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BY Pete Lightner

Coaches of basketball from all over this section of
the state will be on hand tonight at the Forum to see the
Gridleys and Evans Paper play a cage game under the)

new rule which shelves the center jump.

Of course, the tipless-center game@
will not be entirely new. It was
used last year in case of a dunked
free shot. It was used also by the
fair cagettes in the national fem-
inine tourney last March, the public
reacting very favorably to the plan.

How the general public will greet)
\the game is still a subject of ap-
prehension to some coaches, but this
column predicts that 98% of the
fans will take it and like it. The
game is bound to be speedier. There
may be times when a team with
one of the ten-stery centers, and a
short, dwindling lead, will pine for
the center jump, But on the other
hand, every time a team is scored)
upon, the opposition gets the ball.

Basketball moves on and _ this}
new rule is one of the most drastic
ever made and yet there is every
indication that it will result as the
no-run-with-fumble rule did in
football, speed’ up the game.

The game tonight has more sig-
nigicance than the usual early sea-
son game. Evans Paper wants to
beat a Valley team and be recog-
nized as the logical Kansas City
member, an honor now belonging to
Healey Motors. So look for a lot
of hard basketball around — the

chool Changes Coach

South Dakota State which has
three times played Wichita in re-
cent years is to have a new coach
next season. “Red” Threlfahl, for-
mer Purdue athlete, is going “out.”
H. D.. Stallings, who has been the
school librarian becomes atletic
director and a new football coach
is to ‘be signed up. The reason for
the upheaval at Brookings. was not
announced. é

 

 

 

 

 

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