MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE

CLEVELAND 4zz/Mfen TRANSFERS

STAN ALLMEN, OWNER

JEFF CARLIN, CoAcH

NATE WALLACK, GENERAL MANAGER
1581 COVENTRY ROAD
EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO

DAN MARONEY, BUSINESS MANAGER
971 EAST 236TH STREET
EUCLID, OHIO

April 24, 1945

    
     
  

Dr. Forrest Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

    
   

Dear Dr. Allen:

  
       
       
   
      
       
   
    
   
  

We are contacting coaches of the nation's outstanding college
basketball teams to secure prospects for our professional club

of the National Basketball Leazue. Our league is recognized

as the strongest professional organization in the country.

Due to Army inductions in the past month, we have lost some players
and we are rebuilding our team, the Cleveland Allmen Transfers.
Hence our early start in search of talent.

We would like to know if there was anyone on your squad last winter
whom you would recommend to us. Possibly you might suggest someone
on one of your opponents! teams. Naturally, we are not interested
in anyone who is still eligible for college play. Would you
please send me the names and addresses of good prospects, so that

I may write to them directly?

   

We would appreciate your assistance. Please be assured that we will
express our gratitude in an appropriate fashion, if anyone you
recommend does join our club.

To boys who make the grade with our team, we can offer a good paying.
position in one of Cleveland's largest industries, plus a monthly
salary during the winter for playing basketball. Professional basketball
made a grand comeback in Cleveland during the 1944-45 season, and

our players did very well financially.

    
       
   

  

Thanking you for your cooperation, I remain,

AZZ
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