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Mire We o Poynter, . > | |
Dermmark Academy {igh School, :
Demark, lowie ah

Dear Mire Poynter:

i au very sorry to tell you that the Service Rubber
Compamy, of Rock Island, Illinois, failed a couple of years
ago and in the reorgenization they decided to discontinue the
making of certain lines of stoek and one of those things they
discontinued was the making of the Phog Allen basketball shoes

If you will write me what size you wear i will
endeavor te ses if I can locate a pair for you on the market.
_ The shoe sells for $3075, and if you care to send me a check
for that amount f will get you a pair and mail them to yous

I feel very much disappointed about this, as I have
used the shoe in coaching and I have also used the shoe on my
boys ee ee ee
bruises of any shoe that I have ever used. i

i may when I have a little time work on an improved
shoe and submit it to another manufacturer, but I have just :
finished a new basketball book which is published by McGraw= —
Hill Book Company of New York, and which they are getting out
the first of Decanbere I am sending you a short synopsis of
the material at hands ‘I thought you might perhaps be interested —
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Very sincerely yours,

FOAsAH i Director of Physical Educatione

 
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time and the mother has been working, and it has been a very diffi-
cult financial situation with him. I wish, however, that you would
not mention this side of it, only you could say that the reason that
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but one of the games that we have played to date, and has played a
potent part in winning some of theme

your Sports-llye of January 28, I think, there is a bit
of stanaasletoalinay akaek Ww Gad Wak aks Recs Li ee Dike
against Trainer Nesmith shouting advice to the K. U. team. ‘There is
such @ rules lo one from the bench may shout to men on the floors
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af the players deemdiabdly Ghunedenling witts ‘hel? tameatiee when they
report. Therefore, I said, it would be unnecessary for Trainer Nesmith
ts taunt UcatoN: Gn, CC, Eee oa what to
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matter of permitting substitute to comnmicate immediately. There
had been so charges that the coach ws signalling informtion by
taking three gulps of water, or four, or one, that I thought it so
ridiculous that we should renove as i. ee Seren Seen Se coach 's

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football. And I might say to my own mind it should even now be put
in the rules book in football. But that is none of my affair. I was
only endeavoring to remove undue oriticisn from a good games

7 Tf I have not mde myself clear in this mtter I will be
happy to talk to you at some convenient time, as I am sure that you
will understand that the only cause for my coment was not to bear
the odiun of sending Nesmith out with signals when it was unnecessary
and wusportemanlike.

With all good wishes, I em

Very sincerely yours,

| Director of Physical Education and Reem,
FCAsAH | 3 . Varsity Basketball Coaches

 
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the Kirksville Teachers College, when Cupley McWilliams, the
Missouri Us quarterback was coaching there, and we had a tough
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I just wented you to know that I spoke on
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Sincerely yours,

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“—~ BY EARL POTTER

The early season non-conference
games of the Big Six basketball
forces point plainly to a grand and
merry scramble when the champi-.
onship race starts early in Janu-|
ary. The conference rivals of Kan-.
sas have for years been at the pas-
time of trying to knock the Jay-
hawkers of Dr. F. C. Allen out of
the championship picture, and once
in awhile they succeed. This year
may one of those times. The
performance of K. U. in winning
two and losing one game thus far
to Kansas colleges does not on
the face of it make the Jayhawk-
ers look any too strong, but when
it is explained that Baker has a
veteran and classy team, and South-
western was beaten on the second
ba) after Kansas had previousl
fallen to Southwestern, the K. U.
squad appears to have possibil-
ities,

It’s the way Oklahoma has
‘been going to town against
Southern Methodist and Rice,
and the 53 to 29 victory Ne-
| braska put on over Montana, that

gives some warning that K. U.

may. have trouble ahead in the
. Big Six this season. Coach Harold

Browne piloted the Cornhuskers ‘

to second place in the Big Six
last year, losing two games to

Kansas and one to Iowa State.

He has a veteran crew this sea-

son and a rangy one, so Kansas

can look for a stiff argument
from the Nebraska team. Mis-
souri also has been putting up
good early season play, and lowa

State always has a team apt to

upset the leaders. Kansas can

attest to Coach Louis Menze’s
ability to horn in on ee
ship hopes, for it was the Iowa

State boys who took K. U.’s

accustomed chair at the champi-

onship table two years ago.

