Mee Leighton Housh, a Des Moines, Iommi, . I have just written lir. Tower to find out whether I om GuTUee or mes dn wted be civested us to do wun 7 was at the last Rules moctings I went to congratulate you on the assembling of the reviews T think ¢ ie a danty get-ups Ae goon as I hear from tir. Tower I will write pet ny, Lana | With kindest persoml] regards, I an The Des Moines Register and Tribune Publishers of eo 444 a eA SS 89 : Sale 0 ai a ee The Register, The Tribune, The Sunday Register » Ls de, A EER, . : eh Te L=e SS), = 4 oe g: * ip ae i as “ my Des Moines, Iowa . al More Than 300,000 Sunday Circulation Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Basketball Coach, University. of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Dear Phog: Before I was informed that the Missouri Valley basketball review was to be sent directly to you I mailed it out to several editors and officials, including Oswald Tower. Recently I received an acknowledgment from him, indicating that he planned to print it. So, before there is any révising done as you suggest, I am writing him and suggesting that he get in touch with you on the subject. As to the length of the article, I believe that it easily could be edited down to the size you need. This was done last year as the review sent out then was approximately of the same length as this year's. . The object of the Valley review is to include all possible material which might be wanted for printing or for feference. Any not wanted can be eliminated by editing. However, if you still wish to have a rewritten article from me, I will be glad to do the job. I suggest, though, that you first get in touch with Mr. Tower as he already may have sent the thing to the printer. Thanking you for all favors, I am Sincerely yours, Leig&tton Housh UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS June 16, 1938. Mr. Elmer Holm, Washburn College, Topeka, Kansase Dear Elmer: __ .... 1 received the basketball picture this morning for the Basketball Guide, but it was not ~~ gecompanied by the names of the boys in the picture. I wonder if you would send me the names so that I may attach them to-the picture. Thanking you and with best wishes, I am BARMAN YO YTIeRaVIMU BOVaAW ALI mee 3 i ihe lt last year is the article Kansas Central Come Woulld you be good enough to write this for me send it to me at your early convenience? I will greatly appreciate the same. With every good wish, I am Sincerely yours, ae cL ices tulke tui pelts Se oan it a kind enough to write for Spalding's Athletic Library Basketball Guide the Kansas Conference race of last winter. You were kind enough to write this for us last year, which appeared on page 65 of the Guides if asahd Nie’ See sien bo eaten 2k Siti Ses ee to cover a half page, if you will. Om page 67 Kemmeth Simons, of Pittsburgh, wrote what Z think is about the right length. Will you be good enough to send this to me at your early convenience? i will appreciate it greatlye Very sincerely yours, / ik ects dikes tn Nien tn Band ee en up &@ good backetball article for the Tational Collegiate Rules Guide; book concerning your conference race in basketball with final standings? If you will kindly nominate the man I will be glad to ‘write hin and ask if he wll do this for the Guide for your cone Trusting that you are having e very pleasant sumer, len ebout the seme mil cane a lett Missouri, who is studying at Ohio State University this . written as well as Frank Root, of 3 State. coaches who failed us with photographs been written to just Fs 5 § th | is $f indolent and careless individuals. Don't ath I said this, but the hookwrn is 3 ; Surprised at all that you had to send to the newspapers authenticate some of the stuff in the southland. I em sorry thet lirse Allen did ot Imow of your son Miving in Louisville, but of course when she went through there she.would not have gotten to see him since, as you report, he is having a trip in Europe. lly, what a swell time he must be having’ With your rich acquaintance I am sure that you have givm letters to almost all of the celebrities and salubrities on the - : i =f : SERE a ei a i American Sports Publishing Company 115 FULTON STREET NEW YORK July 20, 1938 My dear Dr Allen So nisge to hear from youe Only the other day I asked Ernest Quigley, over the phone, what he had heard from youe So you see it must have been telepathy. Well, your tale of trouble in getting material for your section of the Basketball Guide is not news to me. We experience the same with all books. I have just closed the Football Guide, and I never saw such variations in dates, information, and other details. Just plain dumbness, and carelessness. I think that is what is the matter with the country-- laziness, more than anything. I had to send to a news- paper in a town down South recently when we could not get names for a football picture from headquerters, and the sports writer said that they had plenty of trouble right on the spot getting news from the publicity men themselves. Your mention of Mrs Allen driving to Louisville had much interest for me, as my son had been living there since he left college, nine years ago, and I know he would have been pleased to meet Mrs Allen, having heard so much about the Allen family. He met Clyde and Mrs McBride at Derby time, and wrote to me that "Mr McB,ide is all you said he was® Son, just now, is bicycling in Europe. He sailed from Norfolk a couple of months ago in a freighter-- his Mother, Sister and myself went. to Charlottesville, where we met him direct from Louisville, and after spending a couple of days there, the scene of his four years at college, we went on to Norfolk to see him off. He went to England, where he bought a wheel, and since has been to Denmark, Sweden, P_land, and we are momentarily expecting letters from Germ&ny. He intends to go to Austria, the Balkans, Italy, France, and back to England. He reports a wonderful time, and is 100% for the Danes and Swedes. He has letters to many--and all sorts of--people, and I am sure will have a most interesting trip. I told him that 1 thought he had bee better try New York, his birthplace, on his return, although he did excellently in Louisville. He is a splendid salesman, so I thought he might as well tackle the ee —— after the experience in a smaller town. ae. can +e ores poue pone ere. time, but if ‘it i lodcsaia letter to him, and that will get egies on eRe ae nye a ee ee ores tht ee ER cS oe ae SPAS ene y ie 5 2 ae Bo Meer ai 5 eS a sak st SS Se esti 3 Sey ie Rea ns ee Ck ac Mire Ce Os Burnside, Okleaham City, Olas “Dear Cobs SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ~ STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD ROY ELLIS, PRESIDENT TO GLU V4. 