April 2, 1942.

Mr. Paul D. Hinkle,

Athletic Department,

U. 5. Naval Training Station,
Great Lekes, Tllinoise

Dear Tony:

Could you play between Christmas and New Year's,
while the students are home? I have been planning a
trip to New York, but I am not sure thet it will work
out. That would possibly be during the early part of
December and we would be at home to play during the
Christems vacation. I have talked to the Auditorium
people in Kenseas City and they think thet is the best
time to play. If this would suit you, it would-be all
right with us.

I don’t want to take Missouri's date, but our
first semester examinations end on January 28, end that
is just about the best time we would have - January 29
or SO. If we played during that time it would be at the
end of our examination period.

Let me know how these suggestions appeal to yous

Ralph Miller at the present time is in the hospital
with lobar pnewnonin. Tie was not feeling well when we
pisyed our games in the Auditorium in Kensas City. In
fact, I told him I was not going to start him in the gam
with Rice because he wes feeling so bad, and just before
the game he came to me and said, “I would like to start,
at least, even if I can't finish, as it is my last game."

The pain thet he compleined of was in his right side
and I thought it was either liver or stomach. It had a
tendency to appear in the abdominal region but reflected
over the right side. It turned out to be intercostal
neuralgia, a forerunner of lobar pneumonia. When he gets