cenuary 24, 1942 Mrs John Glem Glem Utilities Beardstomm, I) lincis | ‘8 soon as I received. your good letter T took it home so the family could read ite We were all happy that you hed a chance to eat breakfost with Jane and have.a good visit with here We were also glad to know that there is the possibility of your getting over to’ Columbia on Friday, February 21s oh ss Yes, it would be 2 fine idea if yon could bring John Musgrove Glong, We will certainly be lookins for hime T hope he is a better student than John Buescher, but John Iusgrove also had academic mortality at Colorados a . Thank you for your good wishes teganding the progress that Kansas ig making, but I want to tell you we are skating om mighty thin ices Regarding the ruling on the rejection or the acceptance of @ free throw, the interpretation of the basketbell rules is this; that it is not necessary for the froesthrower to give his deeision on the second free throw until he has thrown the first, I do not know what ‘the high school rule is on that and of course the high school rule would govern high school contests» The State rule would first epply and then the National Federation Rule. would apply in case there is no specifies high school rulee My notion is that * the player elected to throw the first free throw then he still has ten seconds to tarow the second, and it would be anple time for him to mike his decision at that times | Tt seons as if there are entirely: toe mary squabbles in high schools over these things, end my notion is that they endeavor to straitejacket these high school players with too mamy tech calitiess if we would use ¢ _judgment in mest cases it would be a lot better than too muny rulose Thank you for sending me the eliprings Now, I want to write you regerding John Bueschers He was in the hospital over a week with carbuncles on his knee and hed the flus and Dean warned him that he wae apt to produee trouble, John told hin was & é |