 

The Kansas Aggies did not fare
so well on their road trip thru. the
east and north, but wound up with
a 87 to 36 victory over Minnesota,
to show improyement. The Goph-
ers are far from as potent in bas-
ketball as they are in football, but
for the Aggies to beat a Big Ten
entry shows Frank Root has ma-
terial that may get in shape to go
to town against. the home confer-
ence talent later on. The Aggies
have. Frank Groves, all-Big Six
center the past two seasons, and he
has been pouring ’em into the bas-.
ket against certain defenses on this |
road trip. Just how Kansas State
and Nebraska compare will be
shown after the Cornhuskers game
with Minnesota tonight at Lin-
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The Kansas athletic situation has|
ceased to be much discussed here-
abouts now that the University is!

‘on vacation, business men are up)

to their necks trying to take care.
of the Christmas trade and persons
in genera] here are more concerned
with their shopping lists than with
their ‘“‘chopping’’ lists. But every- |
body here still knows that ‘no of-
ficial action has been taken by the}
athletic board and that the special |

wow here still has to make its re-|
port to the regents at a Manhattan |
meeting on December 28.

Out in the state, however, the
athletic troubles of K. U. have’
just gotten well under discus-
sion, it would seem. Sports
pages almost daily now are ap-
pearing with squibbs of comment |
upon the K. U. outlook. The |
concensus seems to be that the
main harm done by the long
drawn out battle of the Univer-

sity Daily Kansan and the ath-
letic administration, with the
post-season start on the solu-
tion of the K. U. “problem,” has
been the turning of high ‘school
football talent away from yearn-
ings toward K. U. Sports writ-
ers in the state have taken the
most significant thing in the
Kansan’s questionnaire vote to
be the overwhelming way | in.
which students said they would
not recommend K. U. to their
high school friends who play
football.

And Stuart Dunbar of the Sa-
lina Journal gets the grapevine
that the athletic situation is not
yet settled. He writes as follows:

_ From one who got his knowledge
close to the »throne we learn that
the recent .‘‘whitewash’’ of the
University of Kansas athletic sit-
uation, has not officially closed the
matter; that the jobs of each and ev-
ery member of. the whole athletic set-
up are in actual danger.

Be not surprised if some fair day
there comes the announcement that
a clean sweep and everyone from Dr.
Allen to the. lowest collector of soiled
towels, goes on his merry way. aa

Powerful. forces are at work, mov: |
ing on the theory that there’ never
was’a better time to ‘‘clean up,” that |
many and radical changes must: be|
made; that there: never can be unity;

of coaches, student body and alumn! |

support under the existing conditions.

These powerful. forces are said to
be. convinced that. to fail to make a
clean sweep now would be only to de- |
lay the return of Kansas..to the glory
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November 15, 1937.

Mre He Ve Porter,
ll Sow LaSalle Ste, —
Chicage, Illincise

Dear He Vet

_ I acknowledge with thanks the National Basketball
Committee letterheads. We can very nicely use our University _
envelopes, but I de think the Committee stationery is an assete

From some of our umiversity coaches I have been getting |
_& eriticign on the new seamless basketball. They state that on —
hard 40#foot passes, the ball develops floaters, sinkers, drops,
curves and twisters. These are the terms applied to the tricks
done by passing the bail hard. This is from an eastern coach
who has a national reputation, His players discarded the ball
in the: Sreeeihe Cf Whe SRLeNey GRNTUEES So Wie, MOnrrReeeEt
of the coaches. . ;

I-understand that the aponsors of the ball now say the
new scamless ball has been corrected and this objectionable
thing elimineteds

St. Clair, you will remenber, said at our meeting last
year thet his boys all threw the balis up in the balcony after

uy hed slah 5 font Geklin

| The eastern coach had this to say: “On the basis of
our actual experiments with the ball we ean have no confidence
in it. We Se with no sules
talk",

sss ales Gila Uind plied Sdesnind 66 than pen
may have the specific criticism arid work out certain trials

according to these comments. Persomally, I do not like the new
molded type of ball at all, because we do not want anything too
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and the rougimess or mevenness of the ball really edds in
shooting and handling. ‘The corrugations in our skin, shown
wider a microscope, are proof arguments egainst having anything
too smooth and perfects ;

In my opinion, the price is out of all proportion to
a vulcanized ball. Instead of raising the price, it should be
‘lowered because any vulcanized ball should not exteed the price
of this old time highly selected leather bail.

: Personally, I think it is a splendid idea for you and }
Rowe tc work along the line of determining hand size and wrist
strength. it is logical, too, that atte of grade school

age or even high school, are not as sii with a larger bell

as they would be with a smaller ball that would fit in their

“hands move perfectly. I will certainly be interested te mow ©

what you and Rowe have done on this last mentioned probleme

With every good wish, I am

Sincerely yours,

FOAM ‘Director of Physical Education.
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of the UNITED STATES and CANADA

Editor, OSWALD TOWER Vice-Chairman, H. H. SALMON, JR.
Andover, Massachusetts Chairman, L. W. ST. JOHN 40 Wall St., New York, N. Y.

CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE

Executive Publication ‘ Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio
L. W. St. John H. H. Salmon, Jr. ‘
: : ecretary, H. V. PORTER
ada a Cet 11 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois
‘orrest C. en . V. Po

November 8, 1937

Complete List of
Committee Members
F. C. Allen

Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

John = ‘ Mr. Fe C ® Allen
x ewe Nes Yauk Uni Ve O f Kan sas
Lawrence, Kansas

John Bunn
Stanford Univ.
Palo Alto, California

H. G. Crisp

Univ. of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

+ ee Under separate cover I am sending a new supply of the
Univ. of Western Ontario National Basketball Committee letterheads. No envelopes
to match were authorized.

Dear Mr. Allen:

M. C. Cunningham
High School
Desloge, Missouri

seca a We have been doing considerable work along the line of
Connecticut State College @xperimentation with the new molded type of ball and

Storrs, Connecticut

H. D. Radgren shall continue this work as the season progresses. AS a
Ore Gee Cee matter of fact, our Illinois Committee at a meeting

i Hikes last Thursday recommended the use of this type ball in
Seeing eld Aree ehusetts GMCS throughout the season and the state board of control

Frank P, Maguire has sanctioned its use for any state sponsored tournament.

Dept. of Public Instruction
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

W. E: Meanwell Rowe and I have alsoteen working along the line of deter-
Bs with mining hand sizes and wrist strength with the idea of

iw ee determining scientifically what theexact size of ball
ae Gre should be and also what would be the most desirable

Sec ah hanes resilience. Needless to say it is difficult to work out
Toren Oe te some of these problems but they are interesting and it
Floyd A. Rowe may be possible to reach some reasonable conclusions.

Board of Education
Cleveland, Ohio

J. W. St. Clair Yours truly,
Southern Methodist Univ.
Dallas, Texas
L. W. St. John
Ohio State Univ.
Columbus, Ohio
H. H. Salmon, Jr. a :
40 Wall St. S

New York, New York

Oswald Tower
Andover, Massachusetts

Willard A. Witte HVp/ j

Univ. of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

Secretary
 

November 19, 1937.

Mre He Ve Porter, Secretary,
National Basketball Committee,
11 Soe LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Tllinoise

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Dear He Ves

Thank you for your good letter of the 17th instant. I
think you have same very logical arguments which you have presented
in your letter. |

I am glad to lmow about the Cord+Bilt ball. I had not
learned of the situation as you present it. Frankly, I do not like
the Lastbilt ball at all. My opinion would be that the National |
- Federation would make far more progress toward a ball that would

not only be fool proof but would be more scientifically constructed
than the first mentioned ball. This is due to the fact that the
“high schools have people who really answere, while the
commercial people perhaps have linked themselves with one or two
coaches who do not have a research turn of minds ;

I quite agree with you that these ribs may build up 4
sort of airecushion thet will keep the ball from floating or doing
didoes that amoya player. If the individual does send me a ball
for experimental purposes, I assure you % will give it a very thore
ough oa

:

I entirely agree with you that from a high school stand~
point 2 ball could be developed at a reasonable cost wider this
patent that should mean « great saving to the high school. The
college people, while they are not blessed with too much wealth,
really desire a new ball occasionally.

There is not one logical argument in my mind but what
the molded ball should be manufactured at a much lower cost than
the other bell. Of course, I mean when they are used in such
mumbers as are consistent with the consumption of the other old

I just received a letter from another coach in our part:
of the comtry who made this statement: “Would you kindly advise
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This game is one of our early season games, and of
i gig cet yee Tapenlonext han Rad eases Secale A-ha
balle I have had no trouble with these balls getting out of
shape, as we deflate them each night and blow them up the next
days However, I did have some difficulty with some of them
rupping, and I immediately sent them in and received proper
adjustments Since that time I have detected no faulty wares
of any sort on the balls that I am using.

oe 1. wild lant jor, Aaueeriabd un’ Me Oe Wekietele ‘at dhe
coaches in our section, as our Fifth District Rules meeting

/ is December 4th in Kansas Citys

Very cordially yours,

FOASAH Director of Physical Educations

 
 

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Editor, OSWALD TOWER Vice-Chairman, H. H. SALMON, JR.
Andover, Massachusetts Chairman, L. W. ST. JOHN 40 Wall St., New York, N. Y.

CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES Chie Eaate: Capeanaiy Conn, Cane Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE

Mere Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio
Executive Publication
L. W. St. John H. H. Salmon, Jr. N Secretary, H. V. PORTER
Research Questionnaire ovember 17, 1937 11 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ilinois
Forrest C. Allen H. V. Porter
Complete List of Mr. Forrest C. Allen
Committee Members Unive of Kansas

. C. Allen K

ae gy > Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

hn Brown f A ‘
a7 Madison Ave. Dear Mr. Allen

New York, New York

ie I appreciate having your letter of November 15th with comments relative
Palo Alto, California to the molded ball. I have a great deal of respect for your opinion

H. G. Crisp in any matter of this kind and naturally I have given these opinions
Univ. of Alabama %
Tuscaloosa, Alabama considerable thought.

J. H. Crocker

niv. Ontari
London, Ont, Canada hope you will continue to study the new type ball because these balls

MC. Cumpiaegboite are constantly being improved. It may be that the defects you mention
Desloge, Missouri can be eliminated. As a matter of fact, I wis you could try one

Sumner A. Dole of the Cord-Bilt balls which has ribs of a contrasting color and of
Connecticut State College

Storrs, Connecticut’ a differenég material between the leather panels. As you probably
H.D. Edgren ins College “HOW there are two types of balls, One is the ball made under the “Last

Chicago, Illinois Bilt" patent and marketed by Spalding, Reach, Goldsmith and Wilson.
J, Wiebe, aise This ball is entirely smooth and is supposed to be blown to a seven

Springfield, Massachusett}Ound pressure in order to react properly. This ball is entirely

Frank P. Maguire _Ssmooth and is quite a bit livelier than the sewed ball.
Dept. of Public Instruction

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

W.E. Meanwell The other type ball is the Cord-Bilt ball which has been developed
Madison, Wisconsin through the effors of the National Federation. This ball is usually blown
H.V.Porter |. to a pressure of about ten pounds and at this pressure reacts almost
Chicago, Illinois the same as the sewed type ball at thirteen pounds. This ball is made
Samuel Rogers = Gither entirely smooth or with ribs to give the appearance of the
Toronto, Ont. Canada Od ball and to give a slight gripping surface. It may be that these
Floyd A. Rowe ribs will build up the same sort of air gushion on a long pass as that
Cleveland, Ohio of the sewed type ball where the air is caught by the depression at the
J.W.St.Clir = = seamse At any rate, I hope you will be able to give some study
Dellas, Texas “to both types before reaching a definite conclusion that these balls
L. W, St. John will not be satisfactory. In the next day or two I hove to be
Cee See able to see one of the men who is interested in the ribbed type ball
H. H. Salmon, Jr. and I shall recommend that he send you one of these for experimental
New York, NewYork Purposes. As you probably know the Cord-Bilt ball is being marketed
Onwild Yower by the Dubow lianufacturing Company and by the Rawlings Manufacturing
Andover, Massachusetts C ompanye
Willard A. Witte

Univ. of Wyoming
Taramie, Wyoming We are especially interested in the new type ball. because if it can

be satisfactorily developed it will mean a great saving to schools and
also it will insure their playing with a ball which is a perfect sphere.
At the present time they use a spherical ball only while the ball is
newe The sewed ball soon stretches out of shape and consequently

most high school teams are forced to practice with a pumpkin or egg

Shaped ball. The molded ball is being used quite extensively in this
territory and at a recent meeting of our state basketball committee they
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CHAIRMEN OF SUB-COMMITTEES

NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTEE
of the UNITED STATES and CANADA

Chairman, L. W. ST. JOHN
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Vice-Chairman, H. H. SALMON, JR.
40 Wall St., New York, N. Y.

Treasurer, FLOYD A. ROWE

Executive Publication Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio
H. H. Salmon, Jr.
| - John ae “ina Secretary, H. V. PORTER
esearc. uestt 11 So. LaSalle St., Chi » Illinoi
Forrest C. Allen H. V. Porter ae Chicago, Illinois
Complete List of Page two -

Committee Members

F. C. Allen
Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

John Brown
347 Madison Ave.
New York, New York

John Bunn
Stanford Univ.
Palo Alto, California

H. G. Crisp
Univ. of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

J. H. Crocker
Univ. of Western Ontario
London, Ont., Canada

M. C. Cunningham
High School
Desloge, Missouri

Sumner A. Dole
Connecticut State College
Storrs, Connecticut

H. D. Edgren
George Williams College
Chicago, Illinois

E. J. Hickox
Springfield College

voted 23 to 2 in favor of the use of the new type ball even in the
tour ments. These men have had a chance to try the ball and conse-
quently the vote seems to me to be quite significant. Also thé°k8so-
ciation of Alabama has alweady adopted the molded type ball for their -
state finals. It appears to me that many of these are certain to

be used during the next few months. We will then be in a better
position to tell whether the defects mentioned in your letter are
serious and whether they can be corrected through improvements in

the ball.

