January 7, 1942.

Chancellor Deane W. Malott,
University of Kansas.

Rear Chancellor Malott:

I am writing this note apropos my letter of the 6th instant
regarding 'r. George L. Rider's letter to youe I did mot care to in-
_ corporate it in the text of my other letter.

John 2. Tumis has a very provocative article in ire,
Jenuary, 1940, on intercollegiate athletics. I would like ' you
to read this. If you have not seen it or if you do not have a copy
I have one et my heme which he sent me. About four or five years
ago Tunis visited the campus here for a day and we had a very fine
visit with him. He is one of the debunkers, you know, but he has a
lot of information in his article and he points out some very pertin-
ent facts. Iwill be happy to bring my copy to your office if you
manifest an interest in the same, but frankly I feel that you are so
burdened with the momentous happenings of the day that you have little
time for the sideshows.

The most discouraging thing about the eutlook of the N.C.AsA.
As the fact thet some of the high moguls of the N.C.A.A. are so in-
extricably linked up with the pernicious evils that now strangle
competitive athletics to near death tiat I hesitate to venture en
optimistic note.

Major Jom L. Griffith, the Commissioner of the Big Ten,
knows that certain ae happening in his organigation which,
if revealed, would blow ship eut of the Big Ten pond. Kenneth
Le “Tug" Wilson, the director of athletics at Hortiwestern, is fully
cognizant of what is going on there in an athletic way. Le We. St.
John, the athletic director at Ohio State, is on important committee
assigments and he is o power in the N.C.A.A. With Griffith, Wilson
and St. John trying to doctor a diseased athletic body would be exactly
like a bunch of fellows having so much information on the other that
they would be afraid to institute durable reforns.

The only hope, as I said before, sik: Naot: Wie inser ek Onli
most of the highly commercialized sports to such an extent that the
American Association of University Presidents can get hold of the
young pachyderm and make him so tractable that they can make a work