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March 6 1941

Mre Tan Partner

The Kensas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri
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Dear Pans

“You are right, the Oklahoma game is a selleout, but I have
referred your request to Mrs Farl Palkenstien and he is taking good care
of you for two seats and a press tickets

i noticed your coment in your column this morning regarding
the NeCeAcie Sclection from this district. I think I wrote you before
that so far as I am personally concerned that win, lose or draw, I am
perfectly content to cheek in all the basketball stuff immediately after
the Oklahoma Aggie came; even should we defeat both Oklahoma and Oklahoma
Ae and Me 7 ; ;

As far as I am concerned, we bave had more than enoughe I am not
interested in the NeCeleAe play-off and I am in earnest about thiss This
_ is no bluff. But the peculiar thing about it is that the boys want to play,
‘but I do note If they are selected, however, I would go along with then
and bury my ow feelings in the matters , '

After running a tournament and making $10,000 for the NeCeAche
last year, the big wigs of the NeCeiete wanted to give the colleges no
money whatsoever. In that attitude and action of theirs, I could see no
difference between the AeAsUe taking the $10,000 from the Olympic play-off
in 1956 and the NeCeAste taking $10,000 from the NelesAsie play-off in 1940.
“The only-difference was that different letters of the alphabet made up
their titlese Their attitude was the sance

! Aiter going to Chicage and battling the big wigs and Olsen and the
rest of the Committee, our team played three games in Kansas City for $752e406.
Two teens got 3/l4ths and the team that we eliminated in the first game got

|‘ 1/léth of the cut, after it had been cut two or three wyse Fersonally, it

would be @ very great pleasure to me if the selection cammittee picked some=

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Now, one other thing, I wish that you would quit talking about
Engleman and talk about ‘the team once in a while. As far as I am concerned
I am not interest,jin individual records. Engleman has broken the BigeSix