May 12, 1946. Mr. Bob Switger, Sporta Editor, 3 The Daily Register-Mail, i toes oO é Galesburg, Illinois. . Dear Bobs I was terribly sorry that the shorted out on us on the occasion of my visit to Galesburg. There simply was no way to make it. t ; I haven't heard from you and am wondering how you got along. I would be glad for you to write me and tell me what you did in your extremity. Those things which are called flood, and so forth, play havoo with the best laid plans of _ mice and men, I will be happy to hear from you, and hope that things went well with you. ~\ I really had some sigzling hot stuff for you, and while I was sorry that I couldn't make it, perhaps what I might have said might have been a little too warm, if not too sensational. With all good wishes, I an Sincerely yours, Director of he dor cige Education, PCA:AH : Varsity Baske Coach. Along the SPORT TRAIL With Bill Kinney HUFF-PUFF: Alarmists have been asserting, without actual proof, that fire- wagon basketball is “too tough on the performers” ever since the rules doctors eliminated the center jump. Only recently, Dr Eorrest (Phog). Allen, eminent Kansan who rates second only. to the late James Naismith as a “mn asm e? "in basketball, blew his top Bill Kinney, in charging that the hardwood sport is too fast for the kids. We suspected at the time that Allen was talking to watch him- self in the mirror of the daily press. And ‘confirmation comes in the form of a survey published by | ; the National Association of Basket- ball Coaches of the United States. | ; The findings reveal that in 20,000 cases, the extra activity (of| basketball) caused the boy to be able to do more work at less cost in heart beats, when he was in condition. : The actual sufferer, according to Dr... H.-C. Carlson * or Pitts- | burgh, is the coach. And: at least one found the strain of regional, sectional and state tournament competition in Illinois too tough. He is John Noppenberger of Peoria Central, ordered to a hospital this week for a rest and checkup’ by his physician. Dr. Carlson’s studies showed that the game is tougher on the coaches than the athletes, due to emotional strain. Tests revealed that the heart- beats of the coaches keep pace with those of the players during a game. But the players’. pulses return to normal three or four minutes after a game while the coaches’ tickers keep racing along at high speed long after the final gun. Well-conditioned youth can stand up better than expected. The war has proved that, con- clusively. Basketball proves. it, too. While the stands go scream- ingly crazy, cagers, even of young, impressive and excitable high school age, play steadily | and execute intricate maneu- vers without undue pressure caused by the din surrounding them. MEMBER A. B. C. 2 THE DAILY REGISTER-MAIL Established 1870 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE REGISTER-MAIL BUILDING 154-156 EAST SIMMONS STREET TELEPHONES: Editorial Department 4455 Main GALESBURG, ILL. ~ Business Office 4117 Main Aprai 11, 195 Dear Dr. Allens IT performed an old mistake of mine when I wrote you about the Rpck Island clipping. I mentioned the fact 1 was seming it in the fore part of my letter, and then forgot it. Here it is, anyway. The author will be at the banquet and program, so you probably can have a reply ready! T'll have to wait another day to forward you that mater*al on the records here. I have been quite busy lately winding up af- fairs here so I can leave April 20 to become branch circulation manager of the Chicago Daily News in Quincy, I1l., my home town, where I will reside with my parents. The basketball interest is beginning to lag slightly as baseball and track start, but I am beating the drums for your appearance, in our next three issues, and I am positive we'll have a capacity audience. Sincerely, April Ty 1945. Mr. Bob Switzer, Sports Editor, The Daily Regis ter-Mail, Galesburg, Illinois. Dear Bob: Thanks for your letter of April 5. However, you failed te enclose the comment of Bill Kinney, of the Rock Island Argus. T would be happy to see it if you still have the copy. Looking forward to seeing you on the 16th, I an Sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Education, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. MEMBER A. B. C. THE DAILY REGISTER-MAIL Established 1870 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE REGISTER-MAIL BUILDING 154-156 EAST SIMMONS STREET TELEPHONES: Editorial Department 4455 Main GALESBURG, ILL. Business Office 4117 Main No Qre ef : April 3, 195 Dr. Forrest ©.Allen, University of “ansas, Lawrence, Kan. / Untold thanks for your several letters enclosing almost all the material I should need in case -T!'d like to write a bio- graphy upon you. Howard Millard, widely-known Illinois sports editor who has the page of the Decabur (pop. 