| Show IS AN ASSET IN basketball 6 1 6 0 5 fa 0 Z A IVA Q by JAMES NAISMITH basket ball intuition the art of knowing just where to be and what to do when you get there under tain fain conditions during the pro gresa grebs of a game is a quality which devotees of the sport acquire only after several years participation in football and baseball events move along with S ss s regularity but in this indoor game the unexpected Is happening every minute one instant the ball may be jn n the possession of your op ponente in the vicinity of their goal then every muscle Is Is strained with only defense in vie view but a second later one of your players may have secured the sphere and at that instant yo ir whole theme Is to get away from your individual opponent in order to open ell up an avenue through which the ball may be passed to ou without al lowing owing an opportunity to block the pass the ball may be located in a bunch of wriggling players each endeavoring without violating the rules to get it away from its possessor A score of conditions can prevail in just this in stance and they may be dispelled or multiplied in far less time than it takes to relate it if in such a scrim mage one of your men holds the ball in his hands it is your duty to either lake take the pass from him if he can dis entangle himself or locate yourself in the vicinity of the basket in order that you may receive a pass from him or from another of your players perhaps in that instance you can aid by blochl ing an opponent coming down the floor to help perhaps you can call grab it from your comrade by a rash rah past him perhaps you can do more good by being ready to receive a throw beneath the goal perhaps but what s the use E every very detail combined with dozens of other details goes to make up a condition for which your movements must be suited A dozen games or more and these requirements begin to dawn upon the player who Is a corn com para tivy tiva novice advice in gling a theory to fellow out but as my friend prof lewis gillesby at northwestern university once said the only way to become successful in all lines of tho the sport Is simply a blamed hard grind three nights a week in practice so in presenting the plays which are illustrate a in L aae lie diagram in in this ar tide I 1 am branding brandin g the them m intuition plays take the one in the diagram to the left this illustrates a condl tion during which your opponents are endea endeavoring Noring to make a tree free toss from the foul I 1 ne after one of the players ot of the team represented as aggressor has violated the rules no 6 is an opponent trying for a goal from he throws the ball in the direction of his basket op ponente and aggressors being lined up along the fouled lines the center no 3 of the aggressors being supposedly d 1 Y the tallest man mail and best jumper of il his 1 s quintet gets the ball as it caroms 0 off ff the goal in case of a possible failure by no 6 in the meantime the guard no 4 and a forward no 2 have havo separated themselves the melves from the jam around the basket the former taking up a position near the center of the floor the latter moes to a point just to the right and a little up he floor then the center heaves ahe ball to no 2 who in turn sails it toward his own goal where it Is met by no 4 on th the run thence into the basket the positions of nos 2 and 3 may be filled by any of the players but for ward and center are perhaps best the reason as I 1 see it Is 1 because the cen ter Is generally the best fitted physic ally to leap into the air and corral the sphere because of 0 the height and jumping qualifications which are the center s essentials then in the case of no 2 a forward under the goal of his opponents has no one to guard from a throw at the basket for usually his guard will lay back in the vicinity of the center in no 4 as s case it Is the old order of things in which a forward seldom fol lows his guard opponent and consequently the latter should be tree free for an easy at the net your team may mar switch off in order to bewilder opponents by changing men for tain duties in that play tor for it la is a known tact fact among basket ball coach es that just about three goals wrung from opponents by that combination will make the latter wary and each man will stick so closely to his in opponent that perhaps further attempts will be frustrated so it Is best to have several signals for this play using it first with a combination of players on one elde side of the goal and then on the other side after that a chinga of the combination of men by prea prearranged arranged signals la Is for the best it that Is fathomed also allow several attempts at baskets from the foul line to pass without the play then spring it again in the diagram to the right I 1 am ching a play to be used when the ball Is out of bounds and in the hands ot of the the team represented as aggressor this illustrates only one condition but it points out the theo y for use w when en the sphere Is out of play at other points of the floor aret we will suppose that the guard no 4 Is in possession of the sphere out of bounds and under the opponents goal for then the situation is fraught with real danger to your tally sheets guard no 4 makes a cross floor pass to his teammate guard no 6 5 who in turn shoots the sphere to his own center no 3 by means of another cross fire throw the center being in the vicinity of the middle of the floor one of the for wards in this instance no 1 crosses in front of the basket so as to lose his opposing guard and takes the pass from the center on the right hand side of the goal from which h point he makes his effort to score this combination Is evolved on the time honored principle that a crosa cross the floor pass should alv ays follow a throw straight down the playing area only here we go a step farther by eliminating the throw straight down he the floor um j 0 if reports are true ad wolgast the new champion of the lightweights has started out to out nelson nelson the 4 h dane always was after the noney money lie ile had to be guaranteed the lion a share any time he started before he would agree to fight wolgast the dane had to be guaranteed 10 a share in I 1 the he it picture money and 00 for train ing expenses nelson got more mon ey than did joe gans every time he fought the negro now comes wolgast with the dec caration lar la atlon that he must be guaranteed 20 before he will will fight any of 0 the top botchers not chers As champion wol gast has the right to dictate terms to a certain extent but it Is hardly able that he will find any promoter who will guarantee him 20 for his end if wolgast ingists upon such terms it Is probable that it will be a long time before he will be seen in the ring just now he Is making 1000 1 a week on the stage let him get all that kind of money he can the oth ers always have done it and it la Is proper reap fruits of his victory over nelson the dane found when he returned to chicago that he had lost little of his popularity he ile says he will fight cyclone thompson next month and then take a rest after that he wants another crack at wolgast flushed with victory wolgast says he will ac bat dat but when he gets to thinking it over he may come to some other conclusion nelson claims he was not whipped and still had a chance chalice but it seems from the press reports that he waa was on oil the verge of a collapse and eddie smith did right to stop the fight another old timer tried to come bock back and failed harry forbes tor for mer bantam weight champion got into the ring in the east last month and trimmed two second raters ills 1 friends thought harry waa was right again but when the chicagoan stacked up against his old enemy abe attell he found that it was only a flash in the pan and his fighting days were numbered it is to be hoped that packey me mc farland and freddie welsh will set tie tle the question of supremacy while the chicago boy Is in england thus far welsh seems to have raised every known excuse to avoid meeting me mc farland even going so far as to bar eugene corl cori the leading referee of great britain as judge of the proposed battle |
