Mec. 15,1942 Dp mtecke Carges Kane prepaid re . ae AOU anruachuire gun platoon 7 : Auer AU bauve Ae arof G40 Anns , wwe Th nmnalana, guilty , ote Coesccf “are heatle & Ure 20 fe a. oA 7. me es Chat 2 bantct for Tins . D hipe O'cnn de a ganty —_ ae sectabnaty A Digeay lay Boat ah SS loo eK Chr Ag . Th Ancuek ark ft - ud Sa oe hark Co Narckle—MeU0er CrAme 1 ec otk, Aan 4 - Mtn sy Gees gan banat tad ae , Naas ae ae Sa Sey hon of, aR a Sig a er HN NA ee eH ee i ae ae = LER NO SOL Ree N ae . D> Phy a I have recently finished a Wonderfully Successful assignment of umpiring at The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress; and having become captivated with the Friendly Hospitality of the fine people of Wichita and surrounding territory, have decided to accept the Manasership of the Athletic Goods Dept. of The Gateway Snorting Goods Company. So now I am one of your citizens. It certainly would give me a great deal of pleasure to be allowed to Serve all the Athletic and Sporting Goods needs of yourself, your organization and it's personnel, and your friends. So please come into our store and get acquainted, and tell me your problems and needs so that I may help you to solve and supply then. Don't forget that I am looking forward with keen articipation of soon seeing you, and to be given the occrtunity of Serving you for our Mutual Benefit. Yours For A Free and Unified America! Sh. Kank, Leo Kallis noes PO. Goods et. cli Nh. Ai alt ARNE AE Bats Malavida a as cabot Rens imi a inland | ai! i Titty. es ides : aoe Rial anus yin ‘ii abt a ne ee didi UE ii juny et a ia " i tb tl hy aa Big Six, of witioh you aske FOR, Consh. FCA: All Portis, Kansas, October 26th, Nineteen Forty-two. Dr. F. C. Allen, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: I have written you in past about many things and this may be a new one, It is from a political angle. I am interested in the candidates for attorney general in the state of Kansas and as you likely know one of them, Mr. Mitchell of your city. He is on the republican ticket and his opponent is a My, Oswald. T have heard that Oswald has questioned the ability and so on of Mitchell. If you can make me any confidential suggestion as regards Mitchell I will be glad for it or for anything you care to say. I keep in tab with KU and the Hill some through daily pa- pers and watch the various activities, See the football there is not very heavy this year. Maybe it will improve in future. The future looks dark now and I do not know what will hap- pen and I guess nobody knows. Max is to be inducted into the Navy as a flyin® cadet at Kansas City tomorrow (Tuesday) night. I am gled that he will be able to help in some way and hope for the re= turn of all of the boys. I have received papers to fill out and I may be e@alled into some sort of service if the war keeps going. By a year from now I think we will have the upper hand in the actione Haven't heard much about basketball yet (the big six) but spose you will be getting down to work soon there. I think Oklahoma will be the one hardest to dispose of and one or two other teams of the BSix may come through with good teams. I have hei@d there is some disaffection down at Norman over the U. team but I think they will be very good despite that. T notieed the articles about Mallot, Harvard, football and so on, and it was quite amusing. There will always be fellows who white and who will think up something to say. Don't let me take your time except for brief reply as to Mitchell if you feel so inclined... By the way, would you mind sending me a couple of good new auto tires, size 6.50x16? I would accept them as birthday gift. % pest Regards to all, and sincerely, .— is : a5 haf : ae nf ft a § ie | bi | i i Hn r, i Ha sj Pett i ! i i sf § He ith The pat ca? i i : i Hill a sj | Ha Gt ln i 7 ! pe ‘ ink ec SF, UNITED STATES MARINES : Dean Dee? Birauntid & awk gan for wiry pares. een eas aw a/ - LA FOWL in ee LS phew ck. eee. fo durveal Lhe Qapo § Wag a would pre es a the ia Sey aye nay Bast a bunk ; 3 on Cu+ — Cane Min. > ap PL oot : ya s Soe. ; ee a B Mos wetahinst fistias tark ne pn s a - — ; me ee dave “You know, Clint, some of the boys here think that the work in regard \ to the physical conditioning-course is not necessaty. What do you really think abeut it? Pee I think thet it 4s very necessery. “These boys don't really comprehend what they are in for. Last week, for example, ‘re went four successive days from 2 efoleek in the morning until six in the evening, asd then beoause of our classes weren't allewod to go te bed unt] eleven otoloak. na the next morning we were up at 2 again. We are in the cold and wot all day, dp to our ineos in mi. By 3:30 or 4 @eme we get inte Higgins speed boat temo = \ we wear dumgarees (big ow - and run all day with wet: feets” It font just spending 16 hours « day walking aleng - we are busy every minute of ‘the ‘the. We don't stop to eat, _ even, but take rations end eat while we are 5 workle. * e8rrYrifles, knives, bayonets and grenades. Some of the beys carry ben machine guns end mortars all This is what we did last week. Each week we have work from 5 in the morning until 10 ot night. hie Yin tu schoo! I used to holler about four or five classed) day, ond if I had had to take. lpeyeianl training three times. a week that would have been worse. These fellews in school have ey. a conception of what they are going in fer. When we are on night reids we come in about midnight er l er 2 o'clock, and get to sleep about 4 hours. Even those of us who are in tip-tep shape are dead tired. We learn to sleep any place, any time, anywhere. We greb @ nap for half an hour or lenger whenever we can - a as wets, in the mud - anywhere. When. I was a kid I disliked very much running threugh thistles, briers, etc., but now we es through all ef these things and never think anything about it; in fact, if we get te lie down on the thorns for a half-hour nap it is like sleeping on a bed of roses. It is amazing what you can ‘take when you | -— te, and you like ite We recently went on a l6-mile hike in four hours in the anit. and. then went on tactical preblems all afternoon. The next morning we started out o2- , | again and in my party was a Notre Dame feotbell player whe said his feet were killing him. About neon he