70,000) Herald-Review, tele- graphed today that he would be present. Also on hand will be Bill Kinney of the Rock Island Argus, whose comment, enclosed, may give you a chuckle, Bill likes to. stick ott h*s neck, and I think you two naypave an interesting two-man gabfest. He is a fairly solid writer, but gets opinionated upon occasions, and I know ‘f 1 wrote as he does, I'd re- ceieve rebuffs from the business office. I have yet to get that information for you about the teams, but that will be shuttling along in a couple of days. The track teams of this territory are ready to inaugurate their meets, so I have been knocking out the letters of information. I might say that every time I get a letter from you, with in- formation on your career, the commitee just waxes in expansive grins, knowing that we have the top basketball man in the nation coming here. I had an unusual experience myself. I write for the Chicago Daily News out of the Galesburg territory, and last week sen* them a story on your visit here. I dashed sev- eral stories off in a hurry, and the next day forgot about it, and wrote them another! They were as forgetful as I, for both appeared on successive days. That's wat 1 call advert’s‘ng the event! The local sports seasons are waiting to change unt i$ you came here, but the interest in your appearance is mounting. When you accepted the April 16 date, I produced a mat from our files and used it in the newspaper article, and was surprised to find that it was a duplicate of one of the three which you so kindly sent, and yours was marked "no good". So we'll have to correct your appearance in the next picture issuance" Sincerely, (kr Serdar April 2, 1946. Yr. Bob Switger, Sports Editor, The Daily Register-Mail, \ wm I em sending you tear sheets from GC. E. MoBride's sport colum in the Kansas Gity Star as of Friday and Saturday, Maroh 30 and 51. He forgot to mention that the games were all played on a gonarete floor, and the six-by-sixes whieh supported the basket and the backboard were set right in a hole drilled in the concrete. The endline was then in line with the back of the backstop, and the posts put in rather hurriedly for the tournament were not wrapped, so the sharp odges caught many of the players driving in under the basket. No basketball games had been played in this Convention Hall previously, and the whole set-up was entirely new, At that time there were no elbow pads or knee guards used, end you oan quite imagine after a three-game tournament on successive nights just the condition of the players' elbows and knees. They were just a mass of raw beefateak. And the games wers rough, too. ee I sometimes think of how the boys complain about the roughness of the geme now, with their normal protegtion that sanity has dictated. _ " @here is one other angle. I do not want to make 1% sound like bossting, but I practionlly single-handedly got basketball to the Olympic Games at Berlin in 1936. I made an effort to have basketball inoluded as @ demonstration sport in the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and came having near success until they promoted a football game, and of course there was much more money in that. Zesh host country is permitted to have a demon- stration game for the entertainment of the visitors. Basketball had not at that time cooupied a prominent place on the Const, so it was difficult to get it over. : : I proposed that they build an outdoor basketball court in seotions and use the Coliseum for the seating capacity, and play the game out of . - doors, much as the Olympic Games wore at St. Louis when the Buffalo Germans were there. But the football-minded prevailed, and while there I conferred with Sohaku Ri of Watseka University, Tokyo, and some of the German pleni- potentiaries. The Japs were strong for it. Dr. Karl Diem, when he got. back to Germany, notified me that basketball had been ineluded in the games. Of course, I had done a lot of work with the other foreign oomtries, and the people here were much surprised because Dr. Diem notified m= three days in advance of any of the other American officials. 7 / Ee of which Avery ; Brumdage was the president, and Dan Ferris was seoretary, cies oh Pealiaeaia: tion. loiter ie, basketball anywhere exsept in the United States. I presented an article _ that I had written for the Athletic Journal in 1929, showing that 62 foreign countries were playing basketball at that time. . . Of course I got most of my informition from Dr. Janes Nalamith, whe wee then in my department, and had been previously head of the } ment ef Physieal Education at his “= te the University in 1898. Dr. | ‘Naismith died here in 1959. as ae Le We SteJohn, ce tak dies, se ie Barry, of Cornell, were on the N.C.A.A. Olympic Committee with me, and they doubted, with Brundage end the Olympic outfit, that we would ever land an 0 Olympic game. Then the N.C.A.A. sold basketball down the river by trading with the A.A.U. Major Griffith said to then, a as oe et eae” neo ee erew, and swimming, and we will iet you control basketball.” Olympic Committee had named the c of these sports that the colleges desired to control. That is where Major Griffith and St. John began the political power in the N.C.A.A. and the Big Ten. os But that is enough of that. ‘Thought you might like that angle. pT.