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Mr. Forrest C. Allen #2 April 1, 1931

You would be welcome, I am sure,
at the meeting of the Representatives from
the Chartered Boards of Officials. These
officials take themselves entirely too
seriously and go into the matter of recommendation
on rules revision at great length--and I may say
needlessly. The most boring and time consuming
part of our basketball meetings in the past few
years has been from these Representatives of
the Chartered Boards, who bring before the Rules
Committee a lot of petty and trivial stuff.
You will probably be bored to death if you do
attend the Thursday meeting. I was there once
and said "never again".

The most important meeting of
the entire session is, or should be, the
Rules Revision Committee meeting on Friday, to
begin at 10:00 A, M. Only members of the Rules
Revision Committee are slated to take an active
part in this work. The hope of getting something
done intelligently and expeditiously rests in
this Committee doing a good job and in the
Joint Committee respecting fully the work done
by the Revision Committee. Hepbron serves as
Chairman of this Committee. He has on there
from the A.A.U. on the Rules Committee,
Immenhausen and Hunt. I am suggesting to
George that if either of these men are not
there or could be replaced you be put in place
of one of these men. In case this is not done,
I suggest that you be present at the Rules
Revision Committee meeting. While you would
have no official standing under those
circumstances, you would have opportunity to
speak and to exert an influence on what is
done by the Committee, which opportunity I
feel certain you would use with discretion.

May I say here without giving
any offense that I hope you and Dr. Meanwell
may work with full harmony and a fine degree
of cooperation on this entire Rules Committee
business. When I see you, I will enlarge upon
this statement somewhat, but I do not believe
I will be misunderstood at this moment.

If the work of the Rules
Revision Committee is well done, the Joint
Rules Committee meeting on Saturday becomes
much easier. It has been the history of the
last three or four meetings that the Joint
Committee session has concluded about 6:00