. Official basket ball guide and Protective association rules for 1908 '09 . nderers, having won all of their games, are de-clared Senior Lightweight Champions of the East, and will receive sevensolid sold medals set with a diamond, and will have possession of theBernstein trophy for one year. The Emeralds are declared winners of second place, and will receiveseven solid silver medals set with a ruby, The Alerts are declared winners of third place, and will receive sevenbronze medals set with a sapphire. The games played in the Junior Lightweight Championship resultedas follows: Elsin Five 26


. Official basket ball guide and Protective association rules for 1908 '09 . nderers, having won all of their games, are de-clared Senior Lightweight Champions of the East, and will receive sevensolid sold medals set with a diamond, and will have possession of theBernstein trophy for one year. The Emeralds are declared winners of second place, and will receiveseven solid silver medals set with a ruby, The Alerts are declared winners of third place, and will receive sevenbronze medals set with a sapphire. The games played in the Junior Lightweight Championship resultedas follows: Elsin Five 26 Atlas 19 Metropolitans 31 Atlas.,,.... 4 Metropolitans 53 Elgin Five 15 The Metropolitans, having won all of their games, are declaredJunior Lightweight Champions of the East, and will receive seven goldmedals. The Elgin Five are declared winners of second place, and will receiveseven solid silver medals. The Atlas Five are declared winners of third place, and will receiveseven bronze medals, Diamond Wanderers .Diamond Wanderers ..Emeralds 360 Alerts EmeraldsAlerts IS1027. OFFICIALS. Good, Bad and Indifferent. By GEORGE P. SPINDLER. While there may be a certain amount of truth, in theremark that officials are simply a necessary evil in a gameof basket ball, the real truth of the matter is that the menwho officiate at games are factors of prime importance ; forthe very reason that it is in their power to make or spoila game. The contesting teams can be of indifferent calibreand still, in the hands of a first-class set of officials,present a contest in which the interest will be sustainedthroughout, while in the hands of an indifferent set ofofficials the efforts of the best two teams in existence canbe made a veritable farce and a source of weariness to thebeholder. In the opinion of the writer this very important phase ofthe game has never received the consideration that it should,and many of the complications attributed to rules, old andnew, have been the result not so much of


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