August 21, 1944.

Mr. H. M. Larsen,
Treasurer's Office,
McGraw-Hill Book Company,
330 West 42nd Street,
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Larsen:

Having most pleasantly remembered our commmications of
January 21 and 24, 1944, I am writing you with the hope that I can get
matters adjusted so there will be ne recurrence of our slight difficulty
that happened when the billing clerk incorrectly issued an invoice of a
previous date on my beok, “Better Basketball". —

I wish that you would kindly send me sixty (60) copies of
“Better Basketball" at the usual discount rate. Please send this either
by express or by parcel post in small numbers, accerding to the best rate

I was ene of the instructors at the Iewa High School Athletic
Association Coaching Scheel, at Beene, Iowa, from August 15 te 19. I am
sending you a copy of the coaching school program. While teaching basket-
ball and theory and practice ef athletic injuries, about a fourth of the
coaches in attendance ordered my book. I am autographing the books and
mailing them from here. a

There is one point that I desire to express; namely, that there
are so many new coaches in the country due to the war situation, that it
is my epinion an advertising program on the book, Better Basketball, will
pay big dividends because of this large turnover. I also hope after the
war that we can get a nice sever on the new books. It is my epinion that
this beek will sell after the war quite freely because we will have a great
number of returning service men taking up their jobs. And too, our book is
the last standard text by a ceach whe is still coaching the game.

Mr. MeGreaw and I had a contract that a number of office copies
were to be given me from time te time so that I could autograph them and
give them te newspaper men and important individuals in attendance at these
schools. Bud Parnell, pitcher for the Pirates, Pac Trainor, former manager

of the Pirates, and Lew Fonseca, former Chicage White Sex ceach, and re-
presentatives of the American League were all in attendance giving their
baseball efferts te the high scheel coaching association. A number of key
men have asked me fer autegraphed beoks as a professional courtesy, and if
yeu would send me ten author's cepies te be autegraphed te my prefessional
end business associates, I would appreciate it greatly.

: Very sincerely yours,

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