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February 15th, 1938.

Mr. J. H. Crocker,
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada.

Dear Mr. Crocker:

You will recall that I discussed the basketball
situation in Canada with you when I saw you in Canada last
August at your Canadian summer home. I had a letter on this
same subject from Samuel Rogers under date of September 20,
1937. I, also, received a letter on October 15, 1937, attach-
ing thereto copy of a letter from Mr. Sammel Rogers to you
under date of October 14, I am sorry to have neglected the
matter of attending to this problem for so long. These
letters should have been answéred and I should have express-
ed my best judgment on the various questions raised a long
time since. However, I am at last taking cognizance of the
matter and giving you herewith my best judgment.

; The situation existing in Canada at the present
time seems somewhat complicated and I may not be entirely
correct in my premises and, therefore, possibly wrong in my

conclusions, In the first instance, as I recall, you re-
presented the interest of Canada in our Basketball Rules
Committee meeting as official spokesman for the Amateur
Athletic Union of Canada, and also, for the school and
college interest, which later was more definitely organized
as the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union. In this
earlier stage of development, the Canadian Amateur Basket-
ball Association was definitely a subsidiary of the Amateur
Athletic Union of Canada, and when Samuel Rogers came to our
meeting as a Canadian representative, he had been definitely
delegated by the president of the As. Ae Us of Canada. It
always has been my understanding that we were dealing with
the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union and the A.A.U.
of Canada, which correspond to the Amateur Athletic Union of
the United States in its relation to amateur sport in Canada.

As the picture appears to me now, the Canadian
Amateur Basketball Association has decided to withdraw from
the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada and operate as an in-
dependent group. It seems to me indicated, therefore, that
the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association should not be re-
cognized officially at the present time by our basketball
group in preference to the A.A.U. of Canada. In other words,
it seems to me in order that the president of the Canadian
Amateur Athletic Union should appoint an official representa-
tive to our Rules Committee to succeed Samuel Rogers or Mr.
C. R. Blackstock.