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I have been asked by Ener Senake to wite you
comerning his fitness ani qmliMicetions for a in
your schools He understood fron sane source there is
to be en opening, and he ig very desivous of leeating in
Caiifommia, Some way he learned that I was acquainted with —
POs Re RNS Te > SERN Fou Se We OS |

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the best ceaches thet wo have ever turned out at the Univor-
_ pity of Kansas, He not only wis alieimervica antevial in

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the countrys By the way, Mol Griffith, who is out on the
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clemplemship ‘toam out of an ordinmury outfits Tho —
< took ham bo had sustained an injured ankle late.
footinll concen ewan aot in coatttion to any teoletia!2,
bub he did things te that ball club that only erefty and
versatile. players can doe I wes so wall pleased with hia
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Tisha ny debs? tia souiuciidbing ‘poise Satiiaue 8 dow Me:
Miceution Lusstistien suvtiie of Miemungetan: aut Gear 4
Chicago for the Basketball Coaches meeting aud the Rules
Body meetings this accounts for my delays

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eap basketball playing at alle i have always insisted that
as long as a boy is able to keep up with his ecadenic work
that he be permitted to participate in tek or hawketnal.,
oF as See or even football and basketball.

I think At is @ detrimental thing for a coash to tell
a boy thet one sport will injure him for another sports I
do ‘not believe in this policy. |

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differant. Srutus femilton, his cosdch et the University of
Kansas during his sophomore year, told Glem that he was
too creat a track man to indulce in football end basketballs
He was a fine player in both. I think in this case » with
a prodigy lie Glem Cumninghem, it is better to be a world
champion in one eport than te battle along in every sport,
but again a fellow could argu on both sides of the questions

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April 2, 1938

Coach F. C. Allen
University Of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Coach;

I am enclosing self eddressed envelope for which I
would appreciate a letter regarding information relative to
one of my basketball boys.

I heve a little Mexicen forward that has been very
outstanding for me in basketball this year that also hes con-
siderable prospects of becoming a good miler in track. He moved
here this year from enother Town and his former coach has left
the impression with him thot track would handicap his basketball
pleying. Personally, I cannot see where it would effect him as
he has a very good heart and is well developed physically but e
letter from you would certainly be appreciated. He wants to run
but his former coach still seems to have a little infiuence on him.

Thenks in advance for this favor and may I add my con-
gretulation on the success of your fine teal this past season.

Yours very truly,

 

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Athletic Coach
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February 7,1938.

Mr. Forrest ©, Allen
Basketball Coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence ,Kansas.

Dear Phog:

Would you be so kind as to send to me a complete
copy of your athletic set-up at the University of Kansas.
Also if it not too much trouble a copy of your code,rules,
etc in the Big Six Conference.

I am asking this of you because the job of re-
organizing our Athletic Department has been given to me
by our new administration and I went to make it a lasting
organization.

Thanking you for your kind co-operation and if
possible would appreciate your prompt reply. With kind
- personal regards, I am

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J. MAx LEWELLEN

LONGMONT, COLO.

Mare 10
Dre Forrest Allen.
- Dear Dr,

Being a former student at the Univ.
of Kansas and a native of Lawrence I am naturally
interested in anything I might do to their cause.
For that reason I am writing you about a boy we
have here in Longmont.

His name is Les Major and he gradua-
tes from high school this spring. Last year he was
allestate center in basketball and all-state end
in football. He is nearly 6'8" and weighs 200lbs.
According to all sports writers he is the outstand-
ing athlete in the state and has been for the last
two years. However he is much better in basketball
than in football in my opinion. I have seen a lot
of basketball players and I believe I am ~~
saying he is the bést high school player I have seen
in action. Of course all the schools in the state
are after him but I dont believe he has made any
decision as to what school he will attend next fall.

From a finincial point he will have to
have help whereever he goes as his parents are in no
position to send him to schoole But some college will
get a good athlete if they can get him.

If you have someone in Denver or anyplace
in Colo. that you would care to have look into this
matter I would be glad to arrange a meeting for them
J. MAX LEWELLEN
LONGMONT, COLO.

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at anytime that would be convenient to you. But I
know that you would be fortunate if he were to
enroll at K.U. Of course I have no special interest
in this except that I would like to see Kansas get
him if there is a chance at all.

If there is anything I can do to help

I will be glad to do soe
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October 8, 19357.

lip, W. H, Wy Hardwick, President,
Ganddian Amateur Basketball Association,
7983 Heather Street,

Vancouver, B. G,

Dear Mr, Hardwick:

Thank you for your very good letter of the 50th
. ultimo regaréing the difficulties that find yourself in
with the AAU of C. May I state my position briefly?

