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He told i about eivine sounded out Lester Layton of Wichita
North for the Boston Red Sox scout during the Kansas State semi-pro tourna=
ment and sending or taking him, I forget which, to 0.U. to see Jap, and |
having him tell him (Dutch) later that he had been “fixed up". It seems
that money for tuition and fees, etc., arrive for these boys from some
source and that being minors they have a cathe agreement with the Red
Sox scout for the boys to go to 0.U. with the above paid and @ job furnished
and that after completing school they will sign up with Boston. All this was ©
told me by Butch who said it applied to a lot of the.0.U. ball playerstpast
and present, including “Pete” Scheffler formerly of Wichita and 0.U. and now
under contract. with Boston, as I understand. This is an entirely different
man then Dutch S. who gave me all this information. I'm not sure of the
spelling of these names. “Pete” or Herb, as he is called, isa long, tall
rether chinless person who played a lot of ball around here for a long time.

"Another angle that is of interest is that Jap's protiies jbves
here in Wichita nearby to North High and takes a lot of interest in these
boys. Layton and he were very friendly according to Dutch, prior to and

incident to the Red Sox scout wanting him and Jap wanting him and his being
"fixed up" at 0.U. with Red Sox "backing" and a job there.

It seems 0.U. also has a way of taking care of men who are not
baseball players.

My conversation with Dutch disclosed that. he had been called over
to Jap's brother's house here in Wichita hering a tennis tovrnament to take care
of a knee injury to the Tucker boy who later went to the Aggies and subsequent-
_ ly succumbed to the O.Ue lure. I don't know how the tuition and fee money
was put up or where it originated but meybe it came from the seme source as the
money paid Pucker for playing nurse ts to the Bruce Drake children. It

seems that this was his job for a time, at least.