THE MAGjJAZINE FOR c
919 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE
CHICAGO

Caquir

December
23rd
1943,

Dear “hog:

Your letter would have mde a dandy article
for us of itself if it md come in sooner.

The troble is we're mkire up April now

and are out of tasketball, which we covered
very weekly this year for lac of material.
Horever I am trying to get Mr. Girerich to

ran part of it in his Sount and Fury. You
have the mly good live basketball controversy
that I know of now. Perhaps you noted in ow
00ll that the vublic was for your idea,

We are still tryine to put up the old battle

on the sportire front here, and somtimes it
seeme to gO good and other times bad. There
are a lot of angles to ths thing that aren't
always apparent, and some that are clear enough
aré inexplicable.

I think it is healthy, however, gen@ally speaking
for new ideas to be bobbire up in sports. Out of
them cons improvements. Basketball was saved
by the 3 and 10-second rules, and improved as

a show by dropping the center jump. There's

no reason why it shouldn't continue to improve.
Football ami baseball aren't the same games
they were 20 years ago, and they're better.

I womer ire how it's going to be after the war.
If we don't blow up economically, sports should
boom with the teturning wets, I believe.

Thanks a lot for all the good ideas expressed
in yur letter, and I'm hoping Gingrich will
fimi a place to present them to the public.

Cordially,

   

PS. You might tell Dr. thout when you see him that
I ran across Prof. Seldyémridge at a football dinner the

St her night. He was schoop speech man when we were at
Mii llikdn.