1, Oswald Road,
Chorlton-cum-Hardy,
MANCHESTER, 2),
ENG. 4h?

 

10. 23, 39.
Dear Mr. Allen,

I have nad the pleasure of einige
your BETTER BASKETBALL for the "Manchester -
City News (May 20,1939), having obtained a
copy from the London office of the McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co.Ltd.

: Later I asked Messrs.McGraw-Hill for
a copy of your MY BASKETBALL BIBLE for review
purposes but they told me they had never heard
of the book }

I wonder if I would be imposing on
you: if I asked you to let me have. a copy. I
am particularly anxious to add this work to my
small library on basketball - the finest game
in the world ! I shall review it, of course.

Perhaps you may help me in other res-
pects, too. Could you favour me with photographs
of yourself and Dr.James Naismith, who, I am
given to understand, is still a member of the
faculty of Kansas University? Any biographical
data about both of you would also be welcomed.

If you have written any other books
on the hoop game I should appreciate. details.

Basketball has not yet been adopted in
Britain in a big way. The public still confuses
the sport with the girls’ game, netball + The
war has\ dealt basketball a masty blow, for all
the Mormon missionaries, who were the backbone
of English basketball, have returned to the

States. But our National Competition 13°46

 
continue.

I believe the sport has a big future in
this country, although it has been played here
for more than 20 years already ! I, myself, have
played since 1927, and have taken part in
tournaments on the Continent, where the game
has certainly taken on well.

My ambition is to see basketball played
by Britons like cricket and football. The Amateur
Basket Ball Association is doing good work in
this direction. Another fond hope of thine is to
be able to watch: a first-class match in America.

Well, Mr.Allen, I hope you will receive
this letter safely and that I haven't bored you.

Looking forward to your reply,

I am,

Rha

Cordially yours,

Ylion

URENCE NE

Forrest C.Allen, Esq.,
University of Kansas,
Kansas City,

Kansas,

U.S.A,

 
tn ir lh ita

New York Times-Sept. Ll, 1938
IN THIS CORNER with * JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright, 1938, by the United Préss
PAY COLLEGE PLAYERS |

Dr. John Ke Brallier of Latrobe, Pas, is the guy who started peel-
ing frogskins off the pigskine who sterted demanding bucks for buckinge
fie was our first professional football pleyere

And now at 61, Dentist Brallier is still yelling for footbs11
dough; not for himself but for the leds who play it. He is cam~
paigning for pey checks every month for college performers, as well
as the prose :

"y was the first man ever paid outright for playing football" the
robust old molar mauler said. "But 2 certainly wasn't the first to be
subsidized for joining a college teame Colleges were taking care of
the football boys long before my times They're still doing it under
cover. That suberosa business is wronmge They should pay the boys
openlys" vo

  

Brallior, father of three childrenand a grandfather through one
of his offspring, says he became America's first pro gridster back

in 1895. He was attending Weshingten end Jefferson at the time and
just beginning his gallop to glory a6 4 quarterback.

The nearby steel town of Latrobe had its own football teame
This outfit was slated for an important game when its quarterback,
Deacon Blair suffered an attack of celic, spavin the heaves or some-
things So the Latrobe manager, in desperation, got in touch with
Brallier at We and J. and asked if he could fill in for Blair. Brallier
replied, "I don't see how I could do ite"

"But we've just got to have a good quarterback for this game,"
insisted the frantic manager. "Would $10 and expenses interest you?"
"I"l] say it willt" exolaimed Bralliers 1°11 be your quarterback."

IN BIG DOUGH

In those days 10 bucks and expenses was big dough for the sturdy
put struggling son of Widow Brallier of Indiana, Pa. Accordingly
Brallier participated in several Latrobe gemes while still playing with —
We and Js And he was paid for every Latrobe game.

Latrobe's team was composed of young stee] workers, miners and one
of two former college players. They were competing for fun and fame
alone=-as were the lads on all other town and city teams--until Brallior
came alonge When the word got out that our dentist friend was getting
paid, other stellar performers started demanding cash for their effortse

Sueh was the birth of the commercial gridstare

  
 

SES

Mi direccién:

Héctor Lénez Reboledo
Galle J.M.Blanes 869 - Dpto. 4 2 eee
VWVONTEVIDEO - Uruge AY» ae

BO, 15 de Abril de 1940

 

REST C. ALLEN
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kan.-

“ " Dr : FORRE

   

De mi mayor consideracién g estima:.

