You will remember, George, you called my room at the
Muehlebach Friday: morning and wanted to know when I could be down
at the President. I was taking a shower and told Dean Nesmith, ny.
trainer, to tell you I would be there in a half hour, thinking that
was ample time. You called back and stated that one of the coaches
was anxious to get started and you would phone the result. I
immediately finished my bath, caught a taxi, and reported at the
President in ten minutes. I waited in your room for ten or fifteen
minutes awaiting Coach Cox and Coach Dean, who were at the coffee
shop. Upon their return to your room you stated that the coaches’
vote was two to two, and you were casting the deciding ballot. i’
said, “There has been no FOUR: because I have just arrived, and these
coaches ‘have just arrived.” But then you stated that I had expressed
myself previously and Coach Dean wanted the regular backstop, but
Coaches Cox and Brannon had voted for the glass.

I thought this was entirely nonconventional, and I stated
so. I said, "If you are handling things in that manner there is nothing
more to dispucs®, and left the place. I would not have asked you for
one extra ticket under any conditions. I did: resent it and I resent
it now. I haven't changed one iota.

fany of these boys wanted four or five tickets for their
families and I figured they were entitled to them, but I would not
have asked you for tickets for them because in my opinion you were
failing to see the very obvious point that you made, = that the Kansas
team was drawing quite a crowd, but you failed to be generous enough
to give these boys the tickets for their efforts in drawing this crowd.
They were not asking for tickets to sell or to make money from as so
many of the star athletes do when they get extra tickets. But they
were asking for them for their folks, and I was bent upon getting them
because they were entitled to them. If you wanted to send me any
tickets you could have sent them by messenger to the Hotel Muehlebach
where we were FeBLetered.

I do not recall ever having received word that arrangements
had been made with the Auditorium Ticket Office for as many complimentaries
as were needed for K.U. authorities.

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