| Show Major Fives Commence I Hoop Tours ours I By HUGH HUG II S S. FULLERTON JR NEW NEV YORK Dec 23 OP Its jp-Il's Its It's vacation vacation vacation va va- va- va I cation time at colleges now but basketball players are finding the holiday stretch from now until New Years Year's day one of the busIest busiest busi buss est eat periods of Intersectional competition competition compe compe- that precedes serious conference conference conference confer confer- I ence play This weeks week's schedule is somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what lighter than it has been for forthe forthe forthe the past week or two but what is left is made up almost entirely of 01 major games mostly inter inter- sectional Teams that will be touring foreign areas Include Rice Re of the Southwest conference Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa Nebraska Kansas and Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas 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 WIlliam William Wil WIl- liam ham and Mary from the south and Yale Cornell and Princeton of the east cast Two Big Biff iJ Meets Meet In addition two invitation tournaments tournaments tournaments tour tour- at Oklahoma City and Topeka Kan each will wiil send 16 teams into action starting December December De Do- cember 26 Four Southwest conference conference conference con con- ference and two Missouri Valley teams have entered the Oklahoma City tournament A quick survey of ot the outstandIng outstandIng outstanding ing teams in each section most of which will continue to play through the holiday season lists the following EAST Long EAST Long Island St. St Johns John's Brooklyn New York university Manhattan Seton Hall Hail Villanova La Salle Temple Baltimore Duquesne Duquesne Duquesne Du- Du quesne Pittsburgh Dartmouth Harvard and Cornell and perhaps some other eastern league members members members mem mem- bers may belong to the list al although although at- at though they haven't faced strong opposition BIG TEX TEN Indiana Indiana Iowa and Purdue Big Six Six Kansas Kansas and Iowa State Missouri Valley Valley Oklahoma Oklahoma and Creighton Southwest- Southwest Rice Big Seven Seven Colorado Colorado Pacific Pa Pa- Coast Stanford Coast Stanford Southern California and Oregon State Slate Others Oth I ers era in all sections may be a as good I or b better but they haven't proved it yet et Southern ratings are uncertain and wont won't be changed this week with only one or two games sched sched- 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 winning win winning win win- ning from Mississippi and Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi I sippi State But a good many of the strong teams haven't begun I yet and neither circuit has fared I well in intersectional play Double Hoop Hooi Bill Starting the intersectional ball rolling again tonight is a doubleheader doubleheader doubleheader double- double header at Philadelphia matching Rice against La Salle and Oklahoma Old Okla a- a homa against Temple Rice Southwest Southwest South South- west vest conference champion and a candidate for even higher ranking this season took two games each from Southern California and LouIsiana LouIsiana Louisiana Lou Lou- State last week William and Mary visits Bradley Tech Pittsburgh winner in two of three games against Big Ten rivals meets Butler Butier and Yale opens its midwestern tour against Washington Washing Washing- ton university at St. St Louis Indiana National Collegiate A. A A A. champion last season began its west-coast west jaunt last Saturday with a raising hair-raising 60 59 overtime triumph over Stanford and meets California tonight The Hoosiers also play Southern California Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day and U. U C. C L. L A. A Saturday before before before be be- fore going south to meet Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky in the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans December 30 Illinois plays plas Notre Dame preparatory preparatory pre pre- para tory to starting an eastern tour Rutgers-Brown Rutgers Iowa Michi gar gan State and Minnesota-Creigh- Minnesota ton are other good pairings to to- to night Wednesday day Games Game Yale meets Bradley Wednesday and on Thursday theres there's a New NewYork ew York doubleheader with Santa Clara meeting City college and Illinois facing unbeaten Manhat Manhat- tan Nebraska opens its coa coast coant t tour against California the same night Fridays Friday's card Includes Kansas Villanova State-Villanova Rice Rice-Abright Santa Santa Santa San San- ta Franklin Clara-Franklin and Marshall Centenary Kentucky Cornell- Cornell Bradley Stanford Nebraska-Stanford and Yale-Loyola Yale Chicago On Saturday a New York double bill sends Kansas against Fordham Fordham Fordham Ford- Ford ham and Minnesota against N. N Y U. U while at its it's Illi Jill Temple nois and Colorado St. St Josephs Columbus Ohio also has a double offering Princeton- Princeton Ohio State and Pittsburgh Michi gan These pairings will be re reversed reversed reversed re- re versed December 30 Other Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night games are Kansas State George Washington Cor Cor- Toledo nell-Toledo Indiana U. C C. L. L A. A Utah St. Mar Marys Mary's California and Utah State These last two games James mark the beginning of game five tours for lor the Big Seven teems |
