April 12, 1943.

Mr. C. E. MoBride, Sports Editor,
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City, Missourie

Dear Mac:

Congratulations ou your story in your Sporting Colum regarding
the Biz Six Indoor Track Meet in Municipal Auditorium, supervised by.
Reaves Petors. I think you have something there, very definitely.

Since Horace Mason left Kansas the meet from the Big Six angle
has hed very little stimulus, and certainly it has never had good super-
vision. But with Reaves Peters handling it I am sure that he would do a
great job of supervising it and I am sure that the gate receipts would .
 @ouble becsuse he would see that the interesting engles concerning it )
were presented to the publid, and that it would be reflected in the gate
receipts.

This is my opinicn of Reaves Peters' ability, but I would not
want you to make mention of it in any way in the sports colum because
- that would be one wey to discourage it in the minds of the fathers of
the Big Six, meaning the faculty representatives.

Now, IT heve someting else in mind that I think is even bigger
than the Big Six Track Meet, and that is a Christmas tournanent of the
| Big Six basketball teams for next winter. I spoke to Jarry Welsh about
this matter when he and I conferred regarding Missouri playing in the hall.
-E asked him to see Dorman O'Leary and see if we couldn't got the faculty
members of the Big Six conference to agree to such a ruling that the Big
Six teams could play in Kensas City, either meeting other teams going
throuch from coast to coast, or to play a tournament like this.

: The Big Six conference is the only conferences in the United
States now that has a rule such as this. They only permit conference _
teams to sohedule games with schools loonted in the sane city. You will
remember that Nebraska withdrew fram the Missouri Valley Conference in
1919 because the conference would not permit Nebraska to schedule games
‘a Gia.’ , : : pi

If*Kansas and Wissouri could schedule games with California,
Stanford or some East or Wost teams, they could pack the building in
double-header programs. | |
How, better than that, » if we could arrange with Lou Lower
and Jimmy Nixon to bring the Sig Six teams there for a week's play-off
we would make enough in omw week te pay all the expenses of each
Big Six team for the en year end still have money in the bank.