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November 18, 1940

Mre HeGe ‘Olsen 2
Basketball Coach _
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Ole:

I beg to accept receipt of your wire of the 18th instant

reading as follows; “Please hurry final report if at all possible."

Ole, I want to assure you that I am even more anxious than
you are to get this thing cleared ups I have called and endeavored to
make appointments with Smith, the printer who printed our programs,
and he has either been out of town or something has thwarted my move
every time I have made an attenpt to settle the bill. Frankly, I feel
as if we are going to have bad luck on the proposition, but last week
I got hold of his secretary and she stated he would be in town Tuesday
morning, November 19. Therefore, as soon as my 10;30 class is over, I
am leaving for Kansas City to keep this appointment. :

| We are not having any luck in our collections, so I am going
to put in these bills as uncollectable, so far as my report is concerned,
And tomorrow when I pay this fellow I will follow with a report on

Wednesday and send you what money we have on hand and call the matter

closed upe

If it had hot been for this hangenail, we would have closed

the tournament business a long time ago and been rid of the very difficult
situation. However, had we elosed earlier than a month ago, we would

have an old bill to settle to the Kansas City Journal. ‘This is one of

the newspapers that Bowles gave the advertising to and they charged it to |
him instead of to use And then, not being able to collect from him, they
sent us the statement and wanted to know if there was any way they could
collect the bille This being the first that = had heard of it, I asked
them to mail me the bill and I sent them a checks So I am sure now there
are no outstanding bills. I believe if I were you I would try to hold back
this whole amount for emergencies, but that is up to youe es

- Tem so sorry, Ole, that my teaching schedule and my basketball
practice have been such that it has hamestringed me and prevented me from

getting away any one full day in any weeke I had October basketball practice

due to the fact that I lost most of my regulars and I thought that I would
start out on fundamentals and try to develop a bunch of youngsters into a

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