_ I have never seen this side stressed at all, yet this is
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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
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iiscrepancy get by. Since Horace Mason's going many such errors
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. 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.