Dr, James Naismith, Professor of Physical Educ-
ation here at the University of Kansas since 1898, a Canadian
by birth and naturalized y after the World War, has a
tremendous enthusiasm ané interest in besketball in this part
of the country. I have been associated very closely with Dr.
Naismith sinee 1902. - ’

; In the early days the AAU perhaps did sreat good
in enlisting the activities of the younger generation in the
athletic clubs and in industrial organizations of the country.
The Y.M.C.A. had an organization of its own. Of course, the
game was originated at Springfield ¥.M.G.A. College, and
naturally the Y.M.CG.A.'s took the lead. They did nothing
much about basketball until along in 1905 when they began
to function, but unless the AAU can make money ont of anything
they soon let it drop.

The National AAU Basketball Tournament went
begging even as late as 1920 and 1921. Atlanta and some of
the seuthern tewns did take it, but it was rather a begging
orphan until the Kansas City A 4e Club in Kansas City
bogan to promote it. The Kansas City people built it up
until they had crouds of ten and 12 thousand people in |
attendance at a single game, then it began to net $6,000
$8,000 and $10,000 to the promoters. Just at that time the
AAD went broke, ond when I say broke, I mean flat broke, and
they began te look around and levy on the things that were
making the money. Up to thet time thr AAU got but ten per
cent of the income and the promoters got the swag, leaving
the boys who pleyed net with the real expense money but just
as much as the promoters could get by with, and that was all.

 
 

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Then the National AAU organization took the
tournament over and said that they wanted all the money
and the Kansas City people let it go, and it went to
Denver, Colorado, At the present time the basketball
tournament each year is paying all the office expense of
the AAU in New York City. This & between $5,000 and
$7,000 a year, I dislike to make this accusation, but I
have made it before, so when I say it te you you will
understand that I would not want to be quoted on it unless
I would make the statement direct, 3 !

The AAU, 1t seems to me, is interested only
now in promoting the things that they can make money out
of, And some of their officers have been known te give
athletes a silver service set, running up to above (100,
yet they will deny the right of a boy to take anythin
for expense money that might run over their stipulate
sum per day. In other words, the king can do no wrong.
They are a group of politicians, henchmen who do what
they want to, and when a poor youngster should make one
misstep they will disqualify him, and unless he is a |
profit-making athlete he is apt get the worst of it.

C
There are several cases in point concerning
what the AAU did to the athletes who competed at Berlin,
The Negro boy, Jesse Owens, who won more firsts than any
of the other inerieans, was @isqualified because he re- -
fused to take a trip to some of the adjacent countries in
Surope so the AAU could fatten their coffers at this boy's:
OXPeENsSe. bee | | 4 =

The AAU of the United States is in the throes
of a very unhealthy turmoil, Political, race and religious
prejudices are tearing it to pieces. “he only reason that
it survives at all is the fact that to be eligible for |
Olympic competition the competitors must be certified to
by the organization that represents the United States, and
that organization is the AAU, So long as these politicians
have that power they ¢an continue to do the things that
they have been doing, TR ae |

: But the National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tion, the organization of colleges of the United States,
which furnishes practically all the competition now for —
ow Olynpic competitors, is gaining ground by their
square dealing with the athletes ani by the fact that
their college coaches develop more than 90 per cent of
the competitors, The colleges have an ‘head naturail
that is sustained by the institutions, while the AAU mus
pay the expenses of their officers who do nothing but
arrange meets, and so forth, : )

 
 

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The YellaG.Ae*s and the athletic clubs are not
in the hands of any of the AAU people, The AAU has no
equipment of any » not even hurdles, track equipment,
or athletic equipment, let alone the mere fact that they

never develop an athlete because no one is accepted by the
AAU unless they have been trained by a high school and
college administration, There is no competition among
them until they receive © group of college graduates and
then there is always some business firm who sponsors that
kind of a teem, College pecple, of course, have their _
competition in all forma of sports throughout the year and
then during the summers some athletic club will pick up a.
star man, like Jin Bausch, or some Glympic competitor like
Glenn Cunningham, Cunningham ran this year under the New
York Curb Exchange, | | ;

.° Perhaps you know the racket that is employed
and I should net go further into the matter, Suffice to
say that I am not at all interested in the AAU, I think
it is a racket from beginning to end, and I think it
profits no one save the men in the high offices who gein
their living by levying upon helpless individuals and
gate receipts at large athletic gatherings,

| Personally I would not know who is heading up
the group of anti-AAU followers here in the state, I am—
not Interested enough in them to fight them because I am
in the college world ani I do not have time for them, My
seeeses is they wlll destroy themselves by their own cone
Vance. | | | . |

