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FITCHBURG, MASS.

January 30, 1945

Dr, Forrest Allen

Basketball coach eS oo ee
University of Kansas ee ee

Lawrence, Kansas, | oe

Sear Sirs
Ever since the start of basketball playing in the Boston
Garden and after talking to sone boys who are fairly jises to the
scene in New York I have been Sackng > a one nan camoatien to wine
out uaeing in ‘collegiate ‘bascetbal, a oe oe
up umntia the. ‘tine tak tm story bk today. y on the Brook

-eotiege * erie’, F have: been accused of doing everything, sholdding.

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— a ‘gountatn : our. of | a mole hit, Bat singe last tall when you.

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first ade those utterances againet the: - Mooktee® and Nat ; Holman |
made his player taice- is BALL. out of bounds to. savart the gamblers
I have been nale ing a, careful study of the eine,

I guess I am a basketball “nut ® — a poard official et al,

and I would like to see the game flourish, et 2, ‘otty, of some

45,000 people is “rabid” for basketball and I have tried to give the