JULIAN E. RALSTON .
ATTORNEY AT LAW 3
BROWN BUILDING 3
WICHITA, KANSAS

November 9, 1937

 

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am in receipt of your letter of November 5th and in reply
thereto am of the opinion that Mr. Paul A. (Pete) Lightner,
Sport Editor of the Wichita Fagle, is probably, from a con-
sistent standpoint, the best basketball writer insofar as
newspaper writing is concerned providing he does not have an
antipathy for the club or team he is writing up. If you mean,
however, that you want the name of the local man best qualified
to write from a technical standpoint, I doubt if there is

any choice.

Jack Copeland, whom you mention, is, of course, the Sport Editor
for the Wichita Beacon. ‘There are two younger men who write

for the Eagle; Virgil Corey is the Sport Editor for the Evening
Eagle and is sometimes assisted by Vic Rugh, who is one of the
announcers and the sports commentator for radio station K.F.H.
which is owned and controlled by the Wichita Eagle. Then, of
course, Leslie Edmonds is here in town.

I have, in the last year, been managing the fortunes of the
Wichita Fairfield Polo Club and heve found that Mr. Lightner
can be depended upon to put out what I wanted in the way of
write-ups, pictures, etc. much more consistently than Jack
Copeland. I will say, however, that Copeland sometimes gave
me a much bigger and better "spread" than did Lightner but
sometimes I would find merely 2 picture or a small “box" in-
stead of a decent write-up.

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