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Show National Hoop Shooi Winners in Basketball Hall of Fame Names of the top winners in the Elks National "Hoop Shoot" Free Throw Contest will henceforth be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Bas-ketball Hall of Fame at Springfield, Mass. Official announcement of the contest's national recognition recogni-tion was made in a joint news release from Willis C. McDonald, McDon-ald, chief national executive officer of the B.P.O. Elks of the U.S.A., and Lee Williams, administrator of the Basketball Hall of Fame. McDonald said, "We are tremendously pleased at this honor accorded our contest and the boys and girls who compete. We expect even larger numbers of entries that this past year's V million, and we expect many more of the Order's 2,200-plus lodges throughout the country to sponsor local contests." |