July 14, 1946 Mr. James BE. Briley 2012 East 13th Place i Tulsa, Oklahoma Dear Mr. Briley: Yes, I remember your figst lettor and I am sorry ‘that we neglected to handle the matter with respect. My former Secretary, Mrs. Alberta Hulteen whe haa most efficiently handled such matters. for me resigned July Ist to raise her femily.. She is now out of town and has been since the Ist of July. I asked her to take oare of this matter and thought that it had been donee I am sorry for the delay. TI called the ‘Alummi office and got the name of the young lady in charge of distribution of the Jayhawker year books, Miss Fitaepatrick. I called Miss Fitzpatrick, and she advises me that the year book comes out in four different issues all bound in one. I would like you to advise as to whether you wish four complete books or 1 each of the different issues. I alse regret to advise you that she is now out of the first issue of this - book, and that she ean send you the other three issudés of the ‘pook in binding at the price of $3.00 plus miling charges which would amount to about §.25 | You may handle this either way you like, by sending gheck or by receiving the books collect. In either event, as Miss Pitgpatriok is leaving on a vacation a week from today, it would be well for you to contact her at the Jayhawker office in the Union building here on the campus immediately in order te receive your books promptly. Again I wish te apoligize for the delay in answering your requeste With kindest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, Department of Physical Education oe Varsity Basketball Coach FCA: MEH | P.S. Please give my kindest regards to Jim. Let him know that we are wishing the very best of luck for him. We certainly miss him here. He. was a great little fellow. aes Tulsa, Okla. 7/2/45 Dear Dr. Allen, Some time ago I wrote you requesting that you arrange to have the four copies of the JAYHAWKER year book for 1944-45 mailed to me at my expense. I have not heard from you on this matter, if it is inconvénient for you to do this please let me know and I will contact one of the brothers at the S A FE house to get them for me. Respectfully oe oe James E. Briley 2012 East 13th Place Tulsa, Okla. IN REPLY REFER TO eee eee eee reese U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 29 June 1945 Dear Doc: You should be in the throws of another summer session. I'm curious to know if you are still conducting Doc Allen's “Happy Hour on the Hill", | Our tempo of ewtertainment has been stepped up to where we need a swing shift to get the job done. Soumds like we are plenty busy, but I like it and my weight seems to stay up in spite of it. This month we are having Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, Clyde Lucas's Orch, Joan Leslie, a piano team of Natiomal renown, and “Bobo’the Magician. This is in addition to our regular fiwe picture shows a day. Lucy is still here and trying to enjoy this suffering hot weather. The humidity of this country is terrific anda you can just stand around and perspire. Sam Barry has been transferred to Chicago and Lt.Cdr. Larry "Moon" Mullins is our new athletic Officer. We have had some good bull sessions already concerning our past contests between St. Benedicts and Rockhurst. Takes our minds off the war which is good. Naturally, being statiomed in the states one does'nt feel the effects of the war like some of our fellow Kansans, but the fact that the war is still on is a depressing ome and the sooner its over the happier we will all be e My very best regards to all the Allens and Henry Shenk and family. Sincerely, ! Mavregl roo N. E. SPRADLEY DAN BOLEN EDGAR DAvis LEONARD Woop Associates SPRADLEY-BOLEN AGENCY Real Estate - Loans - Insurance SALINA, KANSAS August 17, 1945 Public Utility Building 114 West Iron Ave. Phone 563 Dre Forrest Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: After I talked to you the other day in regard -to Gene Anderson, Ig ot in touch with Gene's father and even though several colleges have contacted his son in regard to attending their school this fall, I feel very confident that Gene and his father, Mr. Carl Anderson, have a decided leaning towards Kansas University, end I feel confident that when you come out that you will be able to secure definite assurance from Gene that Kansas University is the school that he is going to attend. I also talked to Mr. Anderson in regard to Gene's army status and He advised me that as yet there had been no information that would cause them to believe that Gene would have to enter the armed services in the near future, and taking into consideration the fact thst the war is over now, I have my doubts: that they will take a boy with ane height into the army e I feit stemusity bad to hear that Mr. Quigley has beet ill, but I am gled to know that now he is on his way back to recovery. Wham I talked to Mr. Anderson, and told him that the reason that Mr. Quigley had not been out to see him was due to the fact that he wes in the hospital, he told me that he had seen the piece in the paper about Quig's illness and knew thet was the reason he did not get out to