JAYHAWK REBOUNDS April 26, 1945 No. 15 Dear Fellew Jayhawkers: I have just returned frem KFKU where I reviewed fer Professer Jehn Hankins ef the English Department ef the University, Jehn R. Tumis’ beok en “Yeas Wildcats!" published by Harceurt, Brace & Co. This is Mre Tunis' first basketball stery. Previously he had written baseball, foetball and tennis spert steries. But this, I believe, is his first effert with a Basketball stery. About ten years age I had a very interesting experience with Mr. Tunis. He wrote fer Harper's, "Badminton, fhe Fastest Growing Game in the World." I challenged Mr. Tunis' authenticity en badminton as being the fastest grew- ing game in the world and wrote him giving autheritative statements to the effect that basketball was the fastest grewing game in the worlde I contended that ever 52 natiens played basketball, numbering 20 millien players among its partici- pantse And in the United States alene there were a hundred million spectaters attending the games annually - this accerding te the U. S. Chamber ef Commerce “reperts te the federal gevernment. Mre Tunis and I had a very interesting and heated series ef written commun- ications, and finally he came eut te Lawrence, Kansas, fer an interview. I feund him a very highly entertaining and prevecative gentleman. We seen settled our score, much te the pleasant reactien ef beth ef us, and new since he has written "Yea Wildcats!" I feel that basketball made a definite impression upen him. I found that he had been te Eurepe sixteentimes and had never been west ef the Mississippi ence. He had Harverd affiliations and at that time was sending a nephew through Harvard University. He was greatly delighted with the campus ef the University ef Kansas. It was just as if he had stepped inte a new werld se far as his previous exper- iences were concerned. Mr. Tunis said, "Will you take me ever the campus?" And I said I would be delighted. Se we get in the Buick and as we drove aleng I pointed eut the buildings with their traditiens. We dreve around Watkins Memorial Hespital and I showed him the beautiful hespital and the home of Mrs. Watkins , the benefactress. We had just gene past Mrs. Watkins’ residence and swung in frent ef Watkins and Miller Halls when a young woman with muscu- lar frame, red hair, square face, and a straightforward glance came north from the old Speoner-Thayer library. Mr. Tunis said, "Stepi", jerked open the door and jumped eut with a wild exclamatien te this yeung woman, "Who's the Presi- dent ef Czecheslevakia?" Iwill never ferget the glance of that girl frem the Western Kansas plains when she leoked at that young would-be masher, in her epinion. Te save the day, I jerked epen my deor and said, "Parden me, this is Mr. Tunis from New Yerke He is visiting our campus and interviewing our students.e" With the great est air ef disdain and a casual summing up of the individual, and with a quick snap she said, "Why, Benesch, ef coursée" With great glee he raised his arms ine xclamation and said, "Goods Geed§ Geeds" He thought he was mixing among primitive people} He was se surprised and delighted to think that a student walking across the campus would knew 167.6