9.

Captain Dean Martin,. who played a bang-up center field for our varsity
baseball team a few years ago, dropped in the office to say hello. While on the
hill he also stopped at the Endowment Office to leave a check for $20.00 for the
living memorial fund honoring T. P. lWunter. T. P. played first base and pitched
on the same varsity that Dean played on. You could always count on Captain Martin
for a timely. single or double if thero was a man on base. His batting average is

still high with us in any league.

; Right after basketball season we started on the "grapefruit and lettuce
leaf" tour - basketball banquets to you. The Co-op Club of Lawrence, Kansas, gave
the basketball team their usual highly entertaining basketball banquet. This was
held at the Colonial Tea Room on March 8, Co-captains were elected for the year -
Gordon Reynolds of Tacoma, washington, and Kirk Scott of Newton, Kansas. The.
followers considered the record of the season very good, considering the inauspici-
ous start that Kansas made. Then on March 14th I journeyed to Welda, Kansas, for
the first of my basketball banquets. On March 18 I was in Denver for the AAU games,
then to Emporia, to Manhattan, and on to Kansas City for the N.C.A.4. finals on
Saturday night, the 24th. Then followed banquets at Effingham, Shawneoe-lMission,
Parkville, Mo., Pawnee Rock, Wyandotte High in Kansas City, Kansas, Burlington,
Stockton, Grinnell, Salina. : Bae

The only date we missed, through flood and high water, was the one at
Galesburg, Ill. The Santa Fe was washed out below Topeka but the Santa Fe authori-
ties said there would be a train made up in Kansas City so that I might arrive at
my destination. The planes were all grounded and the Santa Fe could not assemble
the train, so we had to call that date off the morning of the trip. We made a trip
to anthony, Kansas, the next day, and then on to Bedford, Iowa, following the Gales-

burg cancellation.

It was a highly interesting and very strenuous undertaking, but we lived
through it. Salina won the Class AA championship and Anthony won the Class A.
Halstead repeated with the Class B championship, and Emie Quigley spoke out there.
So we covered all the Kansas championship basketball tournaments in good shapes

, On April 21 the Athletic Association entertained the 41st annual Inter-
scholastic Track Meet. About 800 Kansas boys participated in a splendid meet under
perfect weather conditions, Few records-were broken, but it was a great turn out.

Now my commencement dates are starting, and on May 9th I go to Circleville,
Kansas; on the 15th, Reading, Kansas; on the 16th, Lane, Kansas; on the 17th,
Beattie, Kansas; on the 18th, Summerfield, Kansas; and on May 22nd I speak at. the
Russell, Kansas, Rotary Club who are entertaining forty senior. boys there who have
been Junior Rotarians during the year.

Circleville, Kansas, is S/Set. Ralph N. "Red" Dugan's old home town. Red,
I will tell the citizens of Circleville regarding your fine record that you.made
here at the University and of the record that you are now making with Uncle Sam at
Las Vegas, Nevada.

(bone 4 ee Maneey night I attended my first City Council meeting and was. immed-

chur eee “ate Some exciting episodes. Mayor Russell appointed me, among

ho® Se hts Cees sy the Police Committee. There was an Indian boy from Haskell

“and a , iffisulty at the Varsity Theater when the police were called,

but Pig erie e = en to the station some blows were struck - not firearms,

and fives sob ah Setic’e appeared in the daily paper which caused great excitement
. dy the Police Committee has had three meetings with the public, some taking