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July 31, 1938-6

Deoar Mr. Teetor:

- The Naismith article was mailed to you, first class, Saturday evening,
and should reach you by an early delivery Monday. I have checked over your
specifications, and think I have covered most of the points you suggeste Dre
Naismith did not mention the introduction of the game into Australia, but did
several other countriese One point occurs to me that you might wish to ue
and that is that young women as well as men played the games

The earliest games at Springfield were played just before the noon hour,
and the noise attracted passers by from the adjoining street, including teachers
in the public schoole They wanted to form:a team, and asked the young women in
the Y.iM. office to organize for gamese There were not enough on the staff, so
the sweethearts of some of staff helped oute Thus Mrs. Naismith was among the
players on the first women's teams. She held her interest in the game until her
death a year or more agoe The foregoing would fit in well after the first sen-
tence of the paragraph at the bottom of page 6, starting a new paragraph with
e e "The 13 simple rules « « «" |

Dre Fe Ce Allen assured me today he would be pleased to present a phase
of the Subsidization of Athletes, opposing what he calls the “hypocritical
attitude that denies subsidization". He is, of course, opposed to the tramp
athlete=-=the athletic youth who attends college, but gains nothing in education,
and ends with a goodly bank accounte He does believe, however, that the young
man who wants an education should not be penalized because he wants also to
engage in health-giving sportse Vast sums are used as scholarships for scholastic
students who engage in other intramural activities, such as glee clubs, bands,
and the likee Dr. Allen has a trenchant style, and commands attention, as witness
his run in with the “trans-atlantic hitchhikers" in connection with the AAU and
the Olympic gamese How long should such an article be?

Yours very truly,
(Stemed) We Ae DILL ~

Mre Paul Teetor,
The Rotarian,
Chicago, Illinoise

PS. Does it occur there might be something in the Pacific Northwest I mi ght
investigate for The Rotarian?
WAD