Salina to see his boy. When you get in Salina, I want you to contact me immediately and I will go with you down to the Andersonts or if you think it best, I will make an appointment for you and you can eontact Gene and his father alone. Looking forward to seeing you sometime next week, I am DB:im SPRADLEY-BOLEN AGENCY Real Estate - Loans - Insurance SALINA, KANSAS _ N. E. SPRADLEY DAN BOLEN Public Utility Building EDGAR DAVIS 114 West Iron Ave. LEONARD Woop Phone 563 Associates July 20, 1945 Dr. Forrest Allen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansase Dear Phog: I believe that you will remember Gene Anderson a six foot six boy that was on the Salina Basketball team last winter. At the present time, it looks like Gene will be too tall to go to the Army and instead will go to some college, and of course, I would like to sce him go to K U, and I feel that he has a leaning towards the University. I don't know how you handle situations like this, but I believe that a letter from you would carry aiot of weight and you might explain to him there is jobs he could do in order to help out on his expenses, as his father is just a laborer here in Salina, and could not do an awful lot towards meint&ining the boy in school. If you have any suggestions that I might help you with, I wish you would let me know, as I would be glad to cooperate in any way thet I possibly can to get this boy at K U because I feel that he has wonderful chances to become a great Basket Ball player especially under the guidance of a coach like you. i With kindest regards, I am = DB:im Mr. Dan Bolen - §$pradley-Bolen Agenoy Salina, Kansas ; . hank you very much for your good letter of the 20th instant concerning Gene Andersone I eaberrhim very woll. I am enclosing a carbon copy of the letter that I have written Gone, and an also addressing his in care of your office so that you will be sure he gets it. I do not have his address and an afraid it might go astray. I do not want to see that thing Tt saw Gene play and think he has great possibilities, and I would be delighted to have him matriculate at the University of Kansase | ee oe : Regarding jobg he can qount on a good one. The fact that the V~12 boys are supported by United States Government ° prohibits them from doing any work for pay Therefore we have plenty of jobs and that bug bear is eliminated. We pay 507 an hour so a fellow can get along nicely with this sort of set-up. ee Tam sending a carbon aopy of your letter and my letter to Be Ce Quigley, our athletic director, and f am sure thet it . will not be many days until Ernie will be out in your part of the © Country. He will contact your Dr. Phat Nelson and any other that you deem advisable toward interesting this boy in the University of Kansas. It is nice of you to do this dan, and I certainly | appreciate ite ae | : re When better and more enthusiastic alumi are made they wont make them any better then our Den Bolen, I certainly enjoyed my visit with you upon the ocongion of my last visit to Salina. With kindest personal regards, I an | Sincerely yours, Direetor of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach as E g 3 i | a ig A a 4 z Director of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Conch ht ui! in} at ‘July 25, 1945 Mrs Be Ge Quigley, Athletic Director _ University of Kansas Dear Ernie: I am enclosing a carbon copy of Dan Bolien's letter to me, my reply to him, and also a copy of a letter that I have written Gene Anderson. : a Bay Dan Bolen is one of the best men I know of to contact, and he will get the job done if and when you can arrange to be -through Salinas : : , This boy Anderson is a dandy and I think we have a good : - ghance to land him. I will appreciate your usual cooperation. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education Varsity Basketball Coach December 28, 1944. Mr. Asa S. Bushnell, Executive Director, Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics, Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, New York 17, N.Y. Dear Asa: I acknowledge with thanks your good letter of the Z2ist instant. I trust that you had a very Merry Christmas and wilt have a Happy New Year, if wo can in this country under the conditions that we are now facing. I believe that correspondences, even if lengthy, would not be the answer to our situation. You talk about unsubstantiated stories, publicity for rumors, secondhand reports, and alleged happenings that do harm to college basketball. I am wondering where the N.C.A.A. has been all this time. There certainly have been many, many things happening. For example: the Jesse Owens episode in Cleveland, Ohio, when he matriculated at Ohic State University at Columbus (investigated by the outstanding and dominantly controlling officers of the Big Ten, and whitewashed); the Everett Case-Piggie Lambert—Sem Barry episode that the Big Ten investigated, with a fizzle-out and another whitewash. fhe fuses were pinched off before they got to the powder keg. Asa, I wonder if you really think that the public is taking the administrators of college athletics very seriously these days. I have before me rules of the Big Ten and the Big Six. They are a joke because the rules are not being followed, and I know it and thousends of others mow it. On page 12 in the Big Six handbook under recruiting, is this rules "1. By Alwmi and Friends. The Conference is opposed to the recruiting of prospective students by alwmi and friends, when the reason for such recruiting is that the prospective students are athletes. ‘The conference will make continued and positive efforts to eliminate such recruiting. 