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Robert i ° Allen pt. 306, Thank you for your subscription to re South 40th ae The Sporting ) Netw eo We will mail copies to the address woe aboye other side of this card, unless you advise us that a correction is necessary. Please notify us promptly if any change occurs in your address. Your consideration in listing your subscription number when writing us will be helpful and appreciated. Sincerely, Subscription No. 10521g Pair Expiration Date 6/ 29/ 40 Circulation Manager NEA lew he Fae ASN 2375 a, / 20 Uther /94¢4 Vlelle Mae, SF pen? tht ie Ane he Cone? G7 GOLD gel Gack & fag tm sora tenga pas Tinka at mes Po Dear® Phog: Craw : fo _ I dropped a line to Ellsworth A week or g0 Ago agking | for A picture of how the basketball scene is shaping u At Kansas. To date, I've gotten my stuff in from all the other schools And no | word from Fred. . | Can you take A couple of minutes out and dictate the names . of oe who will be back, the names of the best looking new comers, size of ok squad, slip in oe of your schedule As it now’stands An Add A pAragraph of: quo outlook as you see it? oe “a Es on the . I'd appreciate it a lot and I need it as quickly as you can spare the time, Coach. Thanks muchly Best regards y Pls stick ina copy of last year's fina andings, too, Phog. October 23, 1944. Mr. John G. Stutz, | Exeoutive Director, League of Kansas Municipalities, 512 Capitol Federal Building, Topeka, Kansas. Dear John: Thanks so mich for your very prompt letter and for the complimentary copy of the 1943 Kansas Tax Rate Book. This is very nice of you and T am sure we can get ~ information we seek. With every good wish, I em Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Mr. John G, Stutz, Secretary, Kensas League of Municipalities, Topeka, K angas. Dear Johns _ I attended a joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce cormittee of which I wes a member, and the Couneil in the City Hall the other evening, and I was asked by Professor Russell to get data from you on the park and playground area of other towms comparable to our size in Kansas, There is a movement on foot to acquire more park property. I told the comaittee they had a lot of park space but no parks, They had not done anything to make - mere save Clinton Park. I am wondering if you would give me as much data as piiseible on how moh of @ mill tax is spent on park property in the different towns comparable to ours. I believe you get the idea, I om trying to wake some of these sleepers up, and a you ean give to ne be appreciated. Sincerely yours, 7 Director of Physical Education, — PCA:Ad Varsity Besketball Coach. — Member: American Municipal Association o : whl & AIRE) 34° a F GOVERNING BODY JOHN G. STUTZ OPS oF] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ) eS SS SIM ee so regen ALBERT B. MARTIN S : ee HOWARD PAYNE VINCENT F. HIEBSCH E.R. GOULD Saad eee . yy CITY CLERK, KANSAS CITY CITY ATTORNEY, WICHITA COMMISSIONER FINANCE ANG COUNSELOE Ng FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN A. POMEROY PARSONS HERMAN SHORB CITY CLERK, HOLTON Z. ARTHUR NEVINS Substituting Facts for Guesses MAYOR, LIBERAL OTTO B. WENRICH MAYOR, DODGE CITY OFFICE AND LIBRARY in Local Government = SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MAYOR, OXFORD JOHN G. STUTZ TELEPHONE 2-8367 Oo. M. GOODRICH DON C. McILRATH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 512 CAPITOL FEDERAL BUILDING CITY MANAGER, STOCKTON MAYOR, GREAT BEND TOPEKA TOPEKA, KANSAS ., SMUettin— Wr > ae < October 20, 1944 Ay beet ? 299 WV Mr. Forrest ©, Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas My dear "Phog": Answering your request of Uctober 18, I am sending you herewith attached a copy of the 1943 Kansas Tax Rate Book. We will make it complimentary to you. May I cite you to the Kansas Di lic Officials published by this organization which is on file in the University Library. on't know just what section (but Miss Smeltzer will know). You will find listed under the name of every incorporated city in Kansas the number of playgrounae, the number of acres of parks, the number of lakes and other reareational facilities of such nature owned and operated by such city. We also have on file in this office the budgets of the cities and the school boards. These will show how much they have spent for parks and recreation and how much they expect to spend this year and next year. The Tax Rate Book furnished you herewith givesevidence of the amount levied in general property taxes for park purposes. To this amount, however, must be added some residue