Pe 1. Barnum and Henry Iba both had the right idea. Hach procured an
exceptional attraction and exhibited them to the public which “paid off" at the
gate to view the oddity. )

Chairman Jim St. Clair of the Basketball Rules Committee, will see from
his orow's nest above the basket Saturday night at the Oklehoma - Oklahoma A. and
Me game at Norman what we at Kansas have known for a long time, - the folly of a
ton foot basket easily within reach of a hyper seven footer!

St. Cleir talks of defensive trouble, He speaks of goal tending difficulties.
The offensive threat is even more of a crisis.

He should imow that Kurland now holds the high scoring record of all time of
Gallagher Field House, the hom: of the A. and KM, Cowboys.

Raising the basket discriminates against no player but it does discourage
@ super tall player from camping under a low goal because the poorest place to
shoot at a twelve foot basket is direotly underneath the goal.

The same reasoning applies to moving the goal posts ten yarde back of the
goal line in college football. I+ discourages too easy place kinking or drop
kieking attempts, yet it allows the same opportmity for all field goal artists.

If the proposed defensive goal tending suggestion of St. Glair chanel
become » rule it would nesessitate two additional crows nestsattending referees
to rule on descending flights of the ball over the perpendicular cylinder of the
basket, plus the two present referees that we now have. A sat-walk constructed
from basket to basket above the players' heads would enable a single tightwire
walteiens viatioies ‘te Ghensee tnt: béilints Sa ttn elevated position. And some of the
present basketball rules members éven talk of the expense of raising the basket
two feet! |

A ten foot basket encourages the big time coaches to scour the country,
searching for these altitudinous giants too tall to fight for Uncle sam, yet