Ville Platte, La,
July #5, 1939

 

Dr. F. C. Allen ;
University of Kansas '
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

This time I am writing you in the interest of a.boy named
Merit. This boy played four years of football in high-
school and from all the information I can hear he has

a great deal of ability as a halfback.

I have known this boy for two years put I did not know
until just the other day that he was interested in going

to college. Now I have found out that he has been working
and saving his money with the sole intention of going to

college. So now he has a little money saved and is ready
to ZOoe

Dr. Allen I have worked with this boy in a type of work
which has enabled me to see him at his best and at his
worst. He is tough, strong and fast, and what is better
he is smarte But for all of his living and working in the
oil fields, he is as well settled in his way of living

as Biny Moore. ,

He weighs 185 pounds, > feet 8 inches tall, and ie 22
years old. He can kick and pass above average. But his
best qualification, as I see it, is that he is one of
the hardest workers I have seen. I have been told that
he missed only two practices when he was in high school.

He doesn't know that I am writing this letter and we may not
be able to get him. But I have quite a bit of influence

and the fact that I am going to be in Lawrence this fall

I feel certain that if we can find him a job, and he is

as good a handy man as I was, that will pay his living
expenses I can get him up there.

Of course I realise that your primary interest is in bas-
ketball, but I remember the keen interest you have alwayse
had in helping fine young men. I am going to write to Mike
anéd Mr. Henry, but I wanted to write to you first because
you are the one that will remember that I was the one who
recommended Jack Vogel and Carl Weidner to Kansase

Sincerely yours

Od iirgl ie. Orl.

Charles A. Pitts