Chancellor MaAlott Page 2 3 Jane 6, 1941

This morning my secretary gave me a notation from Mre Wiley
as follows:

"rr. Allen;

Mre Wiley just called to check the hours that Mr. Nichols

- gave me regarding the time the auditorium may be used for
practice this weekends (You will recall there is a Music
Clinic here this week) =e,

The hours check for Thursday, no prectice in Hoch on Friday,
but on Saturday Mre Wiley says it cannot possibly be ready

_ before 54505 Mr» Nichols said 4:80e<-but Mr, Nichols probably
did not realize that elevations will have to be renoved from
the basketball floor after the afternoon performance, and

Myre Harris says it will take an hour to remove the elevetions.s

I told Mre Wiley that you no doubt will wish te practice in
Hoch on Saturday in view of the fact that we have a game here
on the following Mondays He said he was sorry you could not |
get in sooner on Saturday, and said he would be glad to talk
to you if you wished to call hime He will send you a program
of the Music Clinic. 3

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_ The use of the auditorium has become so manifold and each
individual feels as if his reservations are more important than the |
others; therefore we are being forced out entirely, so far as practice
periods are concerned or even a scheduled arrangement is possible. For
that reason I wish to offer an emphatic protest against the way the
thing is handled.

If I am thinking correctly, I see no reason why a Music Clinic
was scheduled util or unless we were consulted, ‘these dates have been
taken away from us without our being notified, and inasmuch as we pley
our first conference game next Monday, we are placed in a position of
' being foreed to play over there against our wishes with but one practice
period for the whole timee Therefore, I feel enphatically that we would
be much better off in erecting seats here in our gymnasium and playing

where we can practice without interruption. | .

, in @11 other BigeSix schools the teams practice where they playe

I am sure thet you will recognize the fact that it is very dffficult to
spend all of our practice periods over here in the gymasium and then be
forced to play on a semi-foreign courte All other teams practice on the-home —
court and the difference in points is from 8 to 10 per gameo. In justice
to my boys and the team I feel that this is emphatically wnfairs