April 3, 1946 '

Mr. Ce Ee McBride, Sports Editor
Kansas City Star

18th & Grand

Kassas City 8, Missouri

Dear Macs

I have been interested in reading for a number of years
now the oracle Henry B.Stuart's Opinion on This and That. I read his
comment on basketball and from what I can learn reading what you have
written about it he impresses me as a fellow who knows most about nothing
_ and little about something. ee

Iwould like to paraphrase his remark and say if he has
something else to do such as living and loving and hunting and fishing,
he should go do it and lots of it before he comes here agein and offers
suggestions for specialists in their own line.

I imagine when they changed the pitching distance in
baseball to 60 feet and 6 inches from the shorter distance that they
discriminated against Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Walter Johnson, and the
other fire ballers. |

; Ivwould suggest that we do away with all rules commite
tees and have this one Henry B, Stuart as a gentleman all rolled up in -
one to iron out all knotty problems of all sports.

Admittedly there is something wrong with the basketball
rules. The Rules Committee have basketball in such a shape that it is
impossible for any two good officials to officiate. Some wise cracker
said that we should use four officials, but why make it twice as bad as
it ise Coaches like Dutch Longborg and fifty others have stated that
the game needs changes,but, when the horse 'n buggy Rules Committee get
together, they make some silly inconsequential changes and give the
game back to the boys in the same relative condition that we have given
our country back to the Indians, |

When people say “leave the game alone", it is an admission _

by a group who lack vision and nerve to do something about Ponedgying a
condition that needs a real remedy and real intelligent peppie or
scr °

Sincerely yours,

: Director of Physical Education,
FCAsMF ‘Varsity Basketball Coach. ©