October 16, 1937.

My, Curtis W, licGraw,
licGraweHill Book Co.,
550 West 42nd Steg
New York City, N.¥.

Dear Mr, MeGraw:

In answering your good letter of —
October 13 I should have made it more plain to you 2
that my only desire in listing "My Basketball Bible
and "Higher Education in America” was to list the
periodicals and publications that I had written.
lis Many of the coaches for yearé have |

been acquainted with "ity Basketball Bible", and some
have thought quite well of it. This was an addition-
al point that I had in mind = many of the coaches |
knowing of "My Basketball Bible" would feel confident
perhaps to purchase "Better Basketball" on the strength
of my previous publication. Even with the book out of

int, I thought it well to mention in connection with

etter Basketball" that the author of “Better Basket-
ball" is also the author of "My Basketball Bible”. |

I certainly agree with you that "ily
Basketball Bible” will soon be out of nt. Of
course, Smith-Grieves may have a few copies on hand
and they may dump them on the market at an excessive-
ly low price. Of course, we cannot keep thom frou —
doing thet, but my experience has been that when a
book falls off from its established price it never |
comusnds the attention for sale to the better coaches.
I think, however, I ean got Mr, Smith and Mr, Klein-
_hoffer, of the Smith-Grieves Company, not to do the
thing I mentioned. They are very high grade people.

Now here is one thing that I notice,
ly, lieGraw, Tho Scholastic Coach, Alex Taylor ani .
Company, of New York, and different people are writing ©
in concerning "Better Basketball". Somehow the
publicity from your firm doesn't seem to have gotten

across to the le, I am not even blemi our
college or ma aor apartment for not sequaint ing :

all of these people with these details, because you