May 28, 1945.

Yr. C. By McBride, — oS :
Sports, Bdi tor, i ees f
The Kensas City Star, | |

Dear Mac:

Somehow, if my memory serves m correctly, I sar an article
in your Sporting Comsent a few years ago wherein you stated that someone
had shot 6 black squirrel. I also rewomber in a later article that you

.. hed something about an albino squdfrel. I do not remember having seen an _
_ , @lbino squirrel, but en ee ee ee en |
B — blaok squirrel.

eas Mr. Carl Hird, who is the father of Carl Hird, Jr., showed
me one. Carl Hird, Jr., played three years for the Kensas varsity at
tackle, and is now in the Navy. He played last year at tackle on the
Olathe Neval team against his brother, imyne llird, who was our oenter on ~
_ the varsity football teau for two years, in a game here last fall when
Kansas played the Olathe team.

live. Allen and I drove out to the Hird residence in the country
lol made mre me Oe oe lir. Hird said to me, “! want to.show

a -« He took me in his living room and showed me the black
did Sak be Wal ek Wass Winter we tb frome The pelt is just as black
as coal, save the abdomeh and the entire lower abdominal is the color of a
cemel's hair cont. I said to Mir. ilird, "What did you think you saw up in -
the tree before you shot him?" He said, “Well, I thought it was a civet
oat.” He said it was lying low on a limb, hiding itself as much as possible
trom him. lie shot and struck it in the neck. It came tumbling down, and
wuch to his surprise he found it was a squirrel. le skinned it and has the
oured pelt hanging in his living room as one of his mementoes. :

I thought this might interest you, Mac, because I had forgotten
the controversy wherein saneone said that black squirrels did not exist.
Ghia 46 Seatinmay to the fant Ghat Guns Whhligh do eiket. I do not know
whether this contributes anything to your argusnt, or whether you remember
the details, but I thought I would send it along to you as an interesting
angle of wild life.

Sincerely yours,

™“

a Direotor of Physical Education,
_ PCAsAH S Varsity Basketball Coach.