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-“Beéause,”’ said the © director,|'

“there is no gymnasium in the city

that could seat over 2,000 spec-

tators and, in fact, only one that
accommodates over 1,500. It is
necessary for any school playing
intercollegiate basketball to lease
the Garden for any contest other
than those of a minor nature. There
is hardly a gymnasium in the city
that would even accommodate the
student members of the athletic
association of an institution.

“By the same token the burden

of leasing the:Garden would be too
much. for any single institution.

|| Therefore, it is customary to have
,|two games, each home team select-

ing its opponent, the officials de-
termining the type of ball and in
all manner handling the games.’’

Referring to a recent statement
in this départment that’ Kansas
University may send a team to the
Garden next winter, Ned said:

“Tf Kansas is to play its game it
will not be arranged by me, but by
the institution it will play. Sec-
ondly, the New York school which
invites Kansas here will make all

in-| arrangements, and it will be played

as a regular contest included in

“ithat institution’s 1940-41 intercolle-|f

giate schedule and not as any part
of a tournament.”

|. Irish went on to stress the fact|y

that the only tournament which];
would be held here was a post-sea-|;
son affair conducted and sponsored ;

by the association composed, as al-
ready pointed out, of the ten metro-
politan colleges.
Purely Collegiate.
“The 1940 tournament,’’ he said,

“twas. conducted by this body |i

through a tournament committee

composed of Prof. Walter William-|ji

son of the College of the City of
New York; Herb Kopf, Manhattan
College; Lou Oshins, Brooklyn Col-

lege; Asa Bushnell, central office|:
for. Eastern intercollegiate ath-|'

letics, and Everett Morris, repre-

senting the Basketball Writers As-|:

sociation.

“This group considered the list of
teams eligible to play, issued the
invitations, selected the officials
and in all ways actively supervised
the conduct of the tournament.”’

‘So it will be seen that, far from

encroaching on the intercollegiate }
athletic picture and luring local and|

outside collegians into the maw of
commercialism, the function of
Madison Square Garden is merely
to supply a substitute for those
gigantic field houses of the Middle
West accommodating from seven to
ten thousand spectators, and if
there is any undue emphasis placed
upon the sport it is done by the
colleges whose athletic authorities

have not been deaf to the clicking

of the Garden turnstiles.

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