Nea Service, Ine»
1200 West Third street
. Cleveland, Ohio .

Dear Jerry: ; | |

Better Basketball arrived in good shape and thank you for
returning the same. Yos, Willer's loss is causing us some concern,
but we will have to play without him this year. ;

Iam also aclnowledging receipt of your letter of the 24th
instant regarding the basketball yarn that you spoke of. I assure you
that I will be very happy to cooperate with you in any way that you

I believe you can get up a swell story because I had known
Dre Naismith for 40 years, and was associated with him for $5. ‘That
means only 15 years of the game that he and I had no connection whatsoever.

9 =I have had a pretty successful basketball coaching
iversity, Baldwin, Kansas; Haskell Institute here at
Missouri State Teachers College in Warrensburg;

and for the last 22 years I have been here at the University of Kansase

Now the third reason; I am not a medical doctor but an osteopathic
physicians. I was injured in playing football in western Kansas, and after
having been unsuccessfully treated for five ‘years by medical doctors, an
osteopath corrected a bad sacro-iliac sprain, and because of that it made.
such an impression on me that I studied it for the benefit that I could
give to other people, especially in the coaching field, last year Rddie
Shore of Springfield, Massachusetts Hockey Club sent one of his players
here from Springfield for me to work ome I have them come to me fron
@1ll over the United States, but we do not publicize that.

Here is the thing, Jerry, that I wish you would not do. Do
not mention osteopathy, but you can say I am a physician, and that causes
no hard feelingse I have uncles, nephews, and my own son who is playing
on the basketball team is graduating this year with an A.B., but all his work
4s preemedic and he is goimz to Harvard after this year's graduation to take
his medical work there unless the war interfers, and it mays

While I was athletic director hére at the University I founded
the Kansas Relay, and about ten years ago we founded the Fatiomal Basketball
“caches Association, when the Rules Committee took the dribble out of
basketballs