Desde hace cierto tiempo trata ba

de obtener su nuevo libro "BETTER BASKETRALL" y en momentos en que’

habfa redactado ya una carta para solicitdrselo directamente, aca-
bo de recibirlo por intermedio de la misma casa importadora que
hace varios afios puso en mis manos “MY BASKET BALL BI SLE" .-

La presente carta no tendrfa ya objeto. Pero la justifica mi
gincero @eseo de hacerle llegar las modeetas ‘expresiones de mi fe-
licitacién por tan generosas contribuciones al proegresos del pas=
ketball y por lo que en cuanto a ellas me corresvonde agradecerle
personalmente.- Adem@s le expreso mis deseos de recibir un cata-
logo de “Goal-Hi", que seglin espero puede tener buena acogida en
ésta.-

No me parece inoportuno afregar, a manera de presentacion, que
en esta capital desempefio el cargo de erftico de basketball desde
hace 15 afios: (actualmente en “EL DIARIO"). Me anicié como “coach"
en 1935 ¢ desde 1937 he dirigido en varias oportunidades los se-
leccionados de basketball uruguayos, incluso cuando ێstos vencie-
ron al equipo norteamericano que nos visité Ultimamente y cuando
recientemente (Enero de 1940) el Uruguay conquisté invicto elCam-
peonato Sudamericano de Basket Ball sobre Argentina, Brasil, Chi-

le, Paraguay y Peru.-

Reiteréndole las expresiones de mi acradecimiento y mis fellci-.

taciones mas sinceras, quedo a la espera de su amable oe y

le saludo affmo.

 

*
 

 

 

 

'OPINA DE BASKET EL
SR. LOPEZ REBOLEDO

HABLA SOBRE EL JUEGO DE LOS YANQUIS Y LAS ENSENANZAS QUE DEJA-
| RAN EN SU GIRA POR LA PARTE SUR DEL CONTINENTE

Lt

Luego que vimos actuar al
team yanqui de basketball, qui-
simos conocer la opini6dn que a
los distintos directores técnicos
montevideanos les habia produci-
do el juego de los mismos, las en-
sehanzas que se podian recoger y
las derivaciones que en el Uru-
‘guay podria tener ese juego.

Iniciamos hoy la publicacién de
las opiniones de los distintos di-
rectores de equipos de nuestro
medio y la empezamos como és
natural con el entrenador wtnico
del seleccionado nacional, Sr.
Héctor Lopez Reboledo.

Hace una veintena de amos que
Lopez Reboledo esta intimamen-
te ligado al deporte del cesto. Ha
tocado en el mismo, todos sus re-
sortes; fué jugador, luego cronis-
ta, referée, dirigente y mas tarde
entrenador.

Conoce, pues, todos los secretos
del juego, como puede conocer-

los quien lo siente profundamen-

te y quien se ha dedicado a es-
tudiarlo en todos esos aspectos.

Por lo tanto es con una opinion
-valiosa que iniciamos’ un propd-
sito que creemos interesante. pa-
ra todos los aficionados. ©

Dice Héctor Lopez Reboledo:

“No tengo ninguna duda res-
pecto de qu2 el equipo seleccio-
nado norteamericano que acaba
de visitarnos ha dejado ensenan-
zas. Pero no se me oculta tam-
poco que sera dificil divulgarlas.
Los estimados colegas que tie-
nen a su cargo la direccion téc-
nica de los distintos equipos mon-
tevideanos estaran seguramente
de acuerdo en que la escuela nor-
teamericana ofrece aspectos muy
interesantes para incluirlos en la
clasica escuela uruguaya con sa-
crificio de aquellos defectos que
équivocadamente: hemos  creido
virtudes. Los profesores de la Co-
misi6n Nacional de Educacion Fi-
‘Sica, luego de haber asistido a las
dos conferencias del Dr. James
Rinaldi, tuvieron asi mismo opor-

 

 

 

REBOLEDO |

 

tunidad de. ampliar sus conoci-
mientos sobre la moderna téc-

nica del basketball de los Esta-}

dos Unidos. A.aquéllos y a éstos

_corresponde aprovechar una pal-

pable tendencia de los encarifia-
dos con el deporte del cesto hacia
la evolucion técnica y conducir
a la juventud basketballistica por
el mejor camino.

