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November 6, 1944,

Mr» Ned Irish, Acting President,

New York 13, N.Y.

Dear Ned;

T an quoring your, Latter of Ootober 24th. First, I want to
assure you that the information came to me first hand, and not second or
third hand, And I Ce ee

You state, "Tt has always been my feeling that a boy who competes
and a strenuous training session to make a varsity
team . . « has demonetrated his character pretty well to a coach.” That

%, to sey the least, You also state, "Continued
allegations regarding tampering with players will certainly cause the
public to get the impression that these boys are not the fine upstanding

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Upon that statement I should say that you would have gained much
move Wy speting ih idoue uqiareiy wah Baidtting nemo some of the facts that
you know hava happened, rather than to have sugar-coated a very bad
situation, oP Daa go an Ste Rs i. toe gti ele ig eveland.

See ee oe ee ee ee his election
were going to print the fact that it was alleged he had an illegitim-
ate sone They wired him for advice. He replied "yell the truth",
ouh seam Mee laoibainee te weg Ghavted Foes at ee ted States. The
public had confidence in his integrity. Had you met the issue squarely
end admitted that there was much vicious gambling with teamper=
ing of college players, then the public, many of whom are in on the lmow,
would have had much more confidence in your statement.

Lawton Carver, in his stenchy Internstional News Service story
of New York on October 23, says: “There are men on the main stem whose

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can see a great many of them in Madison Square maar nt: bon gtd ad
fairly important Garden sports program, dickering and ain

odds, while a platoon of cops thirty yards amy handles gush on eneseme
problem as the traffic on Eighth avenue." |