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Mr. Mike Getto,
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Lawrence, Kansas.
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Herewith is the letter to Dick Sklar that I promised
I would send you.

Sincerely,

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November 17, 1944

Mr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
Varsity Basketball Coach
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

On arriving home from Oklahoma this evening, I was happy
to receive your letter and to know that Hillyard's has
received the contract for refinishing your floor.

When I was in Lawrence, my understanding was that we
were to start on the floor on November 24. Possibly you have
set this date up to November 21. I know Hillyard's will
keep me posted as to when I should be there.

_ Mr. Allen, I am sorry but I left the drawing of
Hank Ipbats floor with rHank. I am getting in touch with him
and asking him to send me this drawing, and, as soon as I get
it, I will forward it to you. The A. & M. colors are, as you
know, black and orange. I made the sidelines for his court
three inches wide in black with orange-colored round dots the
size of a silver dollar and 15 inches apart. The two inch
lines were decorated the same with an orange dot the size of
a 50¢ piece. We put in the center of the floor an "A & M."
This made a very attractive floor, and I know we can finish
your floor just as attractively as A. & M.'s court.

Thank you again for your letter. You will be hearing
from me, or seeing me, in the next few days.

Yours very truly,

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St. Joseph 1, Mo.
Dear Sirs:

I want to tell you how pleasedwwe are with the re-
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play ow intercollegiate basketball games. we have been playing

in this auditorium since 1929, but we have never really played
on a fine floor surface. Tt has bean rough and not fitted to
good basketball.

Your ltr. Charles W. Goforth personally supervised
Ces euetne, Gilitn nd wrintin, on Waki te te finkaking of
our fleor. He did a marvelous job. Having a son who was a star
basketball player, he naturally takes an especial interest in
basketball floors. le is a thirty-third degree fan, and the
time element never figures in his work. He works

uncensingly
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to us, as well as your products that have been put upon the floor.
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December 6, 1944.

Dr. Forrest Allen,
Basketball Coach
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Phog:-

Many, many thanks for the kindnesses and courtesies you have extended to
our representatives, and for your approval and use of Hillyard Method and
Products for finishing gymnasium floors.

Mr. Goforth has asked us to send to you the following directions:

To maintain your Gymnasium floor with Hillyard's
Wood Primer and finished with Hillyard's Super.

Gym Finish, use Hil-Tone sprayed on a large dust

mop before each game. and after each game, also
during the regular cleaning periods. Don't use
kerosene on this Finish. While kerosene will not
hurt the Finish, it does create a fire hazard

and its oily nature attracts dirt and excess amount
of kerosene tends to make the surface slippery, which
increases muscle strain.

For cleaning purposes, use one quart Super Shine-

All to four gallons of water. The tar marks from

imitation rubber soles should be taken off after

each game. The Finish - any finish for that matter

~ should never be cleaned with any kind of powders,
Sa with gummy liquid soaps.

  
 
 
  
 

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Dance Spangles are a smooth, soft, white substance which, when sprin-
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‘Dear Mr. Bayles:
| Having been with the Hillyard Chemical Company for twenty years

and having had active experience and personally supervising the treating

of the larger basketball arenas of the country, both college and municipally

owned courts, I would like. to pass on to you what information I have gained

in these years of experience.

I have a very distinct recollection of the play-off game between
Henry Iba's Oklahoma A. & M. team and Dr. F. ©. Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers
at Oklehoma City back in 1940, The teams met on the Oklahoma City municipal
svena to decide which diclie Gouda represent the fifth district in the Western
N.CeAsA. play-off to be held in Kansas City. Mr. Iba and Dr. Allen arrived
with their teams the night before the play-off. Two local teams were play-
ing on the court. A dance had been held a few nights before on this basket-
‘ball floor and they had waxed the floor. It was impossible for either of
the two competing teams to stay on their feet and they floundered through
a miserable exhibition. Dr. Allen ‘ene Coach Iba both refused to play on
that floor, saying that it was like playing on an ice hockey eink.

I had just previously finished the Oklahoma A. & M. beautiful new floor
so naturally Mr. Iba came to me and said, “Mr. Goforth, what can ee
this floor? It is impossible for us to play on it."

It was necessary for me to take six men with three scrubbing machines and
work ten hours to removw this wax. is Sink, this floor was not highly satis-
factory, but the teams played before an overflow crowd. Kansas won the game,
as I sialon, in a thrilling overtime period, by a score of 42 to 40.

Knowing that your floor has been used for dances from time to time,
 

I feel in fairness to our job that I should mile the following observations:

1. This floor should be taken care of according to instructions.

2, This is a non-skid floor and no wax should ever be used on this floor.

Not only is wax dangerous to the basketball players so far as shattering an
elbow or causing other serious injuries, is concerned, but where wax is used
it takes a severe scrubbing to take it off, with many man hours work, and it
ruins the finish and lustre and removes all the lines on the floor. And then
to have a satisfactory playing surface it would be necessary later to resurface
it. ‘

I give you this information out of my long experience, and trust that
you will enjoy this beautiful floor many years. And further, if I am needed
at any time please do not hesitate to call upon me.

With best wishes,

Very sincerely yours,

 
 

December 6, 1944.

(Note = ce to Quigley,
Mr. C. G. Bayles, Nichols and Allen.)
Superintendent of Buildings & Grounds,
University of Kansas.
Dear Mr. Bayles:

Having completed your basketball floor in your auditorium, I'am
desirous of giving you information as to the care and maintenance of this
floor. This floor was the worst floor that we have encountered in our
experience. It took ten sandings to bring it to the required smoothness.