Pero si es verdad que la his-
toria se repite, a la larga nos va
a vencer el temperamento y la
generalizada indisciplina, tenaces
enemigos aliados contra todos los
métodos,

Ser&. necesario;. mas, sera im-
prescindible, que las instituciones
sociales y nacionales nos presten
su mas decidido apoyo, a des-
pecho de los triunfos inmediatos

y relativamente faciles, en el sen-

tido de imponer disciplina, por-
que es evidente que sin una bue-

na educacién fisica, sin cumplir |:

con. un metédico proceso de trai-
1 = ‘

 

 

 

ning, en fin, sin una sdlida dis-
ciplina deportiva, se podra con-

| tinuar aportando a las seleccio-

nes nacionales buenos valores in-

| Gividuales, pero no conjuntos que
| los sumen fielmente. Si de to-
| dos modos se desea tener un pun-

to de mira en -el campo interna-
cional, entretanto se preparan los
mas jovenes, todo ello en fun-
cién de las enseflanzas que de-
ja. el team norteamericano, las
pezspectivas son sencillas y cla-
ras: el Campeonato Sudamerica-
no de Rio de Janeiro y el torneo
continental que luego debe rea-

lizarse en Montevideo. Tanto en

Ja preparacién de las generacio-

nes futuras como en la de los

equipos representativos debe im-
primirse el sello que certifique
nuestra conviccidn progresista.
Mal podriamos por un lado con-
vencer a los jévenss sobre un de-
terminado estilo de juego dando-
les el ejemplo de otro totalmen-
te diferente bajo el distintivo ce-
lJeste. :

La Federacién Uruguaya que
consigui6 cambiar radicalmente
el anticuado sistema de los arbi-
trajes, puede, si se lo propone,
cambiar nuestro juego de acuer-
do al modelo que acabamos de
ver y alrededor de cuyas bonda-
des no gira precisamente la dis-

 
A VICTORIA DE REBOLEDO

Louvada A Orienta-
¢ao Do “Coach”, Que
Dirigiu Os Campeoes
| —De 40-

Nossos confrades de “El
Diario”, um dos periodicos
de maior prestigio da chro~
nica sportiva de Montevidéo,
reéferindo-se ao preparador
dos actuaes campedes sul-
americanos de — basketball,
teve as seguintes expressées,
que mantemos na lingua dé
origem para lhe conservar
todo o sabor:

“Han triunfado los uru-
guayos y con ellos ha triun-
fado su director técnico:
nuestro companero encarga-
do de la Seccién Basketball,
Héctor Lépez Reboledo.

La personalidad y los pres-

tigios del camerada, son am-
pliamente conocidos. No va-
mos a glosar en. su torno, es
innecesario; queremos, en
cambio, y llevados por un
natural espiritu camaraderil,
que esta vez no pueda quedar
encerrado entre las cuatro
paredes de nuestra improvi-
sada casona actual, el mere-
cido homenaje de nuesira
congratulacion al companero
triunfante..
_ Deseamos associarnos a su
satisfaccién, por su victoria
y hasta si se quiere, aplican-
do en lo que cuadre, aquella
expresion, tan en boga hace
algunos anos de: “ese!...
ese! ese, es mi hermaniio”
arogarnos algo de la gloria
de los cracks uruguayos qué,
con su entrenador al frente,
acaban de clasificarse cam-
peones sudamericanos.

‘Y bien esta que destaque-
mos que en esta ocasién, co-
mo en pocas, pudo haber si-
do mds personalisimo para
un director el el triunfo de |
un equipo. Adoptar la jfor-

~

mula popular; cenirse a las @

directivas técnieas del domi-

_nio y la comprensién. gene-
ral; ir salvando etapas del
torneo, mediante victorias
holgadas y aciertos colecti-
vos del elenco, es correr, en
el caso de ganar, hacia tla
eraltacién dentro del albo-
rozo popular y en el easo de
derrota, hacia la ecdmoda
disculpa...

No ocurri6 eso, en este

Ary te AO) B
Pee de le loeng: (irae

 

campeonato; tla integracion ‘

del conjunto no fué el rejfle-

a

 

™

  

Vator

Hector Lopez Reboledo, nosso
confrade e technico uruguayo.
Foi muite combatido pelos
collegas e pelo publico, mas
conseguiu provar na quadra 0
. acerte de suas decisoes

jo exacto de la opinion gene-
ralizada; las tacticas no fie-
ron las sacramentalmente
impuestas en nuestros cam-
pos de basket e las imnosi-
ciones. no ofrecieron la sen-~
sacion de pauta ininterrum-
pida. de holgada superiori-
dad; de ans que Lopez Reé-
boledo, no resultara respal-
dado como en los casos que
antes senalamos; de ahi que
su labor fuera mds personul
y su responsabilidad casi er-
clusiva; de ahi que su preo-
cupacion fuera constante y
que quienes en su torno, lle-
varamos. cuenta de que el
afrontaba valientemente la
exposicién de sus prestigios,
veamos en ese. triunfo de
nuestros “cracks”, buend
parte de los desvelos de Lé-
pez Reboledo.

