By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker praises basketball's timing and says that children and old people can play on their own.
The speaker links seconds with the swish, then dismisses age as a barrier to playing. The final claim about playing by yourself locates the pleasure in a practice that needs no opponent.
The speaker observes that 'Every time a step / is crossed, you know / That step is stepped / twice' and calls 'Seconds and swish' 'a wonderful thing'. He ends by saying basketball 'dosen't make / Any differance who you are / six years old or an old / person, you can do it by / yourself.'
This handwritten page reduces the game to timing and sound, then opens it to everyone regardless of age. The closing praise of playing 'by yourself' makes the sport a private, self-sufficient pleasure, and the run-on lines keep a warm, conversational tone.