Pebruary 11, 1943.

Capt. BE. B. DeGroot,
Direator of Physical Training,
Headquarters Fourth Air Foroe,
180 New Montgomery Street,

San Pranciseo, California.

Dear Burt:

_ Thank you, Burt, for your very good letter of the first instant.
We have had ow ups and downs. At the present ti
Black in the hospital with virus pneumonie and I will
play him for quite some time - perhaps by February 26, but the Air
Corps Reserve has already sent out notices that the boys will be called
between Frepuary 20 and 28 , and I imagine he will get well just abou
in time to cet into the service. )

_ . We play Oklahoma here February 26, but we are leaving Friday night
to play at Lincoln on the 15th and in Ames on the 15th, then the Oklahoma
Aggies at Stillwater on the 17th. So you see our playing without Black
will be a calamity. We might lose both gemes up there and still we might
get away by winning one. We have not lost a game, but with Black out we
are very impotent on rebounds, and after all, that is

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| T am glad to kmow that you and Ruth and Mary and Pete have an oppor-
tunity to get together. I would enjoy a bullfest with that outfit, you
know. That game of Stanford against California must have been a hair-
raiser? \

I am happy to know that you feel pleased over the accomplishments of
your physical training in the Fourth Air Fores. T know that with your

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still people cannot realize it is going
will be before the squareheads, the slit-eyes and the spaghetti-benders
are licked. But you are doing your part, and if all of us do ours
should be able to realize that result in time.