% : ; eres 5 ; \ . ; a i ‘ aie! Op ax t3 Ag ae 4 te , Oe gk 2 s &> \ * = ; é Gas “4 ~~ 2 en a ¢ + ’ ae ¢* we & “~ i“ 4 ; PRPs ai Tar Ge" fis Sincerely yours, 3 4 \ 5 * € , Direotor ef Physical Education, PCA:sAH Varsity Basketball Coach. Ene. \ Mareh 351, 1945. Mr. Bob Switzer, Sports Editor, The Daily Register-Mail, Galesburg, Illinois. Dear Bob: I am sending you a biographical sketoh which wo failed to enclose last night, but it will be in ample time for yous C. 4, MeBride, of the Kansas City Star, is ruming quite a colum on our game with the Buffalo Germans of Buffalo, New York. He had a colum last night and will have another tonight. On Monday I will send them to youe I am enologing a sketeh from the files of the Kansas City Star of forty years ago. But I will send you the spert colum of MeBride’s as soon as I can obtain it for youe Sinserely yours, Director of Physical Bducation, FCA sAH Varsity Basketball Coach. Ense March 2, 1945. The Deily Register~Mail, : 7 : Galeaburg, Illinois. Dear Rob: Thank you for your very good letter of the 28th instant. I an glad thet things are working aleng so well in your plans. I am enclosing some two column and one golwm mats. I believe the AP had some hal? colum mats, but we have none of those. I am sending some biographical data. that you mey use at your convenience. You remember you told me Grinnell was a long ways off from Kansas City. Well, I have a date on the 17th to speak at Anthony, which is down below Wichita, so 4% will be necessary for me to leave on that 1:45 a.m. train te get to Anthony that evening, I will go right on through Kansas City and on out west. It sooms as if I have had a difficult time in arrang- ing this with a long trek before the contemplated date wo had on the 12th, and now we have a long. trip on the other end, 80 I will be foreed to leave, not on the 12:17 bevause that does not go through Anthony, but on the leter train which is routed through Anthony. This speaking schedule of wine is a very difficult one, I have practically every date filled until the 20th of April. I am glad that you are happy in my coming, and I assure you I am equally pleased in my contemplated trip. It will be a great pleasure to meet gush a red hot basketball group, and from all reports it anes look as if ™ had about the best team in the tournament, Alf panien and I were in school ainbe at the University together back in 1905 to 1908. , It will be a great pleasure to see yous But remember that I oan visit with you and the group from the time the meting is over until the train pulls out. I am sorry that I won't be able to spend the next day, but ~ I have already mde my camitments to Anthony. But I do kmow we will have plenty of ‘ime for a good bullfest with all of ow basketball friends. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH io : Varsity Basketball Coach. MEMBER A. B. C. THE DAILY REGISTER-MAIL Established 1870 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE REGISTER-MAIL BUILDING 154-156 EAST SIMMONS STREET TELEPHONES: Editorial Department 4455 Main Business Office 4117 Main GALESBURG, ILL. March 28, 195 Dr. Forrest C.Allen, University of Kansas, lawrence, Kan. Dear Dr, Allen; f Chicago men's clothing house advertises its prices as "prices move forward from so-and-so". In Galespurg, plans move forward for a big basketball doings when word is re- ceived that "Phog" Allen will behérme to speak. After receiving your nice telephone call yesterday morning, I had to wind up the morning's work, and then the committee met with the high school principal to perfect some plans. In a half-hour session, we developed some interesting ideas, all subjugated to the fact that you were to be the speaker . I had already written a colum, but dashed off a short announcement that the signals were cleared for your appearamce here, am I know the backers here will tear down the doors to hear you. I'm going to wait until tomorrow, when I have more time, to give you the factual background you Wish, IT think it will take me an hour and’a half to give you the data, and of course you can pick out the salient points you wish to. use. The con- sensus is that Galesburg had the best ball club at the state tournament, and the state writers are now arguing with Indiana scribes about which produces the better basketball players - Tllinois or Indiana. I'11 include some of those comments for