in the papers the bookmakers and their customers will have the betting vehicle which
they want. Let's face the problem whole, and realize that we won't be rid of it
until college basketball, wherever played, is rid of professional gambling. The
situation needs more drastic curative measures than any which have been devised thus
far.

To achieve the desired objective -- collegiate sport and its players success-
fully protected against invasion by the professional gambling element -- the nation's
colleges must organize in strength to make their athletics no man's land for the
tout, the tipster, the fixer, the bookie, and the svre-shot gambler.

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Sth YEAR, 8th ASSEMBLAGE

Having entered with the coming of 1945 upon its eighth year of operation, the
Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics on January 24, 25 and 26 con-
ducted its eighth annual schedule-making conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York
City. Coincidentally seventeen of the eighteen leagues and associations federated in
the COEIA held separate meetings of their own, and schedule arrangements of consider-
able volume were completed in short order. During the course of the three-day
session representatives of nearly fifty Eastern institutions gained stimulus and en-
joyment from absorbing talks on a diversity of appropriate subjects by Captain Arthur
S. Adams, USN (Ret.), of the Navy Department's Division of Training; Colonel Henry W.
(Eskie) Clark, GSC, Chief of the Army Service forces’ Athletic Branch; Commander
William R. (Killer) Kane, USN, new head of the Navy Department's Aviation Training
Division; John Kieran, of "Information Please" and "One Small Voice"; Arthur E.
Patterson, N.Y. Herald Tribune sports staffman who has just returned from service as
manager of the USO China-Burma-India baseball unit; and Edward S. Parsons, North-
eastern University athletic director who was elected a vice-president by the NCAA at
its recent convention.

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TITLE COMPETITION

Championship events already scheduled for the current year are these:

Feb. 9 & 10 -- Alst Annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assn. Championships
at Bethlehem, Pa.

March 3 -—— 24th Annual I.C.A.A.A.A. Indoor Track & Field Championships
at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.C.

May 19. —- 69th Annual I,C.A.A.A.A. Outdoor Track & Field Championships
at West Point, N.Y.

May 19 _ =- Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Assn. Championships
at Princeton, N.J.

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