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Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Athletic Department

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Friend Phog,

I have written you about everything under the sun except

girls, and so to make sure the record is complete, that's

what I am doing now. Of course, you understand that I know
the man who runs a department in the University and coaches the
Varsity team has plenty of time to wet nurse all the freshmen
that might decide to go to the University of Kansas and under=
standing this full well, here is the story.

Mariam Calder, 1215 Oread Ave., has entered the University of

Kansas as a freshman. Not having a daughter and she being the
daughter of our best friends and knowing her even before she

arrived, we couldn't think more of her if she were our own

flesh and blood. Her father was a Crewman at Cornell, a frat-

ernity man, captain in the artillery in the last war, is now one

of the executives of the Mid-Continent Refinery. Her mother

was one of the outstanding students at Vassars She has family

back of her to who laid the chalk. She went to Holland Hall, a

girls school at Andover, Massachusetts. She is attractive, healthy,
red-headed and is everything that a girl shoudd be but she doesn't
have the right contacts to get a bid from one of the three sororities
that she thought were tops at K.U. She was invited by four, but they
did not appeal to her as much as the others and the child is very
much disappointed.

I think the real disappointment is that she never has been

situated where she could have boy friends and she has gotten the
impression that unless you belong to the right group at the
University, you haven't any chance at social life. She may or

may not be right. I am sort of old fashioned and feel that a lot

of barnacles have attached themselves to our so-called educational
system and that there are things in universities quite as big as the
social life, but my thinking doesn't help a girl entering the
University as a freshman, very much.

Now this is what I have in mind, Phog, you might happen to meet
this girl or you might be talking with some of your own fraternity
men and could tip off the freshmen where they could meet a classy
date with the kind of girl you would be proud to have as a daughter.
She isn't a necker, but she is a good sport and a thorobred. She
made an athletic letter at Abbotts and just a youngster thet
enybody can be proud of. Of course, you haven't time to put

yourself out any and you are not in a position to do it, but if by
accident your paths should cross, this is a good-sized read-heade

 

 

 
 

Osteber 6, 1941.

Mr. William Es Hodges, Supte,
Scandia, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Hodges:

I would suggest that you write a personal letter
to My. Les Freeburg, of Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Co.,
Kansas City, Missouri, and tell him that I referred you
theree if anybody would be able te prescribe or suggest
where a shoe could be bought perhaps Les would find that
out for you.

i am glad to hear from you, and wish you good
lucke

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation,
FCA:AH Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach.

 
ERNEST NELSON, Director CARL HAMMER, Clerk MBS. C. E. NELSON, Treasurer

Srandia Public Schools

WILLIAM E. HODGES, Superintendent

Scandia, Kansas
Oct. 2, 1941

Dr. F. C. Allen
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

In my school I have a boy who had infantile paralysis a few years ago
and as a result, he has one limb which is smaller than the other and
about one-half inch shorter.

He wants to participate in the gym classes and try and strengthen his
weak limb. I told him I thought you might be able +648 where he could
secure a basket ball shoe which would help relieve his difficulty.

He is a brilliant boy, is anxious to progress and wants to help him-
self. Any information concerning such a shoe, its cost, etc. will be

much appreciated.
Bette. lily 4
William E. Hodges b
 
‘from Three Generations
of a ‘Kansas ‘family

A Tribute to My ‘father

fom
Mysel} and My Son
on My Birthday

Kichard Allen Hickey

 
Wedication

I missed being born on Kansas Day by a matter of an hour
or so, thirty-several years ago, on the 28th day of January.

Throughout the years on my birthday, first in life, and then
in very poignant, very real memory, there has always been the
image of my father, Ernest Clyde Hickey (1868-1927).

The progenitor of my being was an ever present source of
comfort in the troubles of boyhood. He was a rock of strength
in the problems of young manhood. And had he lived, I have
no doubt but that he would have been an adoring and spoiling
grandparent.

