THE KANSAS CITY STAR. DAILY SUNDAY WEEKLY COMBINED CIRCULATION CIRCULATION CIRCULATION 450,000 MORNING AND EVENING 320,000 PAID-IN-ADVANCE 600,000 7ix =a SUBSCRIBERS May 3I--- Dear “Phog"g Been a long time no see so Howly. Also been a long time no write so a few lines in response to your baseball note of April 28, , Grandma Bess was unnecessarily concerned over that linceI hadn't heard anything and the line merely was intended as a sort of semi-smart crack. I've been thinking lately that there might be a story in the baseball coach who could go through a season without umpire baiting---what is the good old socalled national pastime coming to enyway?tit's a crime against baseball, Guess you alls are plaming a vacation now...wish you could and would drop in on us for a visit,seems like ages since we swapped conversation Anytime you'll come this way and bring that dear old Grandma Bess the McBrides will put on the feedbag either at home or down townelI suppose that's merely wasting wordage on you but try us----- ‘May all go well with you is our wish, Sincerely, __————— yy OF July 3rd, 1941 Mr. Jim McFarland J.E. MoFarland Drug Co. Topeka, Kansas Dear Jim: I just want to tell you that we were glad to get your letter. Bess and I are going to fool you sometime and run up and say “hello” and have a good visit with you some evening. We'll let you know ahead of time and we'll try to pick out a cool evening. I'm wondering if you read the Out@ew that ran in the Kansas City Star, serially, about two weeks ago. It was about the life of Jessie James, Jim Younger, and the other desperados of the pre and post civil war days. I read every issue and it was very interesting. With all good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation-Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach. FCA:re July 16th, 1941 Pr. C. BH. McCloy Research Professor of Anthropometry and Physical Education The Stete University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Dear Doctor leCloy: | I appreciated very much your kind letter of the ilth instant regarding the position of swimming coach at the Univer~ sity of Kansas. We have combined our work in such a way that with the acquiescense of Mr. Henry Shenk it will not be necessary to hire an additional mane I do want to thank you, however, for writing. With all good wishes, I an, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation-Varsity Basketball and PCA:re - Baseball Coach. THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION July 11, 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: We have been told that the University of Kansas is interested in a swimming coach. We have a number of our graduates who are majors in physical education and have ex- cellent teaching experience in physical education, who are also splendid coaches. If you would be interested in any of these, I should be glad to have their names and credentials sent to you. If you are interested, I hope that you will also tell me what other teaching abilities you may want. These are men who would be glad to assume responsibility for other than swimming activity, and which of such activities you would wish to have them teach would determine which of these men we would recommend. Sincerely yours, c ewe Clo CHM:ny C. H. McCloy : Research Professor of Anthropometry and Physical “ducation SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD ROY ELLIS, PRESIDENT DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS H. H. BLAIR, DIRECTOR August 18, 1941 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education and Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: I am making a study of the leading men who have made definite contributions to the game of basketball. Your name has been suggested as one of the leading exponents in the field, and also one who knows the men who have made @efinite contributions. It seems to me there is a need for a compilation of this information while you men, who have had a major part in pioneering this great game, can give us this information accurately and directlye I realize you are a busy man but I believe you would be interested in this logical approach to this study. A resume of the findings will be made available to you if you indicate a desire for it. Sincerely yours, Ay ape Ws YE Laval Basketball Coach AlMe ; je SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD ROY ELLIS, PRESIDENT DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS H. H. BLAIR, DIRECTOR Dear Doe; I am making this study as a thesis requirement for my Master's Degree in Physical Education. I am enclosing a copy of my thesis topic and outline. This first questionnaire I am sending to 50 or more representative basketball men all over the country to be followed by a more detailed questionnaire to the 12 or more outstanding basketball emtributors that will be selected by this jury of 50 or moreée I would appreciate any remarks or suggestions that you may have as I want to do a real job of impartial research. I would appreciate an answer at your earliest convenience as I gm not sending out the other letters at this time. I trust you have had a good summer and with kindest personal regards, I am. Sincerely, ap mE yaar” Ae Je “Donald AJMe: jc August 25, 1941. Mire Ce E. MeBride, Sports Editor, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Moe Dear Mac: I sent John Te. Doyle the cutting from your sport pege in the Kansas City Star in which you paid John T. a fine tribute. I said in my letter that doubtless C. E. NcB. would send him ohe, but John fT. in reply says you did not, so I have carried on the liaison in good style. He said that he appreciated what you had to say very, very much. John T. says, “I am still going on with the Spalding firm. In fact, I am a vice president, in a sort of contact capacity. So maybe some day I shall stretch the itinerary and show up in Lawrence to thank you in person for your encomiums." The reason I am sending you this paragraph regarding his continuation with Spaldings is because I thought it might provide a lins of information concerning this grand old man to his friends in this territory. 