5. Lester Layton has furnished definite proof that he is not under
3 contract with any professional baseball club.

4... "Dutch" Scheufler has no official connection with the University
of Oklahormm or ite athletic department. I fon't feel that it is —
my peteeioge ce Sely S Cbrios' Mie Hadid) when he shall sebeot

as his associates or swmer co-workers, and I certainly have a
firm conviction that it doesn't conern Mr. Allen one iota.

5s Mr. Schoufler hed nothing to do with the four boyatwisiting in
Norman, and certainly didn't bring then to Norman.

6. the rivalry existing between two Wichita newspapers, and the
bitter feeling between the sports writers on these papers, was
_ vesponsible for the unfavorable publicity given the two wmivere
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give Mr. Allen by his attorney friends in Wichita.

7. lir, George Powers, an attorney of Wichita, wrote the letter dated ,
Jexmary 25, 1942. When interviewed he first denied imowledge, and
with a quotation from his letter he admitted writing
and then stated that those were still his views. When
statements of whose whom he had presumably quoted, he
ormation was hearsay and rumor. I feel that

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(is infemution to ma, end I realise that it was meceseery for ne te be very
thorough in making this investigation. I personally have no thought of producing
en operation known as whitewashing. Our people here at the University of Oklahoma
are human, and being so are subject to human errors. At times, due possibly to

not knowing what should be done, they make errorse
We have the very highest regard for the University of Kansas, for you
personally, and for your athletic staff. I know that you have often expressed

(Signed) WALTER W. ERAPT
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