June 27th, 1941

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Mr. Otto Scharllbacher
Sublette, Kansas

Dear Otto:

I'm happy to have your good letter of the 24th
instant and to learn that you plan to come up the first of
August. Yes I will be here and shall be happy to see you.

Now don't let anyone pack you up in a car and take
you out of Kansas. I kmow you're going to be so much happier
here than in any other State. I'm happy to have you make your
decision for the University of Kansas. I know you'll never regret
it and I want you to be wearing a Jayhawker uniform.

Here is one thought that I want you to ponder on,

Otto, and that is this: There has never been but one boy that's
played three years on a Kansas Varsity basketball team from 1922
until 1941, inclusively, that is not wearing a gold basketball.
And some of them are wearing three. This boy, Russell "Rub"
Thompson dropped out of school and came back on one of our lean
years. So, I want you, Otto, to be one of those for twenty
straight years who will be wearing a Big Six Championship gold
basketball.

Give Eddie Hall my kindest regards. I think he is a
great fellow and one of the best athletes that we ever had. I
have always been especially fond of him. He is clean, courageous,
and an all-around-good-fellow.

Sincerely,

Director of Physical Education
and Recreation-Varsity Basketball
and Baseball Coach.

FCA:re