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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 Soxe

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 kmow, and I feel that I should know
more about it than Mr. Allen, he has not interested himself in securing athletes
for the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Noble is a very busy man, and although he is
interested in all phases of University administration, he has made no attempt to
run the affairs of the athletic department.

I realize that in these times it is exceedingly hard to keep irregularities
from creeping into college athletics. Although the University of Oklahoma may not
be sprouting wings, I do not believe that the University of Kansas is entirely free
of suspicion. Mr. Haskell submitted to me a list of prominent Oklahoma athletes,
who made a fine athletic record at the University of Kansas. In that list were such
athletes as Standifer and Earnest Bradley of Cherokee, Ad Lindsey of Kingfisher,
the two Johnson brothers, great basketball players, from Oklehoma City, Te ©. Bishop
and T. P, Hunter of Oklahoma City, Tom Poor of McAlester, and Ormand Beach of
Pawhuska. These are just a few of the many athletes who have gone to the University
of Kansas from Oklahoma. In many instances alumni and friends of the University
of Oklahoma have been very suspicious about these boys leaving under the very
shadow of the University of Oklahoma to go to Kansas University. We have taken
the position that if a student prefers to go to Kansas University or any other
university rather than to come to the University of Oklahoma, it is his privilege
to do so and we bid him Godé speed and hope that he makes a success. On the other
hend, we certainly are not going to turn down a promising athlete because he
happens to come from Kansas.

You must also remember that we have a great many graduates of the University
of Oklahoma living in southern Kansas, and many of these graduates are loyal to
their alma mter, and it is not surprising that some of them interest high school
students in coming here.

I resent the statement made by lr. George Powers of Wichita when inter-=
viewed by my investigator. He stated, after first denying that he had anything
to do with the charges, that the University of Oklahoma had sent the investigator
there merely for the purpose of whitewashing the whole situation. I want to re=
peat that I sent the investigator to Wichita to find out and report to me the
true situation. I had given him no instructions other than to find the truth.
The situation, as I have related it, is the situation as he found it.

In the light of all information now in my hands, I feel that I am ina

position to arrive at reasonable conclusions concerning this situation. ly con-
clusions are as follows:

1. No funds of the athletic department of the University of Oklahoma
were used to defray the expense of bringing these boys to Norman.

2e The funds used to provide transportation from Wichita to Norman for
four boys were provided by businessmen residing in Wichita, presumably
alumni or friends of the University of Oklahoma,