merch 7, 1942 _ i read your sporting comment of last evening with e good deal of Dear ios Ruppenthal rather | Lled "nose Bowl” and "Big Shot" at *g aots thet he he should be made » the tean of iien's son and thet he perhaps owed - stopheliés ih 5274 ae i lf Hig els a an a ‘ 3 2 4 aan wee cH ey = aa wie aa Be wig “i % a a1 pn a 2 m3 nd March 20, 1941 Mire Alston MeCarthy 780 York Street Dear Alston: _I lmow that you have plenty to do without being asked an additional chorée However, I am saying something to you that I want . _ you to keep in strict confidences I am desirous of helping a very worthy person and her family and af ean help or can get some of your good friends in Denver te help, T will, deeply appreciate ite Ernst “Dutch” thrlaub, one of the Vhrlaub ns who pleyed basketball here and wis my captain in 1921, and who iso played a fine game of Varsity Baseball as well as being an expert in golf, has been divorced by his wife, Vernadine Uhrlaub, There are two children in the fenily and Dutoh mas not seen fit to support them, although there is a court order to that effect. i Mey I give you @ little background of Dutch's marital dislocations Duteh taught at Salina, Kensas after having made e fine success in Arkansas Citye lie was fine with the boys and a good coach, He mrried hig wife, who was one of the students in the Selina High School, after her graduatione She previously had been in his classese They had two lovely Children end apparently everybody was hapoy, but the same old triangle worked to the detriment of the familys She was @ school teacher in the Salina School System, that - Dateh became enamored with, and thet broke up the homes Of cowse, he | iost his job as did the other teachers I did not mow all the | at the time, but I imew that he had lost the job and I heard pretty | Gefinitely that it was his faulte Wot being able to procure a job, I suggested to Dutch that he come to the University and work out his Master's Degree, which he dide My only motive was in helping him and the . familye My notion was that if he should get a Master's Degree it would again make him more valuable and perhaps get him a job at a better salary, and in thet wy a part of his salary would go toward the support of the childrens So he came to the University a year ago and I engaged him as my Fresimmn Basketball Coach and my Assistant Varsity Coach, Imowing that. he imew basketball and feeling we might lift him up and put him in a better enviroment, both mentally and physically, than he had been exposed to the last yoar so previously to thige Mir. MeCarthy Page Two Mare 20, 1942 Duteh officiated basketball and football games but contributed very little to the support of the family. Different prominent citizens of Salina came to me saying that Dutch was not taking care of his children, let alone his wife, who was forced to work in the school cafeteria so that the children might have the elemental necessities of lifes Both children are talented and the boy, 15 years of age, was playing in the bande A trip was to be made to Kansas City, so this kindehearted citizen of Salina purehased shoes so the boy could make the trip well equipped, as were the other ehildrene I only mention this to show you that apparently everybody believed in the wifee But most everyone wes entirely out of patience with Ernst. He apparently continued to see the other individual and ignored his fanilye When I found this out I called him in and tore him to pieces mentallye I told him the only reason i was helping him was to help his family, and if he was going to pull that kind of stuff he certainly could not expect any cooperation fran mée Of course, he denied it generally, but he was very nonecomitial, | : I heve been in the Uhrlaub home at Salina and have met them when they came here to lawrence to visit his relatives. So naturally I offered - to help Mrse Uhriaub in any way that I could, Way back in January, 1941, to be exact, I received a letter from Urée Vernadine Uhrlaub at 1029 Hast 17th Avée, Denver, Colorado. I told her that I had sane very good friends in Denver like Alston MeGarthy, Bill Grien, and other individuals who I am sure that I could turn to for a bit of friendly cooperation for a person in time of need, I further told her that if there . Was any way thet we could help her I would be more than gled to do it. . Her letter to me of Janvary 15, 1941 reads as follows: "I'm sorry te have taken so long to answer your letters “The flu epidemic is very much in evidence heres Both Dene and I have had its "I returned to work only to bo laid off, if you think you ean help me in any way at all to find work, I would greatly appreciate ite | “Dutch is working and has been sending some money each week but I can’t depend on that alonee "It is so kind of you to want to