Keosauqua, Iowa,
- April 21, 1959.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas, .
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am writing to you for information in regard to a new basketball
floor that our school board is planning to lay this summer. I have

a copy of your book Better Basketball and have engoyed reading it many
times and I noticed in it that you recommend a 2 inch white maple
tongue and groove lumber for a floor.

Would you recommend this 2 inch maple in the short lengths of about
four feet or would you recommend it in the longer lengths? Also would
you recommend that it be laid over the old floor with the 2 x A's

laid flat or to take up the old floor and put the new one over the
conerete base that our present floor rests on..I would also like .to
know what kind of a finish to use in finishing it and from what com-
pany you would recommend to obtain these products.

Our floor is about 70 feet in length and about 35 feet in width with
seating capacity on just one gide and along the other side the outside
wall. :

I have never had the chance to read your "My Basketball Bible" as yet
but hove to read it sometime soon.

Thanking you for this information that I am asking, I am
Very respectfully yours,

feat ees

High School Basketball Coach.