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"I would like to rum an article in the Athletic
_ Journal giving the impressions of some of the outstand-
ing coaches regarding the no tipeoff rule. Would you
be good enough to send me your candid opinion of the
Saar advantages and dise
: advantages"

Of course I au going to reply to him right away because we can nicely
ask him to put in the little introduction to my statement that I an
the author of the new book just out, Better Basketball. You may:
want to give hiin a small ade ;

You will please remenber that Major Griffith really
published the Ward "Piggy" lembert book, Practical Basketball. if
he did not publish it, he is promoting the sale of ite On page 46
of the Athletic Journal is the enclosed ads So naturally it will
be necessary to sweeten the pot a little to get the Major to extend
himself. This book formerly was priced at }4.00, but the sale
apparently was not exceptional so they reduced it to $3600. You
can count on my doing everything to encourage the Major to give us
a break. I am very sure that you are acquainted with the Athletic
Journal. They porhaps have already endeavored to sell you an ade
It has quite a circulation among the college men, comparable to.
what the Scholastic Coach has with the high school boyse

. However, these trade magazines, like Lowe and Campbell's —

Coach and Cramer's First . have a very heavy distribution. I
- would suggest that you co se people because you get trememious

publicity without having to pay for ite

I em also sending you a list of the boys who worked

ah: tis Sted 4h eekeline Go glee that we aro using in the books
In fact, I used them three days, instead of one days I imagine
each boy put in about 10 hours work of total elapsed time in shoote
ing these pictwrese If you would like, you could write each of
them a letter thanking them for their cooperation and telling them
that they can see me end I will autograph the book, or if you want
to send the books here I will autograph them and nail them out to
the boyse The group that I mention espeéially would be my basket=
ee ee ee ee ee eee ee tee .

Bunn of Stanford, Lonborg of Northwestern, Frosty Cox of Colorado,
and other individualse ie

Sincerely yours,

FCA3AH , Director of Physical Educatione