BASKETBALL REBOUNDS, Continued,

Bushnell and Salmon to Lend Expert
Advice to Writers on National
Tourney ~- By ‘Everett B. Morriss,

The }fetropolitan Basketball vriters Association,
proceeding yesterday with plans for the national intercollegiate
hoop tournament at the Garden on Jiarch 9, 14, and 16, decided to
obtain some expert outside help in the ta sk of setting up an
event which is expected to OPEN the: 19S7~ 58 court” campaign to
a rousing close,

The scriveners invited Sir ssa Bushnell, Lord High Com-
missioner of the Ivy League’ and‘associated gastern athletic groups,
ond H. Hs. Salmon, jr,, chajrman of the N,C.A.A, baske thats com-
mittee, to serve as advisers to their tournament board, These dis-
tinguished. executives of intercollegiate sport er ‘promptly
oes ‘the writers ‘were. properly apr ree rner ee

Another or, stop: was taken-in the aetier of prizes for
the participants. A perpetual trophy wili be established for the
tournament victor and the winning team will receive a replica of
it for permanent possession; There will be an award also for the
outstanding player: in the tournament on’ the Same basis, Members
of the first-place squad will carry home gold medals, and there
Will be silver medals.for the runners-up and bronze medals Tor'ol1
the other players in the tourney,

Netional Game Underlined.

1% is ies by the writers that the venture will serve ‘0
emphasize their point that basketball is a national rather than
a provincial game, and will help in furthering a better understand}
ing emong all the eléments concerned with the development and wel-
fare of the Sport, SeUOS ER ESE perhaps, but none tha 2088 true.

Communications from outlying districts indicate: that the
tournament committee will have no difficulty in obtaining topnoch
teams to meet the two survivors of the: Eastern elimination scheduled
for March 9, Rastern leaders pbutside of the New York crea: appear to
be similary eager to co-operate, The problem at the moment seems to
be to persuade the metropolitan teams to participate in the tourney.

The tournament committee's plan for the Eastern play-offs -
subject to change, of course, in the event of unforseen developments
calls for the two ranking New york teams to meet on March 9 two.
outstanding fives which have compiled impressive records in the |
Eastern territory, The winnérs of these games will go into the semi-
finals on March 14 against two teams brought in from the fiddle west
and beyond the Ifississippi, The finals are set for March 16,