Heretofore we have had our freshmen and we taught them fundamentals.
Then when they became sophomores they had a few of the fundamentals. But
these boys in reality are freshmen and that is the difference. So I am
not sour or dour about the situation.

At the beginning of the season I picked Iowa State first - in a canter;
Oklahoma second; Missouri third; Kansas fourth; then Nebraska and Kansas
State. And that is the:way they are at this moment, and I think that is about
the way they will finish the season, although we play Nebraska Saturday
night at Lincoln, they we play Kansas State February 23 at Manhattan, and
our last home games are against the University of Missouri on February 26 and
against Iowa State at Lawrence on March 3. We still have a chance to tie
Missouri for third place.

Iowa State has Price Brookfield, the all-American West Texas State
Teachers star who played four years for West Texas and then played a year
of professional baseball and also a year of professional basketball in New
York last year. Then Louis Menze had three of his regulars from last year --
Uhlman and the two Wehde twins, Ray and Roy, and then he inherited Sauer from
the Navy, from Washington University another star player, and another from
St. Louis University and one from Drake, so he has a wealth of material.

‘So much for basketball. Now for the war.

A fellow appeared before a draft board and the physician in charge said,
"Strip." He looked the fellow over and then asked, "How long have you been
wearing that brace?" "Five years," the registrant said. "4F for you", said
the doctor.

The chap went home and told his friend. The friend said, "May I borrow
that brace?" "Sure", the fellow said. His friend appeared before the
examining physician at the induction center with the brace, sans his clothes.
"ow long have you been wearing that brace?" queried the doctor. "Five years",
said the friend. "6E for you", said the doctor. "6E!", said the inductee.

"T never heard of that before. What does that mean, doctor?" And the good
doc replied, "That means you will be in Egypt in six weeks. Any guy who can
wear a brace like that upside down can ride a camel."

I don't know how many 6E's we will catch from Lawrence, but we haven't
found any yet. :

Old "T-Hambone" Hunter is still with us and still fighting 'ém. He writes
as follows:

let Lt. T.Ps thovter, Jr., "Dear Dr. Allen:

Co. B, 2nd Bn.,; 9th Mar., Just a few dribbles, Doc, to let you
c/o Fleet Postoffice, know I'm still 0.K. and receiving the Jay-
San Francisco, California. hawk Rebounder regularly. Thought you might

like to know a little about our game with
the Japs on Bougainville. Well, everything was going fine until one day they
got me and my boys in a hot-box. I thought for a while they were going to
call in the outfielders to get us out. Fortunately for us, however, we got
out before they had time.

I have called it a game, Doc, and to me that's just about how it seemed.
The samé is true for most of the boys that return. The bad part of the whole
war is those boys who give their life to win. I had some of>those and for
them it must have been more than a game.

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