2. By Members of Athletic Staffs. Members of athletic staffs shall not recruit prospective ath- letes. ‘The following are submitted as typical examples of reoruiting: (a) Urging enroliment thro initiating correspondence, direct confer- ence or indirect message. (b) Promising employment, loans, scholarships or remission of fees. (co) Indirectly contacting prospective athletes by suggesting to alumi or friends that they endeavor to recruit them." There are other sections in the brociure that are equally os bad as this. | dust before Christms the faculty representatives revised the rule, permitting the contacting of high school athletes by the athletic representatives, thereby admitting that the wealminded o.k.‘'d the action of the outlaws in the conference who have a ee aa activity. cis cates mutee Wie Guniaey wath Pion of Oaks pie to speak to alumni groups, of course, is just for the uplift of the alumni’ When we have a national commissioner the type of Judge Landis in our intercollegiate athletics, then we will have respect for the law. fhis national commissioner would have commissioners wider him in every collegiate district. It would be like the bank examiner having deputy examiners. But the high commissioner would have power. He would not be a "Pollyanna", but would be a realist and would follow much the same procedure as aia Judge Landis. The N.C.A.A. has never been mich more than a paper organisation. It has always lacked power to enforce its edicts. It could have controlled proselyting and professionalisn, put the pity of it is, it never measured up to its responsibilities. And in closing, I want to tell you that the “secondhand reports” were firsthand, and you might be surprised what I have in my files at the present time, But I am not prosecuting the N.C.A.A. or the organized intercollegiate set-ups. That is not and never has been my purpose be- cause our institution is a member of that organization. It is one thing to have facts in your possession, and another thing to have an organiza- a a Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH — Basketball Coach. Decerber 28, 1944. Exeoutive Director, : Central office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics, New York 17, Neto Dear Asa: --f weknewledge with thanks your good letter of the 2st instant. se trust that you had a very Morry Christmas end will have a Nappy New ‘Year, if we oan in this comtry wumder the conditions that we are now facing. ee Ves ‘J believe that sorresparidence, even if lengthy, would not be the answer to ow’ situation. You talic about unsubstantiated stories, | publicity for rumors, secondhand reports, and alleged happenings that dq harm to college basketball. T am wondering where the N.CeAck. hos © x ell this time. There certainly have been many, many things ; . Reappening. or exemple: the Jesse Owens episode in Cleveland, Ohio, _ when he mtriculated at Ohio State University at Coludwus (investigated . by the outetanding and dominantly controlling officers of the Big i and whitewashed); the Yverett Case-Pigcie lanbert-Sen Barry episode — ‘that the Big fen investigated, with s figgle-out and another whitewmsh. fhe fuses were pinched off before they got to the powler keg. | Asa, I wonder if you really think that the public is taling the administrators of college athletics very seriously these dayse 7 I heave before me rules of the Big Ten and the Big Six. They gre a joke because the rules are not being followed, and I kmow it and _ thousands of others know it. On page 12 in the Big Six handbook under ‘peoruiting, is this rules "1. By Alwmi and Friends. The Conference is opposed to the recruiting of prospective students by alumi and friends, when the reason for such recruiting is thet the prospective students are athletes. ‘The conference will make continued and positive efforts to eliminate such recruiting. 2. By Members of Athletic : Staffs. lenbers of athletic staffs shall not recruit prospective ath- letes. The following are submitted as typical examples of recruiting: : (a) Urging enroliment thr initioting correapondence, direct confer- ence or indirect message. (b) Promising employment, loans, scholarships or remission of fees. (oc) Indirectly contacting prospective athletes by suggesting to alumi or friends that they endeavor to reorulit theme” S ‘ , There are other sections in the brochure that are equally as si i Slant Wink Ucar weianeundinioesn vovtank toe rule, permitting the contacting of high school athletes by the athletic | representatives, thereby admitting that the weakninded o.k.'d the action eS ee ee ee ee activity. 