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fellow. He is an old professional basketball player and a good coach, but St.
Johns has never gone into the NCAA play-off. They have always gone into the

Invitation, and they have beon picked by the newspaper writers, but no college
duthorities. er as a

. "You will pardon me in not laying claim to any titular honors, but I
will send you our record in our conference, In 1942 we went east and met St.
Banaventure's in Buffalo, one of .Ned Irish's promotions, ond defeated them 53
to 22, We played Fordham in the Garden and defeated then 31 to 30; and then
wé played St. Joseph's at Philadelphia, another Garden promotion, and defeated
them 63 to 38, sbithanttoons ;

"Tf you would ask my personal opinion, I would tell you definitely that
"western teams have repeatedly gone east and made clean sweeps of the entire
eastern areca, Stanford traveled with us on that eastern trip and they defeated
Conisius at Buffalo in this double~header that we played and won by a lop-sided
secre. The same night we defeated Fordhan, Stanford defeated Long Island Univ-
ersity by ® large sccre. The same night we defeated St, Joseph's, Stanford de-
feated Temple, so there were two western teams from different sections making
clean sweeps in all games. 7 .

ie have not been able to meet the eastern teams out in our part of the

country. They could get big guarantees, but some of the boys around New York
_think that Philadelphia is far west, and Pittsburgh is just,out of this world.
Nat Holman's City College of New York team went out to little Bradley Tech of
Peoria, Illinois, about’ five or six ycars ago,.and were. defeated 67 to 356, or
about that relative score, So the eastern boys do not venture out west; in
fact, they have been gasping for victory breath with western teams for the last
seven or eight years, This is not e biascd opinion, but an accurate one. All
you have to do is look at the record of wostorn tears going east, arid it is an
_ exception if they lose over one gane out of four. So that is 750 per cent on
the cther fellow's playing floor, and playing undor officials who call then
quite difforently. . It is exactly the same situation as if an eastern team would
come west. They would get different playing conditions tnd different officiating.

"I am always glad to give boys in the service a prompt reply. I am send-=
ing you one of our Jayhawk Rebounds, a publication that we get out to our boys
in the service. If you are interested in receiving this, let me know and I will
put you on the mailing list." >

Now I have just received a letter from Wayne Clover, dated May 16, in
which ho says: . "Your letter arrived and it was just the right dope. Outside
of orders home, it was about the biggest morale booster I could get. However,
I'm afraid the boys from the east coast had a corresponding decrease in morales
I just put your letter on the bulletin board in the wardroom, then sat back and
watched their faces as they read it. There wasn't much they could say.”

Certainly, Wayne, I try to be fair to all sections, but so few people
understand the difference between these organizations. .I am gled if I could
be of some service to you. : ae

Congratulations on your new rank, Lt. Col. Roy E. Weinzettel (APO 133,
New York). I was delighted to know that you saw Ted Bank who is now out of the
Army and heading up the Athletic Institute. You montion that Frank MeCornick,
director of athletics at Minnesota, is in Paris and in charge of the post-war
Army athletic program; also that Dr. Cornwell of North Carolina, is the handy-
man on Iac's staff. Interesting to our ]figsouri Walloy frionds is the news that
Major (now) Arthur Schabinger and other prominent fellows in the athletic world
have gone over to help put this tromendous program across. Col, Weinsettel