‘lovember 18, 1940

Ure Ee Ge Olsen
Basketball Coach

Ohio Stete University
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Ole:

TT beg to accept receipt of your wire of the 18th instant
reading es follows: “Please hurry final report if at all
possible." | |

Ole, I want to assure you that I am even more anxious then
you are to get this thing cleared up. I have called and endesvored
to make appointments with Smith, the printer who printed our
programs, and he has either been out of town or something hes
thwarted my move every time I have made an. attempt to settle the
bill. Frankly, I feel as if we are going to have bad luck on the
proposition, but last week I got hold of his secretary and she
stated he would be in town Tuesdey morning, November 19. “here~
fore, as soon es my 10:30 class is over, I am leaving for Kansas
city to keep this appointmente

We are not having eny luck in our collections, so I am going
to put in these bills as uncollectable, so fer as my report is
concerned. And tomorrow when I pay this fellow I will follow with
a report on Wednesday and send you what money we have on hand and
call the matter closed upe

If it hed net been for this hangenail, we would have closed
the tournament business a long time ago end.been rid of the very
difficult situations lowever, hed we closed earlier than e month
ago, we would heve an old bill to settle to the Kansas City Journal.
This ig one of the newspepers that Bowles gave the advertising to
and they charged it to him instead of to us. And then, not being
able to collect from him, they sent us the statement and wanted to
know if there was any way they could collect the bill. This being
the first thet I hed heard of it, I asked them to mail me the. bill
and I sent theme check. fo I am sure now there ere no outstanding
bills. I believe if I were you I would try to hold back this whole
amount for emergencies, but thet is up to yous

I am so sorry, Ole, thet my teaching schedule and my basketball
practice have been such thet it has ham-stringed me and prevented
me from getting away any one full dey in any week. I had October
basketball practice due to the fect that I lost most of my
regulers end I thought thet I would start out on fundamentals and
try te develop a bunch of youngeters into a better group of ball