THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STAR BUILDING
KANSAS CITY, MO.

DEAR PHOG, |
THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR DOPE.

| AM SORRY ABOUT THE ERRONEOUS STATEMENTSs YOU SEE,
SOMETIMES 1! GET MATERIAL FROM SPORTS COLUMNS IN THE REGION AND FROM
NOW ON WILL NOT RELY ON THEMse ONE COLUMNIST, WHOM I REGARDED
AS “IN THE KNOW," ONCE SAID THAT YOU TACKED A CLIPPING ON THE
BULLETIN BOARD AFTER THE OKLAHOMA GAME AT LAWRENCE IN WHICH DRAKE
SAID TUCKER WAS A GREATER PLAYER THAN BLACKe 1! THOUGHT IF THIS
WERE TRUE, THE CLIPPING APPARENTLY WAS PUT THERE FOR A PURPOSE,
A PSYCHOLOGICAL PURPOSE.

; | AGREE WITH YOU THAT ANY ATHLETE WHO ACTED LIKE TUCKER DID
IN YOUR NORMAN GAME IS NOT “GREAT. BUT, PHOG, | DID NOT SAY

YOU SAID HE WAS GREATse DON'T YOU THINK HE'S A "goop" PLAYER?
THAT'S WHAT | SAID, ACTUALLY.

HOWEVER, THOSE QUOTES, WHICH | THOUGHT HARMLESS, WERE MINE,
AND I'M SORRY. I! ALSO CAN SEE HOW THE STORY COULD BE MISCONSTRUED
TO IMPLY THAT YOU THOUGHT TUCKER GREAT. a I'M SORRY IT WAS
NOT CLEARERe

| HOPE THAT THE “ERRONEOUS STATEMENTS" ARE NOT AS CONSISTENTLY
MADE AS YOUR LETTER INFERRED,

MOR E