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Dear “reAlien, as

* - heave hea the pleasure of reviewing
your BETTER BASTETSALL for the “Manchester
City News (May 29,1939}, having obtained a
eopy from the London office of the MoGraw-Hiil
 Babkignins Cd 4: ta. 4

Later Ze asheé Mesera.MeGraw-Hili for
@ copy of your EY BASRETBALL BIBLE for review
purposes but they told me they had never beast
of. he hook !

‘I wonder if I would be imposing on
youlat I asked youto let me have a copy. f
an particularly anxious to add this work to ay
anal} itbrary | on baigkethall ~ the Tinest game
in the “sorla ! iI shall review it, of course.

Perhaps you may hel: me in other res-
pects, too. Could you favour me with photographa
of yourself and DPr.Janes Naismith, whe, I am

ven to understand, is still a member of the
faculty of Kansas Univergity< Any biographical
date about both of you would Bsa be welc med.

| If you have written any other books
on the hoo> game I shovld appreciate details.

 Bagketball has not yet been adosted in
Britain in a big way. The public sti?1 confuses
the sport with the girls’ game, netball : The
war has dealt basketball a hasty blow, for all
the Mormon missionaries, who were the backbone
of Ensiish basketball, have returned to the
States. But our National —— is to