November 6, 1943.

Mr. Karl Kloog,
Aoting Athletic Director,
University of Kansas.

Dear Karl:

I am sending you a tm tative schedule of basketball games that I
~would like to have you submit to the Athletio Board for approval.

The policy has been to make no long trips. The longest ones we
plen on making are against our Big Six Conference members. I prefer
to play, so far as possible, service teams in the state and adjacent
to Lawrence. ile have a date Pebruary Sth with the Iowa Seahawks at
Kansas City which is questionable, but we are holding that reservation
in Kansas “ity so that we might piay somebody there to make some money
if we are not successful in echeduling the Seahawks. This was a game
with Great Lakes, originally, but the Great lakes cammndant refused
to let the Great Lakes tean play outside of the fourth collegiate dis-
trict, Big Ten area.

John Lance, of Pittsburg Teachers, also wants us to play at Pitts-
burg, but I have given him no encouragement. It would be a reciprocal
guarantee if we played at Pittsburg. 3

The lutehinson Air Base also wanta to play us at Lawrence and at
Hutehingon, and I think it would be a good thing if we could do so.
i would suggest that we have one set of blank tickets printed with a
service team notation on it when you have tickets printed. This date
is not in the calendar at present, but I am rushing the schedule to
you on account of the necessity for printing tickets.

There are two things I would like to recommend - first, that we have
an attractive basketball schedule printed on a card that will fit into
a billfold, yet I would suggest that we make it much more attractive than  .
the football schedule. Sy comparison with Lawrence High School and
Haskell, the appearance of our schedule card looked bad. And I would have
a good many of these printed. iie could distribute them at Rotary, Kiwanis,
Co-op, Eldridge Hotel, Sunflower Ordnance Works, and a great many places.

I have been sending out commmications for two months regarding
basketvall answering inquiries as to our possible playing dates, and so
forth. I have told them that these dates must have confirmation, but
people want a schedule that they can carry in their pocket so they oan
consult it regarding their in and out of town dates. There has always
been a great demand for these printed schedules, and I am sure that this
year will be no exception. At the Country Club at least a humdred fellows