SUPPLEMENT TO
N.C. A. A. NEWS BULLETIN

Vol. VI, No. 6, December 1938 .

N.C. A. A. BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Important Announcement

H. G. Olsen, Chairman of the N.C.A.A. Basketball Tourna-
ment Committee, is sending out posters announcing that the first
National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament for the national
championship will be held in Kansas City on March 13-18 of this
year. The N.C. A.A. has taken the lead in organizing this tourna-
ment at the suggestion of the Basketball Coaches Association. The
Committee in charge ask the active support of all members. of the
N.C. A.A. and suggest that they refrain from promoting or sup-
porting any other so-called “intercollegiate basketball champion-
ship”, inasmuch as the N.C. A. A. is now going into that field. Full
details will be published in the next Bulletin.

REPORT OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE TENNIS COMMITTEE

(Presented to the Executive Committee at their meeting
in Chicago in September.)

Pursuant to conversations between representatives of the
N.C.A.A. and the U.S.L.T.A. held during the latter part of
1937, the annual meetings of the N.C. A. A. and the U.S. T.A.
ratified a plan of operation whereby the National Intercollegiate
Championship was to be conducted jointly by the U.S. L. T. A. and
the N.C.A.A. for a period of three years beginning with the
season of 1938. In addition to the change in responsibility, two
other changes were incorporated under the new procedure. Instead
of an open tournament as previously held, the 1938 event was con-
ducted through the medium of eight qualifying tournaments, each
tournament representing one of the eight geographical districts recog-
nized by the N.C. A. A. The second change was the decision to play
the final event on clay courts at the Merion Cricket Club, rather
than on grass courts as heretofore.

These three changes caused certain unsatisfactory results and
have given rise to divergent opinions. On the whole, however, it
can be considered that the 1938 event was extremely successful

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