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For Mr. Allen's information, Buster Mills, after graduating from the
University of Oklahoma, played with Cleveland and not with the Boston Red Sox.

Mr. Allen refers to Mr. Noble, of the Board of Regents of the University
of Oklahoma, as the president of the Board and the chief athletic getter. I
cannot help but feel some resentment in Mr. Allen's statement, since it contains
no element of the truth. Mr. Noble is not president of the Board of Regents of
‘the University of Oklahoma, and so far as I mow, and I feel thet I should know
more about it than Mr. Allen, he ms not interested himself in securing
for the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Noble is a very busy man, and although he is
interested in all phases of ‘niversity administration, he has made no attempt to
rua the affairs of the athletic department. |

I realize that in these times it is exeeedingly hard to keep
from creeping inte college athletics. Although the University of Oklahoma may not
be sprouting wings, | A; cas Gelhins Cadh Gen Gebsadatir &F Gheene bu endtaci free
ef suspicion. Mr. laskell submitted te me a list of prominent Cklahom athletes
who made a fine athletic record at the University of Zanesas. In that list were such
athletes as Standifer and farnest Bradley of Cherokee, Ad Lindsey of Kingfisher,
the tw Johnson brothers, great basketball pleyers, from Oklahoma City, T. C. Bishop
and T. FP, Hunter of Oklahom City, tom Poor of McAlester, and Ormend Beach of

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position to arrive at reasonable conclusions concerning this situation. My cone
clusions ere as follows: — |

ie Se ase at id eililietie Qpartens of Ge rently of Ollahoma
_ Were used to defray the expense of bringing these boys to Normen.

four boys were provided by businessmen residing in Wichite,presumably
Sint" Frnt of the favors iy of Sian -