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ARNOLD GINGRICH, EDITOR October 23, 1941.

Dr. Forrest ©. Allen,

Director of Athletics,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

It was good news to me to learn that your article is practically on the way.
We will try to hold fer Form so that we can get it into the February issue—-
provided it suits Mr. Gingrich.

I will be iharesies also in seeing your box score. When 1 was on the newspapers

I used to keep a long and short shot box score on the games in town, listing

Long Shots, Long Baskets, Short Shots, and Short Baskets of each pleyere. It was an
interesting way to cover a game, and met with considerable response here in town.

I am interested also in your color scheme, provided it can be done in sufficiently
striking color work to be worth the heavy expense of reproduction. We have been
trying to get some color art on sports, but without success so far. If you want

to send us a few samples, I will see what they think about it. We have wonderful
color printing here, as you know, and if your diagrams can be made up so that

they will really stick, it seems to me they should be very interesting to high
school people, and even the fans. Such things help to°getting people who are
interested in sports to turning to Esquire for new stuff in sports. That, at least,
is my conviction, though of course you understand I don't have all the say here,
having come here only in the middle of last August.

Believe it or not, I used to play in the orchestra(pretty ineptly) at “illikin
under Mr. Swarthout. They are all fery fine people. Remember me to him the next
time you see him. He will reméber me for being always slightly off in pitch on
the clarinet.

Originally we had in mind two facing articles on the center-—jump, yours in favor
and Marshall Diebold on the other side. We have wandered away somewhat from the
plan, but I think it will all work out. Of course you should save your thunder
for your own article.

Cordially,

fige Gone