of the state sales tax, moneys and some concession receipts. In some cities they have private endowment or trust funds which supplement park revenues. The budget, of course, is the most reliable record available on sources of revenue and expenditures for parks and playground¢ Call on us again when we can be of service to you. Sincerely, G ° Stutz ecutive Director JGS :HF ' Inc. cc F. A. Russell City Councilman Lawrence, Kansas October 25, 1944. Professor FP. As ‘Russell, $02 Marvin Hall. Dear Professor Russell: | I am enclosing some data we have seoured on the parks owned by cities in Kansas. You doubtless received a copy of the letter that John Stutz wrote me. If this is not sufficient information to oall another meeting, please let me know, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Hducation, FOAsAH. : Varsity Basketball Coach. a \ City 1945 te Levy No. of Acres No. of Other Recreational Population for Parks of Parks Playgrounds Facilities (Cities of Ist class) | Parsons 13,858 =| .29 95 2 Mun., 1 Prvt. Swimming | | Pool; lam. Band Pao ag Atehison 11.602 | 4751 156 Mun. Sw. Pool, 2 city lakes (Cities of 2nd eless) Lawrence 15,356 | 2565 30 Mun. Sw. Pool Manhatten 13,694 84 169 Mun. Sw. Pools Band Independence, 12,228 9886 114 Mun. Sw. Pools Band Emporia 12,183 | 40% 39s as Pvt. Sw. Pools Mun. Bands Lp Lj | oe Arkansas City 12,099 .77 183 Mun. Sw. Pools Mun, Band es i Newton fae 7) 72 Mum. Swe Pools Mun, Band, | Gee 1 City lake a City Leake ; \ / \ i / | {| LN Ee ce | | f | THE UNATIONAL sports Ww ez > SPT OS "pte CHARLES C. SPINK, FOUN eT EEKL ) Hn HAT DER PUBLISHED SINCE 18686 J. G. TAYLOR SPINK, GENERAL MANAGER The Sporting News HA 3 Pr c RLES Cc SPINK & SON NEW YORK OFFICE PS kes wee ee HOW TO PLAY THE DOPE BOOK BASEBALL GUIDE THE SPORTING NEWS 535 FIFTH AVE. CHICAGO OFFICE 549 W. RANDOLPH STREET SAINT Louis (1) THE SPORTING GOODS DEALER THE SPORTING NEWS RECORD BOOK BASEBALL REGISTER - THE GAMES 400 RY THE SPORTING GOODS TRA November 2, 1944 Mr. Forrest 0. allen, Vireector of Physical sducation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. vear Sir: thank you for your letter of October 31st. are we to invoice the University of Kansas, Physical ducation Department with a two year subscription, or shal] we await umtil formal order reaches us? : About_your son who is now in the Army medical corps, I thought he was receiving the Sporting News on an order placed earlier in the year. There is no way of checking without his address, so i can only surmise until I learn his present address. Special rate to men in the armed forces is yoe75 a year, but the special rate does not permit inclusion of any premium. Sincerely yours, CHB: ce ee 45 guxtoo Spe ee November 16, 1944. F Mrs. Ae G Swaney, Miller Hall, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Mrs. Swaney: I was so happy to have a conversation with you this morning and to know that you are Robert Clore's cousin. I should have remembered it from the connection when your son was in school, and when you stopped by our house, but frankly, I cannot recall that incident for the moment. I do want you to meet Mrs. Allen and the rest of our family again. I am sending you a Jayhawi Rebounds, a monthly publication we write to our boys in the service. It gives some information on our son, Dobby, and other members of our family. We are sending some back copies which will give you some collateral reading. .I might suggest that you pass these on to Mrs. Clore at your convenience. And please give Mre. Clore my warmest personal regards. With all good wishes, I am Very sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Edveation, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Enc. Direotor of Athletics, October 23, 1944. Major Ronald q. Sieber, PUA, 4 Special Service Office, Dear Major Sieben: And congratulations, my friend, on the promotion! We are very proud of you. — evs ; Regarding the basketball knee peds, they were made for us by Milton Kelley, of Austin, Texas, my old trainer that I developed some fifteen or eighteen years ago, but these were made up for us just before the war and the mterial is a critical material that they can not obtain at the present time. You might write to him. He was a , trainer at the University of Texas, but I understand he is now retired. Certainly a letter addressed to him in care of the Athletic Department, University of Texas, with directitins to forward, would locate him. He hed a factory there in which he made the Kelley kee . pads. You remember the old Frelley pad, and this was an improvement over it. Tho first Kelley kmee pad was made