CHAS. W. STEIGER

WALT A. STEIGER

STEIGER & STEIGER
ATTORNEYS AT LAW

TOPEKA, KANSAS

October 10, 1958,

Dre Forest C. Allen,
University of Kansas,
lawrence, Kansase

Dear Doctors:

I have hesitated in writing you all day but I feel that I
have given the matter sufficient thought so, therefore, am jus-
tified in telling you what is on my mind.

I want to complain most bitterly against the manner in which
the announcer broadcasting in the third and fourth quarters told
of injuries to Kansas players, not mentioning the nemes he used,
who were the boys actually involved. I will substitute therefor
the following: Bill Smith and Bill Jones, This happened in the
third quarter.

!
The young man announcing in this quarter said that Bill Smith
was injured, that he was lying on the ground, that he was badly
injured, no, I am wrong, I guess it is Bill Jones that is injured
and not Bill Smith, but he is badly hurt?

This same chatter was repeated in the fourth quarter. I do
not know whether it was the same announcer or not but he related “<
to an injured Kansas player with the same mistake identically as
that which happened in the third quarter.

It is needless to call your attention as to the feelings of
the parents and relatives of either of these boys, let alone to
mention the bonehead of the announcer who announces that a player
is badly injured and then find that he has made a mistake and has
to correct himself and make the correction. This not only affects
the feelings of the parents and relatives of both boys but also
raises a possibility in the minds of the other parents and relatives
if he did not know who it was in the first place there might have
been @ possibility that he was entirely mistaken. Your announcer
used very bad taste and poor judgment.

Some four years ago I met Ted Husing in Chicago in a hotel.
Others were in a group with Mr. Husing and he emphasized the fact
that he hever in a broadcast of an athletic event, especially foot-e
ball, did he ever tell the audience that any player was hurt let
alone badly hurt. He says that he has said, and it can be veri-
fied,in every broadcast which he participates in, that No.
has had the wind knocked out of him and is all right again.

I remember that he so broadcast a play, in which the player ree
ceived a broken limb but that he did not cause that information
to go out over the air.