July 31, 1941.

Ur. Arthur Morse,
10 Soe LaSalle 8t.,
Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Arthur:
You may have the DePaul athletic manager make out contracts

and send them to us». We have no objections to playing DePaul in-
stead of Loyola. .

I em sending e@ couple of photographs that I trust will be
satisfactory. They are really glosses instead of photographs,
but I trust they will doe

Answering your question regarding the tournament in Merch,

I beg to state that our conference will not permit us to enter
eny tournaments of such natures In fact, they have had a very
stringent rule up until this past May when, I wnderstand, they are
permitting our teams to play in tournaments that are managed by
one of the college teams that play in the tournament. This sent-
ence may sound rather ambiguous to you, but three years ago we
played in a tournament sponsored by Washburn College, of Topeka,
Keansase Washburn wes in the tournament, but the conference voted
against ow doing this thing because they claimed that as long as
we were playing Weshburn in Weashburn's tournament it was all right.
But if we played the New Mexice School of Mines in ‘ashburn's
tournament that was against the rule. :
However, they rescinded this action in Mey and now their

rescinded action wuld permit such a tournament as you suggest
but not in March. They would rule that that was post-season,
even though it might come within the law. And too, Arthur, we
are limited to eighteen games a season and we will have played
our eighteen games, so any over that would not be permitted.

The only deal that I think would be a big affair wuld be

ea Christmas tournament in Chicago, say a year from now, I told
our conference if we were wise we would have e Big Six Tournament
at Christmas in the new Kansas City Itmicipal Auditorium. We
would pack that auditorium every night, but the other coaches
think I am pulling a fast one on them and they are afraid a rabbit
will jump out of the hat.