your reflection. I might say that our committee has been accorded a vote for a "master stroke" in obtaining your presence here. The permral comment goes something like this, " 'Phog! Allen, gee!" I'd like to ask a favor from you.If your publicity department has some two-colurmm, one-colum and also half-colum mets of yourself, I'd appreciate receiving them. Ye have a lready wsed a one-colurm picture. I'd also like some biographical material. In Galesburg, I happen to be correspondent for the United Press and International News service, and in sports events, I repre- dent the Associated Press « So we're planning to give ‘the Western Union some “hot copy" after the talk. Present plans are to meet you at the train and take you to the Hotel Custer, our largest, where TI have already reserved one o f the best rooms. The ballroom, where we intend to have the ban- et ee ee ees - - pos 7 3 meen SoS 7 _ ea ween eee me i : é ‘ ; ‘ aaa cae MEMBER A. B. C. THE DAILY REGISTER-MAIL — Established 1870 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE REGISTER-MAIL BUILDING 154-156 EAST SIMMONS STREET TELEPHONES: Editorial Department 4455 Main GALESBURG, ILL. Business Office 4117 Main quet for 55 or 60 people, will be on the floor beneath it, and you will have a chance to freshen up after the train ride am then enjoy a meal. The ration problem here is acute, but we are pulling some strings to afford an excellent dinner. Then, it is our plan to parade to the high school auditorium, only a few blocks distant, with the teams and yourself ae in open-top cars. ‘Ve figure on the speaking at about 83:30 o'clock, am since the audience will tax the 1 92355 seats available, early c ore rs - can hear a recording of the Galesburg-Decatur game. And weep! In case you do not wish to board an early morning train on the Santa Fe back to Kansas City, the room will be held for your night's convenience, and if you wish, you can take the west- bound counterpart of the Chicagoan, the Kansas Cityan, back tothe Sunflower state. It leaves here at 12:17 o'clock Dem, right after noon. I know that som of the basketball "bugs" here, including myself, would like to ply you with questions at a subsequent conversational afterlude to the talk proper. Now, I have to write a number of spats editors in this area telling of your date here, and inviting them to the dinner and talk. All of them have expressed a desire to be present when- ever we could arrange the date. It's going to be a red-letter date for Galesburg, paying due honor to our teams. T'l) get the meterial ready for you ina day o s0, am mail it pronto. I might mention that you'll find a receptive aud-= fence, they all like basketball and the rajority of them voted for Alf Iandon of Kansas in 19361 Some other fellow won - I forget his name! Expect my next missive to include the date you wish, and please don't forget me on the publicity about yourself. Sincerely, CLASS OF SERVICE E S E RN - 1201 SYMBOLS This is a full-rate a \ [ DL =Day Letter Telegram or Cable- NL =Nighe lene am unless its de- : erred character is in- LC=Denncd Coble dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre- NLT =Cable Night Letter ceding the address. A. N. WILLIAMS mS Ship Radiogram ( . PRESIDENT ‘The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME ait point of origin. Time of receiptis STANDARD TIME at poin 7p destination KA119 DL PD=GALESBURG ILL 26 407P | dha VS" DR FORREST C ALLEN= eo a ) | JUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS N05 to : MAR 26 PM 4 4 3 os ‘HOW WOULD SHI ET TO MONDAY APRIL 6 FIT WITH YOUR PLANS” TERMS HERE NOT UNDER $125 INCLUDING EXPENSES PLAN DINNER FOR YOU AND TEAMS TALK TO FOLLOW DISAPPOINTED ON APRIL 9 DATE BUT UNDERSTAND CONFLICT ALSO FIND GRINNELL KANSAS IS LONG WAYS OFF= :=BOB SWITZER. Soe 16 $125. % THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING o ' Galesburg, Illinois. How would Thursday, April 12, speaking date fit ‘in. plans? High School tied up on most Fridays. We already have reservation from other side of Illinois, for your talk and the sports editors are anxious to be here, Bob Switzer March 24, 1945 Mr. Bob Switzer, Sports Editor’, Raily Register-Mail, Galesburg, Illinois. For me to get from Grinnell, Kansas, to Kansas City to mike connection for Galesburg would entail considerable additional expense. Under these conditions desire to know what fee you pay. Can make connections but very, very difficult and expensive. Forrest C. Allen Union Pacific ~ lv. Grinnell for Kansas City on train leaving Oakley at 9 p.m., which arrives in Grinnell at approximately 9:15 (due at Wakeeney at 10:10) Arrive ih Kansas City at 7:55 aem. - Santa Fe - ° #24 Lv. Ke. Co 8 acme Ar. Galesburg 2:10 p.m. or #2 Lv. K. C. 2 pim Ar. Galesburg 6:24 p.sm. (This is the one mentioned in Mr. Switzer's first letter.) Speak at Grinnell at 