helps Sincerely, Vernadine Uhrlaub*® Mre MeCarthy eS Page Three. Mare 20, 1941 I believe Mrse Uhrlaub is living with her folks in Denveres Alston, I realize that this is asking a lot of you but I have no better friend to turn to than you and I am wondering if in some of your spare moments that you have, if you would look into this situation for me and let me know if there is any way we could use legitimate friends in Denver for helping a very worthy woman who is trying heroically to raise her two childrene I understand both the children are afflicted with astima at timese So even though the boy is old enough to work part-time, I am not sure just what is strength ise Dutch was a Phi Delt, you know, and you wore & Beta, but I am sure the great athletic fraternity to which we all belong will cause us to want to help sone person hot so fortunate. as we might happen to bee Now, Alston, I will certainly want to reciprocate your kindness, and if you can by any manner use your fine influence in helping Mrse Uhriaib, I am sure that the bread will be returned upon the waterse Please give my kindest regards to your wife and your good familys 7% would be a great pleasure to see you and have a chat with youe 3 By the way, I told Howard Ingleman and John Kline to look you upe Both boys are playing on the Kensas City School of Canmerce Team and they are out there for a little fum and a light lerke I told Engleman, who is President of his class in the School of Business, not to make the mistake of getting out of Denver without looking you up and saying helloe Both Engleman and Kline are of the highest type of gentlemen and I wanted them te ve the benefit of knowing youe With &ll good wishes, I an, _ Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Biucation and Recreation Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach F0Aslg SS April 28, 1941 Mre Ce Be McBride Sports Editor Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri . Dear Maes Mrse Allen asked.me when I returned Sunday morning at 2500 Aclle if we had had trouble in any of our baseball gamese I said, “Well, the only grouble that I know of that we have had was the difficulty we encowmtered in getting Iowa State out at bate It seems as if wo had more difficulty getting Towa State out than any other trouble that I lmow of." She said, "Well, there is a copy of Mre McBride's sports page and he must: have heard somethings” She was greatly worried, so to sooth her fears and to ease any misapprehension eee | Nn 10 Lent nenge to Wette you the full 'fante When I was asked to take charge of baseball here I called the baseball candidates together and made this statement, “Boys, we are playing college base= ball and if any of you heretofore have had any idea of charging the umpire or ruming out towrd him on any decisions, then I want to say here and now that @il that stuff is out. We are a college baseball team and we are going to play strictly college baseball and none of the semiepro stuff, imitative of the belligerent baseball barnstormerse" Not only have I said this to the YS, but a mmber of people wrote in to me congratulating me on taking the team, and in each letter I stated to them that our baseball material and morale was at a very low ebb and we were going to have a scrappy, aggressive team, but we were going to put our fight into the game and not at the umpires pheoed And we have followed that to the lettere We played three baseball one at Oldahona and two at Ames, and I would be very pleased indeed if you could grapevine Mre Harold Keith or Professor Jap Taskejl or Professor Louis Menze or — Le Ce "Cap" Tima, baseball ccacn at Towa State, and find out if we have ever been belligerent or have fallen in the evil wey of the wpire charging habits of a baseball managers * | : a Coach Haskell had his assistant, Coach Jack Baer, on the coaching line _ for the first seven innings at Normans I politely walked over to Jap and said, “Jap, isn’t there some rule in the BigsSix code among baseball coaches that the Big-Six coaches shall renain off the coaching line? Jap said, "I dontt Imow, Phog, is there? I said, "I think there is, Jap, is there not?" And with a friendly slap on the shoulder to subdue the bickerings from the Sooner rooters, I walked back to my bench and sat downs The approach was most pleasant, the conversation cordial and all the actions on my part were a friendly gestures The Sooner rooters could not tell whether I was batting a leme baseball shoulder for Jap, or inviting him out to dinners But the barrage was the samee the next inning, Coach Baer kept his position on the bench and Coach Haskell sent a player out to do coaching on the third bases eae Mre Ce Ee McBride Page 2 Apre 28, 1941 a * At Iowa State in the first game, Kansas was leading by one run, 8 to 7o There were two domm and Iowa State was at bat with a man on third and the call . 