GOODS; EXGLUSINELY 1508-10 GRAND AVENUE SPORTING) PHONE GRAND 1910 KANSAS Crry,Mo. July 27, 1943 Dr-Forrest C.Allen, Department of Physical Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. Dear Phog: Answering your letter of July 23rd, I wish to say that I have searched our files for a sample piece of that flannel wrestling mat cover material and somebody must have taken it out because we haven't got a sample in the place, This mat cover is made for us by an eastern factory, and we have sold many of them to the army and mvy as well as schools and colleges, However, I appreciate the fact that you would like to see the weight of the material and we are air mailing our factory today asking them to send us a small piece of the material by return air mail, and I will forward this piece of material to you immediately on receipt of same, We should get it by the end of the week or the first of next week at latest. Thanking you forwriting, remain. Yours sincerely, R. S. ELLIOTT ARMS CoO. JRE.a “It Pays to Play”