“I admit they have improved shooting and have speedea up tne
game (although to what purpose I do not know),” Podoloff’s
letter concluded. :

Nat Holman, coach of the City College team and as keen a
student of the game as you'll find anywhere, has this comment in
the City College Campus. “The professionals have a rule which
takes care of the big man more than adequately. If you define a
certain zone and enforce a three-second count on any man in that
zone with his back to the basket, you would get rid of these robber
‘barons of the backboard. The zone would be the width of the
foul line and include everything from the foul line to the basket.

Holman Proposal. Successful With Pros

“While in this zone the player would have three seconds to
take a pass or shoot, or else get out. If he didn’t his team would
lose possession. This rule has worked rather well in pro basket-
ball. If we could get some conference or group of schools to adopt
it experimentally for one season, we could really tell how it would |

work.”
There you have two more different suggestions on dealing
- with the seven-foot (or close to it) rebound-snatcher. The first one
would undoubtedly result in less scoring, but would lessen the
value of the stationary big man under the basket. The second
would keep the play confined to one-half the court area, as under
the present ten-second rule, would still permit clogging up the de-
fended team’s area, but would keep the big man moving after
three seconds in the bucket.
* * *

Taking its cue from the National Football League, the Amer-
ican Soccer League is also said to be considering some move to
end the plethora of tie games and may adopt an overtime rule |
at its meeting at the Hotel Imperial Saturday night. Fifteen of
the 57 games played thus far this season have ended in stalemates.

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‘Maj.-Gen. Robert B. Williams, commanding officer of the Sec-
ond Air Force at Colorado Springs, Col., writes in to state that the
Superbombers’ football team, playing primarily for the entertain-
ment of fellow service men, performed before approximately 175,000
people, including 125,000 service personnel this past fall. As part
of the Army Air Forces’ physical fitness program, the Superbomb-
ers’ season was a highly successful project ... The army of Sonja
Henie fans is advised to wait no longer; tickets for her show start-
ing at the Garden Jan. 17 are going as fast as they ever did in
previous years, :