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Pebruary 12, 1943.

St. Louis, Missouri.
Dear Be Jes

I was happy to have your letter of the first instant, and beg
pardon for the deley in answering.

‘Thanks for sending the tear sheet from Time. The magazine had
sent me one but I ———— EE

I am glad to hear about Roy Weinzettel being looated at Warrena-
burg. Iwill drop hima line. You know I was at the Teachers College
in Warrensburg from 1912 to 1919 as athletic director and coach of
all sports. We made the best seven-year record there that I have made

in any one seven-year period.

Jack Mathews and I had quite a bit of correspondence on the adjust-
able goal. From my book, “Better Basketball", he quotes what I have
to say regarding the craduated heights of a basxetball goal for grade
achools, junior high and high school players, and then I of course
added the college players for a 12 foot basket.

Answering your question regarding the attachment for the new and
existing basketball backstop with height adjustment, I think that it
will come in time, but doubtless the war will slow up the time deter-
miner somewhat. I am not definitely able to state regarding the need
for quick adjustment, or only at rare intervals. In all schools where
the building is used for different ages I think the quick adjustment
perhaps would be a good thing. If we could have a series of slots
for this height adjustment it would be a great thing.

There is a good deal to be said about the steel fan-shaped bank
coming into general use in the post-war period. There is a big fight
on between the eastern coaches and the high school federation. The
eastern college coaches do not want the fan-shaped board and they do
not want the molded ball. They want the stitched ball. It seems as
if Porter, of Chicago, and the high school people are very strong for
the fan-shaped steel board -- and incidentally, so am I - and they
have antagonized the eastern college coaches with the small board.