' HARRY LLOYD, Director C4 CLYDE SUCHSLAND, Clerk © JOHN DANNENBERG, Treasurer

GAYLORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS

J. E. COLE, Superintendent
WM. BROWN, Grade Principal

GAYLORD, - KANSAS

Dr. F.C, Allen March 27, 1941
Director of Physical Education,

University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Dr, Allen:

I received your letter of the 25th, to-day and
wish to say that we will be glad to pay you 5¢ a mile each way
out here to be with us at our Little Six Basketball League Ban-
quet on Tuesday, April 15,

I realize that your duties as coach of baseball as well as
your other duties there at the university all call for a very
heavy load on your part, I didn't know that you had the baseball
load which rolled right in upon the completion of your reguhar
basketball season, I appreciate your heavy responsibility and
realize that it is a great sacrifice on your part to make so
many of our high schools as a banquet speaker, But I also know
that you mean very much to the basketball devotees of the state,
All the high school boys out this way have heard of Phog Allen ,
many of them have digested your books on the cage game, and all
of them will be delighted to have you around the banquet table,

Now the route I suggested in my former letter will be the
best since you are driving your Buick out, I refer to U.S,24
which you will have all the way from north of Lawrence a short
way on out to about seven miles west of Downs, At that point
that highway turns south to Osborne and there you take Kansas 9
on over here to Gaylord, good road all the way. My home town ia
down there at Winchester and I have driven out here many times
and find 24 the best and quickest route to drive,

So come out loaded with your basketball lore and we'll try
to give you the“glad hand® in good style. We get a lot of kick
out of some of the sport items relative to your late prediction
as to football's future but I'm sure most school men agree that
football and horse racing are getting somewhat of the same savor
in all too many ways. School and college athletics in general may ”eeqg
a bit of negative acceleration for their good and for the best
interest @h education in fact, Thanks a lot; we'll be waiting,

Yours truly,

«&, G&

J.E.Cole, Supt.