Suite 721 Hotel Phillips Bldge,
Kemsas City, Missourie :

Dear Georges

I have your fever of the 5th instant and I will
edmit that sane parts of your letter rather apvenl to mee I
would like te work with you, but I believe that we can reduce
sene of this expense very definitely with our stenographic bur~
cau here, which is a topflight orgenizationse We pay 50¢ per ace
page for mimeograph service which looks emetiy like a type
weitten copy.

We do mot propose te direct our campaign fran

Lawrence, but I had mown that you were handling Liston'’s tourna=_
nent and I was not enthusiastic about your handling curs for that
reasote Ian net trying to tear any shingless off your roof, but
there is he such thing as the “National Intercolleginte" basket~
ball organization. It is only a group of athletic directors who
are prasoting something without the consent of the fhoulty.

i am not trying to get into en argument, but ours is.
the real MeCoy. Ours is the National fasketball Championship of
America as authorized by the National Collegiate Athletic Associa~
tiome When I was in lew York last year I arranged with the National
Collegiate Jithletic Aesesiation end the Netionsl Association of
Basketball Coaches te convene in Kenses City on March 28, 39 and 50.
I also arranged for the Netionsi Basketball Rules Comittee of the
MET ic al ee Alte leant one

be played on March SO. I am also arranging for the National College
Basketball Officials Association of the United States to meet during
the finals. ‘Therefere, ours is the real McCoy with all the author-
ities and the coaches of the thited States in attendance. That is
the basketball capital, George, at that time. So I do not want to
talk about which is the better or stronger, because if Yale and
Harvard played ne one would argue whether Amherst College and
Springfield, Masse, College were stronger then Yale and Harvard.

The prestige of this organization, which has been in
existence for decades and which derives its authority fron the
- presidents and faeulty representatives, should not be confused with
something that has no acadetic or administrative authority.

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