Portis, Kansas,
December the Eleventh,
Nineteen FortyeTwo.

 

Charley Dlack,
Lawrence, Kansase
Kansas University:

bear Priend Charleys

tT am noticing by the papers that you are not with
the Kil basketballers at present. The press inference was that
maybe you and Coach Allen had had differences of opinion. f
am sorry to mow that, if it be true, and I will hope that it is.
* something else.

‘Why I write is to say thet we are all expecting a lot
from you this year and unless your difficulty,is one that you feel
fully justified in, that is not playing any this year, then I

.. hope you can see your way clear to cet back in right awaye

es : in a way, Charley, you owe us all something because
~ we have built up expectations for the year and we had you down as
one of the Big Six ‘big shots’ after your fine showing last year |
we just naturally figured you to carry us alone this year. Without
we ean't win the Big Six and of course there would be an oute
side chance that we would not anyway, But I think we can if you
fellows all get going as i know you cane aa
As regards Coach Allen, I have knowm him a long time
and I mow some of his faults. ie is mean to little chickens, he
serathhes matches on his neck and argues with the neighbor chilfren.
But regardless of his glaring faults, he has quite a little on
the ball, Chariey, and if you can get as mv¢h on the balles .
he has, we will wih. You know Coaches are d to have the last
word, Emmest Quigley used,to say that when ca led a foul,
it was 2 foul whether you toched the man or not, It is that way
with Allen <= when he says, 'this is it! then that's 1%. And he's
been calling the shots pretty streicht for forty years and all
he has ever missed I can count on a few fingers.

With the war coming on and maybe this the last good
year KU will have for a time, we need you badly. Like to see you
get in there and show Doc up. That is show him that you are @
better player than he is a coach, If you do that, Charley, we will
be right in there next March and miybe get a trip back to KC againe

Kindest regards to ali and hope to see you some time
this season in a game or te., I'm writing because I am intensely

interested in your team andi the KU reputation.
‘
. ef Sincerely, | \
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