Mr. Lloyd Blomstrom, P
288 - Winner, So. Dakotas

Dear Mr. Blomstrom: .

... .Your letter has been referred to me for reply... I notice that.
you are preparing a speech for your local Rotary Club, and since I am. .
president-elect of the Lewrence Rotary Club I will be happy to comply
with your request. :

The men at the University of Kensas who were plrysically handi-
capped were Tommy Johnson, Kansas greatest all-round athlete, Everett
Bradley, who was an Olympic track athlete, and Glem Cummingham. So.
muoh has been written about Glem. that doubtless you would be more .
interested in him. then any_of the_others. However, I will_tell you. about
Tommy Jolmson and Bverett Bradley.

Everett Bradley was a very weak and sick boy and was bothered with
chorea (St. Vitus’ dence) as a youngster. Mis physicians ordered him to
stay out of school, which he did for five years. They told him +] play,
to climb trees and to conduct all of his activities in the great out-of-
1 ss 3 r : ‘

During the three years that Everstt Bradley was in school he
17 2/8 points in every meet thet he was in. These were the
Drake Relays, Relays, and the Penn Relays, as well as all
track meets and the Big Six indoor end outdoor meet. He won the
tathlon in Pennsylvania in 1921 and he was on the Olympic track team
in 1924 and was one of Uncle Sam's outstanding performers.

Everett Bradloy had said many times that if it were not for ath-
letics he would have never established his health nor would he have
accomplished the things in business life thet he hed. He is a commercial
geologist at Wichita, Kansas, and one of the outstanding men in the field.
As a point winner here he has had no peer. He was a
jumper, « pole vaulter, a sprinter, a 440~yard man, a
hurdler, and he would win first place in many of °
meet.

Tomay Johnson was a sick boy eat twelve years of age.
tubereoulosis of the kidney. The doctors advised
which he did for a period of three or four years, but he went down to old
MeCook Field where the Kansas gridiron heroes practice, and like Hawthorne's
Great Stone Face, these men served as an ideal - as an aim for hi
accomplish something great.
gridiron gladiators. He trained, he practiced all the time with an innate
hope that some day he would be a football player at Kansas. i