So — both as a Memorial to my father, and an example to my
young son, Allen Mills Hickey, of many things which a man
should be—I am printing this little booklet of hitherto un-
published verses and writings of Ernest Clyde Hickey.

My father was soft-spoken a great portion of the time. He
was suave and courteous, calm and dignified most of the time.
He had the massive shoulders and chest of an athlete, combined
with the gentle understanding of a savant and a philosopher, and
with these was as brilliant an intellect as I have ever met.

His fifty-nine years of life were not renowned for preserva-
tion of earthly goods, nor for success in financial affairs. But in
those fifty-nine years he was seldom lacking in the eternal verities.

Born as a poor boy of pioneering parents, he came to Kansas
in a covered wagon in the early 1870’s, settling at Peabody. He
gained an education by his own efforts, graduating from high
school and from the University of Kansas, with valedictorian and
summa cum laude honors. In adult life as assistant to Francis
Huntington Snow, chancellor of his alma mater; superintendent
of schools during the halcyon gold-rush days at Cripple Creek,
Colo.; as a historian, a professor, an author, a friend, and as a
kindly and noble gentleman, he left his mark on many hundreds
of young men, with whose guidance and instruction he was
entrusted.

And in these days, when the world is again involved in a
gigantic blood bath, I’know of no more fitting way to regain a
sense of proportion than from the simple yet stately verses that
flowed from his pen, so easily they seemed almost without effort.

RicHarp ALLEN HIcKEY
January 28, 1942

 

 
 
 

 

Hitherto Unpublished Works of Ernest Clyde Hickey

 

 

 

On The Human Face

More marvelous than the gifted art :
That chisels the carved vase,

Is the magic power of the human heart
To mold the human face.

—1925

On The Death of My Father-in-Law,
Rev. A. O. Ebright
May 1925

He is not dead. It cannot be.

Life’s pulsing passion but stifled lies.
And he who walked this earth with me
Now lives anew in Paradise—

A disembodied spirit—free.

 
To My Sweetheart and Wife

(Note: This has been used as a lyric for Ethelbert Nevin’s
“‘Canzonetta,’’ more commonly known as ‘‘ Venetian
Love Song.’’—R.A.H.)

Aye, beauteous petalled rose,
Kissed by the morning’s dew;
Betake your flight this very night
To one more fair than you.

The liquid sphere that nestled here
Within your chalice sweet,
Howe’er so fair cannot compare
With her whom you shall greet.

Aye, beauteous petalled rose,

I wish that I were you,

For when you greet my lady sweet,

I know what she will do.

Unto her breast with tears caressed,

She'll press you to her heart,

Her nectared kiss will be your bliss

When you my love impart.
—1899

The Law of Perpetuity

True morality in social service lies.
Those who live for Self cannot hope
To attain Life’s most precious prize.

For selfishness is self-pervasive.
We live as we get and give.
The happiest men are they who serve
That others may happier and better live.
For this is the Law of Perpetuity.

—1925

 
Critique on Character of The
German People

(This Critique was written by my father in an analysis of Jon-
athan French Scott’s text ‘‘Patriots in the Making,’’ in 1916, be-
fore America’s entrance into the First World War, at the instance
of D. Appleton and Company, Publishers, New York City—R.A.H.)

THE GERMANS are characterized by:

(1) Race-Consciousness Exaggerated.

(2) A National Glorification.

(3) A National Egotism.

(4) An excessive pride in what they refer to as Kultur, and the
rest of the world as a cold, unreasoning, national brutality,
if the end desired can only be attained by brutality.

THE GERMANS believe that:

(1) Germany is THE CIVILIZED NATION of Europe.

(2) All civilization SOMEWHERE ELSE is due to the presence
of German blood in those peoples.

(3) That all German conquests are justifiable.

THE GERMANS inevitably manage to invoke upon other na-
tions the guilt for the wars she has waged.