7 pomo CLASS OF SERVICE \ \ } E; S E RN 1201 SYMBOLS This is a full-rate 3 é DL =Day Letter Telegram or Cable- ‘ , j NL=Night Letter gram unless its de- Z ferred character is in- : ~ { O LC=Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable ‘9 symbol above or. pre- ] ee 5 a NLT =Cable Night Letter ceding the address. A. N. WILLIAMS Ship Radiogram ‘The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination KAP76 DL PD 3 EXTRASGALESBURG ILL VIA-GAVRENCESKANS 23 DR FORRE ST C ALLE NF O CARE PRINCIPAL MANHATTAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL uf sjQ HOW WOULD THURSDAY APRIL 12 SPEAKING DATE FIT IN PLANS HIGH SCHOOL TIED UP ON MOST FRIDAYS WE ALREADY HAVE RESERVATION FROM OTHER SIDE OF ILLINOIS FOR YOUR TALK AND THE SPORTS EDITORS ARE ANXIOUS TO BE HERES BOB SWITZERy THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE Day letter, \ March 22, 1945 ny Bob Switzer, Sports Editor, Daily Register-Mail, Galesburg, lite? Last Tuesday morning early, March 20, Stockton, Kansas, called me at Denver asking for April 9th date. I accepted. Just arrived home this morning and read your wire and am terribly sorry. X¥ax Yesterday Stockton's confirmation by letter arrived at this office. I also have April 11 at Grinnell, in far western Kansas. My closed dates exmxkw in April are now April 2, 5, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and ll. Leaving for Emporia, Kansas, today, speak at Manhattan Friday night, attending Western National Collegiate finals Kansas City Saturday. If you wire me here my secretary will relay message. Again sorry. Desire to be most cooperative. Forrest C. Allen. Dr. Allen « My note to Mr. Switzer was sent special delivery upon receipt of the telegram. CLASs OF SERVICE \ \ E ~ E re 1201 SYMBOLS a is a gre \ DL=Day Letter elegram or Cable- NE Nike Ee am unless its de- (11) ee erred character is in- LC=Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre- NLT =Cable Night Letter ceding the address. A. es WILLIAMS ~ Ship Radiogram 7 The fine time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point et origin. Time of receipt is STAN a TIME at point of destination KAZ66 DL PD=WUX GALESBURG ILL 20 1229P GQ) @/ 35/7 DR FORREST C ALLEN= 45 MAR og. PM Of OTT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ned 43 "WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENCE MONDAY NIGHT, APRIL 9% DUE ° TO RATIONINGs HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU AND BASKETBALL TEAMS BE SOLE DINNER GUESTS» TALK WILL FOLLOW IN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM FOR PAID ADMISSION, THINK WE CAN ARRANGE SUITABLE TERMS» WE HAVE HAD TUG WILSON» ARCH WARDs BO MCMILLIN, TOM HARMON AS SPEAKERS BEFOREs AND ALL WERE SATISFIED» EXPECT AUDIENCE OF 2,000s CAN YOU WIRE OKEH ON DATEs CQLLECTs LETTER _ FOLLOWS= re foe, ; . FLERPHC "ng OC BOB SWITZER. 9 BO" ‘2, BOC” OKE He 5 SERVICE WESTERN. UNION Galesburg, Ill. Dr. Forrest C,. Allen, Lawrence, Kansas. Would appreciate your presence Monday night, April 9.. Due to rationing have decided that you and basketball teams be sole dinnor guests. Talk will follow at high school auditorium for paid admission. Think we can arrange suitable terms. We have had Tug Wilson, Arch Ward, Bo McMillin, Tom Harmon as speakers before and all were satisfied. Expect audience of two thousand. Can you wire okay on date collect? Letter follows. . Bob Switzer. Maroh 20, 1945. Mr. Bob Switzer, Sports Editor, The Daily Register-Mail, - 154-156 Bast Simmons Street, Galesburg, Illinois. Dear Mr. Switzer: Your wire to Dr. Allen has just come this afternoon, and since Dr. Allen expects to be in the office a short time on Thursday morning I am holding 4% for him. As he told you, he is in Denver at the present time, but will retw'n to Lawrence before going to Emporia for his next appointment. — At the present time, Dr. Allen has no other engagenent on Monday, April 9th. I am sure — hoar from him promptly upen his return. Sincerely yours, Secretary to Dr. Forrest C. Alien. Mr. Bob Switzer, Sports Editor, The Daily Register-Meil, 154-156 Hast Simmons Street, Galesburg, Illinois. Dear Mr. Switzer: You honor me by asking me to address your Junior Chamber of Commerce honoring Galesburg's splendid basketball teams with the highlight on the Galesburg High School team. I regret that I am tide up with so many basketball banquets at this date. I am to be in Denver from March 18 to the 21st, then I go to Emporia, Kansas, for two days, and then to Kansas City for the 24th. On the 26th I have a local date, on the 27th I am to be at the housewarming for Casey Stengel, the old New York Giant star who is now coaching the Kansas City Blues, onthe 28th I am to speak in Effingham, Kansas, and on the at Shawnee-Mission High School in Kansas Gity, Kansas. On April 2 I am to be at Parkville, Missouri, ER Ea The Te, eee