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ATLANTIC EVENING NEWS.ir ro-bert-'oral-friedfont,nlngatedicten*:an«bhav-the'ope.Newandaskatheaileaeatsthetighdfhiin lent, rage teen not e inBSSi^uple3apaand;verevhenre-offi-iridesaymi-war-agesandcourtrietoutay afootiara-cityap-rille, gned tion. the e ol b of agoe of , ed-ican, lure, d in therviv-and[urd,icon-wse,Mal-fellicyfol-B tO,tullysus:herei asa in sev-boutand 1 of aeer fine whoiged t to sheleadthenest•nedoutmty-toryromreetand:heya*tl-Ivedascuitson,byTheandorkfireto;vesQt fightDesacetheINTUITION IS AN ASSET IN BASKETBALLMoVfWAifOfidhmi.By JAMES NAISMITHBide’ortcksofree i 4, pto-eat*we»theLef*; of neeas*atinfim*ira«hasIS',jre.Basket-ball intuition—the art of knowing just where 'to be and what to do when you get there under certain conditions during1, the progress of a game—is a quality which devotees of the sport acquire only after several years’ participation. In football and baseball events move along with systematic regularity, but in this ifidoor game the unexpected is happening every minute. One instant the ball may be in the possession of your opponents in the vicinity of their goal— then every muscle is strained with only defense in view—but a second later one of your players may have secured the sphere and at that instant your whole theme is to get away from your individual opponent in order to open up an avenue through which the ball may be passed to you without allowing an opportunity to., block the pass.The ball may be located in a bunch of wriggling players, each endeavoring, without violating the rules, to get it away from its possessor. A score of conditions can prevail in just this instance, and they may be dispelled or multiplied in far less time than it takes to relate it. If in such a scrimmage one of your men holds the ball in his hands it is your duty to either take the pass from him if he can dis* entangle himself or locate yourself in the vicinity of the basket in order that you may receive a pass from him or from another of your players.Perhaps in that instance you can aid by blocking an opponent coming down the floor to help; perhaps you can grab it from your comrade by a rush past him; perhaps.you can do more good by being ready to receive a throw beneath the goal; perhaps— but what’s the use.Every detail, combined with dozens of other details, goes to make up a condition for which your movements must be suited. A dozen games or more and these requirements begin to dawn upon the player who is a comparative novice. Advice Jielps in giving a theory to. fellow out, but, as my friend Prof. Lewis Gillesby at Northwestern university once said: “The only way to become successful In all lines of the sport is simply a blamed hard grind three nights a week in practice.”So in presenting the plays which are illustrated In the diagram In this article, I am branding them “Intuition plays.” Take the one in the diagram to the left. This illustrates a condition during which your opponents are endeavoring to make a free toss from the foul line, after one of the players of the team represented as aggressor has violated the rules.No. 6 is an opponent trying for a goal from fouul. He throws the ball in the direction of his basket, opponents and aggressors being lined up along the fouled lines. The center (No. E) of the -.ggressors, being supposedly the tallest man and best jumper of his quintet, gets the ball as it caroms off (he goal in case of a possible failure by No. 6.In the meantime, the guard (No. 4) and a forward (No. 2) have separated themselves from the jam around the basket, the former taking up a position near the center of the floor while the latter mgyes to a point just to the right and a little up the floor.Then the center heaves the ball to No. 2, who in turn sails it toward his own goal, where it is met by No. 4 on the run. Thence into the basket.The positions of Nob. 2 and 3 may be filled by any of the players, but forward and center are perhaps best The reason, as I see it, is because the center is generally the best fitted physically to leap into the air and corral the sphere because of the height and jumping qualifications which are the center’s essentials. Then in the caBeof No. 2, a forward under the goal of his opponents has no one to guard from a throw at the basket, for usually his guard will lay back in the vicinity of the center.In No. 4’s case, it is the old order of things in which'a forward seldom follows his guard opponent, and consequently the latter should be free for an easy throw at the net. Your team may switch off in order to bewilder opponents by changing men for certain duties in that play, for it is a known fact among basket ball coaches that just about three goals wrung from opponents by that combination will make the latter wary and each man will stick so closely to his individual opponent that perhaps further attemnts will be frustrated. So it isbest to have several signals for this play, using it first with a combination of players on one aide of the goal and then on the other side. After that a change' of the combination of men by prearranged signdls is for the best. If that is fathomed also, allow several attempts at baskets from the foul line to pass without the play; then spring it again.In the-diagram to the right I am giving a play to bfe-nsed when the ball is out of bounds ari'd in the hands of the team represented as' aggressor. This illustrates only one condition,, but it points out the theory for use when the sphere is out of play at /other points of the floor area.We will suppose that the guard (No. 4) is in possession of the sphere out of bounds and under the opponents’ goal, for then the situation is fraught with real danger to your tally sheets. Guard No. 4 makes a cross-floor pass to his teammate guard (No. 5), who In turn shoots the sphere to bis own center (No. 3) by means of another cross-fire throw, the center being in the vicinity of the middle of the floor. One of the for' wards (in this instance No. 1) crosses In front of the basket so as to lose” his opposing guard and takes the pasa from the center on the right-hand side of the goal, from which point :he inakes his effort to Bcore.This combination is evolved on the time-honored principle that a cross-the-floor pass should always follow a throw straight down the playing area —only here we go a step farther by eliminating the throw straight down the floor.* inSFvTda*^^TtocJfrdtP*If reports are true, Ad Wolgast the new champion of the lightweights, has started out to out-Nelson Nelson. The Dane always was after the money. He had to be guaranteed the lion's share any time he started. Before he would agree to fight Woigfst, the Dane had to be guaranteed $10,000, a share in the picture money, and $500 for training expenses. Nelson got more. money than did Joe Gans, every time he fought the negro.Now comes Wolgast with the declaration that he must be guaranteed $20,000 before he will fight any of the top notchers. As champion, Wolgast has the right to -dictate terms to a certain extent, but it Is hardly probable that he will find any promoter who will guarantee him $20,000 fox his end. If Wolgast insists upon such terms it is probable that it will be a long time before be will be seen In the ring. Just now he is making $1,000 a week on the stage, Let him get all that kind of money he can. The others always have done it, and It is proper that the lad should reap the fruits of his victory over Nelson.The Dane found when he returned to Chicago that he had lost little of his popularity. He says he will fight Cyclone Thompson next month and then take a rest. After that he wants 1 another crack at Wolgast. Flushed with victory, Wolgast says he will accommodate Bat, but when he gets to thinking it over he may come to some other conclusion. Nelson claims he was not whipped, and still, had a chance, but it seems from the press reports that he was on the verge of a collapse, and Eddie Smith did right to stop the fight.. Another old timer tried to con back and failed. Harry Forbes, fo mer bantam weight champion got ini the ring in the east last month an trimmed two second-raters. H: friends thought Harry was rigl again, but when the Cbicagoa stacked up against his old enemy, Al Attell, he found that It was only* flash In the pan, and -his fighting daj were numbered.It is to be hoped that Packey McFarland and Freddie Welsh will settle the question of supremacy while the Chicago boy is in England. Thus far Welsh seemB to have raised every known excuse to avoid meeting McFarland, even going so far as to bar Eugene Cori, the leading referee of Great Britain as judge of the proposed batth
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Atlantic, Iowa, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1910
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