4nd by the way, Mister, I heard from Mrs, Allen who | ran across Mildred that you have been having trouble with your \ nose. I trust that it is nothing serious and that you are that great old Scotch McBride who couldn't be whipped by any physical impediment. I am younger and happier than ever, so you know what I think of downing this thimg that causes infirmity of men. I am going to bring ea party of ten in to see the Yanks ik play the Blues Tuesday afternoon — Mit, Bob, Mit's wife and i Bob's girl friend, and a bunch of them. I have been promising j these youngsters for quite a while and so I am going to make good | on the promise. aa ek en ae spinning a yarn with you, but My the ott woot i Summer Session have kept me ewfully sloce here = and doing a fair Eat re, wis © tee G Sot can oe Oe we score would indicate. : ) With ell good wishes to you and Helen end the family, Sincerely yours, | / I om Merch 7, 1942 Mire Coke Ke Bride Sports Editor Karses City Ster Kansas City, Missourl Dear Macs I read your eporting comment of last evening with a good deal of interest. I do not care to take part in any controversy such as this. This season makes my 24th year of coaching at Kansas and I will let my acts in those 24 years speek for themselves. i only care to mke this statement. Thompson, Livingston and Fitzgibbons were more oeeniniie repulsive the second half than they were the first half of the Nebraskn-Kansas game at lawrence. I wis sitting on the players* bench with our players, and next to me sat Hal Ruppenthal, one of ovr cheerleaderse When Thompson danced before one of our players, who wes starting to throw a free«throw, showing his maniacally, mcphi- stophelic? grim, I will adnit that I could take it no longere I leaned over and said to Hal Ruppenthal, who was parked on a thin ledge beneath the scorers ' I said, "Theat is Dean Thompson's young son at the University of Nebrasl@e Dean is the fean of Men at the University of Nebraskie | The Dean should see him nowe" I imagine that I yelled this to Ruppenthal rather vociferously because the crowd had already challenged Thompson, especially as he seemed to be the greatest offenders All during the first half they yelled "Rose Bowl" and "Big Shot® at Nebrasia so I felt it justice to Mr. Thompson's acts that he he should be made conscious of the fact that he was the Dean of vents son and that he perhaps owed something to his papa in the wy of respectable attitude, ! Now for the Nebraska game at Lincoln. Our Kensas team went out to the Nebrasim fieidhouse an hour and fifteen minutes before game timee AS we walked through the outer door and got into the inner part of the gymmsium I was accosted, not accidentally I think, by Cy Sherman, who seemed to be waiting for mee For the past several years Cy has shown rather an aversion to me and I assure you that this has been mutually happy, as far as I have been concerned. I have never cared @ great deal for Cy Sherman after my experiences in the fall of 1919 when Nebraska : withdrew from the Conference and all the Missouri Valley schools abrogated their contracts with Nebraska with the exception of Kausas, whose policy was this, That eo ee ee ee schedule no other gamese > Mare 7, 1941 1 put double pressure on me to Missouri al : then faculty representative at Kansas State, tean i lt ale By ba r See £8 sa ctac, saat | rind pil ail, mille af i i i nl i ul Hein ; i ‘al fh ES aH it ij fits i uly 3 sits the way Manager of Kansas ly to MAslg ee February 22, 1941 Mre CoE, MeBride _ Well, old fellow, it seems as if we do not sce each other, but we apparently read about each other in the papere This is about as close” as we have come to contacting one another in the last six or eight months. But I am promising myself that this shall not be so if I ever have a moment to drop by and say helloe You and Helen must have had a great trip out West. Bess got a post card on your return and we followed your meanderings through your columis I think it is swell that you and Helen can miss the most dismal part of the winter here by spending your time in Southern California renewing old friendships and bringing your reader-public in close touch with mny olde timers who formerly lived in Kansas Citye I have enjoyed reading about Ire and Mrs. Louis Shouse, Pelle Bainter, and a host of others I knew so welle They were fine peoples Yesterday I read in your sporting comment your article on “Basketball Crowds Needle Nebraskans? Now I want to pass on a little silent comment that I would want no publicity on, but something I would not be the ieast bit afraid to take a few chips in the melee if I were invited, but in this case I do not want tebe Sevited in om this fight beenoee I tm aipendy im the May I say that the reason I think thet the basketball