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stepped out in Seen and maintained a lead, and Locked like near-champions. Kansas
played a marvelous - ae the Sooners.

Maybe the press dispatches of February 16 gave you an inkling of the Kansas-
Kansas State game at Manhattan, Kansas State was very much in the running for the.
championship, Since they had beaten the Sooners and had run up 70 points on
Nebraska, and had defeated Missouri, they were in a championship moods They had
not lost a game on the home court and this was the game that Kansas was to get her
licking. Not since 1937 had the Aggies won a game from K,U, Everything was in the
cards for Kansas State to break this jinx. And what a ball game it was! The teams
were splendid on both sides regarding their sportsmanship and fine attitude, But
the crowd had come for blood and they wented some of the Jayhawker meat. To make

a long story short, Kansas won in one of the most heetic games, Atkins, the Kansas
State boy, double dribbled in coming down the court and passed to an Aggie boy who
shot a goal which would have put the Aggies one point ahead, The crowd was so wild
they failed to hear the whistle or to see the double-dribble, and they thought the
referees had taken the ball and the game away from Kansas State.

After the game, John Lance and Eddie Hogue, ‘the officials, wnlxet over to the
scorers bench to verify the score, which Kansas had won by two points, and in the .
interval between the time John Lance left the scorer's table he was divested of
most of his raiment. A part of that said raiment hangs on the bulletin board here
in my office. It is a piece of cloth 3$ inches long and 23 inches wide, It has
black and white stripes, and at one time was a part of his refereeing shirt. This
is once where a referee lost his shirt and almost everything else if he had stayed
on the job long, but Coach Fritg Knorr of the Aggies grabbed Lance by the arm and
what clothing was still on him and hustled him down the side entrance to the base-
ment, There were only a few troubleemakers. The majority of the crowd were fine,
and all the coaches and athletic officers at Kansas State were wonderful. It was
just one of those mob scenes that happens when some chump starts to take matters
in his own hands. President Milton Eisenhower, Mike Ahearn, Coach Fritz Knorr, and Frank
Myers, the financial secretary, were all wonderful in seeing that we all got
courteous treatment. But for a while things were exciting. True, some nit wit
shadow boxer let all the air out of my tires by taking the valve cores out, but
this was done by some distorted brain who thought he was doing something to aid
the war effort. os

| Everything is sine and I am going down there on March 25 to epesk at a
basketball banquet at the Manhattan High School. Of course, we will do everything
we can to spread the gospel of good will and friendliness between the two Kansas
cousins - Kansas and Kansas State. The student body of Kansas State were fine. I
think it is a wonderful commentary to make when we think of Kansas and Kansas State,
two bitter rivals, playing all these years without any more trouble than has _
occurred. It speaks well for the leadership in athletics on both sides, = and may
it ever thus remain.

We had the surprise of our lives at Lincoln on February 10, when we had a fine
visit with Ray Evans. Our Kansas Jayhawkers got a big wallop out of talking with
him. Big, fine looking and. poised, aggressive, this All-American in two sports was
as modest as a college freshman. Ray stgyed with us in our defeat and until late
at night when we pulled out of Lincoln. He was consoling the boys after the red
hot Nebraskans had poured it on them. He met a buck private with whom he had played
baseball and he was just as swell to this G, I, Joe as if this private had been a
general. That is the thing that makes Ray Evans greats that, and a lot of other
things. Ray was on his way to his assignment with the Gypsy Task Force, and after