I have given you boys our basketball schedule, and now a word about our
ceurt. Could you be here fer our epening game on Friday, December 8, you
would be delighted with the improvements made on the basketball court. The
fleor has been sanded until it is levely, and there is enough red paint te
make you think that yeu were in a cocktail leunge. The free threw circles and
the lines inside of t hem all have been painted red, - the old Kansas crimson, or
rather, its scarlet. because it is flaming. The two-foot center circle is in
red and there is an entire sea of red three feet around the entire playing
area. The end lines and side lines are in blue, broken with a circle of white
every tem inches. There is a big blue K superimposed on the island of red in
the center of the floor, and tha blue K has a thin white line around it, setting
it out in magnificent fashion.

For the first time since Hoch Auditorium has been built, a real basket-
ball surface with all the trimmings is now in effect. Now, the only thing
that remains is to have a team that will dedicate such a beautiful playing
surface. And as one great, big, husky football captain whe had more power
than eratery and good English, said, when called upon for a speech, "All I
have get to say is, we'll de the best I cm."

"Little" Elmer Schaake is my assistant basketball coach this season.
Jehnny Bunn, now Dean of Men at Stanford, years age was my assistant, and
Frosty Cox, new ceach ef the Colerado Bisons, was my assistant, and now
"Little" Elmer Schaake is my assistant. He helped Henry Shenk in football, as
you know. Elmer and I will give tema fight."

Your friends - Henry Shenk, Elmer Schaake, Reg Strait and Ray Kanehl -
all extend their best wishes and greetings of the Yuletide season.

; Last Saturday morning, prior to the Kansas-Oklahema game, Cpl. Harold

E. Van Slyck, USMCR, of Tepeka, Kansas, walked inte my office and told me the
stery ef how Lt. T. P. Hunter died on Guam. The Marines affectionately
called him "Teep", but he was always "T.P." to everybody on Mt. Oread. Cpl.
Van Slyck stated that on July 21, the first day of the landing on Guam, they
landed around 10 e'cleck in the morning. “It was a rough landing. It teok
most of the day to secure our pesitions. Everything was quiet, and we had
started te dig.in for the night. Our company was not tied in with anyone, and
we were right on.the coast, T. P.'s platoon went up areund the hill te pretect
company headquarters. T. P. put his men out and had called the sergeants of
his squads to come in for the scoop (instructions).

"T, P. was kneeling. dovm in a shallew hele with one of his enlisted men,
waiting fer the other men te come ine T. P.'s platoon was on the slope of
the hill, and over on the ether side was a cave partly concealed by bushes in
front of it. A Jap raised up out ef this cave and turned a machine gun of
T. Pe Te. Pe and the man with him were killed instantly. We carried them
dewn and buried them that night beside the road, as we had to meve on the
next morning. Later the bedies were moved and buried properly.

"The less of T. P. made the Marines fighting mad. They were out te
bag their queta ef Japs. That night when the Japs came cut of the cave we
were waiting fer them. They came out and started te walk past - so close they
could have touched the muzzles ef eur guns, had they known. Our boys with the
machine guns waited until the Japs get right up clese, then really mowed them
downe We killed 50 Japs without less ef another single man in our outfit."

I am sure all of you will be interested in a letter I received from Lt.
James R. Surface, USMCR, now at Oceanside, California, a K.U. graduate in '42.

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