3 iis cial anllict adhe Sie anceliny sith Sie oe Make pein eee is just for the uplift of the eluanis When we have a national commissioner the type of Judge Landis in ow intercollegiate athletics, then we will have respect for the law. This national commissioner would have comaissionera under him in every collegiate district. It would be like the bank exaniner having deputy exauiners. ut the high cownissioner would have power. Ue would not be a “Pollyanna"™, but would be a realist and would follow much the same procedure as did Judge Lendis. The N.C.AA. hes never been much more than-a paper organization. It has always lacked power to enforce its edicts. It could have controlled proselyting and professionalism, but _ the pity of it is, it never measured up to its responsibilities. And in closing, I want to tell you that the “secondhand reports” | were firstland, and you might be surprised what T have in my Piles at the present time. But I am not prosecuting the N.C.4.A. or the organized intercollegiate set-ups. That is not and never has been my purpose be- cause our institution is a member of that organisation. It is ome thing to have facts in your possession, and another thing to have an orgenizea- tion that would prosecute it if it could. Diraeter of Physical Bducation, Varsity Basketball Coach. : CENTRAL OFFICE FOR EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Kasten Association of Rowing Colleges @ Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Lb. Football League Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association e Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League e Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League e Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association e Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association e Heptagonal Games Association gs IC. A. A. A. A. ® Intercollegiate Fencing Association ® latercollegiate Ice Hockey Association & Intercollegiate Rowing Association e International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League ‘®. Pentagonal Hockey League Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 6-7580 ASA S. BUSHNELL, Executive Director December 21, 1944 Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Phog: I should have sent you long since a more detailed answer to your letter of October 23 than the mere acknowledgment which did go forward immediately upon its receipt. I apologize for allowing a lot of work here in the office to spoil my good inten- tions in the matter. My thoughts still sugar off to the opinion which I expressed in my original communication regarding the gambling matter. I feel that publicity forrumors, second-hand reports, and alleged happen- ings can only do harm to college basketball and other collegiate sports, whereas I am certain that your sincere desire is to gain protection against possible damage to campus athletics. Perhaps you have seen the editorial in the Saturday Evening Post's December 23 issue, entitled "The Gamblers Move In on College Sport"; this item illustrates my point. The article lists your charges, and then goes on to say that the episode of their airing "did suggest to a lot of people that their estimate of college athletics ought to be re- vised again — and downward", Thus, in consequence of the publicity innumerable people now wudoubtedly believe that two boys were per- suaded by gamblers to "throw" a college basketball game, though the authorities at the institution which the two boys in question rep- resented were convinced after exhaustive investigation that such was definitely not the case. Believing this much, those people will also believe that many other boys have "thrown" games, and further that "the fix will be on" in countless other contests in various other branches of sport. And, in addition, these people will con- vert many others to the belief that faith in the integrity of inter- collegiate athletics is misplaced. It seems to me that your unsubstantiated story, if told to the N.C.A-A. instead of to the AP, would have been highly beneficial instead of harmful. It would then have helped and inspired the N.G.A-A. to the sort of action which that organization should take in eliminating evils from college sports and in preserving all of their many good features. We should all work everlastingly to have the N.C.A.A. assume responsibility for investigation and - if needed - for correction also of problems such as that growing out of gambling on basketball. There is no doubt of the facts that professional gamblers ~2- are finding a profitable field for their operations in college sport, that these manipulators are cagey and unscrupulous, that at least some youthful athletes are vulnerable, and that serious trouble is a real possibility wmless intelligent and energetic efforts are made to prevent it. Therefore, let's see to it that the N.C.A.A. brings this situation under control, and keeps it there. But I have meddled much too much in this matter. Forgive Mee Merry Christmas. Singerely yours, Asa S. Bushnell ASB:ms COPY CENTRAL OFFICE FOR EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street New York 17, N.Y. Asa S. Bushnell, Executive Director December 21, 1944. Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Phog: I should have sent you long since a more detailed answer to your letter of October 23 than the mere acknowledgment which did go forward immned- jately upon its receipt. I apologize for allowing a lot of work here in the office to spoil my good intentions in the matter. My thoughts still sugar off to the opinion which I expressed in my original communication regarding the gambling matter. I feel that publicity for rumors, second-hand reports, and alleged happenings can only do harm to college basketball and other collegiate sports, whereas I am certain that your sincere desire is to gain protection against possible damage to campus athletics. Perhaps you have seen the editorial in the Saturday Evening Post's December 23 issue, entitled "The Gamblers Move In on College Sport"; this item illustrates my point. The article lists your charges, and then goes on to say that the episode of their airing “did suggest to a lot of people that their estimate of college athletics ought to be revised again - end downward”. Thus, in consequence of the publicity imumerable people now undoubtedly be- lieve that two boys were persuaded by gamblers to "throw" a college basketball game, though the authorities at the institution which the two boys in question represented were convinced after exhaustive investigation that such was defin- itely not the case. Believing this much, those people will also believe that many other boys have “thrown” games, and further that "the fix will be on” in countless other contests in various other branches of sport. And, in addition, these people will convert many others to the belief that faith in the integrity of intercollegiate athletics is misplaced. It seems to me that your wisubstantiated story, if told to the N.C.A.A. instead of the AP, would have been highly beneficial instead of harmful. It would then have helped and inspired the N.C.A.A. to the sort of action which that organization should take in eliminating evils from college ssprts ami in preserving all of their many good features. We should all work everlastingly to have the N.C.A.A. assume responsibility for investigation and - if needed - for correction also of problems such as that growing out of gambling on basketball. - There is no doubt of the facts that professional gamblers are i finding a profitable field for their operations in college sport, that these manipulators are cagey and unscrupulous, that at least some youthful athletes are vulnerable, and that serious trouble is a real possibility unless intelligent and energetic efforts are made to prefent it. Therefore, let's see to it that the N.C.A.A. brings this situation under control, and keeps it there. But I have meddled much too much in this matter. Forgive me. Merry Christmas. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Asa Asa S. Bushnell _ Ma. Asa Bushnell, Executive Director, Central Office for Kastern Intercollegiate Athletics Biltuere Ustel, ; Madison Avenue and 43rd St., | New York 17, N.Y. , Dear Asa: Iwould enjoy a visit with you. I think you and I _ gould agree on some things that would be constructive, and not treat the matter pilliatively. We have done too much of that to the detriment of an equal opportunity for ‘he fellow who wants to follow the rules. With all good wishes, I an Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, - Varsity Basketball Coach. | CENTRAL OFFICE FOR EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS astern Association of Rowing Colleges @ Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League ° Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Lb. Football League e Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association @ Eastern Iatercoilegiate Gymnastic League 2 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association e Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association ° Heptagonal Games Association e 1.C. A. A. A. A. 6 Intercollegiate Fencing Association Intercollegiate {ce Hockey Association * Intercollegiate Rowing Association International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League .@ Pentagonal Hockey League e Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 6-7580 ASA S. BUSHNELL, Executive Director January 2, 1945 Mr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Athletics University of Kansas Lawrence, Kan. Dear Pfog: Thanks for your letter of December 28. As you have indicated, continued corres-— pondence between you and me cannot accomplish the end which we both have in mind. Let's plan to sit down together at the first opportunity to discuss all of the angles; perhaps we can then agree upon some beneficial course of action. Wishing you well for 1945, I am, Sincérely yours, Asa S. Bushnell ASBims _.