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.
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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