August 24, 1942.

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Mr. Ned Irish,
§ Rockefeller Plaza,
New York City, N.Y.

Dear Ned:
‘Your letter of the 21st instant arrived this morning

and I immediately checked up with our Athletic Office soncern-
a te Sentient ESE FS Lee coe ere

dis eens sane eiusiet ter Bee Orion Hien Director
S,) and mailed on May 11th with a letter to Carroll
(Mik@ Reilly? of St. Bonaventure, and to Jack Coffey at Fordham.
When I first saw the carbon copy of the correspondence I noticed
that Reilly's letter was sent to St. Bonaventure, New York, and
thought that it should have bee: Buffalo, but we looked up the
correspondence from him and that is their station - 5t. Bonaventure.

   

of Athle

There was only one error in Mr. Henry's letter - he said
the game was to be in New York City, when it should be Buffalo.

We have one copy of the contracts here. I remember Mr.
Barl Falkenstien, our financial secretary, saying that the contracts
had been sent in triplicate, so Mr. Henry signed them and two copies
were returned. We have the third copy here.

There is one interesting angle, Ned, that might make for
publicity. In 1905 I played with the Kansas City Athletic Club
when we beat the Buffalo Germans in a series of three games in
Kensas City for the so-called world's championship. I was right
guard and the manager of the Kansas City Athletic Club team. The
first game they beat us 40-36, and the next game we beat them
30-28, and the last game we beat them 45-14. Dr. Nalemith refereed
the third game as the two teams had had some difficulty with the
previous officiating» |

: I noticed in Conversets yearbook of the past year a photo-
graph of the Buffalo Germans who played in that game. ‘they were |
physicians and prominent citizens of Buffalo. It might be interest-
-ing to arrange some sort of a get-together with the old-timers for
that night. I remember Herdt, Faust, Maneweiler, Miller, and so