You and I both imow that the boy has got to have
more than mere athletic ability to be the hero that he should be,
though he is one of the greatest athletes in the worlds I have in mind
now so many stars =< college athletes ~ that were “busts" when they got
out of school because they thought that the whole world would continue
to cheer for them just because they had physienl excellence on the
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Chi ether wight 1 bad diemer with Meide Bown over at Vis. em
home of Professor W. Se Johnson, head of the English De artment here |

at the University. ‘eldo Bowman was a little, frail slip of a chap
here from Linwood, a little towm about 15 miles from Lawrence. lle
was not a good basketball player, but he had a wonderful brains In
his first year he did not make the team and barely made the squade _
During one of my summer coaching schools here he came up to me, very
impatient, and said, “Just what is the matter with me anyhow?" I os
didn't tell him that he had a very fragile physique, but what I did is”
say was, “Yell, Waldo, about everything. You will bounce the ball to aoe
‘the floor when it is not necessary. ‘You pivot when it is wmecessary,
and generally you pivot into your man without looking when you should
always pivot to the sideline, because the guard plays between you and
the basket, and if you would pivot toward the sideline you would always»
have possession of the ball. Then if you were careful enough to look —
before you bounced the ball or passed it you would be in position to
make a good passe You arejittery, jumpy, you do not have control of
_ the faculties that will either mike you a player or a poor one."
And then I showed him some other things, and all -

me with his intense eagerness. FOS OF WE Merion tint he ws rene
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ever=victorious team of 1923. He went in as a substitute in one of the S|
most crucial games in a series at Columbia, Missouri, and it was his
sparkling and intelligent play in that game that turned the tide to
victory. ‘The nost the boy ever weighed in college ws 127 pounds. Tie

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The other night I eat in bis presence and I we thrilled at a1
his leadership and intelligence. At present he is editor of the ba 4
Engineering News Record of New York Citys edly tig engineering prejeek.
in the United States comes under his scrutiny for write-up and criticisms —
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he graduated from this Universitye He is now on a tour of the United —

States, calling on the big engineers of the coumtry, and I say b ee
engineerse His word carries much weight in councils of ° ‘eo

Al Smith made a 0 stetonent wheel Same over the Empire State ae
Building that they could ra os to the Empire Statee Bowman, eae
in his writings, challenged the Macaig ge uch a statement in his Eng= |
ineering News Record, and s howed why that was an untruth. Smith called
‘Bowman up and told him that he had no right to make statements such as
thate Bowaan told Smith that his statements were founded upon truth

  

 

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