could be played in the coliseum. Mr. Farmer stated that the Los
Angeles people wanted money exhibitions and the possibility of
lack of foreign competition made them dubious. They arranged
for Pop Warner and Jimmy Phelen to handle the North Coast teams
and Howard Jones to handle the South Coast teams, which partici-
pated. We won out with the Olympic Committee but lost with the
Coast people.

At a dinner with the Japanese Delegation during
the course of the Olympic Games, Mr. Sohalu Ri of Waseda Uni-
versity, Tokio, told me that annually they have the Far’ Eastern
Olympics which include basket ball with China, Japan and the
Phillipines. competing with each other and other nations for
the championship. Japan has won three straight years. Mr.

BE, C, Quigley, our National League umpire and outstanding all-
sports official, during his tour of the Land of the Rising Sun
two years ago, officiated at a tournament for the Japanese. Af-
ter working all night until four o'clock in the morning, the
only way that he finished. that tournament at all was by dis-
qualifying an entire team if any individual on that outfit made
a foul. Interest even more intense than in the United States
and crowds numbering ten thousand attended these great tourna-
ments. Japan has gone basket ball as well as baseball mad.

Not content to remain defeated in our quest for
basket ball in the Olympic Games at Los angeles, Count Soyejima,
president of the Japan Basket Ball Association, Dr. Kishi,
Sohaku Ri, Shumpei, Suzuki, and other foreign representatives

met with us in Los angeles with a definite aim in mind of landing