Show II S Shelton Raps Officials I Blasts Raising Basket-Raising S DENVER Feb 16 UP Ever UP-Ever- Ever Everett cit ett Shelton veteran college and amateur basketball coach jumped into the current argument about what's wrong with the cage sport today declaring a proposal to raise the baskets 12 feet from the floor Was pure nonsense nse Shelton who coached the DenVer Denver Denver Den Den- ver Pigs in 1937 and 1938 1038 led Wyoming university to the national nation nation- nl at college basketball championship champion champion- ship last yea yeat and who ho now is coaching the Dow Chemical amateur amateur amateur ama ama- squad of Midland Mich said raising the baskets would only make the game more difficult for all aU players and less entertaining for tor the fans Raising the hoops had been advocated advocated advocated ad ad- I by Allen coach at Kansas university who declared it was the only way to erase the advantage held by the extremely tall players Shelton said there was nothing wrong with the present regulations 1 I S 1 T t I i. i v 1 g 1 1 2 S. S S W I fri 1 r S Ev Shelton Native re re- turns and said the smaller players should learn to shoot when their towering opponents were off balance so they could not prevent the ball from going going going go go- ing through the hoop The Dow coach did criticize pres- pres I ent nt refereeing however declaring that hat an entirely different brand of on basketball was played In i sections of ot the country i the he officiating I Jr Shelton said the game hadd hadid into little short of ot hem in the midwest where ret ref erces crees wouldn't p blow ow their wi until matters got too rough t to lr g nore He Ho said general tactics ver 1 for or to act as to o open a hole for the man ina with the he ball J Ii The soldier team at Camp Grant Gran Ill came in for his his' particular eri erit I ul I 1 only hope he said that if Camp Grant enters the nations national A AAU A U basketball tournament 1 year they wear their football uniforms uniforms uni- uni forms so they will be dressed for for forthe the kind of game they play 1 E Ev Sheltons Shelton's Dow Chemical Chemi Cherni cal capers will play E Ecker ker Studio in Salt Lakes Lake's De Des Des- J. J cret gym gm Saturday and In Ogden Monda Monday On the other hand Shelton con con- basketball In the cast east is of the tho Milquetoast variety with fit fit- r f. f erces crees so strict that the style has been seriously cram cramp cramped The Rocky mountain and far mt west teams play a type of game sorn where between those extremes a I ae cording to Shelton f His Dow Chemical team plays plays' the unbeaten Fort Warren squad at Cheyenne Wyo tonight and then returns to Denver tomorrow for lor a tilt with Denver's Ambo Legion team the team the city's hope fo for forthe forthe the A AAU A U tournament next March 19 oj 4 Dow then moves on to Salt SnIt Lj Lake City for a pair of games an and thence to Los Angeles Angele The team will return for the A AAU A U ment mente J |