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Members - National Basketball
Rules Committee Page 2. January 26, 1938

Now then, I don't want to be presumptious in this matter, and I am
probably no mere fond of Saint than the rest of you fellows. I should
ike to have a hand in presenting him with a really fine wrist watch.
Of course, some of you may have ideas that are better than this. If
you have, let's have them so that we can all work together on the
thing. I have gone into the matter of wrist watches a little bit, and
find that a very fine wrist watch, with fifth second stop attachment
on it, in a solid gold case, properly engraved, can be purchased for
about $200.00 or $225.00. The movement in the watch would be a

Paul Valette in a seventeen jewel, or better, movement. The case
would have to be a particularly heavy and durable case, in order to
protect the mechanism of the watch and my judgment is that it should
probably be eighteen carat yellow gold,

It may be that some of you are in a position to get a really high
quality watch of this type, at a better figure than this. The figure
is given me by a personal friend in the jewelry business, who said
that he was giving me a close figure on it, and that he would little
more than pay expenses on the transaction.

Just to finish up the business in the one letter - in case you agree
that we should do something of this sort for Saint, I am raising the
general question as to the people who should be offered the
opportunity of making the gift possible. My feeling is that possibly
we should not go back of the date of the reorganization, excepting
for such men as Ralph Morgan, A. E. Metzdorf, George Hepbron. From
the high school standpoint, we might possibly want to offer all of
the high school men who have been on the committee an opportunity, if
they care to avail themselves of it. In a list of this sort, we
would have the eighteen men who are on this year's committee, together
with William McK. Barber, Collins and Swaffield, This would give us
the eighteen members, together with Morgan, Metzdorf, Hepbron,
McK.Barber, Collins and Swaffield, making jn all around twenty~five
fellows.

Naturally, this matter has to be handled confidentially because we
don't want to tip the thing off in advance to Saint.

Upon receipt of this letter, won't you please sit down and write
"June! Salmon what you think about the whole thing, "June" can then
proceed as he thinks wise. My only wish in the matter is to have an
opportunity to have a part in doing gomething for Saint, who has
probably done more for the game of basketball in an administrative
way, than any other single individual on the conmittee.

With personal regards, and assuring you that my desire is to be
entirely helpful in this matter, I am

Sincerely yours

FAR:McG Treasurer