INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
235 EAST 45TH STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y.

October 30, 1941

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Basketball Coach

The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Just a line to let you know that I am now writing sports in our
Chicago bureau, and would like to have you drop up to the Hearst buildigg
and SEE me whenever you get in here.

I have appreciated your help on stories in the past, and 1'm
especially anxious to confer with you Sometime in the future on your
attitude toward intercollegiate foothall as we know it today. I've

read several write-ups of talks you have given on the subject and
I think it wold be an interesting interview story for our wires. It
was one subject you and I never got around to in my brief visits to
Mt. Oread during my stay in the Kansas City bureaut

Incidentally, along the football line, I'm planning a trip to
the Midway in the next few days to try to gét a cross section of
reaction to abandonment of football at Chicago after nearly two full

SEASONS. =

I'll be glad to hear from you at any time, and be sure to make
our office ont of your stopping off places when in Chicago.

The best of luck to you and your boys this year.

Cordially,

Graham B. Hovey
INS -- Chicago