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.