crowds of the BigeSix are on the Nebrasim outfit is because of the fact that they played muckerish basketballe-not just the roughetoush, slem=bang, dingedong type of the pleyers slewning into the opvosition--but the taunting, Dishieing, cheap alley-fighting, muckeracking, across-the«track stuff. Sieh sein, Sheet GA ik do Chak What? te x ghee en, 14 nt of their opponents that they usede Without mentioning certain individuals on the Nebrasim squad, they would single out Englemen and Bobby Allene They walked up to Engleman with a sardonic smile and "Say, little fellow, how is that trick mee tonight?", and then with fiendish delight would either pat the fellow on the back of the neck or pull his mee guardo To Bobby they would say, “So this is Juniore The little boy Junior. Well, well, Junior, what are you going to do tonight?" It was premeditated and plamed as a part of the strategy of attack. They began it early and they Rigs 35 wp Verengs he entire pants The Kansas audience was aghaste Page Two | Gwinn Henry said to me next morning after the ball game, "Say, Doc, what in the world were those Nebraske pleyers doing? The thing that surprised me was the look of amazement on the faces of our boys when the Nebraskans were talking to them." Then I explained to him what the Nebraskens were doing and sayings Our own public was dumbfounded and flabbergasted. They had never seen any perpetration on the floor during the existence of the Big-Six.e Gwinn Henry had given up his seat to the Legislators who had come down for the geme and Gwinn and Vic Hurt stood clear back at the end of the building which is under the balcony, and nearly 100 feet from the side-lines. Even from that distance Gwinn could not hear but he could see thet there wes something unusual taking place. The spectators who were around the side-lines and who could hear the remarks of the Nebraskans began to chip ine They first started on the Rose Bowl talk and then someone discovered, or at least they thought they discovered, that Thompson, the Nebraska forward, was the son of Dean Thompson, who let Mr. Littner run down at New Orleanse Thompson was the most exasperating of alle He is a rather insignificant boy who wears a fiendish pempadoure ‘The side-line boys began to yell, "So this is Dean Thompson's boye A fine example you are setting for your papae” That got him, evidently, as he turned around to the side=lines and shook his head as if he did not belong to the Deane Then Livingston and Fitsgibbons started after Engleman and Bob more than evere Thompson was substituting for Livingston and Fitsgibbons. These three boys were the chief source of trouble because they were the boys who were playing Engleman and Bob. They were being switehed on and off as the occasion demanded. The officials were new men who had worked very little in the Big-Six; Hinkhouse and Grossman. It wes the first game they ever worked for us and I imagine they thought this was the regular Big-Six procedure. When the Kansas boys would come to the free-throw line to shoot a free throw, one of these Nebraskans would fit himself in the line of flight of the ball, just outside the circle, and as a Kansan freeethrower would start to throw this Nebraska boy would drop his body down simulating the actions of the Kansas free-thrower in an effort to distract the Kansane This is clearly a violation of the rule in the book and in the Big-Six, but it was not called because perhaps of the youth of the officials. 7 Between halves I discussed this with our players and told Bob Allen, the captain, to go to the officials and quote verbatim the rule about interferring with the free thrower and the muckerish talk and ask that the officials watch it. I endeavor never to say a word to the officials before, during halves, of after the game if I can help ite Just before the second half started I walked over to the bench to report a - ghange in our line-up to the scorere Coach Lewendowski was walking in the same direction and we met at the benche Dees and Amen were sitting on the Nebraska bench about five feet from the scorer's table. Iwalked directly to Lewendowski and said,"Lou, never in all Nebraska's history have I seen such a muck-racking, corny cheap verbal exhibition as your boys are throwing out to some of our players. This never happened when "Brownie" was coaching nor did I remember of it when any of the other Nebrasia men were , Page Three coachings I am not sure just who is the cause of this but I have a pretty definite comviction (and pointing a finger at Amen) that this boy, Paul Amen, is largely responsible for this muekerish exhibitione" | I had seen Amen on the baseball and football field and the basketball court, and he is one of those rough, tough mongrel types that accepts no decision with good graces : : It was time for the game to start and Lewendowsld, had no opportuni ty to speak to the mene The same players kept it up and before long Thompson was sent to the bench on four personal foulse | - Immediately after the game Thanpson and these troublemakers came up, at the request of Lewendowski, and apologized to me, I said, “That is all righte Forget ite" Lewendowski also sent the players to Engleman and Bobe Bob refused to accept it by’ merely waving the offenders aside and saying, “Just forget it now. We won't think any more of ite" : Now here is my guess on this joust, Mac. Three young fellows, Elwyn Dees, Lewendowsiki, and Amen, came to Lawrence with a lot of pep