Ontober 22, 1943.

Mr. C. E. McBride,
Sports Editor,

The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Mac;

I was interested in your Sports Colum comment regarding the re-
actions of the managers of professional teams always being enthusiastic
about winning, and the reactions of the vollege coach being rather
pessimistia. I believe I have the f
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The differences in the two reactions are matters of emotional
response of the respective followers of the two sports. The baseball

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he is half critical of his team wntil it wins for him. And then he
rather dissipates some of his reticence and allows his enthusiasm to
bubble ever at times. The follower of the professional team, or the
fan, is not such a possessive soul nor such a rabid one as is the
follewer of college teams.

But old Joe College goes all
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although he may not exhibit it outwardly it is bubbling in
breast. And the fellow who has never been to college takes |
thusiasm by proxy on betting on the parlay choices and odds. In ether
words, he adopts one of the colleges of America and he is by remote
control an alwmus of some winning football tion - he

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There is more intimacy fer the fan in college athletics than there
is in professional athletics -- you will understand, Mac, when I talk
about baseball bein, professional and college athletics being amateur,
you know I am kidding. Perhaps professional baseball is more amateur
than college football because Judge Landis keeps it so. But I will not
go into that. You know more about that than I do, and I know plenty.

Yow, back to the college game. The young life of the students
each year has a sest and a spontaneity about college athletics that
just develops more enthusiasm, which all people like to think of and
like to see. It gives any old man a buzz to walk into any high school
or college when the classes are changing in the halls. The friendliness