Bogi in 1929 I set out to gain recognition
for basketball in the Olympic Games, I have all that _
correspondence in which I took up with the world leaders
in basketball the matter of such recognition, After we
gained the right to have basketball in the 01; ce Games
* & group appointed me as dibector of basketball for the
United States, So quick was the conniving of this group |
= my a that : withdrew my name rather =e to be

ed up Ww em, I am sending you a report of the
Olympic basketball committee, of which I was chairman,
read before our National Association of Basketball Coaches
assembled in Chicago, ey |

You ean see by this that the AAU and its
officers had nothing to do with getting basketball in the

Olympics; in fact, both President Brundage and Dan Forris
and the other officers in the United States aia not know

that other countries were playing basketball, and said so
in their correspondence. ~ | , :

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: | But as soon as basketball was placed on the
Olympics program, even though they stated that there was
no chance for it, then they jumped on the "gravy Wagon
and held on to 2% unt41 it was drained of every bit of
self-respect as well as any finaneial income, :

It is a long story, The University of Kansas
and Utah Agricultural College played in Kansas City for
the benefit of Olympic basketball, ani our income was
over $10,000, The only money that the AAU got and spent
was the money they received from the college basketball
game, while the proceeds from their national AAU tourna-
ment went directly to pay office expenses in New York,

. I talked with the manager of the MePherson
Qllers, ‘one of the groups that played in Madison Square
Garden, He was one of the men who made the trip, He
stated to me that the boys on both the Universal Picture —
Company of Hollywood, first’ place winners in Amorica,
and the NePherson Offers second place winners, thet the
Olympic basketball competitors ectually had to put up
their jowelgy and borrow money tc make out the trip to
Berlin, It Was a. sorry mess,

The colleges who had been primarily responsible
in raising the ‘money have now refused to have any baskete
ball in the Olympics for the future, There are only four
sports that the colleges are supporting in the next
Clympies, end they are asking that ovr coaches hendle
these tears. Those four sports are swimming, rowing,
wrestling end track and field, | :

«EF T ean be of any service or give you any
information thet will help you I will be very happy to

'- @o so, I do not know the name of the individual who

cares to stand out and make a fight egeinst this corrupt
group because that very individuel has nothing to gein,
Wo ee eee

uld all be paper power, —

These boys who want to play independent :
basketball don't care enough about sticking with an
individuel long cnough to whip the other outfit, They
will play where it is most convenient to them,

; I have in mind the name of one man who has

talked about a movemerit on foot in the United States to
form ae national —_— basketball organization, the
game as the CABA in Canada, but this individual's stand~

ing is not the kin? that I would care to recomonid, —

 
 

Suffice to say that there is great dis-
satisfaction ali over the country with the AAU, not
in basketball alone, but in every sport.

With every good wich, ZI am

Very cordielly yours,

FCAtAB f Divestor of Physical Education,

 
EXECUTIVE FOR 1936-38

PRESIDENT:
W. H. W. HARDWICK,
7983 HEATHER STREET,
VANCOUVER, B.C.

PAST PRESIDENT:
DR. S. H. KESHEN,
GREEN LANTERN BLDG.,
HALIFAX, N.S.

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT:

T. DOUGLAS ROBERTSON,

MONTREAL CURB MARKET,
P.O. BOX 1676, MONTREAL

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT:
MRS. E. W. SKELTON,
82 MAIN STREET,
WALLACEBURG, ONT.

SECRETARY-TREASURER:
Cc. W. MCLACHLAN,
286 WEST 18TH.,
VANCOUVER, B.C.

EASTERN SECRETARY:
ROY E. MACKENZIE,
P.O. BOX 1676, MONTREAL

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS:
EASTERN CANADA:
Cc. G. HARRIS,

8 SUMMER STREET,

HALIFAX, N.S.

WESTERN CANADA:

GEORGE WILSON,
352 MAIN STREET,
WINNIPEG, MAN.

R. F. LARCOMBE,
BANK OF TORONTO,
CALGARY, ALTA.

REPRESENTATIVE
A. ROY MACKENZIE
717 BEDFORD ROAD,
SASKATOON, SASK.

REPRESENTATIVE TO THE INTERNATI
JOINT RULES COMMITTEE OF U,

AND CANADA.

SAMUEL ROGERS,

210 CONFEDERATION LIFE BLDG.

TORONTO, ONT.

Canadian Amateur Baskethall Assuciation

AFFILIATIONS
AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION OF CANADA
WOMEN’S ATHLETIC FEDERATION

September 30, 19 57.43 oe

 

Br. "Fog" Allen,
University of Kansas,
Laurence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Alleni-~

In this letter, along with a request for certain in-
formation regarding the organization of amateur basketball in
the United States, I send greetings from the Canadian Amateur
Basketball Association.

