Lawrence, Kansas
February 25, 1935

Mr. John R. Tunis,
Rowayton, Conn.

Deer Mr. Tunis;
I beg to acknowledge receipt of

your favor of the 25th ultimo.

: To begin with I heartily agree with you
that there are too many yes men in the country already. Therefore,
in the true spirit of camaraderie, greetings from one anti to another.
Indeed I am very fond of intellectual honesty, but I fear in your
recent correspondence that a certain species of intellectual honesty
was aborted soon after conception,

As Chairman of the Press Committee

of the National Association of Basket Ball Coaches of the United
States and as Chairman of the Research Committee of the National Bas-
ket Ball Rules Body, I expect to give you certain irrefutable facts
bearing upon my previous statement concerning numbers playing basket
ball in the United States. When I made the statement that twenty
million people were playing basket ball I didn't confine the number
of participants to America. However, I expect to make a definite
recheck on both national and foreign participants in this sport and
although it may take several months to obtain this data, you shall
receive an authenticated compilation of facts and figures in due time.

I was struck by the hoct coherence belies

of your article and the thought conveyed in your letter,

o> iene underlying trend of your eget set

seems to be "playing-games”" as against "attendance-games", However,

Rng
@ the theme

you seem to be somewhat confused at times on the differentiation