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“Mr. F. ©. Allen

 

 

 

H. V. PORTER executive secretary
7 SOUTH DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO. ILL,

  
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
 
   
  
 
  
 
   
    
      
 
 
  
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
   

May 14, 1942

Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

I appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending materials with your
letter of May 12th. I am greatly interested in this and I may have
some further comments after I have had a chance to make further s
of it.

In the meantime, I think I can outline where some of the N.C.A.A.
went. Unless I am misinformed (and I have not had occasion to che
matter carefully), “1000.00 was allocated to Gullion, Holman, et al
for use of their "research" committee of the National Basketball |
Association, Their "research" during the past year consisted of (
to tear down the work of various basketball groups, including the
National Basketball Committee of the — States and Canada, _ The

which was made at New Orleans and which i editor of hia associ
bulletin is proposing to include in the May issue.

Along this report I am including my coments on it. These com
ments were sent to the editor of the bulletin when he informed me
that he was proposing to run a copy of the report. I do not know
what disposition has been made of either the roe or my comments
since the latter were sent.

It is my opinion that some of the material in this report is so
posterous that it isn't worth much attention. However, the recen
actions of most of the collegiate representatives on the National ©

ketball Committee were such as to indicate that they have swallow
Gh kcer, line and sinker, inaccuracies, misrepresentations and all
They have virtually sold the Interscholastic and Canadian groups 'do
the river". The situation is not good. This is unfortunate in
many ways because it is my opinion that during the constructive yee
the interscholastic groups and the then leaders in the collegiate
were working jointly and harmoniously toward a constantly improved
of basketball, These joint efforts now appear to be a thing of th
past since the inauguration of a policy of complete college domina
of the joint basketball committee and of a purging of the joint
mittee of anyone who is not in harmony with the efforts of a sm
group of the National Basketball Coaches Association to take ove:
functions of the joint basketball committee. Under such vito