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Show BIG TEN HOOP RACE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 11 CHICAGO, Dec. 22. Work of developing de-veloping basketball fives for the' 1919 season of the western conference is under way with prospects of a spirited race for the championship. The season will open on January 11, with Northwestern meeting Wisconsin Wiscon-sin at Madison, Purdue playing Chicago, Chi-cago, and Indiana clashing, with Minnesota Min-nesota at Minneapolis. The race will continue in full swing until March 15, when Wisconsin and Indiana will clash at Madison in the final game of the season. The majority of the teams have scheduled twelve games, the maximum number permitted by the "Big Ten," while the others will fill out their schedules with the strong Great Lakes naval training station five, Notre Dame, Nebraska and middle mid-dle west instructions. Critics look for the University of Wisconsin quintet, the 191S champion, to place another team of championship champion-ship possibilities Into the field. The Badger five will again be coached by G. S. Lowman, whose record is dotted with successes. The Wisconsin men will play tho limit of twelve games, all within the conference. Basketball virtually Is on a self- supporting basis in the conference. r Dr. L. J. Cooke of the University of f Minnesota, secretary of the Western Conference Basketball association, believes be-lieves there will be a revival in the sport now that all intercollegiate athletics have been on prewar program. pro-gram. . |