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ute John Te Doyle, | .
fmerican Sports Publishing Coe,
. New York City, NeYs

a < have been asked by Mre Tower to write an article on
Ot, Nalenithe I have written rather exhaustively upon him, but
since he is the father of basketball and one of the most unique
sports characters of all time, I felt perhaps on this one  —ssi«#s
occasion we should do him this honor, even if it took up quite
& bit of spacee I am also sending you en excellent likeness of —
Ure Naismith to accompany the articles : :

_ There is one question that I debated upon «+ the inclusion
_ Of the original rulese lany people have never seen them, and me
less we preserve then for posterity and history and incorporate .
then in one of the Rules book volumes, 1 am afraid the great mass
of besketball followers will never have an opportunity to see then.

For this reason I have inoluded them in this tribute to the _
father of basketball, If you find that the article is too long

_ fer the space that you have, then the only thing thet I suggest
ds to delete that part, Otherwise, I believe the rest of the art~- —
_ dele should be included. I hope, however, that the whole article
may bee ? me oa a oan

ce You will also notice that the write-up on the Big Six
is longer than usual, but since the thstern Intercollegiage League
has about eighteen pages, and since the Big Six had a triple tile

_ for first place, the only time in history that this has happened,

and one of their teams went to the Mimals for the National Champ«
ionship, I would appreciate it if you could allow this space. |
The article was written by Irs Harold Keith, a greet friend of

_ ‘bie Ce He MeBride, and the individual whom ifr, McBride nominated
‘to write the article. leBride had written it for us once or twice