CONFERENCE OF COLLEGES MEETS AT COMMANDER TO DISCUSS BASKETBALL

The New England Conference of Colleges will meet at the Hotel Commander in Cambridge on Monday December 9 at 2:30 o'clock for an informal discussion on the rules on basketball officiating it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association.

The meeting will be followed by a dinner at 6:30 o'clock at which Elwood Kemp Secretary of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League will speak. Mr. Kemp will outline the aims of the organizations he represents and will describe how the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is planning to help the game.

Following the dinner there will be a demonstration game for the conference members only at the Hemingway Gymnasium. The directors of athletics and basketball coaches of the New England Conference as well as the twenty four officials selected by the conference to conduct the college games this season will be in attendance.

The meeting has been called by H. W. Clark '23. Assistant Director of Athletic at Harvard and Chairman of the Committee of the New England Conference on the selection of basketball officials. The other members of this committee include Messrs Houston of Tufts and Gore of Massachusetts Agricultural College.

The officials selected by the Conference as a result of the poll last spring are announced by Mr. Clark as follows: E. M. Kelleher of Cambridge, M. W. Souders of Milton, G. W. Hoyt of Boston, James Parker of Everett, R. Jackson of Springfield, D. J. Kelly of Cambridge, T. P. Shea of Spring field, H. A. Swaifield of Fairfield, Conn J. N. Young of North Adams, R. Dillon of Hartford, Conn O. Tower of Andover, W. F. Coady of Boston, L. E. Ball of Amherst, J. P. Haughy of Pawtucket, R. I. J. LeCain of Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton, H. I. O'Brien of Rutland, Vt. C. M. Amfott of Fitchburg, W. Brennan of New York, E. L. Couture of Windsor, Vt. C. H. Edwards of Waterville, Mc. G. Hayes of Hartford, Conn P. C. Rogers of Exeter, N. H. and J. P. Whalen of Holyoke Mass.