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Show Basketball Teams To Compete for Championship Approximately eighty basketball teams will compete hero in the P. A. A. championship tournament, which will open here about the middle of next month. Largo entries from the San Jauquln valley, Tonopah, Reno, Los Angeles and San Piego have been received by the registration commit tee. It has not yet been decided where the games in San Francisco are to be played, but an effort will be made to obtain the exposition auditorium. The games in Oakland will be played In the Oakland municipal auditorium, while places are still to be selected for the tournaments to be played in Big Pines, Tonopah and Los Angeles. The teams will play in five weight divisions, consist inc of 110. 120. 130 and 145 pounds and unlimited weight. Strict precautions will be taken by various va-rious committees who have been ap pointed to see that the teams do not train down out of their weight dm on, which would necessitate at weigning 1 in time the serving of refreshments ' .,i . u . 1 mit f Vi . tonm h t i Lr at proper weight, which, as a result in most cases, would make them unfit for the rival players. The army and navy teams have already al-ready signed their entry blanks and will be among the first teams to settle their differences. The tournament probably will come to a close some time in the middle of February, the winners being presented with the championship and gold medals. After January 6 entry blanks will not be received re-ceived b the registration committee, those failing to register in that time being disqualified. An athlete who permits any one to make arrangements for his appearance at any of the games will be disqualified disquali-fied from participation. This means that members of all basketball teams must register in order to retain their amateur standing. Members of teams failing to do so or competing against teams whose members are not regls- tered are liable to be barred from competition com-petition in the tournament or any sport under the Jurisdiction of the A. I . including track, swimming and boxing. on |