Kensas, high sehool. If your banquet is set upon any date that I oan be there I wuld be delighted to come. Your tom certainly has a just claim for being "basketball mad". Certainly Galesburg has a most exceptional record. And even though it might be impossible for me to be with you, I want 7 to extend my personal consratul tisna to Gerald Phillips and his exceptional tean. Wishing you continued success, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. MEMBER A. B.C. THE DAILY REGISTER-MAIL > Established 1870 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE REGISTER-MAIL BUILDING 154-156 EAST SIMMONS STREET TELEPHONES: ; Editorial Department 4455 Main GALESBURG, ILL. Business Office 4117 Main March 10, 195 Dr. Forrest Allen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. “ Dear Dr. Allen; The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Galesburg is formlating plans for a basketball banquet to honor the Galesburg High school team, whose exploits you may read in the enclosed clipping, and the local parochial club, which also had a good season. When the committee thought of possible speakers, basketball naturally prompted the suggestion that you be contacted as a potential guest. I am sure that your position in the bas- ketball world would attract a big crowd, also on handto honor our local teams. We hope to have the wancuet in the last week of Merch, or even the preceding week if arrangements progress as rap id- ly as we hope. Would you consider speaking here? lf that is possible, we would appreciate your available dates of the period I mentioned. While there are several suitable locations for the banquet, we are hoping to entice the ladies of the Methodist church here to consent serving the meal in their dining room, which is the most cormodious in the city. Their decision wil be available early in the week. Train connections to Galesburg via the Santa Fe, I think you will find, are excellent. The Santa Fe's Chicagoan arrives here at 6:2) p.m., and I believe leaves Kansas City about 12:30 p.m. There are then several early morning trains from here which would place you in Kansas City the morning of tle next day. We would appreciate an early reply vy and trust you can enter- tain what 4s now a "basketball-mad" townsfolk. : . Sincerely yours, Sports Sditor Unstoppable Locals ~ Hand Canton Fourth Loss of Year, 81-40 By BOB SWITZER “The best high school basketball team I have ever seen in a single game.’ That comment, made in a fourth quarter timeout by Referee Eddie Murphy of Peoria, best describes the great Galesburg High school quintet which stormed to an 81-40 rout of a vainly struggling Canton club in the sectional tournament finals at Steele gym of the local school last night. With the magnificently-achieved victory, the Silver Streaks of Coach Gerald Phillips not only earned the tourney trophy, but they placed themselves in she which start battling for the IIli- nois state championship in George Huff gym at Champaign Thurs- day. Galesburg in the opening game of the lower bracket, the final one of the Thursday after- noon schedule, draws West Frank- fort, winner of the Mi. Vernon sectional over Ceniralia last night, 39 to 32. Galesburg was great in all de- partments last night. The amaz- ing club sank 32 field goals in 71 tries for the unbelievable per- centage of 45, but topped that by making 17 of 21 free throws for a mark of 81 per cent. On defense, the locals were equally brilliant, against PR, Canton club which its backers itted was playing— for the ‘Attle Giants—a good game. The best example of the alertness cf the GHS hawks is the fact that kin Payne of the Little Giants, who had 18 points against Western Academy in Thursday’s semi-finals, made one teeny free toss last night. Every> Player Great. Not & Streak player could be singled out for individual praise, for each played at his peak. Bob Johns, who relinquished his cen- ter post to Earl Boyd Thursday, was back with a vengeance last night, working well in the floor game and tops in defense. Ray McClure lived up to his ‘Rabbit’ nickname by stealing the ball on several occasions, caging seven field goals, and six out of six tries at the charity line. Jimmy Evans, the other guard, was another speed merchant on the attack and played his usual brilliant defen- Sive game. At forward, Muzz Barstow used his height to the utmost advantage in getting the ball off the bankboard, and his 17 points tell a story in itself. Del “Bobo” Graham was clever on de- fense, and his record of six buc- kets in only 11 tries is proof of his value. Probably the climactic play of the speedy Galesburg offense came late in the game. Jimmy Evans had the ball, dribbled down the side court and started to wheel into the basket. Two Canton men came forward to threaten him. Evans didn’t slow his pace, but "sweet sixteen” Truly Streaks! CANTON (40) Player, pos. Payne, f Moore, f Owens, f Melgreen, f TOES Rah veces 0 Henseler, f ...... 