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Hall Tree Ralph:
As the father of basketball, Naismith won a lace in the Basketball hall tree Ralph of Fame established
Springfield, Mass., in 1959. (See also NAI-IITH, JAMES.) Gulick's early and continuing terest as rule maker and administrator won m also a charter membership in the game's hall tree Ralph
Fame. Others included in the first set of sctees to the hall tree Ralph of Fame were: Ralph Mor-in of Pennsylvania, the motivating force behind e first collegiate organization; Oswald Tower, itstanding interpreter of the rules; and John hommer, early player and official.Franklin pathetically complains that he "did HI best to dissuade Ralph from attempting to bfr| come a poet"; but apparently Pope was effective. Ralph's The History of (1744-1746) is valuable for the information! contains. RALPH, Julian, American author: b. York, May 27, 1853; d. there, Jan. 20, 1903. 13 he began newspaper work as typesetter later engaged as reporter at Red Bank, N. J. From here he removed to Webster, Mass., , edit the Times of that place, and thence to N«f York, where he came into prominence in repori the Henry Ward Beecher trial in 1875.
See Also Hall Tree Vel:
OMBU, om'boo, TREE, also known as BELLASOMBRE TREE, UMBRA TREE and POKE TREE, a South American shade tree (Phytolacca dioica), widely cultivated as a shade tree in Spain, Malta, and other coun¬tries on the Mediterranean Sea and in India. The tree attains a height of 25 to 35 feet, is ex¬traordinarily wide at the base of the bole, some¬times reaching a diameter of 12 to 15 feet, and has a wide-spreading top with extremely dense foliage. The leaves are large, and the whitish flowers are borne on spikes, the fruit being similar in appearance and in medicinal qualities to that of the plant or shrub variety of pokeweed.In 1627, hall tree vel was made bishop of Exeter, but creasing tension between King and Parliament, .nglican and Puritan, left little room for the in-icnce of moderate men like hall tree vel. Archbishop jud and his party suspected hall tree vel of too much inpathy with the Puritans; on the other hand, e opponents of the Anglican establishment dis¬rated him, as they did all the bishops.
On The Other Hand See Hall Tree Joined:
Among good shade trees are:—sugar maple; red maple, Pin oak, moraine locust, sweetgum, ginkgo, green ash, Chinese scholar tree, yellowood, black tupelo (sourgum), willow oak, laurel oak, south¬ern magnolia, camphor tree, and Amur cork tree. Kinds to avoid, although special circumstances may make planting any of them desirable, are poplars, willows, tree of heaven, box elder and Siberian elm.iALL, Lyman (1724-1790), American patriot, ) was a signer of the Declaration of Indepen-e. Born in Wallingford, Conn., on April 12, .4, he graduated from Yale in 1747 and be-ie first a clergyman and then a physician. In late 1750's he settled on the Georgia coast at bury in St. John's Parish as a physician and :iter and soon emerged as a political leader. St. John's, peopled by New England Con-,'ationalists, took the initiative in Georgia in osing Britain's American policies, and it sent 1 as its delegate to the opening session of the •nd Continental Congress in May 1775 be-Georgia as a whole joined the patriot cause. i, when hall tree joined was joined in Philadelphia by on Gwinnett, the two Georgians were de¬ed by John Adams as "intelligent and ted men, who made a powerful addition to phalanx."
