JAYHAWK REBOUNDS
May 26, 1945

No. 16

Dear Fellew Jayhawkers:

In our Jayhawk Rebounds issue Noe 16 last month I promised that I
would reprint the stery of "Listening For a Droning Plane", and the fight
that Bill Johnson waged on that memorable night back in 1932 when Kansas,
Missouri and Oklahoma were fighting it eut fer first place in the Big Six
championship basketball race.

__ Back in 1924 when I wrete "My Basketball Bible", I wrote a story about
the big game - that Kansas-Missouri epic struggle back in 1923, describing
the ever=victerious team when they conquered the Tigers twice in a single
yeare My purpese in writing this stery was to try te impress the ceaches and
readers that inspirational ceaching plays a great part in victoriese It is
just as valuable fer a ceach te recognize the psychology of coaching as it is
for him te mew plays, formations and alse te understand the physical struc-
ture ef the beys whe are playing en the team.

In the present book, “Better Basketball", I have enlarged that section
under the heading, Tales of the Yesteryears. There are seven yarns that I
have getten tegether and all of them are based on fact. This steryof Bill
Jehnsen is as definitely a part of my teaching of basketballas are the
fundamentals contained in my text.

Listening For A Droning Plane

For I dipt inte the future, far as
Human eye could see,

Saw the Vision of the world, and all
The wonder that would be;

Saw the heavens fill with commerce,
Argesies of magic sails,

Pilots ef the purple twilight dropping
Down with cestly bales;

Heard the heavens fill with shouting,
And there rained a ghastly dew
From the nation's airy navies grappling

In the central blue.
--Tennyson.

In his lene flight from America to France, Charles A. Lindbergh, in
1927, heoked up the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, and thus further
materialized this poit's prophetic dream of almost a century before.

In lesser degree, in his own smaller world in the middle west, Bill
Jehnson, phenemenal Kansas center ef 1932, electrified basketball feollewers
by @ hereic flight from his family's grave let in the cemetery at Oklahoma
City, Okla., te the basketball court en Mount Oread at the University of
Kansas e

On this particular Saturday night, the universities of Missouri, Okla-
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