2...) & beak xiao SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ~ STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD P Misa Ge LLaugh* ZG Cx foL* Bid onD eis. tet 2 Uti cence . Ft Ss Lawrt . UH Quay Zed Yewk LOL par 2er Ant % face Ben, 7a tty “Cert, pacer i de sik tao sane eden de nile g0 promptly to my request for the story on the Kensas Central Conference for the Basketball Guides This is very fine, and I want you te lmow that I appreciate ite I have sent &¢ an ‘to the publishers of the Guide today. Very sincerely yours, Tye Pittsineg Headlight : THE PITTSBURG SUN EVENINGS MORNINGS EXCEPT SUNDAY EXCEPT MONDAY ESTABLISHED 1887 ESTABLISHED 1915 THE PITTSBURG PUBLISHING COMPANY eoo30 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT EDITOR : F. W. BRINKERHOFF Pittsburg, Kansas August 3, 1938 Dr. Forrest ¢C. Allen, Basketball Coach, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kas. Dear Phog, With pleasure I offer the enclosed story on Kansas Central Conference basketball for the National Collegiate bask&tball guide. I hope it meets the approv- al of the editors, and might say that it is written so that it can be easily cut down by cutting off the last paragraph or two. I hope the coming school year® proves to be pleasant and enjoyable for you and that you win all the basketball honors in sight. Very truly yours, [firme Kenneth Simons, Sports HKditor. Mire sondeme HeDonald, Coach, " Southnest "esourt Teachers College, Springfield, ilissourie Dear Andy: ss i sins aos tee anes sali os -me the name of John Snow, of the Springfield News and Leader, as the sports editor best fitted to write up the -. . gomference race for the Basketball Guides i have weitten rs Snow today asking if he will do this for use — I have also asked Mire Snow if he would do this for us next year, so that during the basketball season he might . keep in closer touch with the teams and thus heve his mterial oe Pe PRO en Oe Par SE eet pone PRRANE FO SEPANy Gael SLED Ot int weil, % wi : Ten wondering 1f you would to Lint enough to, _ welte for Spalding's Athletic Library Pasisthball Guid the conference race in basketball for both the € Selick tack She Wmdheee Caiings Cantemennans in chadeo man of the Fifth District of the National Collegiate - Athletic Association, I am trying te assemble these write-ups for the Guide to be published thie sumere Will glanee through the Guide you will see we want. I believe two seperate write-ups, aa Oe ce aot, about a half«rage for each, would be quite satisfactory. ee oe the final standings of the teams, the persomel, and mention of the brilliant players in each conferences We would like you to dothis for us next year, if you will, and I am asking you now so that during the basketball season you my keep in closer touch with the ve I shall greatly appreciate it if you will send me | this materiel at your early convenience so that I ‘ixke ee NNO, eden 5 ae Ne Soe Se 9 oe Mre George Edyards, 187 West Franbes, Columbus, Ohide Dear George: dont weeited to 2et you lmow that thie musing we received the group picture of your basketball squad fran Mex Fetrick,. I am now able to send all of this mtcriel — to the publishing company for tho Basketball Guide. Thank — Very sincerely yours, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA Prom 187 West Frambes, Columbus, Ohio. August 1; 1938 ° INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Dr. F. C. Allen, Director of Physical Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Dear Dr. Allens When your request for a team photo reached me last spring I immediately notified our sports publicity director of your request, identified the players in our picture, and received his promise that it would be attended to right away. So seldom has he failed me that I neglected to follow up. With this letter I am mailing another to Columbia in an attempt to obtain immediate action. Yours truly, George R. Edwards. ang 2f you won"t write whoever ic representing you Coluabia and have then mail ms a photograph with the players* names on the back, so that I my send it ins + Gk cecebene £6 38 you MATL tebe Gune er @tn ot ore of it Wont you write me aud say that you have taken cars YUe I think Uncle Sam dow: in Menhatten-may mst at letters some way. re es written Jue 6, This letter was enclosed with the picturese banipl n the pletures, or did you just fire then on back to the | ty mant |) RE Re ans Sen from this district of the N.C.A.A. was desirous of getting Frank Root and Kensas State's picture in the Guides Thanic you for your diet Wiel dentine a wae acl : It has been a D th Gomi, tant Gh, Howe And these Zansas crops ere going to make everybody happy, whether the politicians do or note Mith vouttimed good wishes for a tapzy end prosperous sumer, I en KANSAS STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MANHATTAN, KANSAS August 2, 1938 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas lewrence, Kansas Deer Doctors I did not receive a letter from you in regard to the individual pictures I sent, although, I did get the pictures back. Doubtiess, this letter was passed on $9 Mr. Lashbrook, our publi- city man, while I was on vacation andjdid not write you that we have no composite picture of the squad. I generally leave that matter entirely up to the requests of the class-book committee and had no group request. \ I trust you are having a swell summer, and I em sorry this matter was overlooked from this end. Very sincerely yours, ct fC Frank P. Root Head Basketball Coach FPR:LR Mire Frank Root, Baskethall Coach, Kansas State Coliege, Menhettan, Kansese Dear Franks 7 ‘We have received fran your publicity man the individual pictures of your basketball team for use in the Basketball Guides Sh eait be meteners fer wa to have & group pleture, Prank, so I am retuming the individual pictures to you as they are of no use to We ee tn Se Se ey ee ee ee group pictures