Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-18 | Page 9 | Court Game Rivals Golf as Popular Recreation

Court Game Rivals Golf as Popular Recreation tion Basketball is the most universally played game in the United States Stales More people play it under supervision supervision sion than football or 01 baseball 11 fl rivals golf as a recreation While basketball is almost Universally universally sally a winter indoor sport it raises its head in early fall faU and hangs on until late spring in some sections It is a major sport in practically every college and high school It Is the only organized form of athletics in inmany inmany many nany elementary schools Independently Independently it enlists thousands of men and women boys and girls gills for amateur and professional play We arc are indebted to lo Dr James Naismith head of the ph physical education edu cation program of the University of Kansas for the game same He invented it v ff r r a y V X one forty years ago ngo The name was wa derived from the peach baskets which served as ns goals in Dr Naismith's pioneer pio plo I neer fleer demonstration While many changes have been introduced In for for- one ty-one years cars the sport still retains I much of its original form