CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
MEMORANDUM

 

Date

From.

 

 

December 14, 1939

Dear Phog:-

I found your letter upon my return from Chicago today.
Immediately I called Marty Sommers, of the Post, and he tells me
he knows of no article they have on hand which speaks slightinely
of your new game. There is an article coming out soon under the
title Take Away the Backboards -- which he says is controversial.
I suppose it is another argument about chenges in the game. They
also have an article about some game developed in West Virginia
called (of all things) Poontang. But he still insists he knows
of no derogatory remarks about your new game. There is mention
of your name in one article, which st&tes that you proposed a
twelve-foot basket. That is true -- I should say.

I am starting to watch the papers for Big Six basketball
scores. Some of us Kansans in the East are getting pretty discouraged
over the football scores -- and I might say that I hope you realize
how many real stanch friends you have among the men I talk to around
here. In that connection I won't yield to anyone. |

Phog, I think you can quiet your fears about a slam in
the Post -- or else Marty didn't remember any.

Hope you have a great season this year, and we'd be
mighty happy to see whenever you are in the East. Why haven't you
hooked up in some of Madison Garden double headers. Basketball has
climbed in popularity around here end I'd like to see Kansas get
some of the limelight. I believe on the whole the Hast is behind
the Midwest in basketball.

Cordially,