Mr.. George Edwards --_

Dear George:

I am writing you concerning your letter addressed to
Mr. Gwinn Henry, Director of Athletics at the University of Kansas,
as of April. 5, 1942. I had had no conversation with Mr. Henry re- |
garding the N.C.A.A. Western play-offs in Kansas City, and any letter
that he wrote you could not have been tinctured or influenced by any-
thing I had to say to him because of this situation.

I think what Mr. Henry referred to in his letter, which

“is marked in quotations in your\letter, were tickets for the Athletic
Board, the Chancellor, and officers of the Athletic Association here
at the University. I am merely interpreting Mr. Henry's letter, not
having discussed it with him at this date. I believe Mr. Henry refers
to the officers of the Athletic Association and to those directly
connected with the administration. If you imply that the manager of
the games was discourteous to Kansas, that is your own interpretation.

We had twenty men in our party, eighteen players, the

trainer (Dean Nesmith), and myself. I remember distinctly the state-
ment that you made to the effect that you were giving 28 tickets, two
a piece for 14 people, which you included as your maximum expense
allowance party. Yousaid that of course you would be glad to give
us additional tickets, but the management was trying to keep compli-
mentaries to the minimm,. If you could not see the need for more
than 28 tickets when we had twenty in our party, then it certainly
would not be my part to ask you for extra tickets. The fact of the
matter is that Ray Bvans, Bob Johnson, Paul Turner, Jack Ballard and
Charlie Black are Greater Kansas City high school boys, and the other
boys on the squad, with one exception, are boys living in this state
with parents who naturally would desire to go to the games. The
University of kansas has a freshman team that naturally would desire
to see the varsity in action, and being in such close proximity to the
game it takes no stretch of the imagination to see that either the
Athletic Association would be forced to’ purchase tickets for them at
full price or they would be denied the right to see the games.

We had no unpleasantries over the ticket situation. It was
emmr the glass backstop which caused the altercation. This was clearly
a violation against the rules of the N.C.A.A. handbook, and when the
coaches voted two for and two against you cast the majority vote, which
I think was irregular. If you had asked the coaches to determine the
type of backstop it was up to them to decide, especially when Commissioner
Peters had stated that all rules would be decided with no interpretation,
but would follow strictly to the letter the rules of the book.