The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 April 1968 — Page 3

Tuesday, April 16, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 3

To Dedicate Basketball Hall of Fame At Site Where Game First Was Played

By SAXDO BOLOGNA Central Press Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — On the fringe of the 150-acre campus of Springfield College is a new building which salutes the sport of basketball and some Americans who have popularized the game. Appropriately, the $600,000 three-story building, which will be dedicated April 16. honors particularly the memory of Dr. James A. Naismith, who was a graduate student at the YMCA School for Christian Workers (as the college was known in 16911 when he wrote the rules for the first basketball game. The Naismith Memorial Bas-' ketball Hall of Fame, which opened Feb. 18, is two blocks away from the site of the small gymnasium where Dr. Naismith staged the first game 76 years

ago

Dr. Naismith. a Canadian, who was ordained a minister in 1915, and a physician who hadn’t practiced medicine, enrolled at the YMCA school to study physical culture. He discussed often with teachers and students about a sport for the winter months which would keep athletes in proper physical condition between the football and baseball seasons. He jotted down seven mles for an indoor game. He nailed two peach baskets on opposite sides of the gym. Then he tossed a soccer ball among 18 students who formed two teams after being instructed with the seven rules. This new game was called ■’basketball." As the game became popular on the Springfield campus and elsewhere, the team personnel was reduced from nine to five and minor changes were made in the seven rules.

TODAY an estimated 22 mil-

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lion adults, teenagers and children in l3o countries play this American game. In the United States, the sport is performed and patronized at 22.000 high schools. 600 colleges and universities. 1.700 YMCAs. hundreds of boys and girls clubs, and scores of professional and amateur courts. Lee Williams, executive director of the Basketball Hall of Fame, says that most of the $600,000 for the building has been raised from contributors throughout the United States. A past president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Williams was for 20 years basketball coach at Colby College. Waterville, Me. (15 years of which he was also athletic director». He became director of the Hall of Fame in

1966.

* * * WILLIAMS explains the purpose of the Basketball Hall of Fame as follows:

1. A shrine to the heroes of basketball. 2. A museum and library for the college to preserve the history and the memorabilia of the sport. 3. A new tourist attraction for Springfield. Many exhibits in the new building have been stored in a small building since the Hall of Fame was established in 1959. In the first-floor Honors Court are 10-foot-high lucid panels of the 62 coaches, college players. Amateur Athletic Union players, professional stars, and referees listed in the Hall of Fame. Selections of future distinguished names to the roster of the Hall of Fame will continue to be made by an 18-member Selections Committee of editors and leaders in the athleticworld. The Naismith building stands next to the Art Linkletter Natatorium which was dedicated last October.

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NEW YORK <UPI>—Boating accidents, fatalities and injuries declined last year despite an increase in the number of recreational craft using the nation’s waterways. An industry source reports U.S. Coast Guard figures for 1967 show: —Accidents dropped from 4.350 in 1966 to 4,113. —Fatalities were down from 1,318 in 1966 to 1,312. —Injuries totaled 1,365, a drop of 190 from 1966. Even the number of boats involved in accidents was less

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—5.274, compared with 5.567 in 1966. All this despite the fact the recreational fleet increased by 201.000 to an estimated 8.3 million in 1967, and the number of participants in the sport jumped by more than 1 million to 41 million. As in previous years, the leading cause of death in 1967 was improper loading and resultant capsizing. Collisions caused the most injuries. Fred B. Lifton, executive director of the Outboard Boating Club of America, had this comment on the figures: "The fact that boating accidents continue to decline while the number of boats in use increases proves that efforts of boating organizations, official boating agencies and the industry to keep boating safe are paying big dividends. The figures are an effective answer to a great deal of misinformation that has appeared recently implying that boating mishaps are on the increase and that more restrictive laws are needed." Both government and industry sources agree there is room for improvement — and there probably will be. One indication is the large increase in enrollments last winter at the free classes in boating instrucThot Day NEW YORK 'UPI'—Irish and all other kinds of eyes got some kind of mention on the St. Patrick’s Day menu at the Press Box in New York Under coffee, there was something called Irish Coffee. That, for the Irishers. After and before that were such things as — Italian spumoni. McCavelli; apple tart, O’Luigi: half grapefruit. O’Jeshiva; onion soup. O'Rose: cheese cake. ONathan: manicotti maison. O’Russo.

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By FRANK WATSON Central Press Sports Writer

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In the wake of the worst outbreak of rioting in our nation’s history, the cry has gone out again for massive new spending programs to meet the needs of our urban areas. The money for these programs, of course, is expected to come from the American taxpayer. At this time of year, when we, as citizens, have just paid our annual income taxes, the need to establish priorities on Federal spending is felt more strongh than ever. The alarming truth isthatdes-

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pite all the talk about the urgent needs for housing, jobs and education, the interest on the national debt now ranks third in all spending categories—at $14.4 billion. Compared with a total proposed budget for next year of $186.1 billion this staggering sum for interest may seem relatively small. Yet, it’s so large that it’s hard to comprehend. So let’s see what that $14,400, 000,000 could do for the American people if they didn’t have to give it to the tax collector.

That $14,400,000,000 could provide a pair of $12.00 shoes every other month for a whole year for every man, women and child in the United States. It could provide nice new $15, 000 homes for 960,000 families. It could mean shiny new $2, 500 automobiles for 5,760,000 proud owners. It could build 14,400 milliondollar grammar schools to meet expanding community needs. It could build 3,000 completely equipped high schools at a cost of $4.8 million apiece. It could provide a college education for 1 1/2 million young Americans. If that same amount could be invested in industry, it could create more than 660,000 production jobs. These are just some of the ways this money could be put to productive use in building a bigger and better America for all if the government had not piled up the massive national debt which now totals nearly $36i billion. This same deficit spending is also the basic cause of the skyContinued on Page 8

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