November 7, 1945

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Sports Desk |
Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri

Dear Dan:

‘4 was quite sure that I had antographed a copy of
"Better basketball" for you because I had a conversation
with Dr. Feete concerning you when I sent it. I had
persumed that it had been misplaced and ! was happy to —
send you another.

I am glad that you are going to handle the basket~ — ;
ball coverage for the Star this Winter. I know that it :
_ ° ‘@i11 be done in your usual highly efficient coverage .
of this game. ) ;

e Regarding Gene “etersen, It is a rather interesting
‘angle. Gene wanted to study veterinary medicine. He
had visited personally with Louie Menze at 4mes and he
also made a trip to Manhattan to visit Coach Fritz Knorr,
as well as writing Ohio State. Nebraska does not have _
a veterinary course, mrither does Kansas but he states this
he has always wanted to come to Kansas even during his
high school days. —

Confidentally at this moment, when he came down to

Lawrence and paid his own expenses I sold him on the

_ larger influence that he would have and the greater service
that he could render as a medical doctor. His highest
g S wore 98 and his lowest was &4. He had 95 in’
chemistry so you can see that his future long after his
college days were over was the thing that he was seriously
considering. | | ;

This is also confidental to you. Gene Petersen
wrote me two letters neither of which I answered. When
he wrote me the first one and I refused to answer he
wrote me the second saying, "I think I know why you didn’t
answer my letter." | ay

Pat ‘enny, a newspaper reporter, wio was then writing
Hill stuff for the Journal World came by here on her
roundse I pulled the two letters our of the desk drawer
where I had lain them and said, "Yat, her is some news
which you cannot print.” Pat is the sports editor of the
University Daily Kansan at the present time. She looked m 4
at them and said, "Well; I can write him, Can't I?" And
she wrote him on her Phi Pi stationery.

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