Official basket ball guide and Protective association rules for 1908 '09 (1908) (14740174666)

Identifier: officialbasketba00smit_0 (find matches)
Title: Official basket ball guide and Protective association rules for 1908 '09
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas Henry, 1870?- (from old catalog) Protective basket-ball association of the eastern states. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Basketball
Publisher: New York city, R. K. Fox
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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n as a guarantee of goodfaith and a means of regulation is essential, and whence should suchorganization emanate, if not from the good sense and sportsmanship ofthose who handle the game under these conditions ? That they are in aposition to do this admits of no denial. That they dont is significant ofwhat? Were they to be accused of lack of sportsmanship, or of workingtne game to death for a paltry few dollar?, tne air would be thick withindignant protest, explanation, and disclaimer ; but the facts stand, andwhile there is a feverish eagerness to embrace any proposition thatpromises a few more dollars, scant indeed is the enthusiasm as far asdoing anything for the goose that lays tne golden egg is concerned. That the necessity for such organization exists, and that the time forgetting together has arrived, is no longer a suhject for argument thequestion that now confronts the average manager is not what is there init for me, but how am I to keep afloat without something of the kind.
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PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BASKETBALL. 15 Another season, with its tiresome arranging of a haphazard schedule ofdesultory games, can have but little attraction for the manager, and stillless for the patrons. Private championships will eventually fail toarouse a fiagiun-i interest, and while new and ingenious devices mayserve to prolong the agony, the net results can be but an incredulouspublic, and a frivolous, discredited game. In the face of these tacts, the obvious thing to do would seem to beto organize; dont leave it all to The Protective Association. We arewith them in anything that promises to help basketball, and if they needour help, they wont have to ask twice for it. It is high time the pro-fessional people tooic some steps toward doing their share of the work,and shouldering some of the responsibility, and we intend keeping afterthem in a friendly spirit until they do. During the past three years we have been warning managers againsta few mischievious cliques that float about