waa ebeut shot and his feet were so bed that he had to be picked up in a truck. That meant 20 points against him, in addition te losing his standing among the fellews. He said, "Kanaga, the fellows sure gave me a heat, didn't they?" And I said, “Sure, they lest a let ef their respect for you". He had teld the fellews vetere that it tock the big, tough men to get aleng in the Marines. Wo one ever goes te sick bey without a real reason - if he does the fellews oall him a "gold-brick", | We have spent five rugged months, whichwe beeen by running ebstacle courses, bayonet courses, and enlis thenies with rifles. Gradually more equipment was added, until we were doing a1] of these leaded with full equipmeat, Ths’ wb- staele course was very mush like the ene you have here at K.U. These fellows ought te take a eouple of hows of conditioning every duy te reelly cot in Whape. No man in the University should be exempt, regardless of his desire er physical condition. This is a national emergency, and it is a miter of life er death. During the five months spent at Quantico we have learned much of Japanese taitien: A British colonel whe had been at Dunkirk, Burma and Malay teld us he would rather fight the Germans than the Japs any time. | There were ateut 20 former all-American college football players in my company. A follow at tims hits reck bottom, but you can't quit. You feel dis- couraged because all ‘the time it is thrown in your face thet you may not make the grade. They bounced shout forty out of 160 in the candidates class in the first ten weeks. The first/wecks might be compared to mxfxaxk fraternity life for a freshman. The Marine ‘Sergeants are teugh, and a fellew takes punishment for a let of little things. I Learned/o koe my mouth shut. We have te shine our shees abeut five times a day. One big sergeant found a boy whe didn't have his shees shined, and when he locked at mine I said, "I've got mine shined up pretty — fi geod". I think this irritated him, because he said they didn’t look any tee good te him, and I was given ‘two hours ef heavy saligradtig orders just for mouthing off. he Another tine I was sont around the field (a half mile) in double tine because I leeked down the lay one morning after we had poms drilling for several hours. One time we steod at ativen tic fer 45 minutes, end Guring that time I locked down ence and up again, and spent thro hours Sepang Vee rules te Re aS attention, I had to sleep with ny rifle for two nights, ind ane futlew had te carry his rifle with him sviiviin fort a whole week beoause he didn't have it cleaned prsperly. i \ | Another interesting experience was when the sergeant came down the line and noticed one fellow with @ shirt pocket unbuttened. The guy had to take the butten eff, sew it on @ towel, take it to the sergeant who tore it eff the tewel and teld the fellew to sew it on nis) ante qgatn, and repeat the entire precess ten times. | 3 i : We were alwys kept busy. The place is kept spic and span, eleaner than a hospital. We never had tino to do mush ¢lse = about an hour during the day to glance at the papers or write levees When you get ensy you really appreciate ‘and enjoy the letters from home. Sometimes on week-ends we oan cateh up with the mows, but thet is the only tine I veally feel lucky to be in the Marines. I sey this with ne reflection — on the ether services, but this branch ef the service appeals to me and I would rather be a private in the Marines then an officer in the Army or Navy. The ether day on a street car in Kansas City a lady asked me if there really is any feeling between the Army and the Navy and the Marines, and I said, "No, they get along fine, but the Marines always look after the army end the Navy." I was the only one in my class at Quantico from Kansas - Ain feot, tiey called me "Kansas". Most of the boys were from the Hast and South and the Pacific Coast. Not many from the mid-west. We do not feel we are in as goed shape yet as we want te be. We want to be able te do double time all day long, and wo probably will be by the time we push eff. CLINT KANAGA Senior Manager, Kansas Relays, 1942 Sperts editer of Kansan and Jayhawker, 1941-42 Sachen | Owl Society Sigma Delta Chi (honorary journalism fraternity) treasurer for three years of Phi Delta Thota _ Member of Freshman Basketball Team 1938 Covered Intramural sports for Kansan for two years Miss Ruth Kenney, Seoretary, Bureen of Correspondence Study. Deax Miss Kenney: I am sending you a copy of the letter that I sent to all the basketball squad meubers this summer, together with a copy of our basketball schedule. The copy I em sending you is one of the left-overs, and is rather mussy, but I wanted you to see it. I.am also enclosing the footbell schedule, and a copy of the.rules and regulations of the Big Six Con- ference. I want to particularly call your attention to the rules on eligibiliy, page &. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. tr. Re Me Kinnan, Supervisor of College Athletics, Washington Jniversity, st. Louis, Moe a mo oe, ck eee Saks we We cee a peeneaas : ee See Se eS Ry See ee ee that number. I am sorry that we are uable to play you this year. Thanking you for your inguiry, and with best wishes, I am Direstor of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. WE kk & 43 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY + + + f SAINT LOUIS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL September l, 1942 EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS Dr, Forrest Allen, Director of Athletics, Kanses University, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: I am writing you to inquire of the possibility of perhaps arrenging a basketbell game with your Kansas Univers ity team for this coming winter. We are trying to complete our schedule and I find that I need at least one more home game. I thought perhaps there might be some poss ibility of you having an open date which you would be willing to fill out with us, and also of the possibility of coming to St. Louis to play us here after your game with Missouri University at Columbia Missouri. I would appreciate very much your giving me your reaction to such @ game. With best personal regards, Sincerely yours, Zul , . R. M, Kinnan,; Supervisor of College Athieties RMK: MAS