ARRANGE A CAGE MEET

DRAKE AND. OKLAHOMA. A.-M.
START PLAY-OFF MONDAY.

Winner of Contest in Oklahoma
City Will Clash With Sooners
Tuesday to Decide Fifth
District Represéntative.

(By the Associated Press.)

OKLAHOMA CirTy, March . 8.—Bas-
ketball teams of the University of
Oklahoma, Drake university and
Oklahoma A. and M. college will
stage a 3-way argument here Mon-
day and Tuesday nights to decide
which will represent the fifth district
in the N. C. A. A. western play-off
in San Francisco, March 20 and 21.

A committee headed by Dr. Forrest
C. Allen, University of Kansas coach,
selected the three teams, along with
the University of Missouri, which
tied Oklahoma for the Big Six con-
ference championship. But - Mis-
souri rejected the offer on the ground
it would keep players away from the
classroom too long. 4

DRAKE VS AGGIES IN OPENER.

Allen conferred with tournament,
officials and coaches of the two
Oklahoma schools here today. As’
soon as final word was received that.
Drake’s team would be here for the
play-off, the schedule drawn up by
the district committee in Kansas
City yesterday was given final ap-
-proval.

Drake and the Oklahoma Aggies,
who finished the Missouri Valley
conference race in a dead heat, will
meet in the first game Monday night,
with the winners facing the Sooners
the following night.

The Aggies split even in two
games with each of the other two
teams during the regular season,
winning on their home court and
losing at Norman and Des Moines. |
The Sooners and Drake have not
Mew c

The games will be played in the
municipal auditorium which is not
equipped for basketball but will have
a seating capacity of more than 5,000
after a playing floor and goals are.
installed.

TO USE O. U. GOALS,

Allen and Coaches Henry Iba of
the Aggies and Bruce Drake of the
Sooners completed all arrangements
today, even to measuring the audi-
torium floor for a playing court...
Portable goals will be brought from |
the University of Oklahoma field-—
house in Norman.

The winner of the play-off here
will go into the San Francisco play-
off with the other three western dis-
trict winners, while winners of the
four eastern districts will meet in
Philadelphia, March :17 and 18,
Winners in San Francisco and Phila-
delphia then will clash in Chicago,
March 25, for the national intercol--
legiate championship,

NorMAN, Ox., March 8.—Dr. W. B.
Bizzell, president of the University
of Oklahoma today gave the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma basketball team
permission to go to San Francisco
and play in the National Collegiate
tournament provided the Sooners,
defeat the winner of the Drake- |
Oklahoma Aggie game in Oklahoma |
‘ity Monday.