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In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as the secretary of the YMCA at Monaghan Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, he met James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, and learned of the fledgling game. Armed with Dr. Naismith's rules of the game and a basketball he bought in New York, Hollis returned to the mill and changed the face of athletics in South Carolina.
Lawrence Peter Hollis was one of the first to introduce basketball south of the Mason-Dixon line, and the game quickly gained popularity in the textile mill villages throughout South Carolina. In 1921 Hollis and others organized a tournament to determine the best mill team, and thus the southern Textile Basketball Tournament was born. Over the years, some of the south's top cage talent played in the tourney, including "Smokey" Barbare, Lucille Foster Thomas, Bert Hill, Earl Wooten, Billy Cunningham, Pete Maravich, Sue Vickers and Tree Rollins. Decade-by-decade, the history of one of the longest running basketball tournaments is provided, along with profiles of many prominent participants. Full rosters for all teams in all tournaments are given in the appendices, along with all-tournament selections and members of the Southern Textile Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface The 1920s
The 1930s
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
End Notes Appendices1. Southern Textile Basketball Tournament Rosters
2. All Southern (All Tournament) Selections
3. War-Time Tournament Rosters
4. War-Time All Tournament Selections
5. Southern Textile Athletic Association Hall of Fame
6. Southern Textile Basketball Tournament Timeline
7. Player Profiles
Bibliography Index
About the author
Mac C. Kirkpatrick of Greenwood, South Carolina, is an industrial engineer in the textile industry.Thomas K. Perry is a writer living in Newberry, South Carolina. He has previously published on the Textile League.
