November 18, 1940

Mire Ce Oe Burnside, Menager
Carpenter Paper Company
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dear "Cob":

It is alweys nice to heer from you. I feel es if a letter —
that comes with biue printing and blue typing ie not indicative
of blue Monday, but rether e cheery note from an old friend.

"Gob", Tem going to be perfectly frank with you. Henry
Iva told mo at a meeting in Topeke when we were cosching to-
gether in the Kensas State High School Coaches School that a
personality at the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company made a
statement that he was going to get besketbell material for Bruce :
Dreke so that Bruce could whip both Henry Iva and Phog Allens
‘iow Hank was not trying to scare me but his voice sounded as if
he had a truthful ring in ite a

. Bruce has beat the country looking for material more then
any other basketball coach that I know of who is in a respect-
able institution. He has attended the O'rlahoma, the Kensas, the
Missouri, and almost every other high school tournament that I

 

Sow Hank @id not tell mo this but someone very definitely

on the insi@e who should Imow did. This was that this Tucker
was to stay at the Phi Delt house in Oklahoma, thet he was to

_ get hie beard, room, tuition, end all living expenses save the
$8 Phi Delt dues, but for that he was te work one hour a day
taxing care of the recreation rooms In addition, he was to get
@ special voice teacher and no charge wes te be made Tucker for
thet. Furthermore, he was to get a job with Bruce Dreke that
paid him $15 per month for his spending money. Now can you tie
that, ire “cob"? :

 

 

vaybe a lot of this is baloney, but I know that Bruce
called on Tucker time and time again end he was definitely sold
on Okiehoma and not on Kansas States : oe

Bruce Drake said in this morning*s "Kensas City Times“
thet old Phog Allen was jealous because Tucker passed up Kansas
first and went to Kensas State and then he passed up Kansas again