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4 COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

AMERICA’S FOREMOST RURAL MAGAZINE

PHILIP S. ROSE
EDITOR

THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE * PHILADELPHIA

February 1, 1938

Dear Phog:-

Yessir, I am still around, and I would be most? happy to see
Better Basketball, if Mr. Curtis McGraw is willing to send it. I might
be able to give it a review on our boys' page -- which is seen by the
boys in a million and three quarters families. But I am boasting.

I'm still crazy about sports, and the old rumbling desire
to write some more is on me. I am starting work this week on a football
article, with Red Frissell, who has become the ace referee here in the
East. He has worled all the big games -- Yale-Harverd, Army-Notre Dame,
Army-Navy, been to the Rose Bowl and so forth. We are going to try and
hit The Saturday Evening Post with it. Hone for us, won't you?

I had a chance to read a manuscript that the Post bounced
back to the authors, but I think you might be interested on way or another
in the proposal. Franny Murray, who played football and basketball at
Penn got to mumbling over being put out of basketball games on four
personals. He says a guy isn't worth ea dam to himself or the team when ‘he.
gets three of them -- playing on eggs. He thinks a hockey penalty box
would be a better bet. I think he was right in saying that a game goes
to pieces when the stars come out on personals. He cited a number of
games to back up his arguments. I liked the article, but the Post staff
bounced it back at Franny and his ghost. I didn't care much for Sam
Barry's article last year in the Post. There ought to be good basketball
material for Post articles. Football stuff seems to be eaten up and basketball
is still going great guns.

I scan very closely the basketball scores in the peper, and

as usual you seem to be taking down your share -- which is almost all of them.
I wanted to see John Bunn's Hank Luisetti, but about 20,000 of us got shut
out at the door. Hank seemed to have made John -- or is it the other way

round. I see he's being upped at Stanford. I didn't know him at Kansas, but
I'm always glad to see a Jayvhawker get there.

If you get East this winter or spring, won't you stpp by to see
us? Ben Hibbs adds his greetings.

Regards,