Ur. Floyd Millet, Basketball Coach, Brigham Young University, Provo, Uteh. ae Dear Coach Millet: My delay in replying to your favor of the 10th instant has been due to the fact that my secretary has been on vacation. I regret to advise you that our allotted number of gemes has been scheduled and it will be impossible to play you on your eastern trip. ‘We would enjoy jecting you had we the opportumity. With all good wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. FRANKLIN STEWART HARRIS, Prestoent PRowo, Ura August 10, 1942 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Attention: Forest Allen, Basketball Coach Dear Phog: Brigham Young University basketball team is planning an Eastern trip which will carry them into Madison Square Garden in the month of December. On our return trip we are playing a game with Loyola pre ees of Chicago on December is. I am anxious to complete our pre-season schedule and p would like to play University of Kansas on December 21, Will you kindly advise me if you can do so, and what financial arrangment you will be able to make. Sincerely yours, go Tiled Floyd Millet Basketball Coach FM: aw : : CLASS OF SERVICE \ N | E S E RN 1201 SYMBOLS This is a full-rate DL=Day Letter Telegram or Cable- ram unless its de- ( 5 8B } ee eee Fos ed character is in- LC=Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable : symbol above or pre- NLT =Cable Night Letter ceding the address. A. N. WILLIAMS NEWCOMB CARLTON J. SC. WILLEVER Shis Radiogca PRESIDENT CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT eS eal The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination KBB 18 20 NT 3 EXTRA=COLORADOSPRINGS COLO AUG 10 DR FORREST C ALLEN= as pene |i we 4 UNTY OF KANS ROBINSON GYMNASIUM KR= PLEASE ENROLL ME IF POSSIBLE» AM COMING ON TRAIN FRIDAY. WIRE IF 1 SHOULD FLY BACK SOONER= JOHN BUESTHER BOX 253 GREENMOUNTAINFALLSs» THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATH SUGGESTIONS FROM [TS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE ‘Mr. John Buescher, | 1240 Tennessee Ste, \ I have just talked with Miss Rich about your lassitude. And if you don't know what lassitude means, it means _ "Gondition of body or mind when its voluntary functions are per- formed with difficulty, and only by strong exertion of will; debility; weariness.” Debility means a devitalized physique as well as a devitalized mind. | : You have taken enough vitamins to vitalize both your mind and your body. Now, Jolm, down to brass tacks. You have failed Zoology twice and that in itself is rather a reproach on the team and on yourself. Miss Betty 4nn Wilkinson is giving a tutorial class in Room 16 Fraser at 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday. You went sound asleep in the last class that you attended. Deen Smith is no little exercised about the lack of progress that you are making in the School of Education. He has talked to m about it twice, and wondered if it wouldn't be better for you to withdraw from school because you are not making progress toward graduation. | 3 lo I know what you say. “I have taken that stuff twice and I mow all about it.” Sut you don't kmow all about it, else you would not have flunked so ingloriously under Mrs. McNair. - Don't you realize that you owe the team more than you are giving them? Merely being on the border line and playing under such eo questionable status doesn't make anybody happy about it. Your parents send you money to get this education that you are supposed to get. If I would write your parents and John Glenn regarding the things that go on between the Dean and Miss Rich and me, I am sure you would get a severe reprimand from your parents. They atruggle to make this money and it does not come easy. Then why wouldn't it be sporting for you to attend those classes, keep awake end make an "A" in Zoology rather than one of your usual "D's". I am saying this candidly and fervently. I am exercised neta. Aasge nag ngelinanaapo ntl eeneortantnt egunstaurenaiwenagg end they reflect no happy concern. They think you are here just Ae PEROT nek ak te gat om oteantimn. Mew diav"t midin £8 ‘Souplier on pe and the renk of dia ‘Suen Ses Sens eiceniy eves. Vay I count on you not missing any of these meke-ups? I am getting in touch with Miss Wilkinson, and a i ads ae Fes "4 ce tn 2A" et FW: With a sincere wish that you make an "A" out of at least this course that you have taken three times, I an Sincerely yours, Direstor of Physical Education and Recreation, Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. * Mr. John Buescher, 1240 Tennessee St., Lawrence, Fangas. Dear Johns ' I am enclosing a copy of the poen, "Opportamity", by Jom J. Ingelle. I want you to teck this up on ea door in your room, John, so that it will be a constent reminder of the opportunities that come to youe Director of Physical Education and Recreation, . Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. Mr. John Buescher, 1241 Tennessee St., Lewrence, Kansas. Dear Johns ic bla on information about your course in Geography by correspondence, and when you are ready to a te ee oe ey ts Wee SEEie Soe will get the books for you. The Correspondence Study Bureau will ini eee enrollment when you have paid the fee of $9.00. It is also necessary for you to make a deposit of $3.00 for the use of reference books. Rowlands Book Store has the texts you will meed - ee Mea, aa Selene Geography and Introduction to Human ana $2.96 The Geographic Pactor < ' 1.68 I em glad you got the call to Eudora, and hope that you are working by this time. Let us know whan you feel you can begin studying. Simerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. MEMO - concerning John Buescher's enrollment in a correspondence course: When his fee of $9.00 has been paid he will be accepted for enrollment in the 5 hour Geography course. There is also a deposit of $3.00 necessary for use of reference books. He will need two texts ~ Geography and Intro-~ duction to Human — Ou Se ss ae 95 THe Saderenhis Factor: ek ak 1.65 For books e “eel « (e “e © oe: 0 $4.60 (Rowlands have these books,used copies) Lawrence, Kensas. Doubtless you have been working long enough Direatar of Physical Béucats Varsity Basketvell Coach. me | oy \ I talked to Mrs. Herkins this morning to see if you had received any call from your draft board at Beardstowm. She stated that only a yellow card had come te you stating that you were placed in I~A, Ce | | f em sending you a copy of an article that was in Friday's Journal-World. If you arg placed in 1-A you oan get into either the Army or Navy if you gan pass your physical, and still attend the University of Kansas next year. Of course you would heave to enroll at the University before your call for induction takes plese from your draft board. 1% is possible now to enlist, as the paper states any time from now wmtil sehool begins the middle of Septemb— er, but of sourse if yow draft board calls you then it will doubt~ less be too late to get into this. : Wot knowing of this, I took Charlie Black to the Wyandotte County Court House ss Naar City, Kansas, this past Wednesday end Thursday, and he passed his mental in the Aviation Cadet service; 84 was passing and he made a grede of 108, which is considered ex cellent. On Tuesday morning at 6:15 aeme I am to take him to , Leavenworth, Kensas, for his physical. I eam quite sure that he will pass, and then so long as he makes his grades he will be enabled to stay in the University. If he fails of course he will be in the aviation service. | af ih A i x aah if you do not want to do something about your case. Herely ng thet you are going to be drafted doesn't offer you amything except to be drafted, But if you want to return you, that is possible, 4nd if you should be rejected, then you ould still go to school but it would be necessary for you, of course, to enroll in that correspondence course so thet you would be eligible. 3 dohn, I have done shout everything possible to help yous. Don't you think it is| about time that you activate yourself regarding your own welfare? Trusting that you are enjoying the cool, sestful, restful, panoramic Colored, I an ~ 3 Sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Rducation, i nS See Whee cn Be om ietbe: SE ott oe Te ‘Dear Jolm: I talked to Mr. Weal Wherry, a member of the Douglas County draft board. ‘These are the things that I learned from him, When e selectee takes his first screening teat he will have ten days or twoweeks to report for his examination before induction. This examination, for the convenience of the selestes, ean be taken at the most cdmvenient place. In your case it could a ee ee eee I imagine is Peorie. After this examination at any of these places if the selectee so desires he can ask for @ leave which is two weeks, to get ready for his final induction. Now, this is the thing I am saying to you, Jom. If you should get notice to re- port for