The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-24
MEET OPENS
With FOUR TILTS
V. NJ. L. to Play Generals in
Other Night Game of Cage
Tourney Opening

hAAIlIll, Ign. :
University of North Cardinals top
seeded White Phantoms and Dukes
Blue Devils, who handed the Tar
Heels their only conference defeat
il regular seaso play, will meet
Thursday night at 9:20 in the first
round of the Southern Conference
Basketball tourney.
In the other night game Virginia
Military institute and Washington
and Lee will be pitted in a formal
varsity athletic contest for the first
time in some 35 ..rears, tourney COM
mitteemen said. Athletic relations
were broken between the two schools
due to riots and disorders arising
from their keen rivalry back about
1906 or 1909.
The first round afternoon games
will pit second-seeded South Carolina
against Richmond at 8 o'clock and
~third-seeded William and Mary
against Wake Forest at APO.
Members of the conference bas-
ketball committee had no trouble
in making North Carolina the fav-
orite due to its ~"eason's record OF
IA wins and n loss. They drew
between South Carolina and William
and Mary for the second spot, as
each had a season record of eight
wins and three losses, and South
Carolina drew the number two spot.
That put William and Mary third
and Washington and Lee, with nine
wins and four losses, in the fourth
rating.
The committee did not decide the
order of the Friday night games,
which would be first at 8 o'clock and
which would top-off the day at
9:20. but the bracketings show that
the Duke-North Carolina winner will
meet the William and Mary-Wake
Forest victor, with the winner of the
South Northumberland contest
facing the winner of the unusual
Generals-Cadets scrap.
The championship game will be
played Saturday night.
Due to the luck of the draw, it
appeared almost certain a North
as the three entries from this state
were all grouped in the upper
bracket along with William and
Mary.
Most talk Immediately centered on
the rubber game Of the 1941 Duke
North Carolina ~eries. AT Chapel
Hill George Glamack and company
won by the overwhelming score of
81 to 33, but at Durham a fighting
band of Blue Devils upset the Tar
Heels 35 to SO. The odds will be
with Glamack and company but any
thing can happen in any Duke-North
Carolina athletic battle.
Washington and Lees Generals
and V. NJ. Is. Cadets have been
scrimmaging against each other in
football and basketball in recent
ears. and members of the wrestling
and track teams have competed
against each other in conference
Journeys. and meets, but there has
been no formal scheduling of games.
Tourney committee members said
this was the first time that the luck
of the draw or Examinations had
pitted the schools against each other
in a basketball tourney.
Willis Zehmer, business
for the tourney, reported no tickets
available for the Friday night game,
and only about 300 left on sale for
Saturday nights game. He said
there were about Use left for the
Thursday afternoon contests and
some 500 for the Thursday night
{ Duble-header.
Zehmer said the advance ticket
sale was the best since the annual
tourney was transf FED here in 1898.
Eddie Cameron, Duke coach and
chairman of the Conference Basket
hall committee, presided at the COM
session. Members of the COM
: littee here were Norman Shepard
{ Davidson, Bob Warren of N. C,
State, ana Monk Younger of Vir.
gtnia Tech. The other member,
Burton Shipley of Maryland, could
not atJa