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April 22

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Lawrence, “an.

Dear Doctor Allen:

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L was very int eres ted - in your stds of the Kansas- <kpete basketball ce

game and assure you the story as you gave it to me will remain off
the record. I had not known about the friendship between Ab Hinshaw
and Clyde McBride, but can understand the point you make on
McSride's resentment on treatment of the officials.

I certainly hope “ansas and the Aggies get together on basketball

and very soon. You and Hank have the musxkam outstanding teams of
this section, year in and year out, and it would be a crying shame
to keep them apart, especially xm if the feeling of last winter's
series can be forgotten.

Your position on N.C.A.A. matters was known to me before, as I

said, and 1 agree with you that Oklahoma didn't realize much more than

a fraction of its degwerved share of the Kansas City pot.

But this question occurs to me (being practically unversed in
the actual oferations of the N.C:A.A.): Does the organization have
any other source of income? If not, it seems the setup is entitled
to enough money to keep it alive as a governing body. If the
income isn t available elsewhere, perhaps the N.C.A.A. is entitled
to take it-from whatever event will support the group.

It's something like football and the other sports in college,
isn't it? If all the income from football was plowed back into a
football fund, what would become oftrack, baseball --- and even
basketball in some schools? (If all the N.C.A.A. basketball cash
goes to the compe ting teams, and there are no other sources of
revenue, what's to become of the colleges governing body?

Perhaps the division isn * fair, as now set, but isn't the
N.C.A.A. entitled to its endowment, so to speak? -

Yours ee