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OF THE GAMES OF LOS ANGELES
U. S. A, 1932

W. M. Garvanp Bipe., 117 West NintH Sr. *
Los ANGELES ig CALIFORNIA

REPLY TO

(GENERAL SECRETARY Capre Appress ‘‘LAOLYMPIC”

 

 

PLEASE WRITE SEPARATE LETTER . October a1; 1930. Caste Copes: ACME
FOR EACH SUBJECT a BENTLEY’S
PETERSON’S 3rp

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrenee, Kansas.

Dear Doctor Allen:

We are acknowledging yours of October 14th addressed to Mr.
Garland concerning basket ball.

We have had this basket ball situation before us, in one way
or another, for over a year. While certain field games are left optional |
with the Organizing Comnittee there is the fundamental requirement of ye
making the official program first from the established and officially re- )
quired Olympic sports and games. There is also, on the part of the Inter-
national Olympic Committee, the oft expressed desire that the program be
reduced rather than lengthened. This, together with the sixteen day limi- /
tation for the period of the Games and our situation relative to facilities,
plus the fact that in the official program itself we will have to organize
and successfully administer approximately one hundred and thirty five dis-
tinet and independent “shows” during sixteen days and nights, have been the
guiding conditions under which we prepared the program which was approved
at the recent Congress in Berlin.

We have also the situation of the foreign countries having to
husband their rather meager financial reserves to meet their budgets and
insure representative teams in the principle departments of the Games, Track
and Field, etc. etc.jand to add another feature to the already heavy pro-
grem would be adding to their burden, shortening their participation in the
traditional events and we would still have our impossible local situation
as to facilities etc.

We, as the Organizing Committee, have the privilege of putting
on a demonstration of one strictly American game which is not known inter-
nationally and one demonstration of an international game not known in the
United States. We have chosen American football as the American demonstra-
tion and it will be played in the Stadium on the afternoon of the Marathon,
between start and finish of same.

As basket ball is played both in the United States and in other
countries it would not come under the strict interpretation of the demonstra-
tion idea. American football has been decided upon as the best American