FRED HILL

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
JESSIE M. TOWNE

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OMAHA, NEBRASKA ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

CH82-8-37-8M

JOSEPH G. MASTERS, PRINCIPAL

April 21, 1939

Doctor F. A. Allen
Head Basketball Coach
Kansas University
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Coach:

I have a boy, Jim Kriss, who has played basketball
for me here at Central High School for the last three
years. He has been an all-city player two years and
this past season won all-state recognition.

He is seventeen years of age, is six feet tall,
weighs one hundred sixty pounds and, I think, has the
makings of a great college basketball player. [I have
talked to him about going to school and suggested to him
that I was going to write to you to see if you were in-
terested in him.

I would like very much to have him play basketball
under your teaching. He was a high scorer in the inter-

city league this past year. He does not expect to attend

Nebraska University under any circumstances, so I want
youto feel that, if you are interested in him, you will
not take’‘Away from Nebraska.

It is more or less through my interests that I am
writing to you, hoping that you might be able to give
him an N.Y.A. job or some other kind of a job, where he
would earn at least part of his way. He could afford
to pay either his board and room or books and tuition
but would not have enough money to pay his entire expen-
ses.

I would appreciate anything that you might do, and
may I hear from you in regard to him?

Sincerely yours,

F. —

FYK :EF Director of Athletics