1 Grove, c Schumacher, g .. Oaks, g Cox, g Totals 60 GALESBURG (81) Player, pos. sa. Graham, £°65.... 12 th OF NOKODP SOG oa] Ornmoormons ne SS ©CrNNOOANOHET NUUKOHKHOoOOD 1 BeQnknNOhONr Barsiow, f Lundeen, f Williams, f Johns, c Boyd, c Evans, g McClure, g Hawkinson, g .. McCoy, g me Score by quarters: COUNT OM is ais ch ce vies cess gue 7 Galesburg Officials: 40 Lee Siseiwicn’ and Eddie Murphy (Peoria), HAEGG TRIES RACE TONIGHT NEW YORK, Marc March 10.—(#)—}: There’s every indication that gaunt | ° Gunder Haegg will meet the same fate that three other European runners encountered in _ their efforts to defeat Americans in the famed Columbian mile at the K. of C. meet in Madison Square Gar- den tonight. Haegg, in this country nine days since his stormy 23-day crossing of the Atlantic, is suffering from a muscular condition that makes it improbable he will be able to avenge his defeat of a week ago when four native runners steam- ed by him at the IC-4A games. “My legs ache and I do not be- lieve that I.can beat Jim Rafferty yet,” said the Swede swiftie after his final practice romp in Central park, shot a lightning-like pass back- ward, sight unseen, to Ray Mc- |’ Clure, who had followed him into the play. “Rabbit” cocked one eye at the hoop, and two more points were rung up. The crowd just went “whew.” Hit Basket Fast. It’s impossible to single out any phase of the Galesburg play for special mention, but the most note- worthy feature of the drive which registered over two points per minute came at the opening of the second quarter. Galesburg had piled up a 17-8 lead in ihe initial period, but; the gym, full of peo- ple, had little idea of what was to come, Ray McClure banged one home, Graham followed suit, and Mc- Clure then made it three straight in a breath-taking drive. Muzz Barstow then missed one, and ap- parently the game was going back to normal. But Barstow came right back to ring the bell, Jimmy Evans added two so fast the scorer’s pencil got hot, and Del Graham hit a bucket. That made seven successful shots in eight attempts, some kind of rec- ord. That drive stretched the Burger lead to 34-11 in just half the quarter. The locals “slowed down” and only scored nine more tallies to let the halftime count read at, 40-17. Galesburg thus in one half made as many markers as the Little Giants did in the whole game. Only 16 points were chalked up for GHS in the third stanza, when the shot percentage of 5 out of 16 was the lowest of any period in the game. The peak was the last quarter, when an exact 50 per cent was attained on a 9-out- of-18 record. The Streaks fattened their lead to 56-23 in the third quarter. Earl Boyd took over the cen- ter job’ entering the final period, and aided the varsity to whiz up- wards to a 70-30 advantage when Coach Phillips sent in Bob Wil- . liams, George Lundeen, Jerry Mc- Coy and Lloyd Hawkinson. The reserves added 11 points in the last four minutes, and Canton perked up by getting ten. George Lundeen ended the game by boosting the Galesburg score from 75 to 81 single-handedly. Grove Leads Giants. Captain Bob. Grove was the siege gun and mainstay of the at- tack for Coach Willard Larson’s boys, as he dialed 14 points. Al- though the Fulton countyans were absorbing an almost disheartening defeat, Canton played hard during the entire game, as shown by their burst to end the struggle. Each team used its full tournament roster of ten men. At the conclusion of the game, ‘Principal Edgar L. Harden of GHS announced that 25 patients from Mayo General hospital were guests, and as they rose, a huge burst of applause greeted them. Richard V. Lindsey, superintend- ent of schools, then gave the run- ner-up trophy to Captain Grove of Canton and the championship award té Jimmy Evans, captain of the Galesbusg team last night, If Haegg is defeated he will suffer the same fate that befell Paavo Nurmi of Finland in 1925; Edvin Wide of Sweden in 1927 and Otto Peltzer of Germany in 1928. Nurmi became ill the night of the 1925 race and didn’t even start while Lloyd Hahn beat out Wide : Both Hahn and Ray Conger finished] . far ahead of the soundly beaten | * by a single step in 4:12.2. Peltzer in the 1928 competition. Rafferty, Fordham’s iron mite who has triumphed in six straight mile features, also is on the ailing list with a bad cold. Haakan Lid- man, Stockholm’s hurdler-sports editor, doesn’t expect to be up to par either, having banged his knee in winning the 60-yard high hurdles a week ago. Fifty-five foursomes are book- ed in the various relays. Play-By-Play GALESBURG ~~~ t Barstow 2 Barstow (2ft) 4 Johns 5 - 2 Grove Graham 7 Evans 9 McClure 11 McClure 12 McClure 14 Evans 15 4 Schumacher 5 Grove 7 Oaks 8 Payne Barstow 17 (Second McClure 19 | Graham 21 | McClure 23 Quarter) 10 Grove Barstow 25 ‘ 11 Schumacher Evans 27 Evans 29 Graham 31 Evans 33 Evans 34 12 Owens Barstow 36 Evans 38 14 Owens Evans 40 : ; 16 Owens 17 Oaks (Third Quarter) McClure (2 £t) 42 Barstow 44 Evans 46 McClure 47 Graham 49 18 Schumacher 18 Owens Barstow 50 Evans 52 21 Schumacher 23 Moore Barstow 54 Barstow 56 (Fourth Boyd 57 Graham 58 Quarter) 25 Grove 27 Grove 28 Melgreen McClure 59 Graham 61 McClure 6&3 McClure 65 Graham 67 McClure 68 McClure 70 30.Henseler 31 Grove of 33 Melgreen (2 ft) Williams 72 Boyd 73 4 35 Owens 37 Grove 39 Grove Boyd 75 40 Melgreen Lundeen 76 Lundeen 78 Lundeen 80 Lundeen 81 CANTON {> Modest Evans made a short talk oe hope for success at the state, aw nO Let's Boost Them G. H. S. Coaching Work Merits More Money BY BOB SWITZER Galesburg High school is experiencing one of its most memor- able years in athletic history. The football team won all iis games save one, and that to a champion Rock Island club. -The basketball team won five tourna- ment and league trophies, and failed by a photo finish in the state tournament to the state champions of Decatur. The intramural program has been unparalleled in its excellence, including in | Participation a huge majority of the boys in school. The track program is coming up, and while the coaching staff | isn’t planning on an outstanding career, things point up toward a | building toward the 1947 season. In baseball, Galesburg High has mapped a number of doubleheader contests, and has a good outlook. These feats have been accomplished by the athletes, but they have been directed by one of the most competent and closely- | working group of coaches in Galesburg High school history. They j are Gerald Phillips, athletic director and coach of basketball; Cliff | Van Dyke, coach of football and track: and Charles Bednar, director | of intramurals and the coach of sophomore basketball and varsity baseball. Working with them has been John Aitchison as sopho- more football coach and a generally competent assistant in all i sports. All these men deserve a raise in pay from the board of educa- tion to make their standards conform with those of other high school athletic coaches of the state who receive more money. The best-suggested way of keeping these men in Galesburg is giving them recompense for 12 months of work, instead of the nine and one-half months for which they now receive salaries, and thereby assign them to summer activities directing playground work in Galesburg. : “Playground activities” is a term which has almost a belittling title. It means supervision of sports on the fine park system of Galesburg; and a supervision which is sorely needed. The 101 club sponsors the Knox County Hardball league at H. T. Custer park, affording baseball interest to many. But it has many times wished the help of a full-time worker to assure that games could be played on what might be a wet diamond, and to find that adequate help would be forthcoming for the conduct of the games. Let’s look at the record. Galesburg High school won the Illini and Northwest basketball championships. It came within a shud- dering whisker of the Northwest football title, but gained the Illini crown. At East Moline, it is reported that Ray Holmes has ary annual salary of $3,500; at Moline, George Senneff drew down a reported amount of $3,800, plus bonus: and, hold your hats, at Rock Island, “Shorty” Almquist will get next year $4,800 as athletic director, plus a $1,200 job as summer director of activities. See what I mean! . Let’s don’t go on generalities, but facts. Gay Kininer, the Decatur High coach who received only $3,300 annually but won. his third state basketball championship this year, is an example. Last night, he was raised to $4,500. An East St. Louis coach pegs $3,700 for a job involving coaching only one sport. Morrisonville | pays its coach $3,400, and St. Elmo (you look at the map) is offer- ing $3,000. Jack Lipe, one of Kintner’s pupils, gets $4,500 at Thornton. Athletic Director Gerald Phillips here has a contract for $3,300 next year, plus $400 extra, for conducting summer swimming classes. Coach Van Dyke last summer worked at the "Q” tie plant; Coach Bednar had other work. Why not pay these producing coaches, who work as smoothly as any of the teams they produce, a salary commensurate of their worth? A SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION COMES UP SATURDAY, APRIL 14. A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT! Dacia Coach Gets Pay Boost For Champ Club DECATUR, Ill., March 27.—(P) —Gay Kintner, who coached the Decatur Heds to the state high school basketball championship a week ago, today had more than headlines for his reward. The city school board voted to name the high school gymnasium in his honor and to increase his salary from $3,300 to $4,500 a year. eC