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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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nd objects,opposition diminishes and the organization once regarded as an innova-tion and a venture now ranks as a recognized authority; the growingtendency of basketball thought and legislation to travel along Associa-tion lines proving the depth and strength of Association influence. Taken as a whole last season has been the most prosperous one inthe bistorjof the game, and reports m a majority of cases hear testimonyto its ever increasing popularity. Of course there have been instanceswhere some have met with disaster due to irregularities on their ownpart, or perhaps to connection with persons addicted to practices calcu-lated to injure the game; but happy to relate, the consequences of theirown folly have recoiled upon their own heads without seriously hurtingthe game, and it is probable that in future these unfortunates will givedue heed to the fact that the public is beginning to want straightbasktetball or none. This doesnt mean that the basketball millenium has arrived; bush-
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ROBERT THOMPSON.Vice-President Protective Basketball and Athletic Association of theEastern States. PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BASKETBALL. 13 ing and other forms of the sawdust game, while they cannot be said toflourish, still continue ; but there is satisfaction in the knowledge thatwhile a few are doing these tilings, the great majority of players andmanagers are trying to do what is right, and in that lies the confidencethat things are continually becoming better; with the public waking up,and the various organizations working for the ad vancement of the game,the woric of former years seems to have been fruitful, and basketballadvances with rapid strides. In connection with the above, the one thing most needed to perfectthe good work is National Organization, and strange to say the chiefobstacle to such organization is the very one who would be most bene-fitted by it, the manager of the professional team. No one in his propersenses will claim that the present haphazard system of handli

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