UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

COLUMBIA

=~ 2 vet
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

How could we be expected to draw for that anymore than
for the double headers ?

Your suggestion has not been discussed with our
athletic authorities, and will not be unless one of them
introduces/the subject. I'11 tell you why.

About ten years ago we received permission for
non-championship contests in Kansas City. Several were
played and, I recall, we planned to make it a fixture.
Two things stopped us. First, Oklahoma City, Des Moines
and Omaha urged other Big Six schools to use their
facilities. Then, one year you tentatively arranged to
play six of your non-conference games in Kansas City, but
finally played only four. Following that all such games
were stopped by the conferences.

I sought explanations from various faculty men. They
thought the thing was getting out of hand and expressed
the idea, "Give Allen an inch and he takes a mile", As
you know regulations have been made more and more strict
in regard to “home games". True, these restrictions have
been relaxed somewhat in regard to the indoor track meet,
and recently in regard to games with service teams.
However, I am so firmly convinced that we would be slapped
down if we requested a Kansas-Missouri game in Kansas City
that I have no desire to suggest it unless and until I
detect a change of attitude. And no such changed attitude
is apparent to me at this time,

Again I wish to state that if my proposal to join
you in a double header has embarrassed you I am sorry. I
thought it would be a help to all, especially to the
Navy Relief fund. You don't think so and that is that.

Of course, I have informed Hinkle and Snyder of
your decision and the weason expressed by McBride in
which he said that Kansas needs all of the money it
can get and doesn't care the sharee I hope that Mac
didn't make a mistakg, and assume that he quoted you
correctly.

Yours truly,

George Edwards.

P.S. Did you just have a hot round or do you consistently
shoot golf under 80 ?