A half truck load of cuttings were taken off by the sandings.

I think tice I should mention that an ordinary floor like this cannot
stand over tierde sandings. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the surface
that we have intact as long as possible.

After the floor was well sanded, it was treated with Hillyard's Wood
Primer. The Primer was then steel-wooled down with a steel-wool machine,
end lines and markings were put on. Then the two coats of Hillyards Super-
Gym Finish was applied.

We believe this will be one of the most durable and one of the
prettiest courts in this part of the coumtry. The Hillyard Company will
mail you directions as to how this floor surface should be maintained.

Assuring you it was a pleasure to come to your University and aid

your fine basketball team in their excellent performances, I am

Very sincerely yours,

 
December 16, 1944.

Mite Ae He Gerard,
Buildings and Grounds,
University of Kansas.

‘Dear Mr. Gerard:

This letter is written to confirm the statement that I
never give permission to any boys, with the exception of
- University students, to use Robinson Gymasium at eny tine.
This goes also for the University High School boys who are not
permitted to use any part of the gymmasium wmless they are
under the direct supervision of Mr. Strait, their gym instruotor.

This building is for the use of University students only.

 

Very sincerely yours,

. Direstor of Physical Hducation,
FCA:AHQ Varsity Basketball Coach. -

 
 

 

December 18, 1944.

lir. Charles Goforth,
. Box 135,
Winfield, Kansas «

Dear Mr. Goforth:

Thank you for your note of the 15th, together with
Shorty Giltmerts letter, which I appreciated. {I also want |
to acknowledge yow Yuletide greetings.

li. Quigley has said that he will have a picture of _
the floor taken in a very short while, and we will see that
you get a oopy of it.

I am enclosing the letters that were written here for
your signature, and after you have signed them if you will |
send them back we will be glad to see that — are delivered
to the proper persons. 2

I em sending you ani copies of my letter to the
Hillpard Company.

Very sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
PCA AH Varsity Basketball Coach. :
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION January at, 1945.

Mrs. Laura Glidden Gray,
General Delivery,
Spokane, Washington.

Dear lirs. Gray:

I am afraid that I am not in a position to give you any defin-
ite information regarding the teaching situation in our University.
At the present time we heve no opening. Miss Hoover and Miss Staple-
ton are with us still, and the only job that generally opens up is
the dance instructorship. We have had several changes there, but we
have always been able to fill them without any great difficulty.

I would suggest that you try the National Recreation Association
because there are always good openings there, but at the University
here there have been few.

Assuring you that I will be glad to help you in every way possible,

Very sincerely yours,

  

 

of Physical Edyéation,
FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Cogch.
Mrs. John L. Griffith
Lt.and Mrs. John Lawrence Griffith

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December 8, 1944.

Dr. John 8. Geisel, Director,
The Southard School,

2221 West Gth Avenue,

Topeka, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Geisel:

I am sorry that I will not be here on Wednesday, December
2 SS See Se Pa, Nebraska, on that day et a
basketball clinic.

I trust that at some future date it way be possible to have
a visit with you.

Yery sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
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December 6, 1944

Forest C,. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dre Allen:

On Wednesday December 13 I have to talk before two or three
clubs at Ke Ue I wonder if it would be possible for me to meet
with you and discuss one of our needs at The Southard School?

We have been looking for a person to head up our recreation
work, and I feel that someone trained in physical education would
be our most likely prospect. It could be a man or woman, but I
believe a man is preferred.

Sometime ago I met Dean Melott and mentioned this problem
to him. He suggested that I get in touch with youe

Sincerely,

Nees

   
   

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The Southard School

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Noverber 16, 1944.

Mr. Chas. Goforth,
Box 135,
Winfield, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Goforth:

I understand you are to be here beginning the
élst as Hilliards have tho eontract to refinish our auditorium
floor. I wish you would write me how you finéahed Hank Iba's
floor with the red dots for the sideline, —

We are gofng to have a big K in the center of
the floor, and will have u red line around the court. Write
me goout the color schene of Iba's floor, and gend me a —
showing the colors.

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Bducation,
FCA:AH : Varsity Basketball Coach.
 

Novenber 6, 1944.

Mr. Charles Goforth,
Box 135,

Winfield, Kansas.
Dear Mr. Gof ox ths

I am enclosing a schedule of our basketball games
for the coming season.

Hope you will be able to see some of ow games.

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,

 
 

 

November 11, 1944.

S/Sgt. Harold 8. Gill, 37227241,
Dist. No. 4, 7th Service Command,
1202 Topeka National Bank Bldg.,
Topeka, Kansas.

Dear Doc:

I want to inform you confidentially that at
our board meeting yesterday your application was approved
by our board. Hope things work out for you.

With all good wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
October 26, 1944.

s/Set. Harold S. Gill, 37227241,
Dist. No. 4, 7th Service Command,
1202 Topeka Netional Bank Bldg.,
Topeka, Kansas.

Dear Dos:

Iwas delighted to hear from you end to know that apparently
things are moving in your favor. You can count on the sppport of
this board one hundred per cent. About the only thing we can do
is when the discharge papers come in for us to approve them from
our angle. They tell us to take no activity with the exception of
approving or rejecting the application, and you know what we will
do in your case.

I was sorry to learn of the death of your father, but I am
gratified to congratulate you on taking unto yourself a blushing
bride et your tender age of 38. You have done your hitch 0.K. and
we know you are entitled to the discharge. I am happy you are going
to be lined up with the Santa We. That is one of the createst
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Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical BSducation,
PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach.

 
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