July 10, 1943. lewrenee, Kansas. Dear Mr. Davidsens The physical training program for the V-12 students calls for classes in besketball the week 19th. Will you kindly put the basketball goals up in _ Hoeh Auditorium some time during this next week, so they will be ready fer these classes? Alse, when you come to the gymasium for the mts that are to be repaired, you will notice that there are two mats that need the handles sewed on. I am wondering if you could do that fer us. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. i fe Zetmn1ma a. y, te den spe ep 4 rar eee Bard High Schoo! S72 fy 3 708 N. 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This, of course, was no infraction of the rule te compete against colleges, but et the same time they competed against Wentworth Military Academy, which is a junior college. I thought that the Big Six ryle prohibited any college competing ageinst an institution of lower academic rank. You rerember Maskell is a jumior college and they passed a rule that Kansas could not compete against Haskell when she was a junior college. This meet was held at Columbia, Missouri, and a Wentworth man won a certain track event from Missouri, as rummer. Doubt- less many of these Wentworth boys were of high school rank, as well as jmior college. — Perhaps a ruling has been made during the war which would permit this competition. If so, we may want to against Haskell from time to time. I am wondering if you would be kind enough to give me this information. Very cordially yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA :AH Versity Basketball Coach. May 28, 1943. Mr. and Mrs. Aw &. Davidson, Miltonvale, Kansas. Dear Mr. and Mra. Davidson: Tt am sorry that I did not have time to visit with you good people when I was rushing to eateh a train back for Lawrence. It wes a very happy surprise for me to be able to say Ballo to you in ay hurried visit. However, I do want you to lmow that I remember with great pleasure our sannolations at Teachers College at Warrensburg. Iam just now checking my trip and expect to tell Mrs. rn ek ee Oy eee See Paes visit with yous With every good wish, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH : Varsity Basketball Coach. May ATs 1943. Dudley Lock Corporation, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sira: e Would it be possible for you to furnish us with the combinations to the following locks: an If there is a charge we will be happy to pay the same. Sincerely youre, — 6 Director of Physical Biucation, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. ~ May 10, 1943. Mr. Dudley DeGroot, | 83 Thackery Road, | : | Rochester, N.Y. , : Dear Dud: | Pardon we in not answering sooner your good letter of January Zl. i had fully intended to answer this letter two dozen times, but at each and every occasion I muffed the ball. : i wails eed) Want ps ks ened RE ny and her family. Bert and Ruth and Mary and Pete have a great time together end I am happy for then. And Sonny - I'11 bet he got a real boot out of meeting those all-Americans. And by the way, I want to congratulate you on your fine accomplish- ment with the East team. You did a great job. I am glad that you had an opportunity to meet Don Faurot and his splendid wife. They are wonderful people. While we do a lot of battling, Don Faurot and I have always been very good friends. ie have never had one untoward word in all the time that we have had relationships. A fellow would have to be an awful grouch not to aes Hee Om Pert | ‘We would certainly like to have Bert back with us, and do we miss himi Tam hoping after the thing settles down that we can have him back. ee ee Regarding my writing Asa Bushnell for you in the N.C.A.A., I find that I failed to do this, but honestly, Dud, I had it in my mind that I had Gone so. Of course, it would do little good for me to put in a word with the N.C.A.A. outfit because I am very much at war with St. John and company, which means Major Griffith and the big fat boy, his handy-man Friday, "Ole" Olsen. But I would have been happy to have written Bushnell for you because I know that you could have done a swell job. Of sourse, Ned Irish, Pat Kennedy and company are a pretty close group. We were lucky to beat Fordham in the Garden because the pair that worked for us fouled both Black and Dixon out at the most critical times. I do not cry over the officiating, but the work of the pair in the Garden in the Pordham-Kansas game was putrid. But we said nothing, either in New York or any place else. The people in Philadelphia told me that the pair that worked for us, and by the way, I have forgotten their names, worked terrible games in Hew York, that none of the visitors could win when that pair worked. And I think Creighton drew the same pair that we had. We were just lucky to get @2- Wishing you ell kinds of success, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA Varsity Basketball Coach. 