here under my direotion and when Kelley went to Texas as trainer there he asked if I objected to his making up the pad in his name. I was glad for him to do so. — ‘This explanation has nothing to do with things in general, only I am just giving you some of the background on the knee pad. With all good wishes, I am Sincerely yous, a Director of Physical Edueation, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICE Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 1l October 1944 Dre Forest C. Allen Director of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: I hesitate to bother you with small matters, but would appreciate it very much if you could give me some information as to where I might lecate some basketball kmee pads of the same type as you have your men wear. I looked at them rather carefully last year, and feel that they were one of the best types of pads I have seen. 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SPINK & SON ABE) CRB: fs ae Lay. — 31, 1944. Mr. Charles Seymour, 702 No. Cascade, Colorado Springs, Colo. - Dear Charlie: Thank you for sending me Jack Carberry's article. Jack has been sending them to me but I do appreciate your thinking of Me Jask started off by stating that I was very jealous of Prosty Cox, and so forth. I wrote him a very nice letter and ex- plained to him why I was not jealous of Frosty, and so forth, and he came back with a very nice letter. Since then we have been : getting along nicely. Of course some of my sayings have made sone copy for his paper, but we are getting along splendidly. Lots of luck to you and yours, Charlie. Sincerely yours, Director of }hysical Education, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. os desta ae a siete a ae A et Se ce ies <5 Be Sil ie jah gia iia en a Ie ae Sa co aes. i “AA apa aes ‘ oe ee : ee x _ HOTEL BEN LOMOND , OGDEN, UTAH HOTEL. BEN LOMOND b : : ; OGDEN, UTAH iL ‘ ar bia. j - HOTEL ECCLES Be EC ini rt BLACKFOOT, IDAHO LO. ~ POTEL ECCLES LOGAN, UTAH _TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1944 DENVER A ne Second Guess ee a Cor SEE by the paper where Ned Irish, promoter of basketball in Madison Square Garden, expresses his “personal wish’ that the charges brought last week by Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, famed basketball authority, coach and director of physical education at the University of Kansas, “be dropped.” Mr. Irish is amazingly frank. He, if quoted correctly, wants to forget | the whole matter so that Allen be silenced—that he (Allen) be given no further opportunity to talk. But what is Mr. Irish going to do about Sergt. Lou Gisconere of the United States army, former manager of the Syracuse (N, Y.) Reds of the professional basketball league—Sergeant Greenberg who says players TOLD HIM how they, as he puts it, “CO-OPERATED” with New York gamblers in having the point scores of their COLLEGE GAMES fit the gambling odds. Perhaps Mr. Irish shouldn’t do anything about it at all. In truth, this is the business of the National Collegiate Athletic association, the ruling and governing body of all college athletics— the men who, after all, must give their sanction before college players can participate in big money tournaments, or go on barn- storming tours under private promotion. From where we sit it looks like “Phog” Allen has the whole college athletic structure sitting on the hot seat. When he made his original charge, thru THE DENVER POST last Friday, Irish, from his Madison Square Garden office, demanded that Allen supply him with a bill of particulars, including names of player®, New York writers, who, Allen said in his original charge, had “kept the matter quiet, or fairly quiet,” bristled with indignation. Never, they wrote, had they heard of any such thing. Allen supplied the- particulars. Irish now states that both he and the newspapers long. since “investigated”. the matters and the names laid before him By Allen, and that he “feels moved to say there was nothing to it.” From this corner it looks like “Phog” Allen has won round pre aia | | by a very, very wide. margin. | _Now comes the question, and round two: What about Sergeant | Greenberg’s charges? Pee ae ae 1 % LL THIS talk about what player took what money in the past is | beside the point. Itwould do no good whatever now to say Joe) Smith of Middle State, either “threw” or “co-operated” on the point! margin in return for such-and-such a sum. The need—the immediate need—is for the college people to make it | impossible for future Joe Smiths to do likewise. _., Now none can object to college clubs taking trips. Goodness knows