Evening star., 1928-02-01
NEW METHOD USED
|. TO GUAGE SCORERS
Accuracy Rated by Results
of Throws From Squares
on Marked Court.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

Certain basket ball coaches OF COL
lege fiyes in Ohio-Robert Fletcner o.
Case. for one-have devised system
Of checking the various pecunar!.ies
Of players In shooting for the cage Inc
floor is chalked so that 1t resembles
checker board. and each varsity man
is watched by an observer IN the oal-
cony who notes the point from Tnlcn
scores are attempted and whether sue
cessful or not.
Herman Goldstein. sage chronicler OF
basket ball and other sports IN the
Buckeye. State. reports that very inter-
esting discoveries are made as a result
of this device. Il has been found. lor
instance that most players have den-
mite tendencies IN shooting and seldom
depart from them Or If they have no
strong bent, the checking shows wherein
they are successful and wherein they
fail
or one man it was shown that he
missed practically every shot he mace
from the lef. of the basket. but that
a majority OF his shots from the righ,
side dropped into the cage. Another
nlayer was found never 70 shoot until
close to the goal. Information OF the
sort Is valuable not only IN giving
coach a line upon the shooting aol4i!E
Of the men. but permits him TO build
an ofense based upon what his players
can do best.
western Conference statisticians are
going in for intensive figures this sea
son, keeping records OF all shots. To-
gether with their length. with view
to ascertaining the ratio OF scoring 70
the number of scoring attempts. II
the first quarter OF the Big len season
it has been found that 20 per cent were
successful Which strikes the writer as
a mighty fine average.
Alabama Poly seems In a fair way
to carry on the Southern Champion
ship this season. judging from the
swath which the Auburn basket shoot
ers are cutting through Dixie q. the
present time.
In winning eight straight games. six
Of them against conference opponents,
the Tigers have averaged 50 points
game.
The trouble about the Southern Con-
ference championship Is that the issue
Is annually decided at four-day tour
namens in Atlanta at the end OF the
season. In this grusling affair. endur-
ance, competitive temperament and
other factors besides ability to play
the game figure in the outcome
North Carolina's success IN winning
four titles IS due as much to Tarhesl
coolneSs and precision under fire as 20
knowledge OF the game and ability TO
play 1t.
Ernie NeverS. according 10 a repo-.
which reaches the writer. II al p-cb-
ability viii be found on the coaching
staff Of StanfordS foot bali squad next
Fall Already the big blond back. Who
won fame for himself and for the Palo
Alta institution u i923-4-5. has an
nounced that this VIII be his last sea-
son as professional foot bali player.
He found little money in the East this
year and less IN the West.
Getting hack to Auburn. they have q
new foot ball coach there named Bob
ler. who has some excellent ideas about
MS job Noted for his passing attack.
Bohier warns supporters OF the team
not 10 expect any undertaking system,
n the play OF the team NOBODY. he
says. knows al the foot ball there IS
He Is willing 70 pick up q novelty that
by the way. he does rot differ from
many a successful coach Throughout
the country
The present tendency. u fact Is
toward the shopping about OF coaches
whenever they ges q chance. Esll
Roper, for instance. picked I'd q rev
idea for al initial lineup in watching
Minnesota play Michigan. while Down
N Atlanta, when georgia Tech and
Georgia played. St1 Jones OF the Army
seemed especially attracted by GeorSa
Techs scheme Of having the quarter
back facing his oacSHel6 from ! posi-
ton under center when the bal xss
snapped. Both Princeton and ives.
Point will no dcUe: t-y out these cev
discoveries ncNt season.
4 compromise suggestion designed ~
o-sTS the Army and Nary soSe:Gs- has
been recsised fccga Al Army c1csr.
Let Army and Navy Re SAYS psay ary
men sAey please against their e,S ,.c.-
yerS,ty rivals but II their arnus: ccn-
tests sza.n<s each other have secr to-
low the th-sS-vesr eligibility S c-y>-
snSsG oy the Navy, why ncss :. =
the only idea The writer has heard co.,
tanning az iss>s germ which the Ssr*-
ice authorities -lsS5s ncgsrsSA and C.
vesop into a solvent for their p<essa.
Gisscu!ty.
fCoeyrtSas 1881