ea ae Bie
“Had any tickets been allowed, he would not have sub-

‘mitted the expense report. - - = - - - it is also un-
usual that 2 school's team competing receives such a
small amount of the receipts end is not allowed any
complimentary tickets for those who ordinarily receive
them to events in which their teams are competing."

As stated earlier, the implication is plain that the Maneger of the
games was discourteous to Kansase He certainly was not only discour-
teous, but very foolish, if your statements were true. But, Gwinn,
someone "discovered" something that I did everything in my power to
avoide

I met the Kansas coach end team at the station when the party arrived
in Kensas City on Thursday. One of my first remarks covered the com-
 plimentary situation and I told Dr. Allen, that while we wished to
keep complimentaries to a minimum, I expected him to let me know just
how many he would need. He said that there was a2 movement on foot
when he left Lawrence to have all Kansas officials buy their own tickets.
I insisted that such an act would be very embarrassing to me; requested
that it not be handled in thet way; and again asked his assistance in
_ distribution of passes to proper Kansas people.

That night I called a meeting of coaches end veferees. The Stanford
and Rice coaches were delayed by rail connections. Present..were
coaches Allen and Cox; four referees; and Reaves Peters. There I
outlined details of the pass regulations which included two arena | ‘
‘paleony seats for each member of the school's traveling squad; and
extra tickets to a coach who meeded them for official representatives

. of his school. (Gooperation was asked for the protection of all, but

I made it emphatic that since Kensas was so close to Kansas City, that
school probably would require more passes than any of the otherse This
was justified, I explained also, by the fect that Kansas patrons un=
questionably would be liberal in their support of the tournament.

Another meeting wes held on Friday morning, with only the four coaches
in attendance. It wes wxpected that game arrangements would be dis-
cussed, and I had tickets on hand for distribution.

The opening topic concerned the type of backboards to be used. Over

Dre Allen's vigorous protest, the majority voted for gaass beckstops~-=
the vote of the Managersmaking a 3 to 2 result. Immediately, Dr. Allen
left the meeting, 2lthough mech other business was not touched. I
pleaded for him to stay and suggested again that I wanted to discuss the
complimentary situation with him. I was informed, curtly, that there
was nothing more to discussSe

From 1:30 Pe Me to 4:00 P. M., I tried to reach him by 'phone==he
elected to stay at another hotel than headquarters-= but couldn't catch