Spalding Guide Filled With Basketball Data . The Spalding official basketball guide for the 1940-41 season came off the press yesterday and among) -other things- contains the several changes in the playing code of the, National Basketball Committee. As) in previous years, the guide contains reviews from all sections of the! United States and Canada, educa tional data pertaining to the game; and numerous illustrations. One of the special articles in the guide is a tribute to the late Dr. .James Naismith, inventor of the game, by Dr. Forrest C. Allen, direc- .tor of physical education at the ‘University of Kansas and _ vice-| oo of the National Commit- -. tee.