charges of receiving stolen property.
The charge. against Stemmer is
based on a section of the New York

penal code enacted in 1921 as an}

aftermath of the “ Black Sox” _ base-
ball scandal. The section, therefore,
refers to professional games,
Doubtful. on Law.
“Assistant District Attorneys Ed-

ward A. Hefernan and Louis G. An-|

dreozzi of Kings county, to whom:
the five players confessed, admitted
they were not sure whether this
Jaw could be invoked against per-
sons bribing or conspiring with ama-
teur players. They said they wanted
a court ruling on this point.
Both of the prosecutors intimate
that steps would be taken to
the legislature amend the law to in-
clude all sports if the courts refuse

to permit the prosecution of Stem-}

mer [and presumably Rosen] under
the present code. Both admitted,
however, that an adverse ruling in
court would provide the accused
gamblers with a large loophole.

N.C.A.A. CALLS FOR ACTION

New Orleans, La., Jan. 30 [(Spe-
cial],—Wilbur C. Smith, president
of the National Collegiate Athletic
association, tonight’ said that col-
leges and university administrators
must take active steps immediately
to stamp out the evils of gambling
in its relationship to college. ath-
letics.

Pointing out that the college
group recently adopted a resolution

 

 

 

 

calling for drying up all sources of |.
“information valuable for

special
-form sheets by barring gamblers
from the scene of contests and by
taking all possible steps designed
to discontinue issuance of. predic-
tion charts, Dr. Smith said the sub-
ject would occupy a “most import-
ant place” at the next N. C. A. A.
meeting.

“Tf we can’t stop gambling we
can at least discontinue what has
been a guileless practice on our
_ part of co6perating with the gam-
blers,” said the N.
and Tulane university athletic di-
rector. “Such questions as whether

games should be played in any gym-

nasium or arena not located on the
campus of one of the competing in-
stitutions should be considered.”

The date of the next N. C. A. A.
meeting has not been fixed but it
probably will be held early in the
spring. .

C. A. A. chief’

accomvaations, iNorthwestern plans
to build a fieldhouse near Dyche
stadium immediately after the war.
Soarbaro Not Alarmed,
Judge John A. Sbarbaro who,
with Arthur Morse, Chicago attor-
ney, conducts the Stadium basket-
ball double headers, stated that he
is not alarmed at anything which
has happened in tre east.
“We have taken special precau-
tions at every. game,” he added,
“and have uncovered no flagrant
violations. If we do we'll drive the
offenders out of the place. We want
to keep the setup clean. As a mem.
ber of the De Paul athletic board

tI feel deeply my responsibility to
_|do this. And I don’t think any of

wr institutions in the middle west
€ineed worry about a scandal such as

the one in New York.”

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