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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 :