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Show rlli HIS II HEMLL COURTS Playing Space Increased; Annual Spalding Guide Is Issued. Modeled on the same lines as its prode. cossors, tho Spalding otTieial basket bull tuLdo for the'eurrent season has made, its appearance. U in edited under the joint direction of editorial committees appointed ap-pointed by the National Collegiate Athletic Ath-letic a f delation, Youni; Men's Christian association und the -Amateur Athletic union, nnd contains the ol'Lieial rule3 under un-der which the game la played. A serk-s of questions and answers supplenientinsc the rules aid greatly lu their interpretation. interpreta-tion. The only chnnscs in the basketball rules for l'JlS-lD deal w-iLh Hie end zones which were esiablislicl last year. These nnv .beneath t lie oaukboiird, which greatly ro-k ipu-cd the chances of a player shooting field Kual while being technically out of hounds, have undergone a still further ebaime. They have been altered to two i-,vt:in:los. each two feet deep, ex Lciiflimr Lite i Hi 1 widiii of the court. AVhen Hie ball is in play in either of theisc end zones it is in bounds, except in the ease of a held hah. hi the killer in-stance- the ball is given to the defending team lo p:L into play from out of hounds. The bail i: put into play from behind the final end hue; that is, the new line is the boundary, and the old line becomes a re- straining line and ii guide for the plane of the backboard. Besides several instructive articles on the conduct of the game, list of recognized recog-nized officials and editorial comment, the e.nide contains tho oilier features which have made the successive issues of this annual the recognized authority in its line. Pictures of prominent teams, reviews, re-views, records and sectional team selection? selec-tion? all combine to keep the book up to its standard of former seasons. An Interesting In-teresting indication of tho spread of basket bas-ket ball is the con hit. ut ion of an article from India and another from South America., with pictures of teams from those faraway lands. hi the army and navy last year basketball basket-ball formed an important feature of the physical recreation of the men, teams representing rep-resenting vanons naval rendezvous being especially formidable, while this season lias already started with strong representative represen-tative aggregations. In tho industrial world basketball will be of major importance impor-tance in the recreational activities fostered fos-tered by those organizations. The basketball guide is puhlished by the American Sports Publishing company, com-pany, 4o Rose street, New York. |