Dre Me Le Kirkpatrick,
416 Mills Building, ~
Topeka, Kangase ,

Dear Dr. Kirkpatrick:
Mr. Bari Palconstion handed me your letter to reads

Yes, wo started off pretty poorly. My purpose was seit to
point the team for the Denver game. I could have found out much
about their style of play, but 1 wanted to see what versatility
the boys, and see how we could meet their offense and defense -
whatever they employed. I thought this method would be more bene-
ficial, but I fould out we weren't very versatile.

I thought it was a great thing that we were’ able to luck
cut a win under the conditions because it could very easily have
been a defeat. That gar Senge: paid great dividends. We played
against Bethel the next night, and although thet was a different
teem the boys were perked up and really angry at themselves for

— 80 poorly es Denver.

. After all, I guess Denver wasn't so bad ag I thought they
were because on Thursday night they beat Bradley Institute back
home by ten points. I guess we weren't so good because the Den-
_ ver coach, Ketchwa, said we were the poorest tean he had met. I
rather found him to be a popper-off because he thought I was
writing a sequel to one of my books whdn I was talking to the boys.
When the game was over he came up and said, “Well, this is the |
first game I ever lost on a double dribble,” - meaning Black made
it, because he did. I said, “Well, I guess we are even, because
when the ball was out of bounds on the south side it was Kansas’
bell and our boys went up to receive it, whichwuld have made it
in their own front court, and the referee said it was Denver's
ball. Well, it was in Denver's back court and it caught our boys
flatfooted in that the ball did not have to be handled in the back
court by Denver. Denver threw it down to their front court and it
cost us two points. That makes us even, but we are still one me
ehead, aren't we?"

 

I don't often use guch tactics, but he was rather a i
aleck and I thought he had it coming to him. We were doggone lucky
to win. I don't know whether it was good intelligence or sound
policy to do what I did, especially if we should have lost the game.