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Tenente Joao Duarte
Rua Homem de Melo,973
Perdizes, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

14th. December 1942.

Dear Mr. Allen, :
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I write
this letter to congratulate you sincerely on your book "Better
Basketball" (1937 Edition) which I have read with the greatest
of attention.

For those who are dedicated to basketball. your
book is a most helpful guide and a real success for teaching the
technique of the game,a technique perfected to a very high de-
gree.

I must say that I greatly admire the succint manner
in which you describe all the phases of the game.

Unfortunately in reading the book I found that pa-
ges numbers 398, 399,402,403,406,407,410 and 411 are blank and I
would approach you with a view to ask you kindly to arrange for
the subject matter of those pages to be sent to me in order that
my book be complete.

At the same time I ask your kind advice as to the
present procedure in the United States in organising your Natio-
nal Basketball Team. That is to say,are players called from teams
all over the country and then do they all train together at one

centre?

Further,I would very much like to:know if the Offi-
cial 1942-1944 Rules as published in the "Official Sports Library
for Women Basketball Guide " ( A.S.Barnes and Co. = Publishers )
are followed by all women!s teams in the U.S.A. or if some clubs
or regions follows the rules applied to men's clubs.

Perhaps there exists some publication on such mat-
ters and if such is the case I would appreciate it if you would
indicate the name of the publishers to enable me to send for it.

Thanking you in anticipation for an early reply,
urs faithfully,

 
  

 
 

Lieutenant’of the Brazilian Army /and Secretary of
the aulo Basketball Federation (Federacdo
Paulista de Basketball). :

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