I  read  from  the  text  of  S.  886,  and  that  is  found  in  the  Senate
hearings  which  were  held  12  years  ago  in  July  of  1959.  Congress  did
not  pass  four  of  those.  It  did  pass  one  of  them  that  had  to  do  with
the  regulation  of  rights  to  broadcast  and  telecast  reports  and  pic-
tures of  sports  contests.  That  was  converted  into  law  so  that  any-
thing they  did  by  way  of  agreement  there  was  outside  of  the  scope
of  antitrust  laws.
Then  in  1965  we  reconsidered  the  all-sports  bill  and  the  Senate
approved  it  but  the  House  did  not  act.  However,  in  the  following
year,  there  were  extensive  hearings  in  this  committee.  There  were
some  hearings  in  1966  in  the  other  House.  In  1966  there  was  passed
that  portion  of  the  bill  which  did  for  football  precisely  what  this
Ijill  S.  2373,  seeks  to  do  for  basketball  now.
]Mr.  Kttcttel.  Right.
