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_ baskets installed in our gymnasium to teach the emphasis on the necessity
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I am sending you under s ate cover by first class mail the Helms
athletic Foundation Collegiate ketball Record, prepared and issued by
the Helms Athletic Foundation of 117 West 9th Street, Los Angeles, in
February, 1943, with Paul H. Helms as sponsor. On page 15 of this publica-
. tion they name ten of the greatest coaches of the country, and they were

kind enough to name me in the number one spot. os eS

from Jack Carberry's sport colum "The Second Guess", in the Denver Post
of Wednesday, October 25. Mr. Carberry apparently used this same Helms
Poundation report for his information in this colum.

I am also sending you a clipping from the Ketchikan, Alaska,
Chronicle of Tuesday, November 7, 1944, apparently written by one of my
A.P. friends in New York. You may send these things back together with
the others when you have finished with them. In addition, I am sending
you a letter that I wrote Mr. Bus Ham of the Associated Press in Washing~-
ton, D. Co, on May 1, 1943. For years I have been doing this agitating —
against the gambler in college athletics, and this expression is no new
thing, as some writers might make it appear. However, as you said in your
editorial, many of these coaches are afraid to stick their necks out, and

if they do the next question is asked of me, "How mich do you want for
your job if you were a commissioner?"

‘I am not in the slightest way interested. I am not qualified for
it, in the first place, and would not consider it in the second place.
This position would require a man relatively young in years, past the forty
year mark, vigorous, virile and with a proficient background of law, socio--
logy and the humanities. When professional baseball reached in and ob-
tained Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis they engaged a Federal judge for life,
@ man who was unafraid and who findd the Standard Oil Company fifty-two
million dollars for violating a Federal law. We need such o man as this,
and he could be found, of course. Naturally the American Association of
University Presidents would have much to do with him, but I suggest that
the President of the United States nominate such a man. This would give
him added prestige and background, and if the college presidents elected
him it would dignify his position in such a way that he could render a
real service to young men in America who follow the athletio trail in their
quest for educational leadership and knowledge. And in the case of his
salary of perhaps fifty to seventy-five thousand, or a hundred thousand
dollars, I do not want it to appear that I am attempting to set the