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AIR MAIL
a July 19, 1939

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen;

I have your letter of the 17th with further reference to the new game and
note the local publicity you have been able to obtain as a result of the
game played in Lawrence a week or so ago.

We are glad to see this but are a little afraid of the National publicity
you refer to because it is a little pre-mature. We have not as yet placed
our patent, copyright, and trade-mark applications in the proper hands in
Washington and are of the opinion we should hold up such publicity as you
contemplate releasing to "Life", the National magazine, until a later date.
We are hopeful this letter will reach you in time to hold up issuing any
publicity of this game to this or any other like publication.

We are going to want all the free publicity we can get later but right now
we are afraid it is a case of putting the cart before the horse.

We shall be glad to hear more from you regarding yar plans as concerns
Atlanta and 5t. Louis as soon as the question of how you are going to make
this trip is determined.

Concerning the school in Atlanta, I would much prefer to send one of the

new special modified backboards we have built for this very purpose than
have you send one of the old ones from your gymnasium, and if this sugges-
tion meets with your approval I would like for you to tell me the name and
address of the person and the school to whom this board should be sent. We
have our own office in Atlanta and will see to it that an erection man takes
care of the installation of the board.

Incidentally, don't you think it might be in order to suggest that you write
the person in charge of the school where your Coaching School will be held,
that as Chairman of the Research Committee you have secured one of these
boards, as have other members of the Basketball Rules Committee who are con-
ducting Coaching Schools, and that a board will be sent on in time for the
meeting?

Returning to the first paragraph of your letter of the 17th, you refer to
our Fall catalog as having been printed. We do not intend to limit our
effort in behalf of the new game to a mere catalog listing, but have some