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October 25, 1944.

Mr. Jack Carberry,
The Denver Post,
Denver, Colorado.

Dear Jacks

I am enclosing a copy of a wire that I sent Lawton Carver after
he had written his facetious story on Mayor LaGuardia and "Phog" Allen.

I do not want you to use my personal letter to you in the press,
but you are welcome to use the wire that I have sent him and the statement
that I made about the gambling fraternity's anastamoses in the college
life from other than a direct athletic angle. I will say more on this in
a minute. i

In 1940 we played St. Bonaventure's in Buffalo, Fordham in
Madison Square Garden, and St, Joseph's in Philadelphia. All of these
schools, of course, were under the direction of the Garden management,
Ned Irish gave the many sport writers a complimentary luncheon at Ted
Shore's restaurant. Of course we were there among a great number of
other coaches. I said in public to the writers that we came for the cash
and the trip. I was baldly frank about the thing because that was the
only reason we came, and we made a tidy sum. We found Ned Irish one of
the finest hosts and one of the best business men with whom we have ever
come in contact. Although I have often wondered why college men sould
not run their own tournaments, it certainly is a reflection on the college
management to think that we have to have a professional promoter to run
our tournaments. But the professionals have done it in so much better
manner than any of the college people, that it is a refleotion on college
personnel, , ,

_ I read your paper quoting what Ned Irish had to say about the
investigatiof ofthese men. After they investigated these men they did
not play any more games with the school that they had previously partici-
pated with. That doesn't look as if their skirts were clean. And further~
more, the coach had to go out and get several high school stars to reinforce
his team for his other games. This school happened to be one of the
schools that played in the N.C.A.A. tournament. So it is queer that they
did not permit the boys to play after they investigated them, |