83 Theckery Rd., Rochester,N.Y. Jan.21,1943. Dear Phog: During my recent sojourn in the S.F.Bey Region I managed to sneak away from the team late Xmas afternoon and spend a few minutes with your lovely daughter and her family in their home in Palo Alto. Burt and Ruth were there for dinner with their off-spring,Ned and we spent 2 most enjoyable half hour visiting.Next day my wife picked Sonny up and brought him down to Sante Clara where the Hest team was training and brought him in to watch practise.A*ter the practise I introduced him around to all the big shot All-Americans and he really was a tickled kid.However when I asked him who he was pulling for he was torn between allegiance to the West- his boys - and his new found pals. Mery looks just fine and she certainly has a lovely home and family.Her husband seems to be a fine chap and he end Burt and Mary and Ruth app- — -arently see quite a lot of each other.How lucky those Californians are at this time of the year - beautiful flowers,green grass and warm rains and here we are snowed in with miserable blé@zzards with no thought of seeing any greenery for three months.And yet I dont think they apprec- viate what they have. We really had a fine bunch of kids on the east team this year.They wernt bigs;in fact the west outweighed us about ten pounds,but they made up in spirit what they lacked in size.This East-West game is a great experience for a young fellow like me and I certainly appreciate the opportunity of working with fine coaches and great players.I learn a lot every year.Incidentally I heve become quite well acquainted with Don Faurot and his charming wife.Even though they are one of your hated rivals Alice and I must admit they are"swell people". { : Have been following that team of yours thru the papers and as usual I am pleased to note that you are making a lot out of a little.Only wish I lived near enough to be able to watch you at work and see how you do it.I'm certainly willing to agree with Burt that you have no peer.He cant sey enough ebout your methods and ycur spiritual ccaching - and hopes somedey,when the worid settles down to normal,to be beck with you again. I know how busy you ere at this time of the vear but I am taking the liberty cf hoping that you may be able tc find a minute sometime soon to put in a word for me es an official for the forthcoming NCAA tour- nement in N.Y. “hile Bushnell hes very generously assigned me a number of E.IJ.A.games this season,and I have been working others for Colgate and Syracuse,I'm intelligent enovgh to know that no'outsider'will creck thet closed NY corporetion of Kennedy anc compeny unless pressure is brought to kmmm bare from ovtside sources.I em working for Harverd, Princeton and Yale this season,in addition to a number of other collezes. But as lcng as I am working I neturelily want to get @ crack. «t the tour- nement gemes if possible,for which I am sure ycu cant biame me. Anything you may be able to do for me will be deeply appreciated and you may rest assured that if assigned I'll do the best job of which I'm geee agate! kind personal regards to Mrs.Allen and g luck in all es Q Z i Se ee 36546 HAL DELONGY FU C Ae _¢ 4 * ATTORNEY-AT-LAW sient si April 16, 1943 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: Relative to the sweaters, I feel that your idéa of the duration, =iimeb is well taken. Keep in the saddle "old dear? You are the one to whom we look for plaudits - the Rocknes and Warners are dead. _ You, for some reason, hated Baseball, yet in your heart you still must feel for "Hal" the old thought you used once in my presence (I think at Emporia) "get on" if you want to score. Always and forever on any team of yours, I am, Yours to command, Hal DeLongy April 28, 1943. ix. Harry Dewby, Chairman, Juvenile Proteotion Comittee, State Department of Social Welfare, Topeka, Kansase . Dear Mrs. Dawby: It was nice to have your letter of thanks. It was a pleasure to see you and an added pleasure to discuss with you in the panel the recreation program. I quite agree with you that we are in for tougher - problems which will require increased vision and ) activity in combating increasing’ juvenile delinquency. Very sincerely yours, — Director of Physical Education, | _ PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. i IRENE N. MEEKER VICE-CHAIRMAN - THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF KANSAS FAY N. SEATON CHAIRMAN TOPEKA. KANSAS April 27, 1943 Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: I wish to express my appreciation for your participation on the panel at the recent convention of the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers. There were many favorable comments regarding this part of the program from members of the Congress who heard it and I am sure that the discussion opened up some new areas of thought which members of the convention were able to take back to their local communities. ; As social situations become more trying, particularly in these days of war, we will have increasingly large problems to solve in the field of juvenile delinquency. I appreciate your interest in the matter. Sincerely yours, Harry Dawdy, Chairman Juvenile Protection Committee Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers HMD: re BEN H. JOHNSON SECRETARY Professor K. W. Davidson, Journalism Building. Dear Wayne: I thought a short statenont of facts might be better | that just ealling off baseball unceremoniously. The Athletic Association voted a stipend of $350.00 to carry on baseball. _ Wall, you know how much you can do with $350.00. You just can't get started for trips, equipment and so forth. However, I do believe that a baseball team in this town for the Summer Session would be a good thing. | We oould play twilight games and they would be a source of real recreation for the commmity end the school. We could play the games down here on the varsity field, end by putting up bleachers we sould have a lot of good sport. : By getting in the Sunflower Ordaance Works, Haskell, the Machinists Mates, and maybe a town team or two, and maybe the Leavenworth soldiers, we could have a real league. If you think it well, why not