Show HOW TE GAME AM Of BASKETBAll CAME CAMETo TO 13 BE INVENTED Kansas Hansas University Director Drafted the First Rules LA LAWRENCE Kas April 2 That That Dr James Tames physical 11 training dir director of tho the University of Kan Kansas I ia iR is tho the inventor or father ot of tho the basketball gamo ganie mo is R unbelievable ablo with sonic some people leple Nevertheless ho he i is And n as ns sufficient ent proof for or tho most skeptical Mr 11 Naismith Nai- Nai smith has in his possession hero bero iu in in Law- Law J leuco euco the original thirteen typewritten rules 1 How liow to invent the tho game amo Dr Naismith related for publication to to- day His story torr follows I In rn In the fall fail of I was t an instructor tor at tt tho International Y M. M C C. C A. A training school at Springfield fid Mass Ia Football season reason passed and as ai was customary cus cus- ternary tomary the young men were supposed to gather in the tho e gymnasium gymnasium ium for athletic training Incidentally 1 will say tay the purpose o of tho the school is is to train young yount men mou for fur Y M r. r C. C A. A secretaries and physical directors All AU of the men had to take an hours hour's work daily in in thy thu gymnasium but it was like giving a patient patient pa pa- tient ro so much medicine They took it hut but simply because it was as mandatory The work that was given consisted of regular gymnasium exercises and a few games time tho principal ono one being three deeR deep and aud ta tag games gaines Several I Several innovations inno wore Iero introduced with the hope hono that could bestirred bo ho stirred but it was waR to no avail Finally tho tIme interest became so o lax that attentIon attention attention atten atten- tion was called to it ono onu lay day at a faculty faculty faculty fac- fac meeting After tun discussion ills dis in which nearly all th the instructors instructors instructors tors had schemes e evolved for latin lating interest I made th time the sUI suggestion I that now new games game bo be introduced Tho Time result result re re- re- re sult suit of iii my suggestion was that at the close of tho the meeting the principal of the school chool lIked asked mo inc to take tako charge of thecIa the tho cIa class and execute my plan It was cas easy enough b to suggest but butto butto butto to a assume sumo th the responsibility with all tho the other members of the faculty watch watch- iD mug ing to see seo if 3 rou could make mako good was another thin timing thing However I determined to put forth my be best t efforts Horts and amid I went vent I to work I studied much on the different differ differ- I eat cut games came ascertained the time coo good points of all the games sames and amid how bow th bad points could bo be eliminated I tried numerous old oId games carnes but the time men didn't teem seem to take any interest as before It At At last with association football as asa asa asa a basis I began bean the tan tangible ihlo construction construe construe- tion of a new amo T I saw nw that when tackling was eliminated tho roughness which it occasioned was disposed dispose of 1 rind and d when tinning running with tho the ball balI is stopped there theTo is is no o occasion casion for tack tack- I ling hing Hence the rule rulo prohibiting a player from tinning running with th time ball halI became be he rune came ono one of the tho fundamental rules rule Then to stop tho fighting for tho thin ball after a player has hag it in his no possession I r saw faw that a 1 rule nIle could be bp made limiting the place for holding time the bull buH to tho limo hands You see sec with these two rules it gave avo me a tenable basis to work from All AH along I E kept tho the association game of ot football in ill sight although varying in from it greatly creath Xo Nevertheless every ever rule rulo in basketball can bo ho traced back to tho the football came Kicking was eliminated and that alone llono differentiates it from association football Then a rule mile wa was wm adopted prohibiting pro an 1 individual from holding holdin I for the minute there thore i is holding a personal personal per per- contact is started With a all this thiR roughness taken out many ninny people sai said there was not enough n au ell ginger in it to tomake make malo tho game Ilmo interest interesting n They sai said it was a girls girls' game ame I let them talk but I was sure suro I would have hac a game when everything was as worked out Somo Some people seem to have hao the tho idea that dribbling is altogether a 1 new now in innovation innovation in- in novation no in basketball One of oC tho the original rules said that batting is al aI allowable al- al and from this grew ere the tho dribbling drib drib- bling and rolling The former is in vogue OCIO at tho the present time while rolling rolline on the floor has he been n dropped With the rules governing tIme the game drafted I r studied for a considerable timo to decide de do- chic cide on what sort of a ball to use I knew that if a small ball hall was use used the time players could hide it under their shirts so tho rc regulation football was used The final part was to say what should constitute the tho goals coals In both la ha I cro eros se e and aud football tb time the ball is driven n I through an aperture but I saw eat that this would not do in a gymnasium because because be be- cause camo the apparatus would ho be broken I if tho the ball was driven consequently after racking my nw brain a n while whilo longer I I finally finay determined that by bj placing th time tho goal col above e tho the players players' heads beads it would tend tend to reduce the driving of the tho ball bal to tossing Also Aleo with tho placing of tho the goals at each end above aboto the players players' players players' h b heads ais als one ni-mo man could not guard rard it so cagily Then from whence the thA game garao gets it its name was ic-as as the baskets T r R asked kd the is janitor if ho he had bait any peach baskets baskets- janior they aro old oM fa fashioned and ana are aro similar to the tho ordinary wast around wastebasket around tho the gymnasium Ho said fair ho lie had two at athis athis I his homo bow that he would woul bring brne to tho the hs school Tho The baskets wore put up and I from the thue moment I threw time the ball bal to start the first game interest was in intense in in- tense All Al that year the gymnasium e was crowded with ih Spectators who were ero anxious an anious aux aux- ious Ions to witness the new game Iame |