. Nevember 135, 1941

ae Mecazine
e Michicen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois: —

Bear Mr. Cannon,
I am belatedly answering your good letter of the 7th instent.

You discussed the possibility of whether or not shere was any
way that college baseball could be revived Duilt up.

Here is one angle that you might follow up gust to see what ine
terest there is in the high schools in the v@rious states by
writing to the executive secretaries of the commissioners of
athletics in all the states. By doing this you could get a
pretty good line-up on the situation.

 

Last week I wrote to the commissioner of the high school ath-
letic associations to determine how many high school teems
there were competing in the ious sports activities. I was
ema,ed to find that there were . t ae many teams playing
baseball in the State of a \as there were playing football.
I knew that you will be interested to know that there are nearly
twiee as many teams playing basketball in the state as are
playing football. In fact, there are only seven high schools

in the state that do not have heskettahl Seems

I am sending you a summary of the sports participation in Kansas
high schools and if you would like me to work this out showing
the number of high schcols participating and liné-4
subsidized activities of college coaches I believe

interesting reading. Of course, I realize that you cannot give
me this as a definite assignment, but if you think the idea is
good I will work on.it and see what we gote

  

What you really wrote to find ol wa how many teams were playing
baseball in the state, but when I learned wo many were pbying
baseball I found that your idea didn't hold up and as we continued

to exchenge letters new ideas popped up.

I know that the State of Iowa has a trememdously large number of
high school teams playing baseball. I know most of these high
school executive secretaries ani if you think this is a good angle
I will work on it. I also — coaches in colleges that are
earning a good deal of money on the side for developing baseball
talent. So tell me what you think of this angle of the idea and