your examination you could come to Lawrence and then go to Leavenworth, and if you passed you would have two weeks to go ee ee See Rene, Sieee ian. ‘Personally, I do not believe that you will be drafted on account of the defect in your lumgs which ocourred in _ your early childhoos. If you would present to the examining . officers at Leavenworth the letters that you received from the eee ee & weey Seite Panett ie ee CASO I talked to Mr, itherry yesterday afternoon and hoe gave me this information, which is general information for any selectse. if you care to ast upon this I am very happy to help you. You can understand doubtless why I was greatly surprised at your going to Colorado for a wacation, especially when the demands upon the workers is so great to complete the government industry. 4nd too, I imagine that you are not overburdened with a bank account. » I have been trying to advise you as a parent would advise his ow child. If you do not pass the physical there is still an opportunity for you to enroll in the correspondence course and to become eligible for basketball this winter, if you seize upon the opportunity immediately after your rejection. As I told you, I am -2= pretty sure thet you will not pass. But of course fT could easily be mistaken, so I em not endeavoring to build up any false hopes in your behalf. But I am endeavoring to help you take advantage of all your possibilities. So many boys come to me, after all the things that they might have done have been exhausted. _ : : _ If this information is helpful to you, I am happy. With all good wishes, I am Very sincerely yours, | Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. Mr. Bob Busby, Lawrence Journal World, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Bob: . Last night I read in your story something about the possibility thet if Missouri beat Kensas tonight it would be com- parable to what happened three years ago when Missouri laced Kansas by a decisive score to give the championship to Missouri and Oklahoma. The facts of the score are doubtless correct, but that — was not three years ago - that was four years ago; — he owe not played at Lawrence ~ it was played at Columbia, Missouri. This statement recalls to my mind the story of a fellow who was telling his companion that he knew a business man in Baltimore who had made $100,000 the past year from a shirtwaist factory in Baltimore. To confirm this he turned to a friend and said, "Isn't that right, 51117" He said, “Yes, substantially correct. Instead of a shirtwaist factory it was an overall factory, and instead of Baltimore it was Kansas City, ——" ant instead of — ee 000, he lost $100,000." ! It is rather difficult to see why a sport writer re- calling that sort of thing would not state where the game was played and be more accurate in his writings. You will remember that I , jogged your memory regarding the offensive-defensive ratio of play- _ ing when Iowa State was awarded the championship last year over Kensas. You hed made some statement regarding a play-off being -mecessary. And you did not say, of cowrse, that Missouri hed a veteran team and Kensas had a team entirely of sophomores who had had a terrific time of winning their games by the sheerest margin _ and on that team was ailing, hobbling, crippled Ralph Miller who was playing omly on one leg. And with everything against then Kansas faced one of the hottest shooting teams that Missow'l ever had. It was much after the mamner of the Oklahoma game February 27 at Norman. Of course, the fact that Oklahoma scored 63 points against Kansas would be a high offensive score, but the fact that we scored 51 points against them makes only a spread of 12 points, and we scored 22 points more than they did here. In other words, Kansas scored 105 points against Oklahoma in two games for an average of 52.5 points a game. Our offensive ratio against all teams is less than 51 points, so we scored against Oklahom a higher average than the common offen- sive record against all Big Six teams. _ I have never seen this side stressed at all, yet this is : re ts ee oe tae ek cen A basketball game is six to eight minutes year Howard Engleman had a near 20 point average in eight games, but he slipped in one game and that cut his scoring average down. By what right should Gerald Tucker be even considered for average high scorer when by his om act he migrated against the rules and estopped himself from playing the tenegame