* CENTRAL OFFICE FOR EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges °e Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League e Eastera Intercollegiate Football Association e Eastera Intercollegiate 150-Lb. Football League Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League @ Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League e Hastera Intercollegiate Tennis Association e Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Heptagonal Games Association ®@ 1 C. A.A. A. A. eo Intercollegiate Fencing Association ® Intercollegiate ice Hockey Association ® Intercollegiate Rowing Association {nternational Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League @. Pentagonal Hockey League @ Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 6-7580 ASA S. BUSHNELL, Executive Director January 22, 1945 Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Phog: Managing Editor Fuoss has sent you a copy of the letter which he addressed to me on January 15. The communication of mine which prompted his letter was directed to a personal friend of mine, Day Edgar, Assistant to the Post Editor. I am enclosing a copy for your information. I was not checking up on you, but merely delv- ing because of curiosity into the question of the Post's method in setting up premises for its deductions. I still want to have that talk with you at oo yours, Ase S. Bushnell first opportunity. ASE:ms Enclosure Central Office For Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics January 10, 1945 Mr. Day Edgar Asst. to the Editor Saturday Evening Post Curtis Publishing Co. Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Day: The editorial entitled "The Gamblers Move I Sport" in the Post's December 23 issue wa special interest to me. No doubt the Post asked Phog # charges before it proceeded by repeating them and anal facts did he produce? em further currency significance. What It is unfortunate that profe gamblers are finding a profitable field for their “tions in college sport, for serious trouble-is-a~possible consequence unless in- » made to prevent it. tic Association, an elertly eset eered | ongeal tation ef athletic repre- sentatives fromall of the counttry's leading colleges, is Getermined to see to it that the situation is put under i t belnare that anyone need eting its probleme as they arise and of “effecting the for those problems. are you, ay? Hope to see you one of these days. all good wishes for 1945, I am, Sincerely yours, Asa S. Bushnell ASB:AR Mr. Asa S. Bushne Bushnell, Executive Director, Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate &thletios, Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd St., New York 17, N.Y. You are a gcod fellow with a lot of mor. Direetor of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. - CENTRAL OFFICE FOR EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges e Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League e Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League e Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Lb. Football League Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League e Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League e Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Heptagonal Games Association e I. C. A. A. A. A. e Intercollegiate Fencing Association Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Association Intercollegiate Rowing Association International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League ® Pentagonal Hockey League e Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MURRAY HILL 6-7580 ASA S. BUSHNELL, Executive Director AIR MAIL January 30, 1945 Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Phog: I am having my eyes examined for new and stronger glasses. Singéenely yours, Asa S. Bushnell ASB:ms co estore dh yc mescnrpanse NSE f em, . es & Ly ae ee pm ned Fe ee ee * ne CENTRAL OFFICE NEWS LETTER A Publication Dedicated to the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics in a Nation at War Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics + Biltmore Hotel * New York 17, N.Y. ASA S. BUSHNELL * DONALD C,. STUART, Jr. * Editors Wok. <9, Bo. 1 February 10, 1945 KEEPING THE RECORD UNBLEMISHED College athletics have established a good war record, It would be unfortunate if this were spoiled by a poor post—war record. The wartime contributions of campus sports have been significant. They have produced legitimate and badly needed recreation nat only for undergraduates but also for the public. More important, they have been of immense valve in the early train- ing of members of the country's armed forces, and men in actual combat have found that experience in athletic competition stands them in good stead in war's sterner competitive tests. In view of these achievements there undoubtedly will develop at war's end a strong temptation for collegiate athletics to undertake other functions in addition to those for which it is qualified. Already there are unmistakable indications that, in the midst of the inevitable reaction against compulsory military service during peace times, the proposal will be made that the vital purposes of such a training regimen be accomplished through a nationwide compulsory sports program. This idea will be popular for, while appealing to all those who are tired of uniforms and military discipline, it will also appear to offer the