THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AUSTIN

July 19, 1938

DEPARTMENT OF
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Mr. Forrest Ce Allen, Basketball Coach
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

I have your letter of July 3 regarding the possibilities of bringing Mr. Quigley down
here to Austin for our two-game series with your schoole

As I explained to you in a previous letter, this series with the University of Kansas
is an experimentation for us and we feel sure that we will not be able to make expenses
on it after raising the first guarantee that we offered. The interest in basketball
here in Austin does not reach its peak until well after Christmas, and I feel sure
that we cannot make expenses on this series. In view of this fact, I feel sure that
we must do everything to curb our expenses and try to stay within our basketball budg-
et. Two years ago we played the University of Southern California at approximately
the same time that our games are scheduled and we suffered a considerable loss. I
agree with you that basketball lacks uniformity, but I feel that our officiating here
in the Southwest Conference is something like that in the Big Six. Last Christmas
we played a two-game series with the University of Oklahoma here at Austin and at

that time we used Southwest Conference officials, and I honestly believe that Coach
McDermott was well satisfied.

I do not feel hesitant in the least way in recommending Ziggy Sears for our gamese

At the present, Mr. Sears is the Umpire in the National League and has many years ex-
perience in both football and basketball officiating. I believe that Mr. St. Clair,
newly appointed Commissioner here in the Southwest Conference, will agree that Mr.
Sears is one of the best officials in the game today, and I wish that you would have
him suggest the second official from this Conference to work with Mr. Sears in this
series.

I am certainly in favor of uniformity in the officiating of basketball, and I will do
everything that I possibly can to help improve that condition, but under the present
circumstances I feel it will be impossible for us to bring Mre Quigley to Austin.

Looking forward to the two-game series with your team, I am,

Yours sincerely, oe

ck Gray
Basketball Coach
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