 

Por eso que su triunfo, es
_ mas grande y... por eso,

su modestia, lindante con el
retraimiento, no seria capaz
de cargar con todo el peso
de los lauros, nos asociamos
a él en esta hora: hacien-
dole justicia y comidiéndo-
Hang a ayudarle a cargar-
CSin4
~

5 te ED:
{ae

WONTEVIDEO, April 15, 1940

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Esteemed sir:

__ For some time I have been trying to
obtain your new book "BETTER BASKETBALL" and at the time that
I had written a letter asking you for it directly, I received

it-through the same Importing house that placed in my hands
"WY BASKETBALL SIBLE" several years ago.

et thet The presentawould no longer have any
objec that I am justified by my sincere desire to have you
receive my modest expression of felicitation for such generous
Contributions to the progress of basketball aaja—j—_mieee-
for which I must thank you personally. Besides this, I wish
to express my desire to receive the catalogue "Goal-Hi", which
I trust will have a good reception in this city.

 

ee : I do not believe it out of order to add,
in order to present myself, that in this Capital I discharge

the role of basketball critic, and have done so for fifteen

years (at th@$time I am connected with "El Diario"{ I started

as "coach" in 1935 and since 1937 I have on various occasions
treve selected the Uruguayan Basketball teams, including the

time when they beat the North#merican team which visited us
lately, and whsnrecently (January of 1940) Uruguay wase undeféateéd
in the Southg#merican Basketball Championship, winning over the

teams from the Argentine, Bragil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru.

Repeating my expressions of thanks
and my most sincere congratulations, and hoping to receive an

answer from you, I remain
3 Respectfully yours,

My address; (signed) H. Lépez Reboledo
Hector Lépez Reboledo
Calle J.M. Blanes 869 - Dpto. 4

MONTEVIDEO - Urugpay
 

May Sy 1920.

With best wishes for your continued success, I an

Very sincerely yours,

Mrector of Physical Education and Recreation,
Varsity Basketball Coache

 
 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

April 27, 19406

Mre Clarence Chrisman,
Department of Romance Languages,
University of Kansas.

Dear Mre Chrisman:
I dislike to bother you too much with letters

of this sort, but if you would be kind enough to translate
the enclosed letter I would greatly appreciate ite

Very cordially yours,

      
  

sical Education and Recreation,
FCA: AH =e ty Basketball Coach’

 
“

 

Belo Horizonte (Brasil), 23 de Dezembro de 1939.

Presado Mr. Fe Ce Allen
Saudagoes

Em tenho seu livro "Better Basket~ball": com ele tenho ganho
muitos jogos e camPeponatos aqui no meu Clube, MINAS TENNIS CLUBE,
onde sou coach.

Tive um grande amigo americano, ja morto, que foi o introdutor
do basket-ball no Brasil, Mr. F. Ce Brown, nosso idolo no basket-
ball: morreu ha 2 anos no Rio de Janeiro.

A Diretoria de meu Clube autorisou-me a escrever ao amigo para
vermos se 6 possivel fazermos uma competicao, por telegrama de
Lence-Livree Numa data prevismente combinada - lembro a data de
5 de Abril de 1940 - 5 jogadores da Universidade de Kansas tira-
riam cads um 100 lances livre, 50 em cada tabela, perfazendo um
total de 500 lances. No mesmo dia, aqui no Brasil nés tirariamos
500 lances e am aquele gue melhor resultado obtivesse seria con-
siderado o vencedor. nbs jé temos competidos contra outros Bs-
tados do Brasil e mesmo contra a Argentina. A Universidade de
Kansas teria aqui seu repResentante e nés ahiflo nosso para acom-
panhar tequinicamente o desenrolar e posteriormente enviar as
sumulas (copias). Para nosso representante ahi o nome do presado
amigo jé foi lembrado e para aqui, caso n3o tenha um conhecido,
lembraris o nome do nosso Presidente, Major Ernesto Dornelles,

