Detroit, Michigan.
Monday, Dec 7th. 1942.

Dre Forrest C. Allen,
Dep*t—of Physical Education,
University of Kansas.

Dear Phog:

I was very sorry when I got home this evening to find your letter
of Dec. 4th saying that you would not stop in Detroit for reasons mentioned.
Please reconsider. You have my letter written Sunday and posted this mornixg,
telling of pland we have made to have you come. The detail of practive here
I have now made. The down town Y.M.C.A. gym will be open to the téam the
morning of Dec. 24th from 9230 to 12:00 noon. They would like to have the team ¢
off the floor by noon. The "Y" will be delighted to have you and the only
cost will be that for towels when the boys go to the showers. Their physical
director, George Gillesby, said to me " Phog Allen is the foremost basketball
coach in the country. His teams are aliays pulling something new. He has
written a book on basketball which I have. Will you ask him if it will be OK
for some of our boys to watch the team work out 7“ So that's how you stand
there. I asked him about a work out# on the evening of the 23rd. Their gym
will not be available then but I am sure I can get the DAC gym which is -
less than a block away or if not there are plenty of school gyms,- Wayne
University is nearest,@ which will be open then.

When the subjact first came up of your coming to Detroit I thought
of it first only in terms of havéng you and the boys at an alumi meeting. I
went over the proposition as carefully as I could and I am sure that a
meeting held so near to Xmas would not be a successe It did not occur to me
at the time that some of us could arrange to meet you anyway and that the
advent of the team stopping in Detroit # would create additional interest
in KU in our alumni group here. You will be coming thru Detroit anyway on
you way to Buffalo, or at least you can, and it seems to ine that you will
be doing both the school and our association up here a service to let us
play host to you and the team. There is no question as to my finding tne
time or getting the help to take care of everything. As a salesman my time
is pretty much my own and there is little doing in XMXEXXZHK my line at that
time. Moreover I have taken no vacation this year and 7 I wantK to take two
full days off white you are here I XM have my company's full permission to
do so. As to gas, I am saving 100 miles to use on the team while you are here
This will be part of the 18 gallong I filled## the tank up with before rationig
took affect. I am sure Lovett can get us permission to go thru the Ford
plant if you would like to see it and Bob Mosby said he could get us in the
tank plant. (Dfar Sth Ae th, .- bens 4 7

So, reconsider this thing Phog, and decide to spend the night of the
23rd and 24th with us. If you do, which I am sure you should, wont you write
Geo. Gillesby of the "Y" and tell him that you are coming ? He wpuld like to
get a line from you and morepver he wants to put a notice of it-in the "y"
lacal paper and put it on the bulleting board.

I want also to get some publicity on your stop ae the local papers.
I have friends on the News and one of our alumni, S. Lee Bowers, fs'32, is

on the Detroit Times. I wonder if you could send me three small Pictures of
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