National
Groups to _
Meet Here

e Coaches, Officials

And Rules Board

To Hold Sessions

Kansas City will truly be the
capital of the basketball world
this week with conventions of
the national bodies governing the
|cage sport preceding the Na-
tional Collegiate Athletic Asso-
| ciation championship game_ be-
| tween Kansas and Indiana Satur-
| day at the Municipal Auditorium.
' The. National Association of
Basketball Coaches,open the im-
portant week with their session
at the Hotel Continental Thurs-
day. They convene for three}
days to discuss their problems |
and make their recommendations |
| for rules changes. At their an-
|}nual banquet, H. Roe. Bartle,|
|national Boy Scout exective,
| will be the principal speaker.

On Friday the Nationa), Col-
legiate Basketball Officials group]
will start. a 2-day
here, . with the Midwest
tercollegiate , officials Associa- |
tion . acting as host.. The!
'Whistle-tooters also will discuss
‘proposed rules changes, and the’
recommendations of the ccaches.
and officials will be presented to
the national basketball rules.
committee of the: United States
and Canada at its meeting Satur-
day, Sunday and Monday. Bend

B. T. Grover, of Ohio Uni-
versity, president of the coaches’ |
group, and E, C. Quigley, of the)
officials, will present the rules|
|recommendations, for their re-
spective groups. gs

All. colleges and universities in
the -United States, the National
Federation of High Schools, the
Y.M.C.A. and Canadian colleges
and universities are represented
in the groups meeting here.

The climax, of course, is the
championship game Saturday
‘night, between Kansas, Western
‘Division champion, and Indiana,
victor in the Eastern Regional, |
for the N.C.A.A. championship. |