easy way ovt. But let all be- ware of this lazy man's panacea, for it won't work. Athletic administrators will make a big mistake if they lend their support to any movement to have a sports pro- gram accepted as a substitute for military training. Sport's proper post-war job will be to assure physical fitness on the part of the nation far superior to that possessed at the ovtbreak of World War II or at any other time in the past. To attain this end, one hundred percent particivation in athletic competition will be needed at schools and colleges, in towns, communities and neighborhoods. Nevertheless, no matter how successfully this program may be prosecuted, it will not prepare for war or protect against another war. Universal military training will be prerequisite to this all-important objective. Why not make mandatory for all young Americans one full year in service imme- diately following high school graduation or, for any not continuing education to this point, one year at age eighteen? To say that this procedure will make the country harmfully militaristic is prattle. No longer can this nation choose whether or not it will be more extensively militarized than it used to be. In the present war the USA has demonstrated to other countries that overseas invasion against well armed op- position is practicable. Therefore, in future the USA must discourage all these other countries from the thought of yielding in wars ahead to the urge to do likewise where American shores are concerned -- and it must do this by being ready itself to withstand such invasion. The nation must have strength in arms, and it must have all of its young men prepared. To disarm in the hope of influencing others to disarm — will bring the opposite effect and will invite disaster. Experience shovld have taught that lesson by this time. Those who appreciate the true valves of athletic training shovld also recog- nize its limitations, and should be satisfied with a fitting role for athletics in the post-war world. Sports are needed to make the people strong, but compulsory military training is needed to make the country strong. «et et Fe BASKETBALL'S BIG PROBLEM There is a lot of emphatic talking being done on the subject of the basketball gambling evil, but it is accompanied by a disappointingly inadequate amount of clear thinking. Cures which have been glibly offered don't even attack the basic problem; thus they fail to provide any actual solution and -- worse -- they obscure the real problem and so make its eventual solution all the more difficult. A common mistake is to neglect differentiation between betting at games and betting on games -- two activities alike in interest but very unlike in significance. Betting at games is a distinctly minor evil. It is annoying to college athlet- ic authorities just as it is to spectators, and it certainly creates an unwholesome atmosphere for amateur competition. It is a nuisance rather than an ill. Alert policing will readily eliminate it, for without much trouble or effort known gamblers can be barred from the scene of a contest and any persons openly wagering can be ejected from the premises, wherever situated. Betting at games is dollar-—and-—dime stuff, of comparatively little harm and of less importance. Betting on games is something else again. In this category falls the profes- sionally directed big money gambling which constitutes a serious menace to collegiate basketball. It involves bookmakers operating miles away from the place of competi- tion, or hundreds of miles away from it, and hence far removed from any direct control on the part of the game management. These bookmakers and the interests which they represent are in big business; they have no concern for the sport itself, and feel no hesitancy in attempting to corrupt basketball and its participants for their own gain. "Remove basketball from the big arenas", says one person after another, "and you will remove the gambling evil from basketball." -How can this overly simplified measure be accepted as the answer to an extremely complex question? The locale of a game has little or no bearing on its serviceability as a medium for betting. A bookie doesn't have to be on hand at a contest in order to perform his function as betting agent; as a matter of fact, attendance at one game would seriously hamper him in his business of providing gambling facilities for many games. He can -- and does -- quote prices and make book on contests taking place simultaneously at big metronol- itan arenas, at large campus fieldhouses, at small college gymnasiums, and at tiny YMCA courts. To a fan a basketball game is a basketball game wherever it is played, but to a professional gambler it is e business opportunity pure and simple (though neither pure nor simple) -- and that goes for Boston, or Minneapolis, or New York City, or Ann Arbor, or Philadelphia, or Atlanta, or Lawrence, Kansas, or Ong's Hat, N. J. Let's not decide to play ovr college basketball games behind locked doors in the upstairs back room, and then relax into the comfortable conviction that the gam- bling problem has been solved and ovr