FRED MEDART
MANUFACTURING Co.

 

 

 

POTOMAC AND DE KALB STREETS SAINT LOoutrs. Mo.

R. E. WEINZETTEL Januar y 10, 19,0

SALES PROMOTION MANAGER

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Phog:

Have your letter of January 8 with further reference to the article
appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, and if you haven't read it I
urge that you do so.

I fully appreciate the fact that articles of this kind are "put to
bed" as you say, quite a number of months in advance, but the thought
comes to my mind that other publishers who do not have a long of span
between the make-up of the issue and the publication of it, might be
vitally interested in a rebuttal to the idea of doing away with back-
boards, and inasmuch as your name is mentioned in this controversial
article, it might be in order to take a stand in the matter.

That was just a thought on my part but in any event it seems to me
that basketball without a backboard of some kind would be a crazy
game.

Goncerning Goal-Hi as mentioned in the third paragraph of your letter,
please understand, Phog, that we are in no way attempting to sell
Goal-Hi as a substitute for basketball. In all of our State Conven—
tions where I have been in attendance, we have suggested that the game
be played informally and as a playground or gymnaSium class game rather
than a sport. That is also our story as concerns the game as an oute
door summer activity. In other words, we quite agree with you that it
would be foolish to attempt to substitute Goal-Hi for basketball. How=
ever, both in Texas and New York State I had quite a few school offi-
cials tell me that basketball had been ruled out as a game for girls

in their respective schools and that girls were protesting this deci-
sion. These people, without exception, went on to say that it looked
like Goal-Hi was the answer as it was less strenuous. I don't know
what this move to bar girls from playing basketball is all about “Phog"
but apparently the thought is not isolated to any one locality.

It is amazing to me tow many school people recognize the need for a mass
play-game in their school and how easy it is to get them to begin shak-
ing their head in agreement with everything our exhibit staff tells them
along the above lines. In other words, I believe it is not necessary
for us to create a demand for Goal-Hi as much as it is our problem to

STEEL LOCKERS___ STEEL WARDROBES____STEEL SHELVING____GYMNASIUM APPARATUS____GYM SEATS____BASKETBALL BACKSTOPS____PLAYGROUND APPARATUS