Septenber 14, 1939
(Collect-night letter) |

Mre Be Fe VanAlstyne,

Basketball Coach,

Michigan State College,

East Lansing, Miche

Your proposition sounds as if you are trying to seil us ©
difficult trip and game at your place for a convenient stop~
over game here with students gone at a dull time for an
unreasonable price differential. I really thought that you
sere sesking a game, not Ie First class pullman and rail-~
road fare with one day hotel at Lansing with meals enroute
mikes necessary guarantee for us eight hundred dollars twelve
mene We can give you two hundred dollars for your game heres

Our regular guarantee in our conference four hundred dollars

per famee

Forrest C,. Allene