January 26, 1943.

Mr. Reaves Petors,
342 So. Chelsea,
Kensas City, Mo.
Dear Reaves:

I trust thet you have procured Gibbs for Saturday night
besause the game I think is important enough %
will be sufficient te obviate any wmpleasantries of poor officiating.

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I am afraid of that Nebraska game at Lincoln with Pullian
in the game. Since it is Saturday night I am especially desirous of
your being there. I believe if you are in the audience and can have a
friendly yet necessary conversation without revealing your purpose that
you may help him do a better job than he would otherwise do, should you
not be there. I do feel that your presence is necessary, and I regret
exceedingly that it might be impossible to move him from the job.

Please feel assured that I know the difficulty that you
face in trying to do such a thing, but I am sure that you are cognizant —
of the fact of just how much a fellow oan harm you when he is seeing only
one way. I am perfectly willing to take a licking, but not at the hands
of an official who is digressing from his obligation as an official. I
think pretty frankly that he was definitely conscious of what he was do-
ing. It was so obvious that the furthest stretch of the imagination |

7 ‘seeing the havoc that he was creating. The Aggie
crowd stood and cheered for two minutes when Charlie Black was taken from
get this -- all four fouls were called on
‘of the i. Not a single one of them was

And I will tell you frankly if I lose this game it will
be the last game that he will ever work for me. Gene Johnson worked one
me years ago and that was the last he ever worked.
I oan forgive a fellow who makes a mis » but a man who is so obvious
will not work many more. That is why I never used Jack North at Ames.
He is too much of a homer and I think a homer in one place is a homer in
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I want a homer on the visiting floor.