October 17, 1942.

Lt. Wa. FP. Krickhan, Jr.,
Chief, Athletic Section,
Camp Crowder, Missouri.

Dear Lieutenant Krickhan:

As I promised you in my letter of October 14th, I went to
see the Municipal Auditorium people to see what we sould 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, Jenuary 16th, open.

Lt. Ted J. O'Sullivan, of the Reception Center at Fort Leaven-
worth, also desires a date with us. He is anxious that his outfit play
in Kansas City and states that his team will inelude many former college
players. Now, here is the deal that looks pretty good to me. We do not
think we are supermen here at the University of Kansas, but in endeavor-
ing to get an attractive program, one that will draw a crowd and create
interest, I thought we might try this deal - that Kansas would play
both Camp Crowder and the Reeeption Center teams, 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 marly sizeable crowd.

, ‘I would like to have ‘Ss anruet that both teams could substitute
freely, the seme 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 mt the first or
second team from Kansas.

z have procured the hall tentatively in our name, and if you
are agreeable to this plan, you inform m 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 Kansas
City, and we would divide the net equally three ways - one part to