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Nile Kinnick correspondence, December 1942-March 1943

1943-02-13: Page 04

plane, an original Jensen product from Denmark, with the famous(?) acorn pattern handle. They were mailed in separate packages and should arrive in a few days. Ellie was on duty from 4 PM to 12 oclock this week, so, it being about time for her to go to work, I dropped her at the Barclay and then caught a train for Quonset, thoroughly refreshed by the visit. Last Tuesday night we got together a pick up team from the squadron and played the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence. I am enclosing a writeup of the game along with the clippings on George father sent me. Whoever the sportswriter was he was he quite generously omitted to mention the three setups I missed. Actually I should have had about 16 points with no trouble whatsoever. Just to keep the records straight I'd better explain the box score. I guarded Smith the 1st half, and he got one bucket. In the second half I switched to Sullivan who had bagged 12 points in the 1st 20 minutes, and managed to hold him to one free throw. He just about ran my pants off, however; I was really dragging when the game ended. All too often close games are lost on careless errors and this was no exception. One of the boys got mixed

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plane, an original Jensen product from Denmark, with the famous(?) acorn pattern handle. They were mailed in separate packages and should arrive in a few days. Ellie was on duty from 4 PM to 12 oclock this week, so, it being about time for her to go to work, I dropped her at the Barclay and then caught a train for Quonset, thoroughly refreshed by the visit. Last Tuesday night we got together a pick up team from the squadron and played the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence. I am enclosing a writeup of the game along with the clippings on George father sent me. Whoever the sportswriter was he was he quite generously omitted to mention the three setups I missed. Actually I should have had about 16 points with no trouble whatsoever. Just to keep the records straight I'd better explain the box score. I guarded Smith the 1st half, and he got one bucket. In the second half I switched to Sullivan who had bagged 12 points in the 1st 20 minutes, and managed to hold him to one free throw. He just about ran my pants off, however; I was really dragging when the game ended. All too often close games are lost on careless errors and this was no exception. One of the boys got mixed