WILKERSON

CARBIDE & CARBON BLDG. Telephone
912 Baltimore Ave. INSURANCE Victor 6430
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Jane 22
L 84.6
PERSONAL

Dre F. Ce Allen
Athletic Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear "Phog"s:

I want to write and thank you for the tickets to the basket-
ball game last Saturday night. I certainly don't want you to
feel that I expect you to give me free tickets every time KeUe
plays in Kansas City although I expect to gOe However, I do
appreciate it, and it is mighty nice of you to remember mee

An interesting thing happened in connection with the tickets
Saturday night that I thought you would appreciate knowing
aboute '

I asked Cal Morrow to tell you I would like to have four
tickets, and, at the last minute, the couple with whom we were
going couldn't go so we took the two extra tickets down to the
\Kansas City Canteen and asked the man in charge if a couple of
soldiers would like to go to the basketball game. Ina little
while out came two Chinese boys, who are in the Air Corps. and
stationed in Kansas City studying radioe

It seems as if these boys had played basketball in San Fran-
cisco. One of them was born in China; the other in California,
and night after night they had been sitting around the Canteen
with nothing to do and had been asked nowheree Since they
appeared to be very gentlemanly and intelligent, we took them
right along with us and sat with them. As we became acquaint-
ed we got to feeling glad that we drew these boys as they were
pretty lonesome and homesick and their appreciation of this
little favor was really pathetic.

We took them for a ride after the game and bought them some-
thing to eate This week we received a letter from each of the
boys and a large potted plant was sent out to the house to
Mrs. HaaSe We are going to continue to keep in contact with
them, and we are going to have them out to the house Sunday,
SO you see, you are responsible for this, and I thought you