June 22, 1944.

Dean Paul B, Lawson,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
University of Kansas,

Dear Dean Lawson:

Thank you for your footnote which you wrote on Dolph Simons'
letter addressed to Adolph at the University of Kentucky. I am returning
the letter to you.

3 I did not know that Adolph went down to see Dolph Simons, but
i did enjoy the visit with Adolph here in the office. There is a bit of in-
formation that he gave me which might clarify the angle of McDonald and Hill
being approached by a representative of the University of Kentucky. When Coach
Rupp told me that he had never heard of Hill, I did not doubt him in the least,
but I said, "Adolph, there was a representative from the University of Ken-
tucky here."

"Well," he said, “it might have been the football represent-
ative because the University of Kentucky is paying a football scout who is
connected with the University a salary of $3,600.00 a year just to scout foot-
ball material.” And I said, “There is the answer, no doubt. Both Hill and
McDonald were football players."

The Journal-World never did say that Coach Rupp or any of his
emissaries were contacting these Lawrence high school boys, but they did make
a point out of it that a University located in this town was faced with a
situation of other scouts coming into their own environment and making a pro-
position of $90.00 a month,

To substantiate further that believe, Mr. C. EB. McBride in his
last Sunday's column heads up his Sporting Comment with these headlines:
"Kansas City Boys Listen to Sales Talk of University of Kentucky Emissaries". . «
The artist sketches an outline of a stadium against a background of university
buildings. It shows two young itinerants on the road with their satchels, and
above one's head it says, “Board - Room = Tuition!" And the other solilogquizes,
"All this for nothing!"

The point that I am getting at, P.B., is this = that we are
scheduling games with several teams this year in football, everyone of which is
doing exactly what the University of Kentucky is doing. Yet if Kansas would or
could go half way between the position the University of Kentucky has and the
University of Kansas is at the present and has been doing, they. doubtless would
make better athletic showings. | ; .

_ There certainly must be something wrong when so-called respect=
able people and respectable institutions break every law that is written in the
book and nobody does enything about it. Yet when things like that are discussed
‘on the campus of Mount Oread - tsk! tsk}

What's wrong?
Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
FCA:AH ee. Varsity Basketball Coach.