Lawrence, Kansas
Juné 3, 1940

Mre He Ge Olsen,
Ohioe State University,
Columbus, Ohice

Dear Oles

It looks as if the political situation may necessitate another change
in the management of the auditorium in Kansas Citye For that reason I ree
ceived a tip that it might be well to sign up for some dates next year, so
last Saturday, among my other connections, I made a trip to the Municipal
Auditorium and signed a contract with Mr. Bugene C. Zachman, the manager
and director, for dates of the week of March 16 to 22, and from March 23 to
30, 1941.

The auditerium is to receive $1.00, payment of which is hereby
acknowledged by the lessor, plus twenty per cent of all gate receipts
after deduction of federal and state texas.

Ole, I am wondering if you are in a position to state when the
tournament will be and whether the set up will be the same as it was last
year with the eastern, western and later the final pleyeoff. You know,
there was some discussion of having eight teams meet one week in the final
tournament - say Wednesday and Thursday of one week, resting Friday, and
playing Saturday night for the.finalse This would not entail any more time
away from school than by playing the eastern and western, and then having
the finals the next week for the chempionshipe —

The contract that I have with the hall will protect us if you should
make such a determinatione There is a paragraph in the contract st the
bottom, which states: “The lessee agrees to set the permanent dates for
the tournament (which are to be a part of this contract) as speedily as
possible and in any event before October 1, 1940. the lessee further
agrees that in the event an opportunity to rent the Arena for any of the
dates reserved arises before that time, he will set permanent dates on
10 days! written notice from the lessore"

* I had this put off as lete as October, 1940, so that we would then
be in & definite position to Imow exactly what we wanted to doe

There is another ite, Ole, that I think I should mention that is
very importante I have talked to a good many coaches that were in the
tournament, or who did not get in, and most of them state that there has
never been ® definite statement of policy from the N.CeAeA. Tournament
Committee concerning what the teams are to get, if anythinge Of course,
the district chairman had been advised of certain things, and so have the
members of the committee, but much of the advice that they received was
erroneous; namely, that this fund would be earmarked for basketballe We
found this to be incorrect. Further, there was only a guarantee of expenses
for the easter, western, and final play-off, and nothing for the districts.
Yet if the district tournament made any money the NeCeAcde was to receive i‘.
And then you know in our first year we guarenteed expenses for fifteen men,
then cut it to twelve, and then raised it again to fifteene