JOHN L. GRIFFITH, EDITOR TELEPHONE ROGERS PARK 5074

THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL

6858 GLENWOOD AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILL.

February 6th, 1941,

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

Dear Dr. Allen:

In March, 1921, my father started the Athletic
Journal and I am now trying to carry on his work as far as the
Journal is concerned. For the March, 1941, number I thought it
would be interesting to make the theme of this anniversary issue,
“Twenty Years of Athletics",

_ I have gone through the early issues and find that
you were one of the earliest contributors in basketball. There~-
fore, I am turning to you first of all for the basketball review.
What I have in mind is to show the progress that has been made in
basketball during the two decades. How have the offense and defense
changed? How do you account for the great popularity of the sport?
These are a few questions that come to my mind, and I know you will
have much more to include in an arbicle of 1500 words, I recently
heard my mother say that she believed Dr. Allen's article on Ter=-
minology in Basketball some years ago had done much to make for
uniformity in the articles that come to us. We notice a great im=
provement.

IT am enclosing an air mail addressed envelope,
asking you to reply at once if you can do this for us, We should
have the manuscript by the 20th of this month.

I will appreciate your help, as I believe this
article will be most interesting as well as serving as an historical
record of basketball in the years to come,

Yours very truly,

lw & Lhfeth Su

‘Sonn Le orirrith/ Jr.

  

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