innovations. It is interesting to note that all the top teams in the
country have sky-serapers on their basketball personnel. Check up on the
gigentic gaat tonieye with their college affiliations and their high school
residences to find the answer for the easy practice of proselyting of these
youngsters »

George Kok, 6 ft. 104 inch player is the na scant acquisition
of the University of Arkansas. He has been on the Razorback squad for about
two weeks now and he hails from Saginaw, liichigan. Arkansas will be in the
Western N.C.A.A. tournament which will be played in icases City, March 24
and 25.6 They are representing the 6th district of the Southwest Areas

ne ae Wraupon (eritigs 6 fh TH ing ead 6 Mts 6 dns, from Winriell,
Kansas, are freshmen players on Coach Adolph Rupp's toam at the University of
Kentucky.e Both of these boys played on the state Ditepionsis team before
enrolling at Kentucky.

Bob Kurland, the 7 ft. 1 in, giant who plays on Hank Thee
Oklahoma A. & Me Cowboy team from Stillwater, Oklahoma, comes from down the
Mississippi River country in the Ozark area, either on the issouri or the
Illinois side,

Mike Komenich, of last year's National Collegiate A. A. champions
at Wyoming University, played high school ball in Gary, Indiana.

And so it goes, There is a definite traffic in these tall boys
under a low 10 foot basket bacause these’ especially tall fellows almost
insure a championship for a team that can recruit some other players to
go along with them. The decuetekins of tall players is becoming so common

that it is almost a general rule among coaches who want championship teams,

Of course, there are rules against it in practically every conference, but