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If he has any idea of what is
happening to his favorite sport the
late 11Ir. Nesmith, inventor of bas-
ketball, is probably turning flip-
flops in his grave. Vor basketball is
taking a grand old going-over, from
all angles, and some of the well-
paid and highly publicized coaches
who, just a fees months ago were
sitting on top of the sport world,
are beginning to wish—like the
character in McIntyre & Heath's
old show THE .i 3',A M TREE—
that they'd kept "that old job back
in the livery stable."
:k * *
First, of course, there was the
series of smelly scandals which
proved conclusively that even if
basketball was first played in
• ' .M.C.A.'s, it has managed to es-
cape from any moral and religious
influence to a very large degree.
* * *
There there has been a steadily
growing mass of criticism .about the•
emphasis placed on size—or rather
height—in the modern game. Year
by year the average player has
stretched nearer and nearer to the
ceiling, until any intending basket-.
eer who didn't stand at least six
feet wasn't even given a second,
glance by the coach of a top-rank-
ing team, A writer in a recent issue
of COLLIER'S. went down the line
along this angle in a bitter attack,
saying that most.of today's basket-
ball stars aren't athletes at all, but
rather a bunch of overgrown freaks
who belong in a circus side-show
tent, along. with the fat ,lady, _the
pin -headed boy and the .two -headed
calf.
Now it would seen' that—south
. «f the Border at feast ---the boys
are going in for something that is
liable to be more productive of emp-
ty seats and shrunken gate -receipts
than either crookedness or freakish-
ness. They're playing safety -first
basketball—slowing the game down
to a standstill. And if basketball
ever had any real appeal, it lay in
the fact that it offered the custom=
ers plenty of action, even if a lot
of that action seemed fairly mean-
ingless to anyone. not a fanatic.
* * *
Most hockey followers realize, of
course, that there are two distinct
brands of that sport— mid-season .
hockey, and playoff hockey. in the
first, the lad are playing for the
spectators rs awl ee en• ---10 some cases
—for the fuel id it, In the second,
they're playing fur the dough. The
spectators are already there. Their
money is in the box-office, and all
that counts is winning that game,
or sel',es. Chalice -taking is out.
Play it safe! Keeping the other fel-
low from scoring is far more im-
portant than shooting goals your-
self.
' *
"Control basketball" is what they
sail this safety -first style of play.
In the past- few years most teams
have played the "stalling" game,
but only in the last few minutes
when they happened to be in front.
But this year—as one well-known
sports writer pats it—the pendulum
has swung far in the other direction.
'i'hey play the stalling game from
start to finish, if it suits their book,
and as for the spectators,—to heck
with them,
Minneapolis is one of the real
basketball hotbeds. Folks out that
way got their first look at control
ball on a big scale just before
Christmas—and they didn't like it
one little bit. In "a somewhat ridic-
ulous game" the Fort Wayne pro-
fessionals stalled" most of the way,
but beat the 1vlfiineapolis Lakers
'by a single point. The final• score
was 19-18, )which must have been
pretty tame to fans used to seeing
just one player score 25 points or,
• more.
*" * . *
At one point in a Big 'Ten game
between Minnesota and Indiana,
Sam Miranda of the latter team held
the bali for six minutes and thirty-
five seconds. The report says that
the fans joined in singing the "In-
diana fight song" during the lull—
something . akin to _the rhythmic
hand-ciappitlg or feet-stampng
which baseball and hockey mag-
nates hate so much to hear. Six
minutes and thirty-five seconds is
an awful lot of time, especially
when you've 'paidgood money that
might have gone for a•movie, or a
payment on a Television set.
* * *
The two instances.just noted were
by no means the worst. In a recent
game between Hemline and St.
John's, Hamilne took the opening
tip-off and went in for a basket.
After that St. John's held the ball
for sixteen and a half minutes with-
out even attempting a shot. There
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was a short flurry just before the
half'ended, but neither side connect-
ed and, as a result; Hemline held a
2-0 halftime edge.
* .* *
To give then i:rcdit, both teams
opened up a trifle in the • second
stanza, hut by that tine` the dam- •
age had been done, and some of
the fans demanded—and received—
their money back front the gate -
'keepers. Brother,'when they start
Going that, the ship has. sailed.
* * *
Apologists for "control ball" say
that it has been evolved as a sort
of offensive -defensive manoeuver to
offset the terrific height advantage
enjoyed by teams that have coralled
a lot of the giraffe -type player. But,
because of lack of action in what •
is normally a high-speed game, the
fans aren't too happy about the,
whole thing. Some of the coaches
aren't either—and neither would we
be, not with livery -stable jobs so
scarce in this ]mechanical age.
* 0 *
Down in South Carolina, the
Legislature not so long ago passed
a resolution asking .organized base -
bell to reinstate Shoeless Joe jack -
sem. Naturally, s nee it is 32 years
since Jackson was tossed. not On his
ear, there's no possibility that he'd
play ball, even if reinstated. What
his horse -state folks want, of
course, is to remove from Shoeless
.100 the stain of once being con-
nected with the gone -but -not -for-
gotten Chicago Black Sox.
e • * *
What with. scandals popping up
here and there in sport with such
frequency; J'oe's chances of getting
back would 'seem to be on a par
with Winston Churchill's of leading
the May Day parade in Leningrad.
Joe claims ttow that he never was
bribed, and never was connected.
And if he was trying to throw that
series to the Cincinnati Reds, we
can't help wondering what he would
have done had he been levelling,
* '0:k 0
For, in that series, Shoeless Joe
batted for a mere :375 -and he didn't
make a single error in the field.
Once he made a fantastically per-
fect throw to the plate—a throw
that seemed bound to cut off a run-
ner at the plate. But Pitcher Eddie
Cicotte-one of the ringleaders in
the "fix" not only • stepped in and
cut off the throw, but deflected it
to the stands, allowing two runners
to conte in.
Joe Jackson was probably the
greatest natural ball -player . who
ever lived. Ty Cobb—who should
know what he'was •talking about—
said he was the finest natural hit-
ter who ever swung a bat. .Babe
Ruth, who knew a thing or two
about hitting, patterned his Own
batting style on Jackson's.
.
The first full season Jackson play-
ed in the majors was 1911, with
Cleveland. All he did was hit for
a -here .408. It would have got him
far more publicity than it did if
it hadn't been for just one thing.
Ty Cobb, who always performed
'best when the pressure Was on,
finished sip with a .420, to shade
Shoeless Joe for the batting title.
* * *
Althongh a lot of Jackson's marks
were erased from records after. the
I;r•scandal, researchers give hint a life-
' time batting mark of .356; and it
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