I have been advised that you are the source of information
regarding amateur basketball in the United States, or else know
who knows most on the subject. The purpose of this letter is to
seek an alliance with the chief amateur basketball organization
in your country in order to facilitate international games between
teams of our respective organizations, especially along the inter-
national border, but also between our champion teams,

It is extremely important that I secure information on the
subject as soon as possible. During the past summer, after long
attempts on our part to get the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
to redress certain grievances and to rectify certain handicaps
under which we were attempting to operate, our Canadian Amateur
Basketball Association gave the required month's notice and formally
withdrew from our Articles of Alliance with the AAU of C, Let me
assure you that the causes of our withdrawal were absolutely admin-
istrative, regarding excessive cost of operating the Amateur organ-
ization to our loss, unnecessary interference in our game,-contrary
to our Articles of Alliance with the AAU of C.- and failure of the
AAU of Ce to make any attempt whatsoever to remedy abuses which have
rept into its administration, You must kmow that the Canadian
Amateur Basketball Association HAS NOT CHANGED at all the definition
of am amateur. Its officers have laid down a strict definition to
pe followed and have set up rigid arrangements for registration to
prevent any encroachment of professionalism, ~- and all this at a
minimum of cost as compared to the top-heavy overhead necessary
under the AAU of C.

In April, 1957, I applied to Mr. Jones, secretary - _
treasurer of the Federation Internationale de Sasketball at Rome
for a direct alliance. His reply indicated two important things:

le that during the term of our a liance to the AAU of C. (1951
to 1937), the AAU of C, had used the fact of our #1liance to them
to secure under their own name,- the AAU of C. - our international
alliance with the World Federation of Basketball, In our Articles
of Alliance to the AAU of C. we did not agree to that , and it was
done without our knowledge. ( Whe CABA, was organized as a nationally
independent sports organization ih 1922, and operated as such until
1931). He advised that the CABA, could regain its own alliance.
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(2) that the International Federation considers the AAU of C.merely
a "super-imposed organization", and not the "nationally independent basket-
ball association of Canada", and that the F.I.B.Fe (above) desires and will
affiliate with the REAL basketball organization of Canada.

I have also reason to believe that the AAU of ©. has also an
alliance with the AAU of USA., and that under said alliance, the AAU of USA,
will refuse to permit basketball teams under its jurisdiction from playing
basketball teams under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Amateur Basketball
Association- unless we rejoin the AAU of C. and submit our 20,000 odd members
again to the top-heavy and inadequate financial machinery of that body and the
interference of outsiders in the promotion of our game. I further understand
that the alliance between the two countries is subject to cancellation on
thirty days'notice.e I am quite certain that it will be useless for me to
apply to the AAU of USA. for an alliance on the basis of our rigid adherence
to the amateur principles of the past and rigid control of international com-
petition as well as recognition of one another's suspensions, etce, because
the AAU of Ce and that of USA. are so closely allied. Hence I am appealing
to you to find out if there is any possibility of an alliance between the
CABA. and the nationally independent basketball organization of the UA. If
the International Federation which controls the basketball playoffs at the
Olympics is satisfied, I cannot see why the basketball association of your
country should not be also. Further, It seems to our officials unreasonable
that basketball should not be able to progress without political interference
from organizations not at all interested in our game beyond the monetary re-
turns from our membership.

Incidentally, I may add here that the large bulk of our players
DO NOT play in any game or sport under the jurisdiction of the AAU of C. In
Canada, the Canadiam Amateur Hockey Association, also a nationally independent
organization, has this year withdrawn from its alliance with the AAU of C.,
and there is now only ONE SPORT~ lacrosse, still allied . The Adu of C. is
really now chiefly governing individual sports,- track, etc.

My. Jones in his letter tells me that he believes that there
is a movement on foot in USA. to form a nationally independent basketball
organization, the same as the CABA. is in Canada, and that there have also
been formed similar bodies in Argentine, Brazil, and some European countries.
I shall be pleased to hear from you whether this is true.
letter

May I ask, Dr. Allen , that you place this/in the hands of
whoever is chiefly responsible in USA, and attempt to give me an early reply.
Please understand that what the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association is
trying to do is to get control, absolutely, of its own sport, and take it away
. from the financial restrictions and the political intrigue of the AAU of C,

We believe this we have a right to do, and that the AAU of C. should not be
able to wield an axe against international competition to force us to remain
under their control.

Last year, our Olympic team, Windsor, entertained your champion
USA, team at Windsor in a series. This year the Windsors were defeated by
the team of the Universtty of Brirish Columbia at Vancouver, B. Ce Would you
please advise me if your champion team is interested in a series on the
Pacific coast, when, and what is the estimated guarantee required. If at all
feasible, I would like to institute an annual international series.

Trusting that I may be favoured with an early reply, - one as

encouraging as that received from lir. Jones. ;
| Sincerely yours, PON QR durie-k President. 3