Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Rice, Oklahoma
Continue Push
Through East
Yole's Quint Invodes
Midwest; Big Ten
Teams on Tour

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-It's vaca-
ton time at the colleges now, bat |
basket ball players are finding the |
holiday stretch from now until New
Year Day one of the busiest periods
of intersectional competition that
precedes serious conference play.
This weeks schedule is somewhat
lighter than it has been for the
past week or two, but what is left is
made up almost entirely of major"
games, mostly intersectional. Teams
that will be touring foreign areas
include Rice of the Southwest Con-
ference, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas
and Kansas State of the Big Six:
Illinois, Minnesota and Indiana Of
the Big Ten: Colorado, Utah and
Utah State of the Big Seven: Santa
Clara from the Pacific Coast, Will
liam and Mary from the South, and
Yale, Cornell and Princeton of the
East.
In addition, two invitation tourna-
ments. at Oklahoma City and
Topeka. kans., each will send Is
teams into action starting December
Is. Four Southwest Conference and
two Missouri Valley teams have en-
tered the Oklahoma City tourna-
ment.
Action in East, Midwest.
A quick survey of the outstanding
teams in each section, fost of which
will continue to play through the
holiday season, lists the following:
East-Long Island. St. Johns
BROOKLYN, New York University,
Manhattan, Seton Hall, Villanova,
La Sale, Temple, Baltimore. Du-
quesne, Pittsburgh. Dartmouth,
Harvard and Cornell and perhaps
/ some other Eastern league members
may belong or the list although
they haven't faced strong oppo-
sition.
Big Ten-Indiana, Iowa and
Purdue; Big Six-Kansas and Iowa
State; Missouri Valley-Oklahoma
Aggies and Creighton; Southwest
Rice; Big Seven-Colorado Pacific
Coast-Stanford, Southern Cali
fornia and Oregon State. Others
in all sections may be as good or
better, but they haven't proved
it yet.
Southern ratings are uncertain
and won't be changed this week
with only one or two games sched-
uled. Richmond holds an early
lead in the Southern Conference
last week by beating Clemson and
Maryland, while Florida went to
the front in the Southeastern,
splitting with Alabama and winning
from Mississippi and Mississippi
State. But good many Of the
strong teams haven't begun yet and
neither circuit has Jared well in
intersectional play.
Rice Invades Philadelphia.
Starting the intersectional ball
rolling again tonight is a double
header at Philadelphia, matching
Rice against La Sale and Oklahoma
against Temple. Rice, Southwest
Conference champion and a candi-
date for higher ranking this sea-
son, took two games each from
Southern California and Louisiana
State last week. William and Mary
visits Bradley Tech; Pittsburgh,
winner in two of three games
against Big Ten rivals, meets But
Ter and Yale opens its Mid-Western
tour against Washington University
at st. Louis.
Indiana, the National Collegiate
A. A. champion last season, began
it's West-Coast jaunt last Saturday
with a hair-raising 60-59 overtime
triumph over Stanford and meets
California tonight. The Hoosiers
also play Southern California Fri
day and U. G. L. A. Saturday be-
fore going South to meet Kentucky
in the Sugar Bowl game at New
Orleans December 80.
Illinois plays Notre Dame, pre-
paratory to starting an Eastern
tour. Rutgers-Brown, wa-Michi-
gan State and Minnesota Creighton
are other good pairings tonight.
Yale meets Bradley Wednesday,
and on Thursdays there's a New
York double-header with Santa
Clara meeting City College and
Illinois facing unbeaten Manhattan.
Nebraska opens its Coast tour
against California the same night.
Fridays card includes Kansas
State Villanova, Rice-Franklin and
M ar h all, Centenary-K Kentucky
. Cornell-Bradley, Nebraska stanford
t and Yale-Loyola Chicago. On
Saturday a New York double bill
sends Kansas against Fordham ano
Minnesota against N. Y. u, while
: at Philadelphia it's Illinois Temple
and Colorado-St. Joseph's.