ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS

AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY

St. NJoseph Gazette

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C.M.PALMER, PRESIDENT HENRY D. BRADLEY, PustisHer

ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI

EDITORIAL ROOMS
ARTHUR V. BURROWES, EDITOR

 

Dear rhog;

Lieutenant Nugent and yours truly @tduly appreciateive of the
chance you are giving the Flyers to play against a name chub on a
big court. i am mailing some publicity material on tne individual
players to Hlliott amd Nixon. Aé to the team it really hasn't a record
as aside from St.Benedict's, which beat the Flyers, 45 to 35, all it
has played has been independent clubs around st/Joe,

There is plenty of material but like alll real service clubs the
Flyers are operating under a tremendous handicap as all practide and
play is om tie soldiers own time and it is impossible to get them tozet er
as some are always in duty, particularly the flying officers,

Rosecrans Field is owrated by the Army Air Force Transport Command
and is a rapidly expanding aviation base. Its athletic program is jus
getting under way uhder the direction of Lieut. thomms Nugent, former
coach at Ithaca, N.Y., College, All of his men are subject to transfer
at any minute go the present bunch might be in Africa or Australia by
Jan.16 leaving him with a brand new bunch on his hands,

He knows that the riyers are not in a classwith your club and only
hopes to give -you a decent game. I assured him that you weren't the type
of coach to try to rub it in and that in playing two games in a night
your club wouldn't be at its best,

Sincerely

Arthur F.Hughes