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ite, John R, Tunis,

Care Harper's Magazine,
49 East 33rd St., |
New York, N.Y,

Dear likp , Tunis:

Co@ing out of Cleveland, Ohio in
Decetlber I purchased a oony *t Decelber's Harpers and read your
story "The Changing Trend Sports."

i assure you it was very interesting
but I was struck by your failure to list basket ball anywhere near
its proper place in the list of the ten fastest growing s s in
the United States at the present title, In fact, you didn't Sention
it at all. vos

we nite / I understand that you quoted a Wanufac-
tugrer who is foreed by business to keep his eye on the ball, ete.

No doubt you noticed in the last “onth on two occasions “ore than
16,000 people paid adiiissions in Madison Square Garden’ to see college
tea™s play basket ball, 3

ee in the January 10th nullber of "Sport
atoty dagazine" I have an article that sets out solle of the reasons
why basket ball is “uch further developed in the west than in the
east. In the Country Gentletian in the February iseue I have written
another article that I would like for you to see at your leisure,I
think it would very “uch change your idea of the gaiie.

: Only very recently basket ball has been
Gade an ie Sport, “ore than twenty Zillion people are playing
basket ball at the present title,

In our Physical Education Departient

here at the university, where. all the high school boys are exatiined

on their entrance every boy ‘without exception, who is able bodied, has
stated that he has played basket ball in his high school days. I
have checked with other university departiwents and I find the saile
thing is true here in the “iddle west,