the forthcoming basketball convention
So that basketball box scores could be standardized and
made to mean something,

If you would permit, I'll digress and
bring up baseball. Almost everywhere in the United States
the box score is the Same, there being a regular pro-
ceedure in listing the players according to their batting
positions and pursuing the AB, R, H, PO, A, and Fina
uniform fashion, with the possible exception of the
errors, which, because of lack of space, especially when
the column is divided into halves, are listed directiy
beneath, :

As a contrast, basketball offers a
less complete and, certainly, a more diversified appear-
ing box score, The current box score is decidedly "offen-
Sive," in that it lists largely the statistics on those
who scored or failed to score, Then, a variety of forms
of box scores are located throughout the nation. While
the majority use the tabulated type, there are ever so
many that only list the DORE Reek bens presumably with the
idea of saving space, list’ the fouls and goals, which
tends to make the entire thing ambiguous or cumbersome
to read,

some newspapers list a player's name . .
as often as he changes from one position to another, so,
if a man plays guard, center and forward, or, even changes
from one guard position to another, his name appears more
than once.

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