Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1928 — Page 23

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Adherents of the dribble in mid-Western basketball circles are feeling more at ease since the removal from the national rules committee of Dr. Walter E. Meanwell of Wisconsin. The personnel of the committee was altered at the annual conclave of the National Collegiate Association when it met recently in New York. The crafty Wisconsin net mentor long has been a hot-bed in basketball circles and his demands for

the abolishment of the dribble i left many mid-Western coaches in an uneasy frame of mind, since the style of play in this territory is mainly centered around that spectacular feature of the winter pastime. Meanwell’s removal from the committee was regarded as a triumph for the dribble by those favoring its retention. The rules committee voted to abolish the dribble, but no sooner had the action been taken than a storm of protests arose from all corners of the nation and a wire vote quickly rescinded the action. All in all, it now appeals that the dribble is likely to remain for some time a distinctive feature of America’s most popular indoor sport. tt a tt Backboard and the City JEd. waged their daily argument of the merits and demerits of the De i'auw University basketball team which meets Franklin Friday at Oreencastle. The City Fd. hails from old De Pauw and naturally we wound up on the Franklin end of a one-buck contract. * a a SATURDAY night will find the University of Notre Dame’s rambling basketeers in the neighborhood of Pennsylvania. The Irish are down on the books as the opponent of the University of Pennsylvania at the new Palaestra in Philadelphia. The South Benders would do well to get a good glimpse of Penn’s basketball structure and

bring a few cf the ideas back home to Indiana. Roughly, the Palaestra probably cost about $750,000, which is a neat pile of jack. Ten thousand persons can comfortably be seated and all in all it is a common -s en s e building. It has entrances from Thirty-Second St.,

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seats and four thousand temporary parking places for tired customers a m m To get back to the basketball standpoint, we hardly think it necessary for the' Notre Dame aggregation to worry about their conflict. That is, of course, unless the Pennsylvania club recruits several members of the Pittsburgh outtit. a ALITTLE further up in this column there is the picture of young Prank Crdwe, one of the forwards on Coach George Keogan’s Irish quintet. Ample evidence that Crowe is well versed in his knowledge of the whys and wherefores of basketball is the fact that he hails from Lafayette, Ind. His brother-, Clem, also was a star of note for Notre Dame on the gridiron and on the hardwood. Clem piloted the football club one year and Frank apparently will lead the Irish net-snipers before he gets, his walking papers in the form of a diploma. a tt tt THIS evening Technical will stack its wares against those of the Kokomo Wildcats at Kokomo. Saturday the Arsenalites return home to meet the ShelbyviUe aggregation. Kokomo, in all probability, will be well prepared for anything that may happen. The Wild-

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