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| INVITATION TOURNANENT
Mol: & “stir! - wae oo By Arthngd, Daloy int elt -
ae POLE (oh (Baskotoell Writer, The: LQNy Yorke Ties. eo bina

Don! t ectem or but the inns Dektetel. Oe eiae Te ttearine is not:
for: offs This vaudyscason has whisked, alons at:so fast « pace that it 3cems
hard to .reabize: thaw. only: four more regular. Garden donble-headers are: left.

for the snot ‘eo yenrs ihe i erent hes been the Ser aa Invitation
Toumisitent.~ The ideawes furnished bt the Metropolitan: Baskétball Vritors
Association «= dich 1 wanted the court saue.to’ have something resembling a finale.
one rma maa seribes vredtomes promoters. and. ‘producedtvo cory ‘cous. tourna: ents.
& % Phat grevot:. Dey wand saneconn tue: the: tna -OL- “as x echo C6 6 he
‘cypress. box: eno soon: become. glifhtly muscle-bound from patti a lacs
on the back, We liked the tournament and 4 vonted ab: to conte Tat we.feit
4 reine our eens ‘was. pwd tan ‘not. ert b ings

rs x this, year thes horommaniens: will ane. O.ow spoxsor. We handed. the -show

over to tae: tietropolitan colleges , ~~ ahoiie end batrekes They apnointed a
tourney committee with Professor Waiter Willienson of Cit 7 Colleg ze as. the
chairman. On the committee with hin: ee be renres as from Meonhottan
and Brooklin Colleze along with Asa Sus} a: czar of the Central Office for
Eastern Intercolle ainte Athletics, ond Bverett Morris, a very clever young
man Y who: wits represent: the : writers.’ . < oh PM tos « Ett’

| “The: thouht behing the: Chtytinnhat tan ~3ron oklym revresertation was *hat

tcises schools will. have: only an. acacenic “in ret st in the tounaren’ this year
and. would Le-vettér fitted to. pick local entrants ‘from anon L,1,U., Hex J,

St. « vom!'s; Hordhan end St, “rancis then they wun thonselves,

ss citer 4s the Aechatcedl seiko ait: ony rate, Sow as to dates. pe, ones
that are being ne 1a by the Garden for the tournanent are Monday, March 11
Wednesday, the 13th and cither Friday, the 15th, or Wednesday, the 20th,

Ags for the teams that will actually participate in the tournament your
guess is as god as wines It is still umch too eerly to venture an ovinion as
to what quintets Vill. te invited but /a:shary watch is being kent all over the
country so that the very: weMn contd sD OMORS cnn: e DROME hat to New York,

About all that..can: pone caenavthe is. ‘that a last $0 shows were
excellont, crantiedito the full with superb basketball, So there is every
reason to believe’ that the 1940: offoring * will be able to'‘match the others,
Temple won in 1938 and LIU triumphed last © ra oan of — being acknow-
ledged as the nation! Ss How -- toa, ae Pe ;

So advice is ; norety oftoro4, fri ee of charge 5 0. cor ie early and avoid

the rush, bh ait eo nn big gts
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