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POTOMAC AND DE KALB STREETS

ST. Louts, Mo.

May 17, 1939

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Many thanks for your two letters of May 13 and enclosures, all of which have
received the careful attention of several of us here in 5t. Louis.

First of all, I have arranged to get a copy of the Standard Oj1 Company bul-
ietin menté oned in your letter, but am at a loss to get a copy of “Collegiate
News" and if you have an extra copy available I would certainly appreciate
having you send it on; or, if you can tell me where I could get a copy of
this “Collegiate News", I would appreciate that information.

We are writing Mr. Porter, per copy of letter attached, which I believe is
more or less self-explanatory and I shall not repeat our position in this let-
ter to you because a perusal of the attached will reveal how we have acted on
the information you have given us together with the letter from Mr. Porter,
dated May 11, copy also attached.

If you think we are not following the right procedure, as outlined to Mr. Por-
ter, please give us your opinion, as we do not want the interest that has been
aroused in the new backstop to lag because of a wrong approach on our part, or
for lack of follow-up to the interested parties.

I note the dates on which you will be away from Lawrence, and with the idea in
mind of dropping over to see you for a discussion not only of our backboard but
of the new game of junior basketball - or whatever we might decide to call it -
I am wondering whether it would be satisfactory with you for me to drop in on
you Wednesday, May 2y. I could leave here Tuesday night, May 24, and be in
Lawrence some time around 10 o'clock the following morning, arriving via Sante
Fe from Kansas City. Apparently the 2lith and 25th are open dates on your cal-
endar and that is why I have suggested them. Of course, there is a pwsibility
of some last-minute change at this end, which would necessitate my cancelling
the above, but at this writing it appears I could make this trip on that date,
Subject, of course, to your wishes.

Meanwhile, I am enclosing a draft of the game as we tried to interpret it, and
would like to have you give this game some thought. The more we think of it,
the more we believe there is an opportunity for some one, in this case you, to