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ARNOLD GINGRICH ,EDITOR

September 30, 1941.

Dr. Forrest ¥. 4llen
Head Basketball ~“oach
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Yr. Allen:

So much comment has been coming in about the detrimental health
angle in basketball now that the center-—jump is gone that 1 believe
your article on the rotating center-jump system would meet with a
lot of response. It would give you a chance to propose 4 specific
cure for a danger to the game.

Mr. Alfred Smart has told me to tell you that they will pay around
#150.00 or $175.00 for such an article, depending on how well it
pleases them.

I believe there is a real opportunity to make a forceful stand
for basketball here, and your standing would serve to make such
a recommendation "stick."

If you wish to undertake such an article, rest assured that we
would certainly want to have the chance to consider it.

It seems to me that basketball was being slowed down to a death dirge;
now it is becoming a run-away that is almost as bad for the sport.
Apparently some one who is big enough needs to step in and get it

off this tangent. We should be in position to give such an article

a real showing before the public.

With thanks for yow interest,

Sincerely,