an
Which I think is good for Ripley. At a mecting of the Naticnal Association

of Basketball Coaches in Chicago, Dr. Naismith told the coaches that he never
played a game of basketball in his life. He said that he couldn't learn to
riny basketbejl bocause he had previcusiy played football. He and Alonzo Stagg
both played football, and when they got hold of a basketball they started to
run with ite The early rules of baskethall provided a penalty for running

with the ball, and a penalty for a foul meant that the offender should be put

in the penalty box on the sideline for a cortain number of minutes. —

for that reason that Dre Naismith never played a game of basketball. Tho genial
old doctor got a great kick out of telling this story to the American basketball
coachese It may be that down the years, Dre Naismith with his contribution

of basketball to the world will be placed alongside Frederick Froebel and his
kindergarten.

The art world has recognized basketball cs a game that is endowed
with all of the finer movements of bodily gracee Ted Shawn and his group of
expert dancers have in their repertoire of dance, basketball. Stowitts, the
great California artist, in his Palos Vordes Library Art Gallery has portrayed
astonishing life-size pictures of Amorican champion athletes. It is Stowitts!
belief that the nobility and beauty of athletic form is as yet not sufficiently
recognized. Here aro a few of the Golden Coast Californie. chempions depicted
in this remarkable collection: Ken Carpenter, Phil Cope, Joe Gonzales, Lee
Guttero, Bud Houser, Cornelius Johnson, Lee Roy Kirkpatrick, Earle Mcadows,
Mickey Riley, Bill Sefton, and Woodrow Strode. Each of these athictes spent
two days in the studio perfecting exact measurements before the artist ever
attempted the exccution of the portraits. Just as the Greek games had their

influence on Greek art, so do tho games of America influence art and education

in this country.