feature this angle since the story would be earried prominently in the Kansan and the Journal World. After all, this is the territory that this news story should appeal te. The bigger papers of course will doubtless mention that we are buying out, but I thought the attitude of Dixon and Bvans would show the effect of the war paychology on dwindling varsity sports. Thanks a million. By the way, I promised Don Keown that I would have a story for him Saturday morning for the Journal World. So if you eo ee Sunday, I will appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. / There will be no varsity baseball at the University of Kansas this spring season of 1943, Inabi lity to schedule games is the chief reason. The Reception Center at Leavenworth and the Machinists Mates School here on Mts Oread have not started their baseball practice as yet. There is a rule in the Big Six Gontuvease weiteh prohibits teams of the Big Six from scheduling schools below their academic rank, This prohibits practice games with the Haskell Indians. Kansas Aggies are not playing baseball. , The greatly curtailed budget for the baseball team prohibits games with other Big Six schools. Kansas gould have a very much stronger infield than last year, but her outfield would be much weaker. ve have no Knute Kresie or T. P. Hunter this: year for pitehing assignuents. ‘in tank: no pitchers of experience are avail- able. Warren Hodges, crack versity catcher last year and clutch hitter, could be available, but he is working as a meat cutter ‘at one of the downtown butcher shops in the afternoons, He would be available for versity play but this essential industry for him is of ties consideration. It was therefore decided to call off varsity baseball practice since final examinations start May 8th, giving too short a time to get in a satis~ factory number of practice and match games before the seexies is over. The war psychology is definitely doing sone thing to intercollegiate sports. For instance, one day before our decisive basketball game with Oklahoma, Armand Dixon, a regular, left to visit his home in California rather than to play in that important contest. For the tirwurt game at Colunbia, Missouri, on Maroh end, Ray Evans decided at the last moment to pass up this important game and he did not accompany the team to Columbia, but upon second sonsideration caught the train the following morning to arriye in Columbia just prior to the game. Then all the basketball play ers yuiaed up the Creighton game, with the exception of Buescher and he was not called into service. They did, however, return for ego the closing game against the Aggies since permission had been granted by the Mey command to permit the boys to come over efter the game on March 6th. This shows a definite defeotion from the former firm adherence to athletic loyalties and competition. As the war goes on this lessened interest will become more pronounced. Big Six Conference rules prohibit varsity teams playing independent teams. However, during the Summer Session, which starts on May 22, it may be possible for the Summer Session team, which is not under the cont#ol of the Big Six eligibility rules, to organize a league and play games with Haskell, the Machinists Mates, the Sunflower Ordnance Works, and perhaps an tisepenten’ team, from purely a recreational standpoint. This would give our students enrolled in this summer session an opportunity to play real baseball. Of course, ‘the intramurals will be emphasized as definitely during the sumer session as they have been in other academic terms. 30535 £. Choctaw, MeAlester, Oklahoma. — | aoe * Dear Hals Thank you for your very good letter of the llth ultimo. I referred your request to lr. Earl Falkenstien, the financial secretary of the Athletic Association, and he told me yesterday that it was a very difficult problem to got sweaters on any sort of a reasonable delivery. He said the price had increased so greatly and the quality had been reduced that he thought I had better write you and see if you still wanted to pay the extra sum. ? | They have not been ordering sweaters for the dur- ation. They are just waiting until the thing is over end then will award them when times are better. and lower standard of quality, please have the measurement of your chest and the arm length, and I will get the speci- fications so that I can tel] you about what the price will be. At any rate, Hal, let me know what you want and we will make every effort to comply with your request. Asguring you that it was fine to hear from you, end further that we were immensely pleased with your kind words of congratulation, and awaiting your desires, I em Very cordially yours, oo Director of Physical Education, . FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach. HAL DELONGY ey It Defense worker - pro tem Merch 11, 1943 Dr. Forest Allen Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doctor: (Phog) | Congratulations on the glorious team which you so ably coached. In thinking of the sweaters which you will order for the boys I had an idea it might be possible for me to procure a sweater with my old three service stripes and the captain's starg. So many of the fel- lows on these defense jobs flaunt their respective university letters that I, naturally, feel the grand old K of;Kansas shoukd be among those present. If it is possible for you to include my sweater in your order please advise me and the amount involved, and I will mail you a check immediately. ‘With highest personal regards and an added pat on the