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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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