VANDERVRIES
REALTY AND MORTGAGE COMPANY
Tucson, ARTZONA

March 28, 1938

Dr F. C. Allen
% University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

My dear "Phog":

I just received the last "Graduate" magazine a couple of days ago
and read that you had again added another basket ball championship
- to yourlist. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you for
the wonderful work you have done in taking so many inexperienced
players and developing them into championship material.

In reading about the various records made by present day basket
ball players, including the much publicized Hank Luisetti, the
thought has often oceurred to me that coeshes and sports writers
should distinguish between the number of points made by field
goals and those made on free throws. This would give a better
comparison between players and also would be fair in comparing
records of present day players with those who played in the days
when one player did practically all the free throwing of his team.

Incidentally, I spent Saturday evening reminiscing and going through
some old records of the days before I was a "has-been" and I got to
wondering about how my record for field goals made in the season
1913-14 compared with the records made since that time by Kansas
players. I found an old Spey dine guide which gave the records of
players in the old Missouri /eonTerence which showed me making 91

field goals in 17 games, with my partner, Lefty Sproull, making 67

in 17 games and no other player in the: conference scoring more than -
57. Ido not have a record of the 1909-10 season, but my recolleetion
is that after I made the team I scored 67 field goals in 10 games.

My only point in writing you about this is to satisfy my curiosity.
and I know of no one who is in a position to check the records
without too mich trouble. If it is not asking too meh, I would
like to have my curiosity satisfied.

One of these days 1 hope that you can schedule a basket ball game
with our team at the University of Arizona. Whenever you do this,
I want you to know that you have a standing invitation for yourself
and the whole team to eat an “honest-to-goodness" meal at my home.

With kind personal regards and best wishes for continued success,
I am ;
Cordially yours,

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