February 27
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Mr. John R. Tunis,
Rowayton, Conn.

Dear Mr, Tunis: —

| | I beg to — rn of your -
~_e of the 25th ultimo,
4
y heartily agree 5 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 thbellectual honesty, but I fear in
your recent correspondence that a certain species of intalles~
tual honesty was aborted soon after conception.

As Chairman of the Press ‘Athen of .

| the National Kaaliscetws of Basket Ball Coaches of the United
States and as Chairman of the Research Committee of the National
Basket Ball Rules Body, I expect to give you certain irrefutable
facts bearing upon my previous statement concerning numbers play-
ing basket ball in the United States. When I made the statement
that twenty million people were playing basket ball I didnot.
confine the number of participants to America, However, I expect
to make a definite recheck on both national ani foreign ‘partici-
pants in this sport and although if may take several months to
obtain this data, you shall receive an ene compilation
of facts and ieauciataes in due time,

‘Iwas struck by the lack of echerenue
eteninn the trend of the argument in your article and the thought
conveyed in your letter, . The underlying thought of your | article
— to be "playing-games" as against "attendance-games", How-

>» you seem to be somewhat confused at times on the di fferen-
tiation between attendance games and participation games. lEspeci-
te eS do you strengthen this belief when you say to me that hasket

"is a young man's game. You can't play it at forty. The

games that are growing today are the games that older men can play."
Yet, nowhere in your article was the reader made to understand
, _ aoa drawing fine lines between youth-sports and matur-
ity sports, i

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: i fear that you have an improper econ=
ception of sports. The game fitted for a man of forty is not