May 10, 1943.

Mr. Lee Po Benton,
37 Commonwealth Avenue,
Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Dear Lee: x

The basketball season is over and I guess it ig not necessary
to advise you not to get in that league. I would say thet basketball
is too strenuous for you, but doubtless you went ahead and played a

good game. I certainly would not advise it for a friend or relative
of mine. Handball is strenuous enough. Volley ball is the thing that
would be just about right for a busy man, such as you are.

_ Volley ball would provide you with a lot of sooial contacts,
friendly relations, and so forth, without that hypertension that exists
in basketball or in handball. A feliow who has to get up the noxt
morning end have all the zip that a salesman has - well, ita just a
little too much, I would say. |

: Z would like to write you a long paragraph end tell you how we
coach our boys not to foul. It is a mtter, of course, of individual

defensive fundamental teaching. We teach the boys not to foul but it

is founded upon good fundamentals. Pulling the arms back and keeping
the forearms on a line with the body rather than overlapping is one of

the first fundamentals, and then the underhand eut rather than the over~
hend, using the extension under. But I will wait util I meet with you
‘before I go into the explanation of teaching you this new non-fouling

Gane e ;

Rather than to write you a longer letter I am sending you a
mimeographed letter that I have written to all the boys in ‘tthe service.
This will give you a resume of all the basketball season and will also
tell you that Mrs. Webster and Earl Falkenstien have moved over in Mr.
Kloos's office. Thank you for sending me the picture of Jack Ballard
cheering in the Great Lakes game. It really is a good picture of the
big seamp, isn't it? a

With all good Wishes, I am |
Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
Varsity Basketball Coach.