The Washington times., 1922-11-02
SISSY RULES"
iNBASKETbALL
FOR THIS YEAR
inter- Collegiate League Said
To Be Greatly Dissatisfied
With Revisions.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Knute Rockne, versatile Notre
Dame football coach, staged
hippodrome between the halves
of football game recently. The
Notre Dame mentor demon
strated what football would be
some years hence. One team OF
cake-eaters played a team. COM
posed of tea hounds. Body con
tact was eliminated. There were
no scrimmages and the runner
was downed when he was slapped
on the wrist. So much for knutc
Rockne and his football game OF
the future. In our midst and on
trial for the winter are the
SISSY" regulations of basketball
as codified and adopted by the
toint committee representing the
Amateur Athletic Union, the, Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Asso-
citation and the Young Mems
Christian Association.
The changes blamed chiefly upon
DR.. Joseph f. Raycroft are sala ~
have met with the disapproval ol
the intercollegiate Basketball League
TO the point where there Will be
general understanding 10 entirely
disregard the revised code. 80
peeved are the coaches OF the Inter
collegiate League that there ap-
pears to be an agreement 10 pay no
attention to the game, whlch. with
the changes, Is being made INTO
regular girls pastime.
The inclusion of a restricted zone
or immune zone-there are too many
Of these restrictions anyhow-nKens
the mems game TO the play OF the
women In that they have the same
sort Of zones. And while the women
are CRYING for the adoption OF rules
that will put their game on pa
with the men, the men have doubled
back to the womnn's game, accept
ing the zone idea in order to elllnl-
nate as much as possible all body
It may be that It will work out
ali right but q majority or the
coaches who have gone over the
rules are holding up their hands III
horror and asking II the gentlemaniS
basketers are expected to wear pou
auets and II any penalties Will De
enforced for mussing the halr.
No amount Of explanation Is gong
to hide the fact that in an effort 10
put q premium on speed anu pas
ing. 10 aNOlu I'LL pouy
r,,Ies committee has "sissified' bas-
ketball to a point where II VIII "
come a pink tea party.
As long as the modern tendency
of snorts officials is to call nothing
resembling infraction OF the rules, II
would appear useless to revise the
rules in order to eliminate rougnness
and body contact when oflcials ol
big games never call theH.
Basketball rules officials so ab-
hor the word foul that they nave
changed technical four to
"yioIation," If you please. TINS
serves further to emphasize our
noint of the "calIe- eating, he'll
per tendency" of the code revisers.
Az eny rate the intercollegiate
Basketball League composed OF Penn-
svlvania, Columbia, Cornell, Dart,
mouth. Yale and Princeton, VIII
probably blink knowingly and leave
the matter of obeying these specllic
changes to others.
Several years ago the western
Conference refused to abide by ne
"held.ball rule in the two-foot zone.
There were other objections. The
on the floor. Later it was eliminated
and the floor length increased Two
feet at each end under the baskets.
with the alterations in the basket
hail rules for 1922.1923 the tink9rers
have placed the game beyond the
male Of other sports. In no other
snort played is their less uniformity
Of officiating despite the many in.
terpretation meetings.
The chief objection to basketball
from n spectators standpoint is ne
continuous and continual stopping OF
play and the footing of the whistle.
From a reading of the new rules the
whistle will be continually I'm evidence
and while there will be less time
consumed in making free tosses
after technical fouls. the held baii
olay as we'll as the out of bounds
play will still be on the books.
The officials side Is yet to be
presented. In New York tomorrow
night the sOlons will gather and
talk over the changes I'm the rules.
Tben alI those who represent the
various sections will go back home
and "teIl the world"
Officials, coaches and players will
finally get the so.called 'low down"
on the code.
The officials will interpret some
more, The coaches will get their
snbads out and begin a series of lee.
t,yres on "don'ts." There will be
iot OF lost motion and the basketball
rules will be tried out for another
year.
In the meantime basketball orders
FOR men include cold cream, ribbon
cor insertion. pastel shades for uni.
,orms, pink cotton. chamois gloves,
manicure sets, smelling salts, and
electric vibrators.
The girls are said to be ordering
brass knuckles.
Schwab Best Guard.