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of yourselves in a common sense waye Ramember what I told you in
spring practice regarding the pusheup and the dip on your fingers
and toese I said, start this exercise three times, both morning
and night, and then the second week execute it six times each
morning and night. The third week build up to nine times twice a
day, and the fourth week spring up on your fingers and toes twelve
times, touching the chin and barely touching the abdomen to the
floor, but not resting, then push up and touch the right car, push
up and touch the left ear. Do this on the fingers and not the
palms of the hands,

Now, I know you may say it is 2 little tough, but the
fellow who won't do this will nevor be the valuable menter of a
varsity toam that he should be. You know what this is for = to
strengthen the tissues of the wrists and fingers so that you do
not sprain your thumbs and fingers during the basketball soasone
A sprained thumb is a “dead horse" in basketball. And snappy
fingers execute unerring shots with more power and poise than do
"disherag" fingors which constantly slop over the balle

You say you want to win a championship. Well, let's sce
you begin now, and whon you came back to school before the last week
of September is over we will be having our meeting for varsity
basketball... We are going to start practicing our fundamentals carlye
If most of the boys are working in the aftcrnoons then we will prac-
tice at night. But we are going to practice at least three times a
week starting in late September, and by the middle of October we
may incroasc it to four times a weck, We are dedicating the Okla»
homa Ae and Me ficld house on the 9th and 10th of December, and
then we go to Texas, so you sco what we aro up asainst, I must get
one game before we play the Oklahama Aggies at Stillwater. I am
going to try to got Washburn, but if we can%t get them we will get
someone clsce I want to give every fellow a chance to make that
first team. ‘Ic have a lot of wonderful matcrial = »otential, I
should say, but just what we do with it will depend upon how the
players and the coach react to one of the toughest situations that
we have ever experienced.

Maybe the fumny man who drew the rather funny cartoon in
the Jayhawker about the Kansas basketball team anc its coach picking
easy opponents had strabismus (eye squint) sufficicntly bad to blind
him from the fact that the Kansas football team, the Kansas track
team, the Kansas baseball team, the Kansas tennis team, the Nansas
golf team, and the Kansas swimiing team - all were striving valiantly
to win the Big Six championship in their respective sporting cvents,
and that is exactly what the Kansas basketball team did, aftor
getting knowked fiat on their backs in the first gane with Oklahoma,