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and I am not desirous of seeing these little pygmies take a beating for an
outfit who wants to pocket all the moneye Certainly the crowd goes to see
the college ‘teams who play, and the college athletic association should get
a share, so should the NeCeAeAs, but neither one should hog the whole amount
from the others

| Personally I do ov care a whit what the selection committee thinks
of my statement, but I do not want our om boys to feel that I am gipping them
out of the Tournaments They really want to play but I do not want to use any
words that would embarrass theme But so far as I am concerned I am speaking
my own mind, but with no desire to ‘hurt their chancese

Tf you should quote me as toa statement I made a few weeks ago, and reaf-
firm it now, that I do not like to see these little pygmies take a beating, rather
then for me to show a strong animus against this outfit of money grabbers, :
then OeKe by mee © pig

Now, another peeves The idea of Olsen, who is Chaizman of the Fastern
District, putting the play-off at the University of Wisconsin Fieldhousee That
gives the BigeTen the decided advantage over anyone elses I% would be comparable .
to putting the playeoff at the Oklahoma A, and i, Fieldhouse at Stillwater should
Ae and Me be & participants The whole idee of the playeoff tournament is to
give everybody an equal advantage, but Olsen is looking at it from the money he
will draw over the popularity of Wiscdnsin winning the BigeTene And when he is
doing thet he is also giving Wisconsin a break over the first, second and third
district winner, ‘That is not sportings He is selling the faireplay rights for
gate receiptse: — :

The first eastern pleyeoff was held in the Palestra and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania was not a participants The second play-off was held at the Butler
Fieldhouse and Butler was nota participants Now the third one is to be held
at Wisconsin and Wiscmsin is a participants They are playing on their home
floor before their hane crowd,

- The first Western playeoff was held at Treasure Island on a neutral
~ courte The second one was held in Kansas City and the third one will be held
in Kensas City, all en neutral floorse

. The first National Final was held at Northwestern University where

Ohio State University had played several times, That gave the BigeTen an edgee
Hobby Hobson, the coach at Oregon asked me to phone Harold Olsen at Columbus
the night that Oregon beat Oklahoma, stating that they did not want BigeTen _
officials, and if they insisted on BigeTen officials that Hobby would insist
on one Pacific Coast official, I was out at Treasure Island for the tournament
play-off when I phonede John Bumn, Hobson and I got. together when Hobson made
this request, John was driving from San Francisco back to Palo Alto that night
so I was asked to do the phoninge I phoned Olsen at Columbus, Ohio and gave him
Bunn'’s and Hobson's request, but Olsen told me that Dutch Lonborg was handling
all details of the: Tourmament and we would have to take it up with hime I then