LEE P. BENTON
37 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS

REPRESENTING
HALLMARK CARDS

June 9, 1943

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

Many thenks for your recent letter. I think the
letter you are getting out fdr the boys in the service is
quite interesting and should be appreciated by the boys.

I imagine the enclosed clipping is old stuff to you
by now as no doubt many of your friends have mailed you
the same column long before now. I was just wondering if
McBride had any comment to make about it in the Star.

I have met this Bill Cunninghem and have become quite
friendly with him»since he plays some golf at the same club
to which I belong. He gets a great kick out of stirring up
intersectional arguments, especially about the respective
merits of various football teams. He tells me that a couple
of years ago when he wrote an article razzing the Univ. of
Nebraska Rose Bowl football team he received almost 7,000
letters from Nebraska supporters, and some of the letters
ceme as late as a year after he wrote the original artiete.

I took in the various basketball tournaments in New York
during March and saw some dandy games. The eastern teams have
come a long way in the past few years, don't you think? However,
Wyoming was too good for them and I was glad to see a western
team win the grand finale. I spent an afternoon and evening with
Elizabeth Dunkel MacCurdy in New York and we had a grad time
talking over old times at K. U.

Thenks for your advice in regard to playing basketball. I
may be in a tougher game before long because I am going to try
for a commission in the navy.

Best regards to all of you.

Sincerely yours,

—s