‘Mareh 28, 1945.

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Mr. Jack Carberry,
Denver General Hospital,
Denver, Colorado.

Dear Jacks

IT am a little late in writing you to tell you how very mich -
I enjoyed my visit with you at the hospital. Of scourge, I was
darn sorry to see you incapacitated, but you were taking it like
a true soldier and snapping out of it in the usual faahion echar-
acteristic of the fighting Irish.
s

I left Denver Wednesday afternoon and on the picked
up one of your papers and saw your comment regarding “eriticism
of the A.A.U.

3 Tex mui Wied dies eouhd ak Wan te Ge i ese nb
Junior Chamber of Commerce besause I certainly took tho N.C.A.A.
for a buggy ride due to the fact that they have done nothing regard-
ing their supervision over important points, such as proselyting,
subsidizing, protection against the inroads of the tinhorn profes-
sional gambler, and so forth. Most of the rules of the sollege
conferences are as badly disobeyed as are the rules of the A.A.U.,
and the administration is just about as bad. If there is anything
we need it is a high comissioner of athletics to do something’
that the athletic directors, the faculty representatives and the
coaches are failing to do. So I wanted to let you know that I am
not putting a soft pedal on the organization of which I am a member.

I met some boys at the Municipal: auditorium at the N.C.A.A.
finals last Saturday night here in Kansas Gity ~ all Kansas City
boys, and they came to me and said, “Say, that cuy Jack Carberry
is no frien of ours because he said some things against you.” I
said, "Don't worry about Jack. He is all right. He speaks his own
mind and what he says he believes.” :

The fact of it is that I heartily agree with you that if I
did step outside of my own organization and flay somebody outside
and still try to protect our ow wrongdoers, it would be an unfor-
givable premise. But I have not done that and I m sure that you
know it. Pg