back for the great work you have done, I am, Sincerely, mq] He ee ee tnoctaw HDL ZW McAlester, Okla. aA 7 March 31, 1943. I am glad that you were so happy over the Ka. basketball season, and thought you would be interested in the La ee and Buescher. Most of the boya were called into the ser- vice at the close of the season, but we felt we were very oe ao Ten eonoeen of the team. With best wishes to you, I am Sineerely yours, Director of Physical Education, *FCAAH Varsity Basketball Coach. April i, 1943. Mra. F. A. Durand, 335 Weat Cheatnut St., Junction City, Kansas. Dear Mrs. Durand: 3 I regret that your letter was misplaced on my desk during my iliness. I md an infected tooth and was laid up, and when I returned I did not readily find your splendid communication. I assure you that I would have answered it immediately, as it has just come to my atten- tion this afternoon, and I am answering pronto. I em sending you a complete roster of our basketball scores from the beginning of this year. I hope that Fen wins his‘wager. Also, will you kindly send me Fen's postoffice address so that I can write him? We talk so many times about him, and Mrs. Allen and I have been delighted with the splendid promotions that he has received. Fen is a real Marine, a fine gentleman and one of the top men in my memory when I think of an all-round man. Fen has always been one of our favorites with Mit, Bob, Jane and the rest of our offspring, as well as the father and mother of the Allen gang. I have had several fine visite with Dana, also, and the Allens are pretty fond of that fellow, too. Give my kindest regarés to Ur. Durand. I assure you it was a great pleasure to hear from you and to learn of Fen's successes. I want to write Fen and congratulate him on managing and conducting a successful 18 straight game winning streak. With all good wishes, I am ; Sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. Sarmdan, P. Wn ; 330 WE CHESTNUT STREET, JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS é MRS. F. A. DURAND SIH ADBVWVD March 24, 1943. Ur. Dell Davidson, 1112 Tillinois Street, Lewrenes, Kansas. Dear i. Pavidson: I would appreciate it if you will cheek on all the faucets and shower~heads in the gyrmagium some tims this week, and see if you think any of them need repaira. Also, if you ses anything else that you think will need repairs in a short time I wish you would report to me. : Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Vareity Basketball Coach. eae Tah) er ma BIG SIX BASKETBALL of Kansas poured in 33 points thru the funnel to erase Oklahoma's Jimmie MoNatt's © $0 point effort against Nebraska in 1959. Bleok was called to the Army Air Corps after he played in only three Big Six games. His 35 points for a single Ke #0 LR NF te f 3 ; V4 bg & ary a - S2 FF , s = = me Be Ki fy ik 1 game however, was short lived, for "Titanic" Gerald Tucker, Oklahoma's 200 1b. 6foot 44 inch center brought the record back to the University of Oklahoma with his 88 point scoring splurge against Nebraska. Bighteen field-goals and two free- a throws were written into the record boolx for Tucker that nite. this 38 points added to his total gave him the league scoring championship of 175 points for 10 games end also bettered the record for ten games. the old mark of 165 was held ty Howard Engleman of Kansas. Oki shome led the league in offense with an average of 48.3 points per game, whilé Kansas only three points behind Oklahoma in offense, led the league in defense by holding their opponents to an average of 32.5 points per game. 3 Al tho attendance in the league dropped off this season, the Big Six % 3 conference played more basketball games than it had in during any previous seasom. | Permission was granted by the faculty represenativies for lis team to play as meny games with service teams as possible. A total of me games were played ! ; with service teams throughout the league. Incidently the service boys did Boge sas exceedingly woll con@idering the time they have to workout, winning 14 of the $6 they played. Abovt all that's left is the “All Star" Big Six selection. Here's the most popular selection t- At Forwards----Thoraton Jenkins of Missouri and John Buescher of Kansas. Center :«--Gerald Tucker of Okiahoma. As the two guard positions were Ray Evans of Kansas and Allie Paine of Oklahoma. Thies is inte Drake, Station W. N. A. D. Nena, Oklahoma. I now return you to the Special Service Division of the War Department of theUnited States of Americas ts Ce ee ee 4 | ETROMT-LELAND HOTEL "7 ec Beton, MICHIGAN “re oly Blin Ba "As a ¢ 2 + 1 4 P| | | 5 } don ae — OUR AIM 1S TO RENDER SERVICE ASELTTLE PORE COMPLETES=MORE HOSPITABLE MORE PLEASING—THAN EVEN THE MOST EXACTING GUEST EXPECTS January 7, 1945. ve je Theresa Ducei, / §651 Riverview, 12 - 8b.) Louis, Mo. ‘a Miss Duood: Paul Turner, one of our basketball players, \ooehstnes you a chenille Jayhawk, but I am afraid he is not . going to keep his promise. Therefore, I am sending you a ~ paper Jayhawk, which is the athletic emblem for the University of seme the Kansas Jayhawk. Since you are such an ardent basketball fan I wanted you to have this small memento of the Jayhawk basket- ball team. I am the gentleman who arranged the two tickets for you at the Arena, but you stated that you had worked so hard that night that you did not go. We appreciate the hospitable Fred Harvey service and we trust that you will enjoy this symbol. Very sincerely yours, Direetor of Physical Education, PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. | ieos4