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IT’S BASKETBALL NOWA NEW WINTER SPORT FOR IN-OOR PLAYERS. 1Somethin* About the Simple Ttlmy WhichIs Affording OjmnMlum FrcqaintersThroo|hottt the Country with Eierelscand Recreation#NDOOE. FOOT*ball, or, to .term it properly, basketball, is the thing just now. The lively sport promises to become popular this winter. Ball starts from circle in center. Large circles at each end represent the goals or baskets. Small circles are players on the team and crosses the opposing players.To James Naisinith of the International Young Men’s Christian association training school at Springfield is due all credit for arranging a game which is to-day furnishing such a vast fund of amusement and physical benefit to thousands of young and old men all over the country.A team of basketball players is made up of seven men. They line up •with a center, three forwards and three backs. These are called by names similar to football players. The forwards are called goals or goal throwers, and are designated as right, left and center goals. These men should be light and agile, good passers and able to throw the ball with accuracy to the goal, as the basket is called. Center must be a general athlete, and able to play all over the floor. The right, left and center guard should be the heaviest men of the team, and it is their duty to guard their goal from the attack of the Opposing team, keeping the ball far into the territory of the other side, if possible.The game is played with a small Rugby or association football, and the baskets* hung at either end of the hall, must be large enough to allow the ball to pass through without obstruction. There is no bottom to the basket, and it is hung about eight feet above the floor. The accompanying diagram will give a good idea of how the men line up.The captain of the team should be a good‘goal thrower, as he has plenty of opportunity to leavo his position in covering an opponent. If he were to be a guard he has not the chance to move aboilt. Tho captain has complete and absolute control of the men under him, and his judgment should never be questioned. Usually the most expert man on the team is chosen for this place. The rules of the game are simple and easily understood. A referee, who can lie selected by agreement, is master of the floor, and his decisions are unquestionable. Fouls are the greatest and most important things he has to look out for. A foul is any intent to injure a player, run ning with the ball (for a player must deliver the ball from the spot on which he catches it), tackling, and any unnecessary roughness A player who commits three fouls in the game is ruled off. Upon tho sound of the referee's whistle players must relinquish the ball, and the referee will take it, tossing it up from the spot where it was held, lie will also toss it if the ball goes out of bounds.To give an impression of how -£Ho game is played but few words are necessary. The players line up as shown in the diagram and the referee takes tho ball to the center of the halL He tosses it and the centers rush for the pigskin. Whichever one gets it he will try to pass it to one of his goal throwers, to enable him to toss the ball Into the basket. The guards cover or block him off if possible, atthe same time endeavoring to get possession of the ball, to get it away from his goal.The sphere can only be passed from hand to hand or thrown. No kicking or running is allowed. Each player'Oinvit/v/y aywa jjjyO ’dWOd X31N30 ®Y O VLeFf GOAL' ^ flfGtir GOALceNTm GOALWOO ysUH32no 09 iH9ty O nvoo jjo 7O X oCCN1FJX GUARD, yLCF7 GUARDofttOHThis opponents a free throw for goal* Goals are the only way in which points can be counted. The length of the game is decided by the captains of both teams. XJsually two thirty minute halves are played, but this can be changed at the discretion of the captains. The side scoring the greatest number of points in the halves is declared the winner. If no point has been scored by either side the contest is declared a draw.In playing each player is supposed to cover the opposing man, and it is to his interest to keep him as well under cover as possible. The guards will try and stand between the goal thrower and their own goal. If the interference is good the game will be close and exciting.HANDLES THE BOW.Clever Tonne English Girl Who Is Making a Musical Reputation.Miss Ethel Barns, a very pretty young artist,e who was born in London in 1874, eomipeneed at an early age toMISS ETHEL BAKNS.study the piano and violin, and even made her appearance on the concert platform at 8 years of age. When she attained the age of 12 she played the violin before Joachim, and afterward entered the Royal Academy of Music and studied under Sainton and Sauret. Miss Barns has received eight medals, two certificates, the Potter exhibition prize and tho Iline gift for composition. She was also appointed subprofessor at the above 'institute in 1892. After finishing her musical education at the academy she gave, in conjunction with Miss Mathilde Verne, the well-known pianist, three recitals, which gained for her the favorable notice of the principal London critics. She has also written several excellent compositions which have been published, and has assuredly a bright professional career before her. Miss Barns has also made her^ mark as a pianist, though it is believed that the violin will always prove her favorite instrument.ATHLETIC NOTES.The faculty of Cornell university met recently for the purpose of considering the proposition of I)r. Wilder to abolish intercollegiate athletic contests *so far as that institution was concerned. The result of the conference was encouraging to the supporters of such contests, although no definite result was arrived at, the final vote being postponed till the second meeting of the next term. Frof. IL Morse Stevens, the popular young professor from Oxford, spoke in favor of continuing the present policy, and was ably seconded by Profs. Wheeler andWhite, and other prominent members S)i the instructing corps. The general opinion is that the games will in no way be interfered with, but the agitation that is going on will tend to correct many of the evils attendant upon intercollegiate contests.Luttbeg and Reaks wrestled in catch as catch can styleat a hall in Cincin cinnati, Ohio recently. After they had been engaged on the carpet for about two hours, without either gaining a fall, Luttbeg complained of being sick at the stomach from his exertions, and the referee, with the consent of his opponent, declared the contest a draw, The receipts were divided.The Quebec (Can.) Amateur Athletic club, at their annual meeting, elected the following officers for one year: President, W, J. Ray; vice-presidents, A. Picard and \y. B. Scott; secretary, F. McNaughton; treasurer, F. A. To-fleld.Archie Hunter, late captain of the Astor Villa Football club, and one of the best known experts at the game in England, died on Nov. 29, aged but 20 years. II© had engaged in a number of international contests.Edward McCaniley of New York has ljeen elected captain of the Navalacademy football team for the season of 1895.can try to wrest the ball from an opponent by strength, but he must not tackle unfairly or grasp the player around the neck or legs. . He can throw thfc ball In any way possible, but he should try to land it in the hands of one of his own side if possi-IJble. The, longer one side can keep cpntrol of the ball thd safer is their goal.Am soon as one of the yoal- throwers gets the ball he should try' to throw it into the basket or pass it to one oi his fellow goal throwers who is nearer the basket. Of course the guards will tryto prevent tho caging of the ball byknocking it out of the player’s hand or by blocking a throw. He can use his 'hands any way pdssibleT except slugging a player. This is one of the greatest of fouls, and the refbree will rule off such a player.putting the ball in the bgsket counts three point*. A fdul by any man givesBoxing T»boo«dlt; in Chicago.A dispatch from Chicago thus sounds the death knell of fistic contests of an •burl or desufiption, or for any pi whatever, in that moral town: “All exhibitions where fists are brought in contact with face and body, even amateur boxing bouts at the swell club house of the Chicago A. A., have been strictly prohibited by special order of tho police superintendent, who is backed by Mayor Hopkins. The order may even bo applied to tho theatrical performances pf the Corbett and Fitzsimmons order. The New Orleans tragedy has served to make the authorities more determined than ever to suppress boxing. The police order which was issued two weeks ago brought many protesting delegations to the city hall from clubs, athletic societies, and even sporting editors, to allow sparring exhibitions for various purposes, some of a benefit character, bu£ all were refused. A $200 fight to a finish was in progress in the rear of a saloon last night when the police entered at the end of the sixth round and arrested everybody present.” .
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Sterling Daily Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Thu, Jan 10, 1895
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