March 7, 1939.

‘Hee ie the proposition that I offered tir. Liston. x proposed that we
take the cash receipts of the National Intercollegiate Tournament for their first
two nights last year, and that our N.C.AsA. committee allow him that amount of money
for his rental plus an added sum this yeare I proposed that we then, as a determiner
for the added sum, take the entire total gross receipts of Liston's Intercollegiate
Tournsssmnt fer inet yeer and compare then with the tetal recsipts this year, ani that
we increase the rental for the first two nights of this year, nemely Monday and Tues-
day, according to the proportion of the increase in total gate receipts of this year

In other words, if Liston's tournament this year grossed taiee as much as
Inst year, we would pay doublis the wanted fer Menlay dnd Tuseiay nichts.

TE maw tap Oilenns Seth, cenmidsendion et Listens tewxenend woild go on
and no be interrupted only by pushing some of their games so they wuld be played
during the day rather then at nights This would be velvet for Liston's tournament,
end I donaidadel 0 6 tay tele ceeiabinns

Furthermore, I agreed thet he could count his advance sale that has been
_made by the Chamber of Commerce in this year's gross. Liston stated thet he had

about 2,000 tickets sold. We had agreed to admit these tickets free so far as