Such exaggerated race-consciousness leads to an unwarranted sus-
picion of other countries. It is an obsession.

The German “kaiser-idea” suggests a Germanic Unity of all
peoples.

GERMANS emphasize:

(1) “The supreme duty of sacrificing all individualism to the
state.”

(2) Loyalty to the Ruling House and Devotion to the Father-
Jand are synonyms.

(3) Little tots are taught in their hesebucher to revere the Ruling
House.

(4) The Ruling House is canonized as a race of heroes. Their
sins are condoned.

(5) The German schools place the Kaiser, or whatever Ruling
House may exist, upon a pedestal, crowning his brow with
wreaths of Joyalty and Jove.

CONCLUSIONS: Education in Germany develops a_ national
egoism, with all due failure to make allowances for shortcomings,
disparaging and ignoring all other nations and toying with a vision
of a greater national destiny.

 

 
The Gossip
(Dedicated to a nameless acquaintance)

There’s a grey old crone
Who wanders alone
Some scandal to collect;
Like the garbage man
Who empties our can,
She’s instant to inspect
Some neighborhood tale
With which to regale
The ears of decent people.

Why should this crone

Flit from home to home,

In search of scandals there,

Is more than I know,

But this Pll trow

She’s always sure to declare,

The neighborhood news

E’en to the folks in the pews
When at church she happens to go.

But as this garrulous crone
Goes wandering alone

Her scandals to collect,

I'll wager a dime

There’s never a time

Her own she stops to inspect.
Avaunt then this danger,
This neighborhood ranger,
More ruthless than maverick.
Beware of this crone

Who wanders alone

She’s a character assassin addict!

—1925

 
Wellington and Waterloo

When the blare of the trumpets was silenced,
And the beat of the rolling drum,

When the din of the battles was over

And peace, at last, had come—

"Twas then the Iron Duke of England

Went his college days to renew

And rest him among his honors

He had won at Waterloo.

Then on the green sward of the campus,
Where in college days he had play’d
He stood in calm meditation,

Thinking of his progress made.

Deep absorbed in retrospection,
Dwelling on the deeds he had done,

He remarked unto his fellows:

“Here’s where Waterloo was won.”

—1924

Fossils and Footprints

I have scouted wide prairies

Where once stood an inland sea;

I have searched with eager scanning
For whatever there might be
Hidden among hillside chalk cliffs,
Or beneath the arroyo mold,

Where dinosaurs and reptiles
Cavorted in days of old.

I have seen fossil megatherii,
That browsed high among the trees;
And I’ve digged the monstrous skeletons

 

 
Of the saurians of inland seas;

I have seen the bat-like Pterodactyl
With his bird-bill full of teeth,

And I’ve seen his winged fingers

With which he hung to the trees beneath.

But to me far more mysterious
Than all this paleontologic array,
Is the imprint of a human foot,
Preserved in granite slab of grey.
Who was he? Perhaps some cave-man,
Who gazed far out at sea,
And felt there a silent yearning
For God and Eternity.

—1923

The Coyote of The Plains

I have heard them on the hillocks,
"Mid the tall prairie grass;

I have heard them weirdly howling
To the breezes as they pass;

And for weird, uncanny yelping
The Coyote of the Plains

Can make more hideous noises

Than all of his kindred strains.

I have seen them on the prairies,
Chasing jack rabbits by relays;

I have seen them slyly slipping
Upon their feathered preys;

But for downright cunning thieving,
The Coyote of the Plains

 
Can bag more wily victims

Than all his kindred strains.

I have seen these imps of Satan
Chasing shepherd dogs at night;
I have seen them boldly bluffing
Just as though they'd really fight;
But for all the art of cunning
The Coyote of the Plains

Has gotten all other canines

Beat a mile for cunning brains.

—1921

In Love With Life?

In love with life?

No, not I—
Although I do not care to die;
For life has held in store for me
More than my share of misery.

What is life

But a struggle severe?

