July 19, 1943.

Sperts Editor,
AP Features,
50 Rockefeller Plaza,

Dear Chip:

I am doing the best I can for you on short notice. I am sending
you a copy of the speech that I made at the Southeast Missouri State
Teachers College in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in November, 1941. You
will notice then that I set up a seheme for a national czar of inter-
collegiate athletics. This is my own ides and you may use my byline on
. the story if you desire.

My idea was that this czar would have the same powers as Judge Landis,
and that he would not be a comeissioner or an ethletic director, or anyone
comnected with intercollegiate athletics. He would com entirely from the
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a» woulc — commissioners of each conference under |
be subject entirely to his decisions. He would have the
athletic _direstor or coach, or to declare any athlete
» partici pat He would also set up the scholarship
. onferences. Yet he would correlate all of these
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1 commissioner ‘wuld have the power to suspend an institution
sonform to the rulings. My notion was that no school would
nge It would be purely a voluntary matter on the part