November 20, 1944.

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The Evening Post,
Philadelphia 5, Pa.
Dear Mr. Puesss : |

I will endeavor to giv fulsome information regarding ny
imowledge of the gaubling situation in Ned Trish's eirou: cs

I am enclosing a letter from Sam Smith, United press sports editor
in Kansas City, Mo. Sam, a Wissow'l mam, wrote me for a basketball yarn. I
try to accomodate the boys when I oan. On September 22 I dictated a letter
rather hastily to give him some amumition. | ae |
Mr. Puoss, my primal | in giving Smith this information was

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considered their duty in preventing a collegiate scandal might

or exee] the Black Sox seandal. Certainly I did not desire to take a crack
at Ned Irish, nor was I that "lone volee erying in the wilderness" endeavor-
ing to purify college athleties by remote control. But rather, I wanted to