job done. That procedure would be highly satis- factory to the gambling interests, for as long as the scores of the games are printed in the papers the bookmakers and their customers will have the betting vehicle which they want. Let's face the problem whole, and realize that we won't be rid of it until college basketball, wherever played, is rid of professional gambling. The situation needs more drastic curative measures than any which have been devised thus far. To achieve the desired objective -- collegiate sport and its players success- fully protected against invasion by the professional gambling element -- the nation's colleges must organize in strength to make their athletics no man's land for the tout, the tipster, the fixer, the bookie, and the svre-shot gambler. He, oe ae ae Re Sth YEAR, 8th ASSEMBLAGE Having entered with the coming of 1945 upon its eighth year of operation, the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics on January 24, 25 and 26 con- ducted its eighth annual schedule-making conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City. Coincidentally seventeen of the eighteen leagues and associations federated in the COEIA held separate meetings of their own, and schedule arrangements of consider- able volume were completed in short order. During the course of the three-day session representatives of nearly fifty Eastern institutions gained stimulus and en- joyment from absorbing talks on a diversity of appropriate subjects by Captain Arthur S. Adams, USN (Ret.), of the Navy Department's Division of Training; Colonel Henry W. (Eskie) Clark, GSC, Chief of the Army Service forces’ Athletic Branch; Commander William R. (Killer) Kane, USN, new head of the Navy Department's Aviation Training Division; John Kieran, of "Information Please" and "One Small Voice"; Arthur E. Patterson, N.Y. Herald Tribune sports staffman who has just returned from service as manager of the USO China-Burma-India baseball unit; and Edward S. Parsons, North- eastern University athletic director who was elected a vice-president by the NCAA at its recent convention. oe oe ae se 6 TITLE COMPETITION Championship events already scheduled for the current year are these: Feb. 9 & 10 -- Alst Annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assn. Championships at Bethlehem, Pa. March 3 -—— 24th Annual I.C.A.A.A.A. Indoor Track & Field Championships at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.C. May 19. —- 69th Annual I,C.A.A.A.A. Outdoor Track & Field Championships at West Point, N.Y. May 19 _ =- Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Assn. Championships at Princeton, N.J. whe June 2 -- llth Annual Heptagonal Games at Annapolis, Md. Nov. 10 -- 7th Annual Heptagonal Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park, BeveCs Nov. 17 -— 37th Annual I.C.A.A.A.A. Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.C. Organizations which are omitting special championship events in 1945 are the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, the Intercollegiate fencing Assn., and the Intercollegiate ("Poughkeepsie Regatta") Rowing Assn. Among the leagues the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Assn., and the Eastern Assn. of Rowing Colleges are this year conducting their schedules of more or less complete rovnd-robins, but the Pentagonal Hockey League, the Three-Eye Hockey League, the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League, and the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League are nat. 7 ae. 58 Fe te Se . THIS YEAR'S LEADERS The men who have been elected to head the eighteen COEIA affiliated gravps in 1945 (in most cases as president, in one or two as chairman) are the following: Eastern Assn. of Rowing Colleges -- Ralph T. Jope, M.I.T. Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League -- Ralph J. furey, Columbia Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League -- H. Jamison Swarts, Pennsylvania Eastern Intercollegiate Football Assn. -- William A. Reid, Colgate Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound football League -- George E. Little, Rutgers Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Assn. -- Colonel Lawrence McC. Jones, Army Kastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League -- Major J. W. Roy, U.S.M.A. Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League -- William H. McCarter, Dartmouth Kastern Intercollegiate Tennis Assn. -- Robert J. Kane, Carnell Bastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assn. -- E. f. Caraway, Lehigh Heptagonal Games Assn. -- Robert J. Kane, Cornell I. C. A. A. A. A, -— Earl R. Yeomans, Temple Intercollegiate fencing Assn. -- Albert B. Nixon, N. Y. JU. Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Assn. -- Ogden D. Miller, Yale Intercollegiate Rowing Assn. -- Lewis P. Andreas, Syracuse International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League (American Section) -- Howard W. Stepp, ‘ Princeton Pentagonal Hockey League -~ Colonel Lawrence McC. Jones, Army Collegiate Basketball Officials Bureau -- John Ff. Coffey, fordham TRE ITIHETEAT RTT EE aie.