Mr. Tower----2

Other newspapers use B instead of G
for a guard. I believe guard is the correct form, al-

though I might be wrong. Also, while it makes no dif-

ference, I believe most box scores start the line-up
with the left forward (rather than the right). In con-
trast to baseball again, they have a regular form,
Starting from first to third, and then going from left
field to right.

While I might be an especially interest-
ed fan on basketball, particularly in regards to inter-
pretation of box scores and figures, I believe that if
the above were broached to the rules makers, they will
agree with me that there is a lack of uniformity and
completeness in current basketball box scores, ?

As a remedy, may I. suggest that the
forthcoming convention accept, or go on record advising,
a "more modern" or "the collegiate" or "the more intel-
ligent" box score and so herald it that newspapers, adopt
it with the start of next winter. My suggested form is
as follows:

oN TF Fa Ff Pie
(tip rt, ©, 16, rele 33. 3° Jo 5.35 2

(Lower portion of box. score to list winner on top and
scores according to quarters or halves, thus:

Winning team 18 25---41
Losing Team 18 20---38

Referees--Jones and Black. Time of halves--20 minutes

In interpreting the suggested form
above, may 1 add that frequently a 3 Ot. 10 or 15
names in a box scores does not mean? Wr used, necess-
arily. Most frequently, a coach uses a first team for
about 35 or 38 minutes, shoves|in a second club, and then
closes the dieing minutes, with a second batch of five,
The paper comes out the next day with a total of 15
players and one says to himself: "Hmm, what an easy
victory, 15 players used." Also, some Starting players
or substitutes are used more frequently or longer than
another of equal rank, yet, unless there is a flock of
points alongside his name, the common inference is that
he played a minute or two or was no good at all. Just
as a digression, the cases of Hank Luisetti and Chet

Jaworski, of RI, could be compared more easily, if the
actual playing time of both could be had, which, without-

doubt, would be more conclusive than the total number
of actual games participated in.

 

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