A struggle that goes on year by year,

Rending sore the heart o’erpowered in the strife
For mere bread and butter just to sustain life.

Then struggle on, tired heart, and fight,
Though the toil extend through day and night;
And joy shall supplant your misery,

For the best of life is yet to be—

Mayhap reserved for Eternity.

—1927

 

 
To a Silhouette of a Savage

A savage on a hillside,
A shoreline and a sea,
A sense of primitive beauty,
And the world’s immensity;
The starlit dome of the heavens,
And the moonlight on the lea,
Made poetic the soul of the savage,
As he gazed far out at sea.

A soothing sense of pleasure,
And the pain of a wild desire,
Made his pulse beat faster
And set his soul on fire
For a certain subtle something—
A something that would not quell
Until it found its answer
In religion’s mystic spell.

—1921

Musings of a Little Boy

When I was a boy, a little boy,
Lying awake at night,

I used to wonder

Why right could not be wrong

And wrong could not be right.

For the things I most wished to do
Were usually wrong, you see,

And that which was right, you know,
Was res non grata to me.

—1925

 
 

To An Atheist Friend

Tell me, Atheist, Dissenter,
Tell me, if you can,

What has Atheism ever done
For the betterment of man?

Tell me, Atheist, Dissenter,
Did you ever know

A disbelieving Da Vinci
Or an atheist Angelo?

Tell me, garrulous Sycophant,
I defy you to tell
Of a blasphemous Boticello,

Or a reviling Raphael?
—1923

Matter Is Indestructible

Matter is indestructible.

Whatever is, has always been.

What’s always been, will ever be.
Forms do but change. Just so with Men
Who borrow from earth this mortal clay
And give it back to earth again.

Forms do but change.

If the component atoms forever are,
Mayhap the soul within this borrowed clay
Hath had its beginnings in fields afar,
And thence again someday may stray

To live anew forever more.

—1927

 

 
To a Friend in Trouble

Souls are sweetest

Which have saddest been.

The best of Souls belong to oft-troubled men,
Who, surcharged with sorrows, above them rise,
And plot their course toward Paradise.

Spurn not, then, the Hand that smites you
For otherwise you will not accrue

Those virtues that bless and make you glad.
Better saddened be than joyful-mad

With the frivolities of earth,

Which bring in their train a dearth

Of inconsequential joys, malign,

For the mission of sorrow is sublime.

—1925

To a Brain Preserved in Alcohol

My Brain is not I—

I am a spiritual part,

That is not meant to die.

Nor will I die

When my brain dies;

This Life is a consciousness
Between two Eternities:

Birth and Death.

My Life is more than

Flesh and blood and breath.
Nor am I a mass of animated flesh;
I am a Spiritual Essence,

An Identity, a Consciousness
Which someday, breaking leash,

 
 

Will rise in majesty

That makes Men

The climax of the Creator’s plan.
—1925

To My Indian Friend, Pokagon

I saw him often, standing,
A stoic on the spot—
Gazing into the setting sun
_ Absorbed in deepest thought.
With his blanket drawn about him
He stood silent and alone,
While his motionless form majestic
Seemed a statue carved in stone.
He was dreaming of the future
Of his fellow aborigines;
He was thinking of their past
Beset with tragedies.
And while he stood in silence,
Majestically alone,
His motionless form impressive,
Seemed a statue carved in stone.

—1924

Napoleon in Reflection

The salt, sharp tang of the sea breeze,
Swept athwart of his haggard face,
As he stood there beside the sea
Gazing far out into space.

The memories of battles

And campaigns waged in war,
Brought him rueful recollections

Of what he had been before.
 

Then turning to his attendant,
In measured speech and low,

He bespoke his heart’s reflections
On the events of long ago:

“Alexander, myself and Caesar
Have lands and kingdoms won;
But Jesus, the Christ, by the power of Love
Has all of us outdone.

