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,