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PORTIS, KANSAS,
April the Seventeenth,

Dr. F. C. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Doctor Allen:

This will make the (Ifon't know how at times I have
started a letter to you, Generally, I do not quit on a letter but
it has been one thing and another this time and T have been very
busy besides, so that is it,

ft started writing you the night you had your last game
with KState there on Hill and had more than a page written when it
started getting intensely cold and I quit and went home, It was
after we had heard that you (KU) won from the Saggies, Of course.
{ was glad of that, but in the letter I had written some in reply to
an carlier letter from you as to Max being disillusioned and so ON»
However, by that time, Max had been doing so well towards the last
of the season that I felt he had changed some and was hitting a pace
i had always felt he eould,

So I destroyed the part of the letter I had written end
was glad for the word I got about Max » I had just gotten home that
night when the phone sounded and someone who had seen the game, called

was that he was always a gentleman on the court and he had never seen
or known of him doing a thing thatwas unbecoming, I was of course,
gkad for that, as I never had seen hin do a thing on the court here
in eight years of pahy that I could at all be ashamed of, The ref-
eree said it was unfortunate that Max fouled out: and that —*

he did not make a couple ealled on him, However, I felt that Max
was so happy, that he was trying so hard that he Likely fouled more
than he ordinarily would, His average all thru school here was two
fouls per game,

I feel that we owe you much for keeping Max going and
likely getting the most out of him, I judge that for a time there
on the Hill that-he might have felt there were sO many good boys that
he was just 'another! player and was content to drift along with the
teame Once in the.winter when he thought. he was going to be called
to service, he wrote me asking what to do. I waT could locate the
copy of letter I sent him, If I do I will send it to you, as it may
have had some bearing on his final streteh down the season's end.

Max writes me that he feels you (KU team) could have
won the NeaA at KC and also New York and been where Wyoming was if
the team had been able to Stay together, I felt so too, He said
that the team this year was almost unbeatable when they were all
clicking or having 'a good nicht,! But you had a grafbd season any-
way and we are all happy out this WAY. I got a tremendous kick -
out of you beating both@ Oklahoma teams down in their own yard.