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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

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