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: EVENING AND SUNDAY, ;
326 W MADISON ST August 24, 1943. TELEPHONE
CHICAGO ANDOVER 1234

Mr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Allen:

The fourth annual College All-Star Basketball Game will be held at the

Chicago Stadium on Friday, December 3, 1943. The Washington Bears,
winners of the world's championship tournament held at Chicago last
March, will .be the opposition of the All-Star selections; and present
indications are that all previous records for interest and attendance
will be shattered.

As you doubtless will recall, you and the other members of the All-
America Basketball Board who have nominated and elected the All-Stars
each year, have done your job so well that the All-Stars have in the
past three seasons defeated the world's professional champions.

This year your task is more difficult and we will have to vary a bit
from past procedure. In former years we received your nominations and
had you polled three times until the list was pared down to squad
sizee This season, due to the fact that practically all of the bas-
ketball players deserving of consideration are either in the armed
forces or are taking special courses at college, the rule has been
altered to permit the selection of not only any man who graduated from
college last year, but any man currently attending school who de-
serves selection as an All-Star.

We are going to find it necessary to make a direct approach to the

player immediately after selection in-an effort to secure necessary
furlough or leave. Hence, this original letter will be your only vote
on the selections.

We are enclosing herewith a list of players who have thus far received
nomination and will ask you to kindly put a cross alongside fifteen of
those whom you would care to select. Feel free, please, to add any names
to this list who have not already been nominated; and when adding names,
please advise, if possible, school and where said player may be reached.

I know this is going to take a few moments of your time, but feel cer-
tain that we may count upon you for the same interest and cooperation
that you have shown in the past.

Sincerely,

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HARRY D. WILSON, Director

College All-Star Basketball Game

Room 510, 326 W. Madison St.
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