THE DONIVERSITY OF PITTSEURGH

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE

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OFFICES IN THE FALE CLINIC

| October 30, 1937

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
| Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Does the new seamless Basket Ball, cause

| your boys, on hard forty feet passes, to throw "floaters",
"sinkers", "drops", "curves", "twisters"? These are the
terms applied to the tricks done by passing the ball hard.
Last year when the ball was used in the presence of the
salesman, the players discarded the ball, somewhat to our
embarassment. At the coaches meeting claims were made that
the ball had been perfected. Perhaps our "new" seamless
ball was taken from the "old" vintage. If this latter is
correct it still promotes suspicion. On the basis of our
actual experiments with the ball we can have no confidence
in it. We would like to know the actual facts, with no
Sales talk.

Cordially,

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H. C. Carlson, M.D.