October 22, 1941 -

Wr. Ralph Cannon

Esquire Magegine
Sid forth Wichicen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Mr. Cannon,

I am working very definitely on the article, “Rotate the Center
dup" and I am planning on sending this to you for your con-
sideration at the end of this week. I think it reads pretty well,
and has enough meat in it that it should commend attention.

I hope so at any rate.

- Last week I filled out the questionnaire for Mr. Arnold Gingrich, —
your editor. However, I have a sneaking feeling that you made
out the questionnaire. Did you or did you not? It was a good one.

I knew that you wrote football stories, of course, and I'm glad
te learn that you played baseball and basketball at James Miliken
years ago. The dean of our School of Fine Arts here is Donald

M. Swarthout. Doubtless he was at Miliken when you were there.

He is a grand feliow. :

- ZI believe I have a darned clever idea if I do say it nih It's
on basketball rescarch. I sterted research in basketball years

ago arguing with the Rules Committee that it was much better to

- try out these things in a research way before we proposed them

for adoption by the Rules Committee. served as the first Research

Chairman of the National Basketball Rules Committee and also as the

first chairman of the Research Coumittee of the National Basketball

Coaches Association.

Years ago when I played varsity baseball here at ‘Kansas, we were
always ganging around the bulletin board and estimating our batting
- and fielding average for the last game. This gave me an idea in
basketball. Why not have a batting and fielding average in basket-
pall? I celled it by that name first to popularize it with the
basketball players because every basketball player kmew about the
batting and fielding average of baseball players. Por research we
used the term of respective weights with positive and negative
items. This effort of mine has gone on over a period of five
years, and last year Dr. EB. R. Elbel in our Department of Physical
Education wrote out this story that I think will be interesting, |
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