Poi,

May 3lst, 1941

Dr., W. C. Jesson
Petibody, 4ansas

Dear Dr. Jesson:

Thank you for your hurried note as of Wednesday,
May 29th, regarding Hoyt Baker. |

Your letter arrived in my absence. I was speaking
to the Rotary Club at Parsons, Kansas. And, since yesterday was “emorial
Day, your letter did not come to my attention until this morning. .

However, I did confer with Vie Hurt and W_,me Replogle,
and they gave me the information regarding Bruce Drake and Adams, in
Gardner.

Roy Bennett, the President of the Rotary Club at Parsons
Was one of my old Varsity Players back in 1920. He was Bruce Drake's
coach at Central “ighschool in Oklahoma City. Bennett told me thursday
that Bruce was on his way up to talk with Hoyt Baker.

Dr. Jessen, you and I have talked often enough so that
I'm sure you will understand my attitude in this Baker situation. If Hoyt
is shopping around, endeavoring to get the best offer, financially, or if
his mother or someone else is causing him to be dissatisfied because someone
is not offering him enough money, then I'm of the positive opininn that

we can not interest him here at the University.

I have always looked at athletics as something that should
not have money made out of it unless you are a professional playerg or a
coach. And, I have always looked at an educational institution as a place
where a boy goes to receive an education and an inspiration that will make
his life more productive and pleasent. A fellow gets out of a proposition
exactly what he puts in it.

If Hoyt is looking for money, Oklahoma is his best bet.
It's pretty evident thet its necessary for Vklahoma to make this type of

an offer to induce boys of Hoyt's type to attend their school. I have said
_ and done everything in keeping with the traditions and the real work of the

University of Kansas. I shall not lower her standards to meet the apparent
type of competition that's being placed before some boy.

If Hoyt desires to attend the University of Kansas,

we'll do everything we can for him legitimately and keep with the best ideals

of a splendid institution, And, if he cheses some other instithtion, he will
do so with my blessing.

I appreciate your whoehearted interest, but you and I
both know that if you want money, you go to a bank; if you want pills, you
go to a drug store, anc if you want education, you go to a first-class
educational institution.

Very cordially yours,