the college athlete gets little else in a material way out of all the time and effort and sweat and sacrifice he puts into his game. What else he gets must be an inner satisfaction in playing a game he loves, and in representing his school in competition with other schools. Intersectional competition, whether it be in baseball, football, tennis, basketball or what. have you, is good. It should be encouraged and expanded. But this competition in the college world should be between colleges, and staged under college pro- motion and sponsorship. Surely no college man can defend the use of college players, and college teams, in private promotion. They cannot, unless they are| willing to admit that what they seek is hard, cold cash and not the fostering of athletics for the sake of the participants. * * *% ET us go right to the record for this. The N. C. A. A. has what it calls “The Basketball Coaches’ Creed.” This “creed” is subscribed to by every man associated with the National Association of Basketball! Coaches and the N. C. A. A. It reads—not a comma is left out—as follows: 4 “I BELIEVE that basketball has an important place in the general educational scheme and pledge myself to co-operate with others in the field of education to so administer it that its value never will be questioned. : “T BELIEVE that other coaches of this sport are as earnest in its protection as I am, and I will do all in my power to further their | endeavors. “J BELIEVE that my own actions should be so regulated at all | times that I will be a credit to the profession. | “| BELIEVE that the members of the National Basketball commit- tee are capably expressing the rules of the game, and I will abide by these rules in both spirit and letter. : : ; “l BELIEVE in the exercise of all the patience, tolerance, and diplomacy at my command-in my relations with all players, co-workers, game officials and spectators. “T BELIEVE that the proper administration of this sport offers an | effective laboratory method to develop in its adherents high ideals of | sportsmanship; qualities of co-operation, courage, unselfishness and) self-control; desire for clean, healthful living; and respect for wise | discipline and authority. 3 “I BELIEVE that these admirable characteristics, properly instilled by me thru teaching and demonstration, will have a long carryover and will aid each one connected with the sport to becofne a better citizen. “I BELIEVE in and will support all reasonable moves to improve athletic conditions, ‘to provide for adequate equipment and to promote the welfare of an increased number of participants.” There is nothing there about exploiting the college athlete for gain. | So it goes without further saying that the colleges are not sending their | teams into the highways and byways for money. They are not if there is one speck of honesty within the collegiate setup. ; * * * WE: then, it must be asked, do the colleges permit teams within | their association to take part in private promotions—to take the | place which rightfully belongs to the professional performer? That is the main question “Phog” Allen raised in his letter of last week—the mein question which all have sought to ignore, and which Ned Irish and Madison Square Garden would by-pass by a “personal wish” that the entire matter be dropped so that Allen might be “silenced.” For my part, I-do-not believe the colleges of the land can “silence” Allen now. His charge that games played in Madison Square Garden “already have been thrown,” plus Sergeant Greenberg’s charge that players TOLD HIM—HIM, not somebody else--how they, IN THEIR | COLLEGE GAMES, co-operated,to make the points fit the gambling odds—has focused national attention upon the entire setup as it exists. This brought out into the light of day conditions surrounding college players appearing in Madison Square Garden—detectives posted outside their hotel rooms to. keep away the rodents, as Allen calls them, of the gambling world; telephones severed to re- move the boys from the temptations of bribery; gamblers knocked down, or thrown out of college hotel suites when they came to muke their bribe offers; Madison Square described as “filled with Broadway mobsters bickering and dickering” in its aisles during the contests, the police standing idly by. Is this college athletics—sport designed, as the coaches’ “creed” puts it, to instill ‘a desire for clean living” in the participants? A lot of people would, no doubt, like to make the “personal wish” | that Allen be silenced. “Phog” Allen has thrown down the gauntlet. Let the colleges of our land pick it up. |