HOTER, YAGQUEME:

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO.

PRIVATE OFFICE

 

 

ST.CHARLES ,MO.

 

CARE, GIRARDEAU: MO, __ we

 

Dr. F.G. Ailen
Univ. of Kansas

Dear Doctor:

Congratulations upon your fine basketball
season this year. Of course it will be climaxed this
week-end with your team's victory over Indiana Univ.,
we hope. There will be a lat of us in Kansas City
Saturday pulling for your team to win the title that
so many of your teams have deserved, namely, the
foremost college basketball team of the nation.

I also wish to thank you, Doc, for making my
life in St. Louis more liveable with the swell rec-
ord that your team has compiled this season. The
“smoky city" shows a decided inclination in the
favor of Big Ten teams and I have had to collect
guite a sum of money from several people this year
who insisted upon trying to prove their point with
a cash investment.

All during school, Doc, I had planned to get
a blanket my senior year to have as a commemoration
of my athletic experiences while at the tniversity
because it seems to mean so much more with the name
and years of participation on it. Confuetus say “he
who recall c@llege days longer, stay young longer,’
and this blanket very definitely entered into my
plans for staying young. Perhaps somewhere along the
line there was a misunderstanding on my part in re-
gard to the ruling that you mentioned pestricting an
athlete to two awards for the three year's partici-

.pation in a sport,because had I been aware of this

I certainly would have passed up a sweater for the
blanket. Earj Falkenstein and myself,after the 1955
season,made plans for the blanket to the point of his
suggesting that & pay for the addition of the All-
America label in one of the corners and I was under
the impression all along that it was ordered.