The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Officials May Enlarge
Basketball Conference
Clubs Slate
COnfab Here
"Wednesday
By CHICK KENNY

Coaches and athletic directors
who make the wheels go round
in the Eastern intercollegiate
Basketball Conference, will as
semble here Wednesday as guests
of Georgetown University at the
annual meeting Of the league.
The confab is listed for the Uni
versity Club and will get under
way at noon.
A hundred per cent attendance
is in the offing, according to H.
Gabriel Murphy, director of ath-
Ietics at Georgetown, and presi-
dent of the conference this year.
Along with the representatives
from Penn State, Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Tech, Temple, West Vir.
ginia, and, of course, Georgetown.
Asa Bushnell. executive director,
the newly installed Judge
Lands" of the Eastern Intercol.
legiate Athletic Association, will
make his Washington debut at
the conclave.
ELECT OFFICERS
In addition to drawing up cage
schedules for the 1889 and 1910
campaigns, election Of officers
and the studying of applications
for membership of several strong
Eastern basketball powers will be
considered.
According to Murphy, those
who will be on hand for the one
day session include Graduate
Manager James Hagen and Coach
Or. H. C. Carlson, of Pittsburgh,
Graduate Manager Clarence Over
end and Coach Max Hannum. OF
Carnegie Tech, Athletic Director
Harry Stansbury. and Coach
SLEEPY" Glenn, of West Virginia,
Graduate Manager Neil Fleming
and Coach John Lawther, OF
Penn State, Athletic Director
Earl Yoemans and Coach Jimmy
Usilton, of Temple, and Graduate
Manager H. Gabriel Murphy and
Coach Freddy Mesmer, of George
town.
OUTLINE PLANS
Bushnell will outline plans Of
cooperation between his office
and that Of the conference and
will offer aid in whatever meas
ures of the loop representatives
so adopt.
Interest is keen concerning
whether or not the conference
will add two new teams to its
membership. There is a growing
suspicion that Syracuse Univer-
Eity has applied for membership
although Murphy was noncom-
initial this morning. Colgate,
New York U. and Fordham are
other institutions that may have
rendered application for member
ship. The majority of confer
ence teams, now, play these three
uuintets regularly each year.
From all appearances, IN order
to balance the conference, it Is
likely that should the circuit be
enlarged, no less than two teams
will be included to membership.
One or three schools will not be
taken in.
LEAGUE DECISION
No other important business
other than the possible decision
of enlarging the league is antlc1-
pated at the confab. however,
with a flock of athletic directors
and graduate managers on hand,
it would not be surprising If a
football date or two would be
ironed out.
Close followers of the confer
ence are hopeful that some action
will be taken by the group in ses-
sion here. to make overtures to
the Eastern intercollegiate Bas-
ketball League for post season
game between the conference
title-holder and the league cham
pion to determine the Eastern
College basketball champion.
Should such proposal meet
with favor in the group in session
at the University Club Wednes-
day, it will probably be passed
along to Asa Bushnell to act as
an Intermediary between both cir
cults.
POST SEASON GAME
There is every reason to believe
that the conference would favor
such a post season game, but
whether or not the League would
tie up for such a conflict is some
thing else. Members OF the
League include Princeton, OF
which Bushnell is former grad
uate manager; Pennsylvania,
Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Cor
nell and Columbia.
This is the Ivy division of in
tercollegiate sports, and one Of the
pet aVersions of the cherished and
staid blue-ribbon institutions is
turning down post season games.
But then a basketball game in
the East a week after the season
has been concluded is quite diff
ferent than a football classic a
month after season in California,
three thousand miles away.
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