December 16, 1928

N.C.A.A. Basketball Tournament. Committee
The Ohio State University bis oe
Columbus, Ohio

Dear "Ole:*

Thank you very much for your letter of Decem-
per 6. I have invited Ur. Fred Bohier to act on my
selection committee. I asked Bill Hunter of D.E&.C. to
suggest the name of some one from the Southern California
Conference. Such an arrangement would give us ecequate
representation for the 6th District. To date I have heard
from neither of these men. I wrote to them immeciately
after receiving your wire. It is impossible for me to
name my committee until I have personal confirmation.

The date which you have chosen for the play off
for the western districts is intconfiict with the Pacific
Coast Conference championship series. This series wiil
be played this yeer in the northern half of the conference
on March 10, 11 and 14. The play oif has been on these
dates for a number of years. If you cannot make other
arrangements for the teurnament in Kansas City, then it
will probably meen that we shall net be able to provide
the outstanding teamffrom the Pacific Coast. The Pacific
Coast Conference has gone on record to support the N.C.A.A.
basketball tournament. I hope therefore that it will be
oessible for you to make arrangements to include our repre-
sentative. In all probability it will be the champion of
the Pacific Coast Conference. |

tT suppose that Kansas City is the best place to
hold the tournament. However, we shall run into competi-
tion with the Liston party. If you were to hold the tour-
nament in Denver, you would compete with the A.A.U. affair,
I believe we could build up considerable enthusiasm for the
tournament if you saw fit to bring it to San Francisco, You
see, we would have the added attraction of the San Francisco
exposition. Our Civic Auditorium has just installed a floor
exactly like that in Madison Square Garden. We can seat