; PLAYERS TELL
” STORY TO JURY
IN BRIBE CASE

CallBrooklynCoach
at Night Session.

Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 30 [Special].
—The Kings county grand jury met
in special session tonight to investi-
gate gambling in intercollegiate
basketball and to inquire into
charges that two Brooklyn gamblers
gave five Brooklyn college players

a bribe of $1,000 to throw the game.

scheduled against Akron in the Bos-
ton Garden tomorrow night. The
jurors acted on the earlier demand
of Kings County Judge Samuel S.
Leibowitz, formerly a noted criminal
lawyer and an ardent sports fan.
~The five Brooklyn players in-
volved were on hand to testify,
‘and the jurors sent for Coach Maur-
ice [Tubby] Raskin to hear his
version of the case.
Drop Players from Team.

Brooklyn college authorities de-
plored the incident but announced
that the team would complete its
schedule, with the exception of the
Akron game, which was canceled.
The five players who confessed they
accepted a down payment of $1, 000
on a $3,000 bribe offered them to
throw the Akron game, were
dropped from the team. If the con-
fession of the players holds up in
court, college officials implied, the
boys will be expelled.

‘The youths are Bob Leder, cap-
tain and star of the team; Bernard
Barnett, the Kingsmen’s second best
man; ‘Jerry Green, Stanley Simon,
oe Larry Pearlstein. All except
Pearlstein. were starters.

Gambler Denies Charges.

Harvey Stemmer of Brooklyn was
held in $2,500 bail in Brooklyn Fel-
ony court for further hearing Feb. 5

on charges of conspiracy and giving
a. pribe. Stemmer stoutly denied the
charges, saying. he had given the
money “to a friend of a friend so
he could bet it on Akron to win.”
Stemmer pointed out that “ Akron
was a favorite, anyhow.” The au-
thorities had more serious business
for Harry Rosen to face and the
‘pasketball business had to wait. He
was arraigned in Felony court, Man-

hattan, where he was held in $25,000!

bail for grand jury action on

 

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Wilson Cites
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Steps Against |
mbling Evil
Gambling Lut
BY EDWARD PRELL. _,
Northwestern and other schools
of the middle west long have been
cognizant of the infiltration of gam-
bling elements in college basketball,
Kenneth L. [Tug] Wilson, athletic
director at the Big Ten university,

said last night. And, he declared,
all the precautions at their com-

‘mand have been taken to stamp out

the evil,

This was his answer when asked |
his reaction to the Brooklyn col-;
lege basketball scandal in which five
players admitted collusion with)
gamblers to throw a game.

Wilson, a director of the National
Collegiate Athletic association, said|
this group previously had warned |
the colleges and universities of the
middle west to take every step to;
prevent dissemination of informa-|
tion to operators of form sheets|
used in basketball betting pools.

Gets Anonymous Calls,

* Players, coaches, and others con-
cerned have been instructed not to|
give any facts on games coming up, |
the condition of the team, or other |
factors which might reveal inside
information,” Wilson said. He added
that many anonymous calls are re-,
ceived at the Northwestern athletic |
department obviously for the pur-
pose of obtaining clues which would,
be valuable in determining proper |
odds.

Operators of the basketball pools|
are said to have student representa-
tives or “spotters” 6n each campus,
who furnish up to the minute tips
on each team in exchange for a fee. |

Wilson said that both Northwest-
ern and De Paul, the mainstays ot
the Chicago Stadium basketball
double header programs, send plain
clothes men among the spectators
to watch for gambling. During last
Saturday’s double header in the
west side arena police ejected three
fans for allegedly betting on ‘the
games.

Have Five More at Stadium.

The Wildcats have played two
games in the Stadium this season
and have five more scheduled there.
Two will be played this week
against Purdue Friday and Notre
Dame Saturday.

Northwestern is playing in the}
Stadium largely because of the cir-
»,cumstance of being without a home
site except Evanston ‘Township
High school, which does not have
adequate seating capacity , to ac-
comodate fans at the more ier
ant. games. Patten gymnasium,
where the team formerly played,
was torn down before the war, and
the present building has no seating