The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-11-17
New Rules Drawn
For Basket Play
OF 1922 Season

At the eighth annual meeting of
the joint basketball committee, which
concluded its session at the Hotel
Aston, a change was made in the foul
rule which will eliminate fully a third
of the present scoring from foul and
should, in the opinion of the commit
tee, materially improve the game. AT
the preliminary session il scanned un.
likely that any alteration in the foul
rule would be made, but when the
matter came up for debate sentiment
was found to be overwhelmingly in
favor of a change, according to a re-
port in the Honolulu Advertiser.
The new rule, which is the adoption
of n of the suggestions of the sub
committee headed by DR.. Raycroft of
Princeton, provides a penalty hitherto
never used in Overwhelmingly, the
giving of the ball into the possession
of the opponents. This penalty. how
ever, is inflicted after technical fouls
only, personal fouls being penalized
under a second new rule.
Free Throw Gone
The reading Of the rule regarding
technical fouls follows:
when the technical foul is made
the ball is awarded to the opponents
at the point where the foul is com
mitted, with the right to put the ball
into play with an ~unguarded pass.
They shall not be permitted to drib-
bic, or shoot for goal"
This rule does away entirely with
the free throw as a penalty for tech
nical fouls.
The penalty for personal fouls
differs according to the point on the
court where the foul is committed. If
the personal foul is committed within
a certain area, hereafter to be called
the penalty area, at either end of the
court, the penalty will be greater than
if the foul be committed outside that
space. The penalty area is a one
formed by the extension of the pres
ent free throw line to either side of
the court.
The present free throw line is Is
feet in front of the basket, or II feet
within the court, so hat the penalty
zone, which will be formed by a line
of II feet from the end line of the
court, parallel to the back line, will
be as wide as the court. And for per-
sonal fouls committed within this zone
the price paid will be two free throws.
For a personal foul committed outside
of the zones, the penalty will stand
as at present, namely, a single free
throw.
The following is the reading of the
regulation governing personal fouls:
Area important
Provide a penalty area at each
end of the court comprising the space
between the end line and a line pass
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line passing tangent to the free throw
circles as may be decided. All per-
sonal fouls committed by a team when
the opponents are in possession of the
ball in the penalty area under their
own goal shall be penalized by the
award of N free throw"
In addition to the change in the foul
rule, the meeting made a considerable
number of minor changes throughout
the rules book, all of them to do with
further Qualification of the existing
regulations. Legislation against
"stalling" which was one of the sub
jects of a QUESTIONABLE, was voted
down, on the ground that it was for
the opposing team to break up at
tempts at "stalling'' by aggressive
playing. The time out" rule was
changed to give a little more latitude
to captains, and reads:
Time Out
"A captain may request time out
whenever his team is in possession
of the ball, or the ball is dead, ex-
cept when the ball is dead in the
possession of the opponents out of
bounds" A slight change also was
made in the dribble rule, but merely
to Qualification. There was consider
able sentiment in favor of a somewhat
radical change in this regulation, but
it was decided, after debate, that the
rule had been amended so often that
it had not yet received a fair trial and
should stand virtually as at present
for another wear.