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.

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