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August 20, 1943.

 

ir. C. E. McBride,
Sport Editor,

The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City, Missouri.

Bear Mac:

It just seems as if we don't get very. far when we are
around Lawrence, and I imagine the same obtains with you. These
old men can really put out the work, can't they, Mac? I am speak-
ing about you because that colum of yours never fails in express-
ing your many contacts covering many peeas in the United States. I
remember Beels Becker so well. ‘In fact, all of your writings of
course are very familiar to me because when you were writing
regularly for the Star on baseball dope I was conversant with all
of the men. : eee

when you started on the Kansas City Star back in 1904 I
was playing on the K.C.A\@. team and then managed the team the next /
year, so all of our active years have been spent with practically
the same acquaintances. I cannot realize that all those years have
gone before. But as long as we are active we never stop to think
how old we are. : :

We have a great set up here training all of these Army and
Navy men, and we are experiencing a lot of pleasure in doing it.

I have nothing on my mind especially only that I have been
having in my possession a clipping from the Journal-orld regarding a
game of golf that I played back somewhere in July. I notice in the
coluwm below that Patty Berg won a golf match on July Srd, and it
must have been about that time when I played this game with Dr. Jones,
Irving Hill, Guy Smith, and so forth. Dr. Jones is the old University
medic who played football in the early days. Of course. you renember
because he was a great friend of Bill Hamilton. He is a physician
here in town and the father of Dr. Hiram Penfield Jones who operated
on General McNair and Gallagher, the AP writer in North Africa. How-
ever, Dr. Jones is in very bad shape now at the University hospital
with diabetes, Bright's disease and coronary heart, and we are afraid
that he won't get out. | ’

Irving Hill was quarterback on the early 1895 - '95 tean at
_ the University. ie is. president of the Lawrence National Bank and
one of the outstanding citizens in town. Guy Smith is on the Athletic
‘Board and professor of mathematics at the University. Mrs. Revndal is

Irving Hill's daughter.