Identifier: officialaaubaske02amateur (find matches)
Title: Official A.A.U. basketball guide
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Amateur Athletic Union of the United States Athletic League of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America
Subjects: Basketball Basketball for women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : A.A.U.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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has compared most favorable with that ofthe best fives, North, East, or West, as has been frequently andconclusively shown by actual contests. In the Olympic Basket Ball Championship series of 1903, heldunder the auspices of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com-pany, the Missouri Athletic Club team earned third honors bydefeating such teams as the Los Angeles Tigers of Los Angeles,California; Xavier Athletic Association of New York City (thelatter team had won the Metropolitan A.A.U. Championship forthat season before competing here in the national contest). Tofully and clearly show how basket ball is developing in theSouthwest, a brief word concerning its early history here maynot be inapropos at this time. St. Louis was the first city inthis territory to test the merits of the game, which had beendevised to fill in the gap between foot ball of the autumn, andbase ball of the spring months; as the game had its origin inthe Y.M.C.A. Training School, it is not surprising to learn that
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SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASKET BALL GUIDE. IT locally a unit of this vast organization should be the first to.introduce to its members this new and fascinating indoor sport.The honor of this innovation belongs to the North Side Branch,and one of the members of this first St. Louis team is Mr. PhillipStremmel, the veteran coach and referee, who by the way isconsidered by competent judges to be at the present time one ofthe most efficient basket ball officials in all this western country.The game was quickly taken up by the other branches of theY.M.C.A. of this city and afterwards by the local high schoolsand academies. Through the well-directed efforts of those incharge of athletics in the latter institutions an interscholasticleague was formed composed of fives representing the followingschools: Central High School, McKinley High, Yeatman High,Manual Training, Smith Academy and the Western MilitaryAcademy of Upper Alton, Illinois. Too much praise cannot begiven to this league in bringing a

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