“Without armament or battleship,
Without battery or gun,
This lonely peasant Prince of Peace
Has greater glories won |

_ Than all earth’s greatest soldiers
Within range of human ken,
For the power of Love more potent is
Than ten million armed men.”

1925

The Rights of Man

Socrates drinking the hemlock,
Savonarola on a funeral pyre,

Saint Paul in a Mamartine dungeon,
And Huss consigned to the fire,

All heeding the call of Conscience,
Selfless, sacrificial and brave,
Inspired by some Hope Immortal,
Their lives for humanity gave.

Few know the soul of a martyr
Branded by Ignominy;

Few knew the hearts of the heroes
Who died to make men free.

But the greatest heroes of a nation
Are not they who march in the van

Of battling, surging armies—

They've died for the Rights of Man.
—1921

A Way of Life

(Note: This was my father’s last writing, penned just
efore his fatal seizure.—R.A.H.)

My Son, stand up and take your part

Against all manner and kinds of men;

In your veins flow the blood of men

Who claimed this gracious country from a wilder-
ness,

Who fought and bled to establish it a nation,

Who died to keep that nation from being rent
asunder—

Who fought anew that autocracy might not prevail.

My Son, I held you in my arms, a little lad;

And dreamed you would succeed where I had failed.

I saw in you the fulfillment of all those aims,

Which, under other fates, I might have known.

Fears you will know as you pursue life’s pathway;

But only in yielding to Fears will you do wrong.

Fight the good fight and keep the faith.

Determine in your mind what is right,

And having so determined, take your stand

Though all your friends and all the so-called wise
men

May hold otherwise.

Thus, in so living, you may frequently know failure;

But you need never fear disgrace.

And rest assured, that if this talk of immortality

Be not mere balderdash,

Your loving father will be with you in spirit, Always..

—December 1927

 

 
 

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sean att

November 12, 1941

Mr. He We. (8411) hivehes
Robinson Gymnasium
Campus

Dear 5ill,

When David L. MacFarlane, governor of our Rotary district,
was here three weeks ago, he asked me to convey his very
best wishes to your I saw Scotty at Olathe in August and
he asked about you and again when he was in Lawrence he
asked me to extend to you his best wishes. When I saw you
in Weidemanns the other day, the matter slipped my mind.
I am now doing tne job that I promised Scotty I would do.
He wishes you well.

Sincerely,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation
FCA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach

 
 

‘Wovember 19, 1941

Miss Betty Jean Hess
Kappa Kappa Gamma
lawrence, Kansas

Deer Betty Jean,

I was sorry that I missed you yesterday when you stopped at the
effice to see me. I hope that we can arrange for a visit some-
time in the near future.

Congratulations on being a member of as fine a group as the
Modern Choir, Mrs, Allen and I enjoyed your singing so much at
the Jayhawk Round-Up in the Union Building. Mrs. Allen remarked
how cute she thought you looked. 7

Please drop by again, Betty Jean, I certainly would enjoy talking
with you.

With all good wishes I an
Sincerely yours,

Director of Physicel Education and Recreation
FCA/pg Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach

 
 

December 4, 1941

Prof. V.P. Hessler
Marvin Hall

Campus

Dear Professor Hessler,

I have tried several times to reach you by telephone, but
have been unsuccessful in my attempts. Thank you very
much for calling me regarding the motors for the score boards.

Since I heard nothing more regarding the possibility of our
receiving them, I assumed that we were defeated in our attempts
to procure them. Thank you very much for your efforts. We will
just carry on until such time as we are able to get some.

Sincerely yours,

iS Director of Physical Education and Recreation
PCA/pg ~ Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach

 
ir. Fred Harvis
Senior Supervisor Federal Security Agenoy
National Youth Administration for Kansas
New England Building \

Topeka, Kansas |

Dear Prod,

I have been waiting expectently for a check which is long past
dues

toe Finda’ areatt that a man can have is made by prompt pay-
nent.