We are in sympathy with your statement relative to the price of the
new ball. We had hoped that these balls could be produced for a
consitrably lower price and we have some assurance that at least one
of them can be produced at a considerable reduction after the initial
cost of development has been mete Such a reduction should be possible
Since seconds and thirds will be almost eliminated.

Springfield, Massachusetts] hope you will keep me posted relative to any further obervations

Frank P. Maguire

Dept. of Public iaaeenctinn

n the new ball and particularly after you have had a chance to use

Harrisburg, Pennsylvaniaboth +t ypeSe

W. E. Meanwell
Shorewood Hills
Madison, Wisconsin

H. V. Porter
11 So. LaSalle St.
Chicago, Illinois

Samuel Rogers

210 Confederation Life Bldg.

Toronto, Ont., Canada

Floyd A. Rowe
Board of Education
Cleveland, Ohio

J. W. St. Clair
Southern Methodist Univ.
Dallas, Texas

L. W. St. John
Ohio State Univ.
Columbus, Ohio

H. H. Salmon, Jr.
40 Wall St.
New York, New York

Oswald Tower
Andover, Massachusetts

Willard A. Witte
Univ. of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

Yours truly,

Wi Cntr

Secretary

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December 30, LOST»

Ure Je Be Ponrman, Editor,
The Winged Poot,
New York Athletic Club,

You will pardon me for not answering your good letter
of the 14th instant sooner» We have had a avy pre#season
ae schedule which hes kept me out of ioe much of

.

I em happy to lmow that our publishers, Whittlesey House,
gave you permission to use condiderable material fron “Better
Basketball" in your magazine in your special basketball mmbers
I en sorry that it is not possible for us to procure a picture
of the Buffalo Geman YeleCsAe team.

defeated us the first gme 40 to 5G, We beat them the next game
SO to 23, and the last game wo beat them 46 to 14,

 
 

  

 
 

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December 14, 1937

Mr. Forrest C. Allen,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

We have already been in touch
with your publishers, Whittlesey House, New
York, for permission to use a considerable
amount of the material in chapter I of your
book, "Better Basketball," in the January
issue of our magazine which will be our spec-
ial Basketball Number.

Could we secure a picture of
the great basketball team of the Buffalo Y. M.
C. A. that started to play'1895? We have already
asked for a picture of the first organized team
of the Y. M. ©. A. College, and we will use an
electro of your picture which appears in the book.

. We are pleased to have this oppor-
tunity to give basketball the prominence in our
magazine that it so justly deserves.

Cordially yours,

Ho io.
J .B.Pearman/id Editor

P.S. Sample copy sent separate
 

 

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January 15, 1938.

Dr. Forrest Allen, :
University of Kansas, ~
Lawrence, Kansas.

‘Dear Dr. Allen:

_ or many years I have been an admirer of your fine
basketball teams. I have witnessed them play for the past °}
8 years, and have always enjoyed their easy, aggessive
manner of. play. To me they are one of the best coached
‘teams in the country, and they show it when on the court.

I have been coaching basketball for a nunber of
years. During this time I have used both of your books.
tL have attended coaching school at Washburn College, Topeka
three times in which you have had charge of the basketball
and injuries. I have also taken your course in Basketball
Theory, by extension and received a."B" in it. At present
Iam assistant coach in Trinidad High School, Trinidad, 2
Colorado. We play such schools at Colorado Springs, Pueblo
Canon City, ete. The compétition is rather:tough. Only
one other team in our conference uses the zone defense.
I.am very anxious to usethis defense, because our team will
average 6ft 1 inch in height. They. are of average ability
in aggressiveness and I believe that this wiil be the ideal
tyne of defense for us under present conditions.

In your. last. book, I note with much pleasure and Re
interest your zone defense. T believe ties ft understand

“how it works, at least most of the time but am just a little
doubtful as to how it should work under one or two conditions.
Therefore, I am asking you what you would do, or rather how
your zone defense functions under the present conditions.

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that you are hagpy, healthy end in a bettlgmg mood when it
comes to placing the St. Louis Dutelman in ~

Good luck to you, Freddie, and may you carry om in the
seme fine fashion that I am convinced is plamned for yous

With every good wish, I om

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