_. official do Exercito Brasileiro. J4 temos sumulas impressas,
* henho as fotogrefias de nossa turma y da cidade, tudo promto para

envier ao amigo: comtudo aguardarei uma resposta para saber se

de fato interessa o que_acabo de propor: lembro ao amigo que se-
ris a primeira competicgso por. correspondencia no Mundo entre

dois Continentes preticantes de Basket-ball e esta gloria viria a
gaa muxittux 9 Universidade de Kansas e 30 liinas Tennis
Clube e

Talvez o nome de THOMAS SNIPES n3o seja desconhecido do amigo:
ele est4 sendo professor da Escola de Vicosa e & meu amigo.

Aguardo sua resposta e pego desculpes por escrever em portugue

Muito amigo que o abraca desejando um feliz Nata e um ano

 

Novo de 1940 cheio de felicidades
' 9 dics See
Gerson Sabiho - Coach do Minas
Enderego: 7 Tennis Clube

Gerson Sepia - Praca da Liberdade, 1458 - — Horizonte “Brest
(Translation by Mr. Chrisman, of the Spanish Dept.)

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

December 23, 1939.

Mre Fe Ce Allen
Greetings,

I have your book, "Better Basketball"; with
it I have won many games and championships here in my club,
MINAS TENNIS CLUB, where I am coache

I had a good American friend, now dead, who
introduced basketball into Brazil, Mr. F. C. Brown, our basket-=
ball idol, who died two years ago in Rio de Janeiroe

The director of my club authorizes me to write
to you to see if it would be possible to have a free-throwing
contest by telegram; on an agreed date. I select the date of
April 5, 1940. Five players’ of the University of Kansas would
have one hundred (100) free throws each; fifty (50) on each
backboard, making a totel of 500 throws. On the same day, here
in Brazil, we would make 500 free throws and the one obtaining
the best results would be considered the winner. We have al-
ready competed against other Brazilian states and even against
Argentina. The University of Kansas would have its representa-
tive here and we would have ours there - to oversee the contest and
later to send the results. For our representative there I select
you, Mr. Allen, and for your representative here, in case you have
no acquaintance, I should select our president, Major Ernesto
Dornelles, officer of the Brazilian army. We already have printed
score cards, I have the photograph of our team, of the city; every-
thing prepared to send to youe I shall aweit an answer to know if
what I have suggested interests you. This would be the first
correspondence contest in the world between two continents interested
in basketball, and the honor would go to the University of Kansas
end the Minas Tennis Club.

Perhaps you know Thomas Snipes, he is teaching in
the school of Vicosa and is my friend.

I await your reply and apologize for having written
in Portuguesee Desiring that you may have a Merry Christmas and a
. Happy New Year,
Gerson Sabino

Coach, Minas Temis Club
 

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Dated eno th DECeMber sy un 193°

Dear Mr, Allen,

thank you very much for your letter dated
20th. September 1938, in reply to our enquiry regarding
‘Basket Ball Bible'. lt is very kind of a to have
advised us to buy a copy of 'Better Basket Ball'. 1 am
also thankful to you for sending some material which
describes the new book quite fully. 1 have made up my
mind to §o in for “iets Basket Ball' and am sending
you herewith a cheque = S 4.00 on an American Bank
drawn in your favour.

Please autograph it and write what you
think suitable for a lover of basket-ball in india.
now proud 1 shall be to possess a book which consists
an autograph and advice by the author himself. 1 hope you

will not mind the trouble in sending the book at your

Piezetic
«2.

earliest convenience by air mail . 1 shall of course

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Yuvraj, Sakti-State.
P/fo Sakti. B.N.K.

“pay the extra postage.

 
 

Septenber 20, 1938.

Mire Je He Bs Singh,
Palaces Sakti,
 -P/O Sakld, BAER,
“Indians

Dear Mr. Singhs

: 1 en very hazy to heve your inguiry about
| my book, “My Basketball Bible*. This beok was first nublished
in 1925, and had a sale of 15,000 copies.

Fneoureged by the sale of this book we have

you decide to purchase ea of "Setter Basketball", if you
wA32 een mo your aheck for $4000 I will be clad to Geil Ge

book to you postpaide iI will be glad to autograph it if you
will tell me what you would like te have written on the fly

Thanking you for your inquiry, and with best
wishes, I am ;

Very sincerely yours,

FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach.

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