The CHRONICLES of the HOOP 1891 1936 #342154

The first Olympic Championship is a nice demonstration of the passionate effort made by the first olympian basket-ballers, in the muddy clay of a tennis court. The umbrellas are open on the crowd, and the water puddles are glittering.
    The ball was a lot bigger and heavier than the modern Spaldings, Wilsons, or Moltens, and there was a slit on one side where you put in the bladder. No matter how tight you laced up that opening with rawhide, there was no way to make that ball perfectly round.
    That, plus the dirt court, made it almost impossible to dribble, even when the ground was dry. Mostly they passed the ball up court anyway and, except for layups, they shot everything two-hand-set, which was what everybody did in those days, but Angelo Luisetti at Galileo High School in Frisco.