October 17, 1944.

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

Our football coach, Mr. Henry Shenk, handed me the copy
of your Friday, October 13th, Denver Post sport sheet. There are one or
two things in your sporting colwm thet I would like to diwouss, namely,
that I an not now nor ever have been jealous of Frosty Cox. I am no more
ty then I am of Northwestern's Dutch Lonborg, Kentukky's
Adolph Rupp, or Stanford's former John Bunn < all of whom were my boys and
who played under me for three years.

T had a letter from Frosty dated October 13th, with this
postscript: “Picture of the young lady Judith". I had written Frosty re- .
garding the possibility of his team coming to Kansas City to play in a four-
some with Missouri, Kansas State and Kansas. A year ago last August when
Frosty's mother passed away I wrote Frosty expressing my sympathy to him.

I just went to assure you that there are bigger things than
the competition of basketball. hat father would be jealous of his son?
By this I mean not the paternal affection, but certainly a coach would not
want to feel small enough to be jealous of one of his pupils. Sometime at
your conveniences why don't you ask Prosty Cox how much we pay our basket-
ball players at K.U. He was here four years. Ask him if there were any
scholarships, any easy money in any way, directly or indirectly. He ought
to kmow, shouldn't he? Do you think our actions are in line with our argue
ments? Yet I am strong for a commissioner because there it would show the
fellows who gan coach; not as it now is, ~ the fellow who can assemble is

The only thing that I have ever objected to is when a coach
who is hired to coach and not to recruit comes into a state out of his terri-
ee tl pays majority of his players from an alien state. I think you
know what I mean beoause the very article that I wrote Sem Smith, the United
Press sports editor in Kansas City, shows that the evil of which I complained
is still very dominent and will be.

that you so poignantly s sek Saab ies Ga aoe Z wns glad te read what
you had to say because you could have said a lot more end still have kept
within the field af te trate,

I am sending you a copy of the letter that I had written
Sam Smith on September 6. He wrote me then stating that it had been quite
some time since he had heard from me, and asked, “What do you look for in