Sincerely,

Director of Physical Bducation and Reercation
Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach

 
 

Ooteber 15, 1941

Mr. Fred Harris
Mationgy Fouts Aa Federal Security Agency

 

Dear Freddie,

Thank you very much for your good letter of the llth instant
enclosing check for $50 to apply on your note. I'm very glad
that your job is highly satisfactory.

Give Miss Laughlin my regards and tell her I was happy te
recommend a young man who is making good.

  
  
 

I an happy for you, Freddie, that you arg@able to see the green
light. 1°11 also tell Milton Allen that, Jou extend your best
wishes for success to him. He really is @ing a fine job end he
is maturing in a manner pleasing to us. He is studying hard and
seems happier than he ever has in his life. I predict for him a
successful future. ;

With kindest regards to you and Mrs. Harris I am

Sincerely yours,

 

PCA/pg | , Varbity Basketball Cos

 

 
 

 

December 11, 1942.

"1 em in receipt of a mimeographed of

Mamel For Basketball oetiotating, 1S? |
, Compiled by yoursel®, Ti: » Soumrt Baller,
Stuelke, ‘ened Ab Hinghews :

a We find that e few copies of this mamel would

_ be very useful to us in connection with our intremurals,

and if you could send us say, five eopies, we would apprece

tate it greatly. We shall be gled to reimburse you for
postage or any other expense in comection with mil~

the copies.

ES

Very sincerely yours,

-“ Pireeter of Physical Edueation and Reoroation,
FGAsAH Varsity Basketball and Baseball ee

 
_ 2 am in receipt of your commumication of the 4th
instant addressed to the Board Meubers of the Tansas Congress
of Parents and Toachers asking for suggestions of candidates
for certain offices to be elected for the next terme >

inasmuch as i am not acquainted with possible
candidates to be considered by your nomimeting committee, I
would be happy to have you submit a list from which I could

Very sincerely yours, |

3 Pirestor of Physical Education and Recreation,
FCA sAu Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coache

™

 

 
 

 

OFFICERS

A

President

Mrs. E. W. Emery
Mt. Vernon Road
Atchison, Kansas.

First Vice President

Mrs. W. R. Loder
723 E. 7th St.
Hutchinson, Kans.

Second Vice President

Mrs. E. E. Miller
812 North 81st St.
Parsons, Kans.

Third Vice President

W. M. Richards
Supt .Of Schools
Emporia, Kans.

Fourth Vice President

Mrs. George W. Winters
622 N. Topeka
Wichita, Kans.

Fifth Vice President

Mr. C. M. Miller
Board of Vocational Education
State House
Topeka, Kans.

Sixth Vice President

Mrs. Norah Luther
Spearville, Kans.

Seventh Vice President

Mrs. D. D. Harbaugh
705 West Fifth St.
Coffeyville, Kans.

Secretary

Mrs. Ben McCamant,
1054 N. Topeka,
Wichita, Kans.

Treasurer

Rev. Fred Smith
R. R. No. 4
Kansas City, Kans.

A

Official Publication
The Kansas Parent Teacher

Editor—Mrs. J. W. Oursler
425 N. Walnut
Wichita, Kans.

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KANSAS CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND: TEACHERS, Inc.
Branch of the National Congress

Suite 9, Blair Building
ATCHISON, KANSAS

December 4, 1941

Dear Board Member:

The Post-Convention meeting of the Board

of Managers of the Kansas Congress of Parents
and Teachers, held in Independence, April

18, 1941, elected the following to serve as
the Nominating Committee for 1942.

Mrse Ae Ee Hastings, Coffeyville,
Chairman

Mrse He Ee Miller, Parsons

Mrse George Winters, Wichita
Mrse Norah Luther, Spearville
Mre Harry Dawdy, Topeka

According to Article V, Section I, of the
By=Laws of the Kansas Congress of Parents
and Teachers, Group Three, consisting of

the Third Vice President, Fifth Vice Pres-
ident, Seventh Vice President, amd Treasurer
are the group to be elected. These officers
shall be elected for a term of three yearss
Those holding these offices at present are
not eligible for re-election with the excep+*
tion of the Third Vice President, who was
elected in April, 1941, to fill a vacancy
occuring in that office.

