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ATHLETIC & SPORTING GOODS CO.

NINE TWENTY-FIVE WALNUT STREET - - KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

WHOLESALE & RETAIL

December 30, 1937

Dr. Forrest €,. Allen
Department of Physical kd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear voc:

I have your letter of December 24th in regards to the
arrangements for the between halves program at the Oklahoma
game. I regret to say that our plans have slipped up in one
detail and that is that Hal Surface has backed out on us. I
eannot offer any explanation of his doing so and personally I
do not appreciate his letting us down in this way at all. His
only explanation is that he has not had enough practice, ali of
which sounds rather ridiculous to me. It seems that the weather
might be bad, and the roads might be bad, and in this it just
wouldn't be a good idee for him to come down.

The best that I can offer instead is for Al Burgess and
possibly Bill Kiley and myseif to put on the show and then per-
haps I can persuade Mr. Surface to appear at a later date in
the full length match. I believe we can wrk out something
entertaining but of course will be guided entirely by your
wishes. If you do not feel that this would be such a good idea
then feel perfectly free to call off the little show at this
time and we will have a full length match later on. However
Al Burgess and I and I know Bill Kiley will be only too willing
to do what we can to fill in this interval and aasuming that you
will want us to do so, we are coming over this Sunday morning
to play in the auditorium if that is available and in th @ gym
in case the former is not available.

As you can probably tell from the tone of this letter
it makes me good and mad for Hal to let us down in this way.
Wouldn't it be rare to find someone who could get real good
without acquiring all the temperamenssthat seems to go hand and

hand with a reputation?

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