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emertil Oct. 25, 1944

Dre Forrest ¢. Allen,
Lawrence, Kan.

Dear "Phog":

I don't know when I have had so much fun. The
fact that you are so right makes the fun worthwhile. I doubt
if you know how right you are, in some of the things that have
come out, in part.

Two years ago George Knorr, a resident of our
Globeville--that's over the tracks, in the Pblish section--took
a fighter to New York, one Reuben Shank. He came home to tell
us how The Garden told him how much he had to pay to each of the
sports writers. He named names” I sent that information on
to sources in New York where I hoped it would get some action.

But George Knorr was just a lone individual--a
Globevillite, to be exact--and all I got was “pish” and "tush”",,.

and “he is dreaming”. You can kiss off the George Knorrs and
nothing can do done about it* Now the blow comes from where
it hurts.

What I would like to know is this? The sports
writers, almost without exception, speak of "reports" and
"suspicions" relative to the Garden situation. They say they
tmentioned” this, from time to time. The newspaper
profession has fallen to low estate when, with "reports” and
"hints" running that wild that a newspaperman does not go out
and track it down. |

Let me say this: fhe A. A. U. here is free from
that sort of thing. I would like to hear a report of that kind
in connection with the National that I--and our entire staff,
including all the investigators we possess, both in and out of the
sports department--would not investigate to its every foundation.
The A. A. U. here is kept clean---it is because if it got an eigth.
of an inch out of line everybody knows THE DENVER POST would blast
whoever was responsible out of existance. Those things don't
happen if there is a vigilant press.

 

 

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