Ooteber 17, 1942.

Ur. Ted. Je O'Sullivan, ist i®e, PAs
Special Services Officer,
Reception Center No. 1773,
Port Leavenworth, Kansas.

Dear Ted:

As I promised you in my letter of October 14th, I went to
gee the Municipal Auditorium people to see what we could do regarding
the game in Kansas City. I saw Lou Lower yesterday afternoon and
checked over the available open dates at the Auditorium. He has Satur-

day night, January 16th, open.

Lt. Wm. F. Krickhan, Jr., Chief Athletic Officer at Camp
Crowder, also wrote me for a date. He is anxious that his outfit play
in Kansas City and he states that he will have a good team and one
which he is sure will give our boys a great deal of trouble. ‘ow,
here is the deal, Ted, thet looks pretty good to me. We do not think
we are supermen here at the University of Kansas, but in endeavoring
to get an attractive program, ome that will draw a crowd and create
interest, I thought we might try this deal - that Kansas would play
both the Reception Center of Fort Leavenworth, and the Camp Crowder
teem, the same night, that of January 16.

We would not play the first team against one and the second
team against the other, but it will be the first team of Kansas that
will play both outfits. Whether you would rather play first or last
will perhaps be decided by a draw and not determined until just before —
the game starts, or maybe the day before. This will lend interest to
the attraction, and in addition we will have a double header with Arny
teams. All the games before that have been played in Municipal
Auditorium have been either Navy or Aviation teams. I believe that we
could get quite a bit of interest in the game and play it up in such
a way that we would draw a fairly sizeable crowd.

I would like to have it agreed that both teams could substitute
freely, the same as in football, without counting times out. This
would give me an opportunity to rest my men and put them back in either
game when the opportunity afforded. We would use our stars in both
games so that it could not be said that either team met the first or
second team from Kansas. |

I have procured the hall tentatively in our name, and if you
are agreeable to this plan, you inform me at your earliest convenience
and I will definitely close the date. I believe it will make some
money for all of us. Each outfit would pay their own expenses to Kensas
City, and we would divide the net equally three ways - one part to