INDIANA UNIVERSITY

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

NEWS BUREAU
E. Ross Bartley, Director
Henrietta Thornton, Ass’t to the Director
Sylvia Jenkin, Secretary

 

Robert A. Cook,
Athletic Publicity Representative

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Mr. Forrest C. Allen,
Basketball Coach,
University of Kansas,
lawrence, Kansase

Dear Coach:

Iast October I had a letter from an R.A.F. pilot wanting
to buy from Indiana university a basketball. He told me that
basketballs in England, scrace in peacetime, were null and void
during the war. Although he had offered to pay for it, we sent
him a new one.

I have received a second letter from him, and I am going
to insert some of his statements here. If by any chance, you
would like to send him one of your books, I know it would be
greatly appreciated. The name and address is Iaurence Nelson,
c/o Mrs. J. Yates, Hall Meadows, Tean, Staffs, England. He
says, in part:

"Your basketball arrived on Christmas day...and you letter
to me came on New Year's Day...I shall now look forward to your
next letter containing any data on basketball which you have
been able to collect for me....There is one book in particuler
which I have tried unsuccessfully to obtain from your countrye
It is Dr. "Phog”" Allen's work entitled "My Basketball Bbble,"*
published by Messrs. McGraw Hill and Co.....Do you think you
could possibly get a copy for me..ee.. I've got my heart set on
that book....I am fanatically keen on the game.”

It occured to me that perhaps ypu do have a reviewer's copy
or something you could send him. Nelson has been with the London
newspapers, and has done some of the pioneer basketball writing
in England.

With kindest regards, I am

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