The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-30
BY TOM MEANY
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK. Dec. 30-Since bas-
ketball has come in Madison
Square Garden under Promoter Ned
Irish there has been a noticeable
upsWing, not only in business, but
in beefing. Basketball always has
been a game in which the beef
hourished at its best. Not even the
busted beak business can top bas-
ketball when it comes to raising the
raucous squaWk. The "We-Wuz-
robbed" classic of Yussel Jacobs
would be a soft breeze stirring the
treetors Of a summers night COM
pared to the bleatS that ring out
from the Threats of outraged bas-
ketbau coaches The slug game
and the cage racket have one thing
in common in the beefing- fouls,
actual or alleged form the basis for
80 per cent Of the screaming.
Until Ned Irish brought basketball
into the Garden where 1900 addicts
could watch it at once, the beefng
merited little attention. Played in
gymnaSiums which seated scarcely
one thousand or in armories where
no more than 1000 could see the
games, the squaWks didn't last
through the Wall Street edition.
Game Was Liberal in East
The advent of basketball into the
Garden last winter brought more
International games than New
Workers ever had seen. And more
varieties of the old-fashioned beef
than New Workers ever dreamed
existed
Those visiting firemen never hest
tated to sound off, and our local
coaches have never been exactly
reticent when they believed they
weren't getting a fair shake
1t develops now that basketball as
played in this area is offiCiated more
literally than in some sections and
not as loosely as in others. Some
officials run the games "out of the
book as the phrase has it, calling
foul at the hint of personal con-
tact. In other sections, you're con-
1ered sissy if you look for a foul
thout being knocked down. And
in still others, before a free throw is
awarded not only do you have to hit
the deck, but also bounce a couple
of times
Blocking Worst Offense
Blocking is the prime cause of
fouls and the basis of all arguments
over sectional interpretations. And
there are times, too, when teams
from the same section are playing,
when it would take a modern Solo
mon to determine whether a COLI
sion is caused by blocking or charg-
ing.
During Saturday nights double
header at the Garden, 30 Sheppard,
athletic director at North Carolina
which comes here next Monday to
play N. Y. u, was amazed at the
violence of the games.
The spectators, of course, behaved
in very hoodlumiSh manner. There
is something about the very atmos-
phere of the Garden, possibly the
aroma of fights held there in the
past, which shoves craftsmanship
right out the Eighth-av door. 1 be-
lieve you could hold a chess match
there and get some -booing.
Sort of Howling Success
All this beefing about sectional
interpretations is being largely over
done. Obviously, basketball will be
a better game when the rules are
interpreted uniformly in Kenne-
b. lkport, Me, and Napa, Cal,
( e until then it will be Just as
well to recognize the different in
terpretationS as a necessary evil.
After all, the officiating isn't eX-
actly an insurmountable obstacle to
a good team.
Regardless Of the howlS that may
go up about the manner in which
different officials call violations.
there is no doubt about the success
of the game at the Garden.
In fact, you could call it a howl
ing success if you weren't par
ticular about your gags. There were
1906 in the Garden Saturday.
Saturday nights games set a
record for hysteria as we'll as spec
tators. In each, the eventual win
ner seemed hopelessly out of it at
the resumption of play in the sec
ond half, only to stage furious
rally. And in the finale, Purdue add
ed to the general fireworks by start
ing a COMMERCIALLY in the last five
minutes, which had N. Y. U. reeling
on the ropes when the bell rang