- January 15, 1943.

Ensign F, E, Herwi, Jre, |

Cormander Service Force, :

Southwest Pecifid Force, : 5
o/o Fleet Post Office,

San Franciseo, California.

Dear Pranks

Thank you for your very good letter of the 20th ultimo.
we certainly miss you when we think of our home games here in
You have been one of the thirty-thiré degree dged-in-the-wool fans.
have not seen your younger brother, but of course I would be delighted
to say hello to him.

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I am answering your letter right amy because a fellow who is in
Australia and still Liveental in the University of Kensas athletios ~
should rate a letter pronto.

Now, about sending you the results of each game. We certainly
will do it. We do not have any V-mail forms here but will get the
necessary stationery and follow through with each game. The Cornhuskers
have been doing pretty woll. They licked lowa, and Indiana beat them
only 40 to 39, go I look for some trouble from those fellows. Don't bet
too much with that kangaroo money down there.

I was very depressed about our Kansas basketball outlook at the
beginning of the seagon, but it has brightened some now and I believe
we will go through with a nice season. We call our five men the “Kansas
irommen™ - Charlie Black and Ottc Schnelibacher at forward, John Buescher
at quarterback, and Ray Evans and Armand Dixon at guard ~ two sophomores,
two jumiors and a senior.

Of course you will read, if you have not already done so, about
Chexlie Black breaking the Big Six scoring record against Missouri here
on January 6th when Kansag beat them 69 to 44. Charlie had a great
‘night, scoring 33 points to break MoNatt's record when he scored SO
points against Kansas State, breaking Fngleman‘s record of 27 pointa
against Oklahoma, to break the Kansas players Big Six Conference record,
and he also broke Ralph Miller's record of 30 points against a non-confer-
ence team when we beat Wichita there last year. And the 69 points also
broke a Big Six team record when Oklahoma beat Kansas State with MolNatt
doing the high honors. I think there were five records broken that night.
ne ee ee ae

Our next conference game will be against Kansas State at Manhattan on the
20th of January, but we have some non-conference games in between.