(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