5 to 2e This wes in the last half of the ninthe The runner from third started with the pitcher's arm, the batter struck out, the catcher dropped the ball, the runner from third crossed the plate, but the catcher threw to first in time. to retire the sides the wpire called the player out and apparently the game was overs Immediately I ordered our boys to grab their equipment and start for the club house on the rume The rooters and team members charged the umpire, claiming that the runner was safe and the umpire changed his decisions Both wpires then came in and concurred with the hone team's desiree a Coach Timm overtook me in the left field on the way to the club house end said, “Phog, the umpire called the runner safes" I said to Cocah Timm, "Cap, there is a man scouting this game from the Boston Red Soxs called Beckere He is an old wupiree You look him up and he will tell. you the rulese ‘The ball ' game is overs” I had quite a time getting my boys off the field because in the case of a fire or dog fight everybody wants to see ite I finally pulled then into the dressing room under the stadiun and then Tinm came to me and said, "Phog, the score is tiede" I said, “Well, Cap, it might be a tie in your mind but according to the rules the ball game is overe If you want to argue with anybody see lire Becker who Imows the rulese" Coach Timm was most polite and courteous but insisted that we play some more baseball. We took our showers and went to the hotel. . ; | — - Louis Menze came dow to the hotel leter and said that in his opinion he thought we were right, but when the players and the crowd ran to the wnpire and the umpire changed his decision then he was not sure so he looked it upe Rule 52 clarified the matter definitely for hime Scout Beeker of the Red Soxs, Louis and I had a faming bee that evening and the next morning Coach Timm and Louis and a group of us played golf, Becker said there was no doubt in his mind from the beginnings But it was not my job to find Beckers it was my job to know the rules and not argue with anybodye So if you read anything in the papers about the thousand rooters swarming on the field, you perhaps felt that I would | be right in the center of the argument, but if you would have bet on this situation you would have lost all your money in this cases I had the rule on my side and there was no need to argues in fact, there was every reason why I should absent myself from any declamation or oratorye . So thanks, Mac, for expressing hope that I am not going to play semie pro or pro baseball, We are playing amateur baseball and we are keeping it _ amateur, at least during the time we are playing our opponents, and at all times when we are admonishing the boys to put the fight into the game and not at someone “who is calling the decisions ' : I take it that you paid me a compliment because in the last part of your sentence you state as muche But even some of our best friends and those who care most about us read with apprehension and fear rather than the meaning which you set forthe But I will not let you dom, Mac, I*11 do the job in the same manner that I have admonished the boys to do ite Ure Co Ee MeBride Page 3 Apri 28, 1942 iia sak eee ante ca the run with speaking engagements out over the State, coaching baseball, and what not, but with the first ev I am going to drop in to say hello to yous With kindest regards to Mrse MeBride and your good cuts, I am, Sincerely yours, Director of Physical mducation and Recreation Varsity Basketball and Baseball Coach FCA slg August 29, 1941. lire Ae Je MeDonald, Southwest Missouri State Teachers Osllerss Springfield, Missouri. Dear Andy: I have just returned from the Iowa State High School Coaches Association coaching school where Clark Shaughnessy, Bernie Bierman, Henry Iba and I were om the teaching facultys We had a full | 6 Rie tage sierra ma mnmcemaaso sei: ‘I will be happy to help you om your theais require- ment for the Master's degree. I would suggest, ‘Andy, that you have some place in this numerical list something to show the research : work, administrative work, and so forthe , I am not trying to toot my own horn, but when the Rules Committee some ten or twelve years ago legislated the dribble out of the rules, I remember that I was speaking before the National Educetion Association Committee on Athletics which met in Des Moines, Iowa. EKmuite Rockne was speaking at the Drake field house at this section on the Pedagogy of Football, end my subject before that was the Pedagogy of Basketball. The news came over the wire regarding re re ee ee ee See bble. I made the following statement to the assembled group in the Drake field house concerning the deletion of the dribble: “The autocratic and high