February 9, 1942, —s_

Professor W. W. Davis,

Department of History,
University of Kansas.

Pear Friend W. We:

I am sending you some clippings from The Daily Oklahoman
which I received in a letter from Stillwater ed to me
marked "personal". You can see that the University of Oklse-
homa authorities have not desisted in the least in their pro-
selyting methods.

I want to report to you on the Wichita incident regarding
Jap Haskell. I saw two attorneys and got additional information in
which one of thé attorneys declares he will have statements from a
fellow down there who is a close cooperator with Jap Haskell. This
fellow states that he took the Wichita High boys to Norman and was
paid for it by the University of Oklahoma Athletic Association.
Jap Haskell was the man who arranged for the trip, and not only
was this Wichita cooperator of Haskell's paid for the car mileage,
but he was paid for doing this job.

This colleague of Haskell's umpires baseball gemes for Haskell
in the summer time. And when we played Oklahoma in basketball
three years ago at Wichita this man was the trainer for the Okla-
homa basketball team. This man was a former student of Emporia
College when Bill Hargiss was there. He is a sort of a profession-
al trainer, more of an itinerant, ne*er-do-well fellow, but is in
the exploy of Haskell at different times. This employment by ,
Haskell is generally in the summer time during the baseball season
and not in Norman but in Wichita. Haskell umpires the semi-pro _
national baseball tournament each year at Wichita and this man is
one of Haskell's assistants.

You will understand that I em not the.  auieealia etnnieiiee. I
am definitely giving you this information, but the two lawyers
that I am getting this from of course do not want their names
used because it would affect them in their practice at Wichita. —

I will give you the names of the two lawyers and the names of the
principals, but in the letter to Mr. “elter Kraft I will want the
nemes deleted. If you would have any reason to doubt any of the
statements I would be glad if you would make a trip to Wichita and
interview these two lawyers. One of the lawyers is a most out-
standing attorney in Wichita with one of the outstanding firms, and
the other lawyer is a younger man but quite successful, His repute-

tion and integrity are 7 good.

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