Please return this questionnaire, with: any
suggestions, not later than January 4, 1942.
Your opinions will be greatly appreciated by
the Nominating Committee, as we do want to
nominate to the state offices the best quali-
fied persons available,

Thanking you, I am
Respectfully,
f \-, ee / fp
Wyo. Ud. Go. Net —q
State Chairman of Mrs», A» E. Hastings ~,,-

Nominating Committee 605 Hast Seventh
RSY/ Coffeyville, Kansas

 
 

Q@UBSETIONNAILIERS

Please name your choice for the following officers:-

Third Vice President

Remarks

Fifth Vice President

Remarks

Seventh Vice President

Remarks

Treasurer

Remarks

 

Signed -
 

 

January 2, 1942.

rs de Pred Harris,
State & Twiss St.,
Topeka, Kansas.

Dear Freddie:

I am enclosing the letter I just received from the
Bureau of Navigation, acknowledging receipt of my letter

_ in your behalf. I thought you would be interested in this.

I am also enclosing your note, which I have endorsed,
indiceting that it has been paid in full.

With kindest personel regards, and best wishes for a
happy and prosperous New Year, I eam

Very sincerely yours,

Direotor of Physical Education and Recreation,
Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coache

 
Bob and Jimmy Hirsch,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Dear Bob and Jimny:

I was extremely happy to receive your two
letters of December 30, and to know that you have been
enjoying “Better Basketball”.

At the end of your basketball season I wish
you would write me again - I will be interested in

knowing how you come out.

Remember me kindly to your mother and crand-
mother, and my other friends in Cape Girardeau.

With best wishes to you both, I am

- Director of Physical Education and Recreation,
Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. 7

 
December 30, 1941
Cape Girardeau Mo.

Dear. Dr, Allen

I enjoyed your book very much. I've
read all tut the chapters on emergencies and
medical treatment for the injured players.

I found "Tales of Yesteryears" very interest-
ing and Mother and Grandmother were both in-

terested in the stories about Warrensburg.

I made a book report to my school class. It

proved to be very interesting.

Our school has a basketball team on which
I am now playing forward. We were greatly
handicapped this year for our coach, Joe Mc
Donald of Gape's MIAA championship team, was
made assistant at Central High School. In
our city junior high league, we have three schools,
Wasington, May Green, and our school Franklin.
Our first game we lost to May Green 20 to 7.
May Green defeated Washington 10 to 7. Our
next game with Washington was on our own
court and we took it 12 to 6. Two days later
we played May Green on our own court. Against
Washington we had used a sinking man to man
defence and thinking that we were a little
green they didn't expect that-we might try
a zone against them. It was hard for us hav-
ing very little practice time. But we had
an advantage, they were cocky after that 20
to 7 win. Our zone ckicked fairly well on
our narrow coffts and we took a hard fought de-
cision 13 to 10. We have one more game with
Washington, there.

Your book has given me much needed help
as we missed our good coach. I was very much
interested in the section on screening. We us-
ed several screen plays this year and scored
some points, but on our small courts they some-
times got tied up.

Thanks again for. such an interesting and
instructive Christmas present.

Yours truly,
December 30, 1941
Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Dear Dr. Allien,

I want to thank you for your letter and the
autographed book, "Better Basketball" which ail
of us are enjoying very much. Mother, grandmother
and I too appreciate very much the nice things
you said about their family. I am proud to know

Suse a famous coach as you are and amihappy to.own
the fine book you wrote.

Mother and grandmother ask ‘t be remembered to
you and Mrs. Allene.

Bobby and I are typing these letters as we are
taking typing lessons.

Sincerely. yours