schedule that he could have played had he remained in the college where he first matriculated? After ali, apparently it is the fellow who beats the rules and splurges that the — pays som attention toe _ Although our publicity department erred in making a mis- statement regarding the Kansas debacle at Columbia, yet a sports ee ee ee ee oe ee iiscrepancy get by. Since Horace Mason's going many such errors pata ih prety at oe ee be authentic. i caesar ik: Sister to et nn 4, peelndk ae . merely say to you thet in ell the timo you were in school end while you were at your paper in Lewrence I endeavored to be utterly fair end at times I went out of my way to give you some hot tips that I thought would be appreciated by newspaper men. And perhaps they were. But through most of the years that you were writing I was not able to detect many of those things. Doubtless the dissatisfied boys and some of the unsuccessful ones who got your ear pictured the other side. If they did, all is well and good, but I only want to make this statement to yous That you will find when you get out of tom _ that the picture won't be nearly what you have painted it through _ your years. I have never alibied nor have I appealed through pity or some other weakness, as others have, why they should be built up. The thing that deserves to live will live. And if a fellow makes a showing consistently it is because he makes his success by hard work end not by asking ecmeone to alibi for him. Wishing you continued success, I am Sincerely yours, ” Director of Physical Education and Recreation, Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. PAGE EIGHT—SPORT The Jayh q Regardless of what Dr. F. C. Allen thinks about the “money- grabbers” of the N.C.A.A., prob- ably to the man Kansas basketball followers hope that the Jayhawker team and the athletic board vote affirmatively to play in the west- ern tourney if the invitation is forthcoming. The western tournament at _ Kansas City March. 20 and 21 will consist of the following quintets: District 5—Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Aggies or Creighton. District 6—Rice. District 7—Colorado. District 8—Stanford or Oregon State. ‘ Link Lyman, former Nebraska line coach, has accepted a job with an insurance company and ‘will work the western part of the state of Nebraska... . Milt Piepul was turned down by the army because of ‘defective vision and will help coach the backs at his alma mater, Notre Dame, during spring prac- tice. Forest Evashevski, the former Michigan star who has been head grid coach at Hamilton college, will join the Pitt staff as back- field assistant with Charley Bowser. ... Dr. Arnold Greene and Harold Stebbins, both former associates of Jock Sutherland, have resigned. The 63 points which Oklahoma rang up against Kansas the other night is the largest number re- corded by a K.U. opponent since the beginning of the sport here in 1899, according to records. The previous high mark was held | by Indiana. The Hoosiers tripped K.U., 60 to 42, in the N.C.A.A finals in 1940 at Kansas City. Prior to that Nebraska Wesleyan’s 52 points, scored against Kansas in 1905, was the high. Highest score ever made by a ‘K.U. team against a foe was the 68 to 8 lick dealt Washington U. in Mareh 16, 1942. | _ Mr. Herman Beringer, Coach, Chetope, Kansas. Dear Coach Beringer: I em very sorry for the delay in replying to your letter of March 2nd. I will be happy to look at the boy's knee some time if you can bring him to Lewrence. It would cost in the neighborhood of $150.00 for an operation similar to the one Ralph Miller had. ‘This was done by Dr. Francisco. If you will let m: imow when you can bring the boy to Lawrenee, I will be happy to examine hin. Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation, Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. BOARD OF EDUCATION V.H. Addis Mrs. Robert Bell Mrs. Roy Guinn J. S. Henson Frank M. Hill Merton Karns OFFICERS Superintendent, John R. Ogden CHETOPA PUBLIC SCHOOLS —““ritaieen Kar Vice-President, V. H. Addis CHETOPA, KANSAS | Clerk, Hugh A. Randall Treasurer, Geo, Lyon March 2, 1942 Phogg Allen Kansas University Lawrence, Kansas Dear Mr. Allen: We have a football man with a bad knee simi- lar to Ralph Miller's of Chanute. To what extent was Mr. Miller's operation successful and how much was the cost in- volved. If necessary we can bring the boy to see you for examination. Sincerely yours, ~ Herman Beringer HB: BH Coaeh