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ALEXANDER R. PHILLIPS GERALD D. GREGORY
VICE-PRESIDENT cw ork SECRETARY
DANIEL R. ACKERMAN GUSTAVE G. CLASSEN

VICE-PRES. & SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY
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WESTERN DEPARTMENT
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STATE BANK OF DOWNS
DOWNS, KANSAS

February 20, 1939.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Director
Department of Physical Education,
University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear “Phog." :—

I rode to the County Tournament in Osborne Friday
night with Vance Hall and he came in Saturday to talk about K U with
me. Vance informs me that he will have to have some help while in
School at least part of the time as his father can't afford to bear the
whole brunt of the expenses. I just thought I would mention this to
you before calling on you this coming week-end so you could bring up
the question to him as he is for all of the glory being bestowed on hin,
quite a bashful and retiring sor of a chap. If you can assure him that
efforts will be made in his behalf to secure part time work it will help
him a lot.

Downs defeated Osborne (Class A) 25-19 in the first
game of the Tournament, Hall made 19 points. Saturday night Dowms beat
Alton 40-24 and Hall scored 25 points for Downs. This gives him about
an even average of 22 points per game for the season, and he played the
first few with his wrist and hand bandaged from an Armistice Day Football
break. Vance has scored more points than the opposing team four games this
season and has tied the opponents totals in four other games. In every
game he has had the whole opposing team trying to stop him and has been
subjected to some mighty close and rough guarding. He just seems to run
the other boys down and then pour it on them. I believe in the last five
games which have been against strong teams he has secured the rebound from
both backstops at least 50% of the time in the whole of each game. He is
also in almost half of the jumps for held balls. In other words he goes out
and gets the ball from the opoonents and then either shoots over them or
dribbles through or around them and scores. He makes his own op ortunities
and it isn't a case of the other boys feeding him all the time. He feeds
the others a lot and is a team player and not a glory hound. It just so
happens this year Downs has a squad with about 7 guards and one forward.

We will see you Saturday the 25th. and in the meantime
lots of good luck to you and your boys.

Sincerely, :

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