National Collegiate Group
Announces Eight Dis-
‘tricts to Try

A POST-SEASON SERIES:

One ion From Each Dis-|

trict to Be Named for
the Big Test -

_ Columbus, O., Dec. 14. (P)—The |
National Collegiate Athletic asso- |

ciation’s plan to select America’s
first undisputed college basketball
champion advanced a step today as
H. G. Olsen, Ohio State Univer-

sity’s cage coach, named eight dis-
trict committees which will select
one entrant each for the post-sea-
son title series.

Dates and sites for the games
have not been determined, Olsen
- said, but he indicated the four-team
clash east of the Mississippi would
be held March 10-11 or March 17-18
at New York or Philadelphia, with
the western teams meeting the
same dates at Kansas City, Den-
ver or Los Angeles. Winners of the
sectional frays will meet the fol-
lowing week for the crown.

Of the 205 teams affiliated with

the N. C. A. A., one from each dis-
trict is eligible to play in the post-
season series. Districts may hold
playoffs to name their entrant, Ol-
sen said but such play-offs are not
“necessary or desirable.”

The Committees

The district committees, with the
eligible teams and the states in-
cluded in their area, are:

No. 1—(26 teams, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island and Connecti-
cut) Wesley Fesler of Harvard,
chairman; Sumner Dole, Connecti-
cut State college; Osborne G.

~ Cowles, Dartmouth.

No, 2—(47 teams, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela-

aware and West Virginia) William

M. Barber, New York, chairman;
*’ Bverett Morris, New York Herald

ribune; H. James Swarts, U. of
Pennsylvania.