' Major John Le Griffith,
Journal,

6858 Glemmood Avenue,
Chicago, Illinoise

Deas Major Griffith:

in response to your good letter of the 12th instant
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state that I am enclosing an excerpt fran my new book, Better
Basketball, Incorporating Technique, Tactics and Tales. This
book is published by the McGraw-Hill Book Campany of New Yorke
Tt will be on the bock shelves the first week in December,

The subject of the article thet I have written is
"Prebehte Refeote of Elinduatine the Center Jun". This may be
entirely too long and exhaustive for you to rm, as you will
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you micht want to look it over and as I have
tides of the eitmtion for the renders you nigit fiw it interest
ing enough to mime

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president of the McGraw-Hill Company, telling him that I had sent
you au excerpt from the book on this subject. I have asked that
he write you, giving you permission to use the article as you so
desire. Of course, it goes without saying that I would appreciate
it if you could mention the fact that I am the author of this new
text, together with the fact that.I was the author also of "My
Basketball Bible”, which goes out of circulation with the incoming
of this new books 3

I am sending you @ mimeographed sheet thet I arranged
here to answer inquiries concerning the new booke I have so many
Se es ee ee eer She

and especially so since the book is not out wntil Decenber firste
The Techniques are the fimdementals, the Tactics are the execution
of the fmdamentals, and the Tales are stories of games that my
teams have participated in.