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BASKET SHOOTERS INCENTER Of ATHLETICSBasketball now occupies the center of the stage and from now until the early part of March the big collegiate games will follow in rapid succession land the hopes based on months ofpractice will be realized or shattered j game.and Pennsylvania especially, the professional game ha? a big winter foi* lowing. This game is played in a court that is entirely enclosed by a net and for this reason is known as the cageBasketball is unique in one particular and that is, while being a game that emphasizes most thoroughly the value I of team play, it requires at the same j time that each player be n highly | skilled specialist.In football it is possible to win with one or two weak members on the team but in basketball, if there be a single flaw or a weak member there is little hope for success. Of all games played by our American youth, basketball holds the palm for speed, strenuous, i aggressive, fighting speed. The teams must be trained to go for 20 minutes without a letup, for to falter is to lose j in the great indoor game.; It is suiprising that a game as young-1 9i as basketball is could find a welcomeIi place in the lives of American sports-| men. When James Naismith nailed a couple of peach baskets to the wall of the old gymnasium at Springfield training school, and taking a rubber J football urged liis fellow students to j take a try at the new game he hadi invented, none of the group who wereThe set of rules that is most satisfactory to college men is the colie- * giate code ,and as this set of rules is arranged by representatives of the leading universities and colleges ofthe country, they have found generr!acceptance among the educational in-«stitutions.Game Much Faster.jThe game as played by the collegians j is much faster than the game as IIplayed by the athletic club and Y. M. j O. A. This is largely due to the fact that greater freedom is allowed in dribbling and there are not so many ; technicalities that are penalized by the J calling of fouls. This year, v.ith the organization of the northwest conference basketball league, a great interest has been stimulated in the splendid indoor game. Thus far. Washington State leads the league with a clean record, but there are many chances for upsets, as the season has just started.iThe league standing at present is as jin at the birth of basketball, realized! follows:ICollege.i VY. S. lt;Wonw hat an immense place it would fill in | ‘ ‘ V,’ ^the athletic life of our people. •n! Whitman ......1Thousands Play It.This was in 1892 and since that dayj*daho ........ °j Washington andLost0111p. c\| 1000 .300.500 .000*thousands and thousands of American boys and girls have benefited andlt; regon are notmembers of the basketball league, butIthey are both playing the game andj gained in physical strength by playing j\ i .a I, .. - getting the sport on a good basis inj the game. W hile basketball permits lt;\T n * c jinrtivM.,,1 cirtu thei- respective institutions. The Uni-marvelous individual skill and demands | superb teamwork, it has the added ! value of being enjoyed by the novice | as well as by the expert. It would beversify of Oregon has been handicapped by lack of facilities, but with the new gymnasium that is just aboutteam will ;j hard to estimate the number of people ; spieled ‘heir basketballj who play basketball in a single season.be prepared to meet opponents on the ibut as every small town and every *loor at fcugene.\high school, college and preparatoryWashington’s Good Spirit.school are represented by teams, the \ A game has already been arranged j total number must be enormous. j with Washington State college, and the !There are several sets of rules in University men will doubtless meet j vogue. The A. A. U. rules have been j the collegians at Corvallis sometimelater in the season. The University of Washington basketball men are deserving of considerable credit for theadopted by the athletic clubs and Y. ! M. C. A. of the country, and are played I bv many secondary schools. Then weji , *have the girl s rules—a set compiledsportsmanlike way in which they haveifor the benefit of feminine players who taken up the game. They did not re- ;might find the men’s game somewhatj ceive the support of the athletic asso- ;strenuous and physically harmful, elation and therefore the members of jThen there is the professional set of j the team assumed all responsibilityj rules and in the New England states and have financed their own season• 1
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Walla Walla Evening Statesman
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Thu, Feb 10, 1910
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