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PASSING” IS IMPORTANT IN BASKETBALL'/ffWWfOri3m^ToGy^fB.5/r/av3rjf^Bmz /$ MsraBy JAMES NAISMITH.Simple as the art of “passing a basket ball may seem, that one accomplishment constitutes perhaps 60 per cent, of the pastime. If a team has not mastered throwing the ball and receiving It, the fundamental principle of the sport is still to be learned. Perhaps you accost a basket ball playing friend on the street and ask him how it came about that his team was trimmed by a five which on “dope was inferior.The chances are that he will either tell you that “we couldn’t shoot has-; kets or “we didn’t get any 'passing' into the game.” Hence, to the coach who finds his men are growing a bit stale, I would give this advice: Lin© your men up around your gymnasium and keep them at work for a half hour or more befove scrimmage begins at nothing save passing the ball back and forth, each player putting as much speed into his throw as possible. Make your men try to knock each other over by the speed in the throw. Then line them up for the practice game and you will see the result in the improved team work.Team work is constituted in the use of gray matter and accurate throwing : of the leather sphere. In starting the throw under ordinary circumstances the fiat of the hand should balance the ball, which Is raised slightly over the head and to one side. The rest of the toss is the same as that used In pitching a baseball, except that you let go of the basket ball a trifle sooner, chiefly because It is much larger and unwieldy. There are dozens of methods of passing the ball. The one I have shown abbve la the overhand throw. Then there is the underhand throw—as used in pitching an indbor baseball—this pass being generally effective at short distanoes.In a tight pinch where a player is compelled to leap into the air after the basket ball, which threatens to go into an opponent's hands should he let it get past him, it is best to shoot the sphere from an overhead position with both hands. This throw is hard at first, because It brings Into play muscles seldom used in ordinary'passing, but with a little practice its efficiency will demonstrate Itself to the player. Besides those passes there is the underhand pass with both hands, which is used when a player gats the sphere by scooping it from the floor.In the diagram to the left, the center (No, 3) of the team represented as aggressor knocks the sphere behind him to the left guard (No. 4), who huns up a short distance to receive it. While that part of the formation is being carried out the right guard (No. 5) advances to the middle of the floor tjfhere he takes the pass from the left guard. The right guard then shoots the sphere diagonally across the floor to a point underneath the goal, where the right forward (No. 2) is awaiting it, having crossed over from his position to the right of the goal. Thence into the net.Should the right forward fail In his effort to cage’’ the leather the covering of positions is followed out, thusconstituting a defensive feature to thecombination.The center drops back to take care of the opponent left unguarded by the right guard, while the left guard covers his own individual opponent, from whom be has been absent only a moment. The right guard, after his pass to the right forward, continues his run down the floor to a point directly In front of the goal, the right forward standing fast at the left of the basket The left forward (No. 1) is already on the right side of the goal, having crossed over when the right forward made his movement after the ball. Thus you will see that every point of exit, which the ball may have in case of a miss by the right forward, is covered, and then the scrimmage and undirected efforts to score are started.Taking up the drawing to the right, which illustrates the play in exactly a reverse condition, we have the right guard receiving the ball from the center, after which it reaches the left guard stationed near the middle of the floor.Then the left guard passes the leather to the left forward, who crossed over to the right of the goal. From that point the effort to score is made. The covering of positions finds the left forward on the right-hand side of the basket, the right forward on the left side and the left guard watching for an opportunity from a point in front of the goal.the center shoot it direct to the forward under the goal if he gets both hands on the ball? The reason for not allowing that is because the opposing center is between the aggressive player and the latter's goal and to all purposes guarding him closely with body and arms.Champion Strfkc-Out Pitcher.The American association lays clai to the champion strike-out pitcher. F is Clarence Short, who will twirl U Milwaukee. With the semi-professio al club of Edgartown, Wla., last yei Short, who is a southpaw, fanned 2lt; batters in 25 games. This average almost 11 to a contest.Ketchel to Box Langford.Philadelphia is to he the scene ol another big bout. Harry Edwards manager of the National A. C.. claims he has signed Stanley Ketchel and Sam Langford to meet at the Union club Wednesday night, April 27, in a six-round battle.Many Changes Among Tiger*.The Tiger team has been altere more than any other that ever won flag, considering the makeup of th club in 1907 and 1909. It has an er cire new infield, the only survivor a the original Iniield quartet being noi carried as utility man.Have Strong Pitching .Staff.The St. Louis Cardinals think the have some swell pitching power wit: Willis, Corridon, Lush and Sallee al going strong, besides Harmon, Bad man and Raleigh, The combinatio: doesn't look bad, anyhow.
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Oelwein, Iowa, US
Fri, Apr 08, 1910
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