‘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,