and Spizerinktum and they were going to pull the old strategical verbal blitzkrieg of upsetting the boyse Elwyn had the background on a lot of the Allen family, Amen had the muckerish tendency because I have seen him in action many times, and Lewendowski had the ambition to succeed in his first year of coachings They forgot the things that had been taught them as to behavior and sporting decendy and apparently cooked this up in their quarters during their idle hours before the gamcée : ; Lewendowski called me up Sunday night after he arrived in tow and I went down to the Eldridge Hotel and visited with Dees, Lewendowski, Amen and Mike Getto, who happened to be in the suites Lewendowsld is a pretty swell fellow who parrics a mental thrust with a lot of goodenatured cemaraderie and an answer that can be used two different weyse He is quite & mental whip and his goodenatured manner could easily put a fellow on a uneasy spot if he would permit its ; He began in a goodenatured way about the band bothering his boyse I ‘answered that the band was not behind his team and Dees confirmed my statenent. The dressing room was the next question discussed and he did a lot of kidding about thate It ws small, ill-ventilated, and all that. I answered that we had two large dressing rooms in the gymnasium, one right across fron where we dressedg that we used the dressing roan in the &ym and walked over and if he wanted to use the other large dressing roan in the gym and walk over he could do thate He finally decided to use the dressing room in the auditoriume Some of the BigeSix teams use the smaller dressing roan in the auditorium, but most of them use the larger one in the gymnasiums He had his choice and he chose the auditoriums The next thing was ticketse It was too bad that they could not get tickets; 911 the seats had been sold oute We answered him to the effect that he could have ticketse That we always reserved enough for the visitros so they | would not be sut out and if he would come up the next morning and see Ire - Falkenstien, the Financial Secretary, he would get his ticketse : - Page Four And then there was something else and something elses All these objections that he raised were not insurmountable and were handled politely and With diseretione Lewendowski's objections were never nauseatingly put but there was partially a self-injured air that left the listener feeling that the interrogator was not altogether too happye Thfough the years I have met | this type so much that we rather get accustomed to those fellows and we call them shirtesleeved diplomats looking for a breake They just sort o/ feel a fellow. out and see how the mental equilibrium is balancinge | Amen did not say anything to me after the game, but he heard me use his name and looked directly at me when I pointed a finger at hime I- did not say anything to him, nor did I see Dees after the game, but Lewendowski came up, congratulated me and we passed off the incident with a friendly handshakes In all the years that we have met wissouri, Kansas State, or sj Iowa State, we have never had these wihappy incidents and this is the first real bad situation we have had with Nebraskt., ee At Norman, Oklahoma, Ug Roberts and AeDe Paine were two of the worst offenders that I have ever seen, They pulled this cheap stuff and then ran up immediately after the game and wanted to shake handse ‘They called it, of course, "getting the other fellow's goats" : George “dwards end I had a talk at Columbia and we both agreed that when our players started that. sort of thing we would yank them out of the game so quickly it would make their heads swime Lou Menze is exactly of the same Opinion, But some of these younger boys feel they should win a game any way they can and that any action is O.Ke se long as you win and do not get pemalized by the officialse | . ees The crime is getting caught and so long as you get away with a lot of this stuff it is considered smart stuff. This is the practice that is maintained among hoodlums and pickepockets, and if we as coaches permit that sort of muckerism then we eertainly are not doing our job of training the boys to play the game and not resort to the alley-fighting standardse ilo wonder they threw Rose Bowl epithets at the Nebraska boys. I am surprised that they did not receive worse, But the audience further back out of hearing range simple could not understand ite Bae Gwinn Henry said to me that next morning that he was going to speak to Biff Jones about it because he kmew Biff would not stand such muckerisme Gwinn said Biff was e fine old sportsman and certainly if he had been down here some youngsters would cértainly have been called on the carpets At the next opportwmity I have to talk with Dees, I am going to tell him th that I em surprised that a bunth of yomg fellows would so far forget themselves . that in their endeavor to win a ball game they would stoop to shoddy tricks in encouraging a bunch of kids along such linese : Page Five Your short article of fourteen lines caused me to write @ mush longer letter than I hid expectede But wnless some of us who are in this game inform the sport writers who endeavor to keep the game with some senblances of sporting decency=-such as you have done for years<= then we fail to receive the aid that comes to us through your fine columne With all good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education and Recreation Varsity Basketball Coach FCAslg