“TAY RA WK RE BOUND S”

Nay 26, 1945

Dear Fellow Jayhawkers: fogs bexlool saw bwoeal iy she athienek

-. «.+=.. In our Jayhawk Rebounds issue No. 15 last month I promised that I would
reprint the story of "Listening For A Droning Plane", and the fight that Bill
. Johnson waged on that memorable night back in 1952 when Kansas, Missouri and
-.. Okiehoma were fighting it out for first place in the Big Six championship ‘basket-
ball race. | — OTS a ca f Lod bad

. ..+» . Back in 1924 when I wrote "My Basketball Bible", I wrote a story about
the big geme - that Kansas-Missouri epic struggle back in 1923, “describing the
ever-victorious team when they conquered the Tigers twice in a single years © My
purpose in writing this story was to try to impress the coaches and readers that
inspirational ccaching plays a great part in victories.” It is just as valuable

for a coach’ to recognize the psychology of coaching as it°is for him to know
plays, formations and.also to understand the physical structure of the boys who

_»)@re.playing on the team. .

In the present book, "Better Basketball", I havé enlarged: that section
g-under the heading, Tales of the Yesteryoars. There:are séven: yarns’ that I have
gotten together and.all.of them are based on facts’ This story of Bill’ Johnson
».is as. definitely a part of my teaching of basketball as are the fundamentals
contained in my text. 3 = 72S FONT, qVogia ontag wlomt mo eid;

 

_ Listening For A Droning Plane
“~ For I dipt inte ‘the future, far’ as”

Human eye could see, = © © ot ogfes
“Saw the Vision of the wordy ‘and all oo ©
“The wonder that would be; mio IL!
Saw the heavens fill with commerce,
.. ,. Argosies of magic sails,
* Pilots of the purple twilight dropping." ~~
“Down with costly bales; ™ pamotat be
a ® ° ° e . oa ‘ eVviv AMOS.
Heard the heavens fill with shouting,
\ SAnd there rained a ‘ghastly déew° °°) -- 5
* Prom the nation's airy navies grappling’ = «°"
ft _In the central bluc. --Tonyson.
RO flight from América to France, Charles 4. Lindbergh, in
1927, hooked up the Statue of Liberty and “the Biffel Tower, ‘and -thus further
materialized this poet's prophetic dream of almost a century before. 05°

wn +.» »-» In lesser degree, in his own smaller world in the middle west, Bill
Johnson, phenomena? Kansas center of 1932, electrified basketball follcwers by a

heroic flight from his family's grave Yot in ‘the cometéry at Oliahoma City,

Okla., to the basketball court on Mount Oread at the University cof Kansase*

On this particular Saturday night, “the universities of Missouri, Okla-
homa, ond Kansas were facing thoir final gomes’ in thé Big Six Conference’ Champ-