Thursday, Dec. 28, 1944

 

 

Once Over
Lightly

L___-By Andy Rooney:

EW YORK, Dec. 27—Do you detect
an odor? Do you smell something
funny? Whether you detect it or not,
something is beginning to smell, and it |
is the big time gambling racket which is
moving in on amateur and, in particular,
college sports.

A few weeks ago University of Kan-
sas basketball coach Dr. Forrest C.
*‘Phog’’ Allen popped off again. Good
erie Allen is always popping off about

this time of the
year, but never-
theless he had
something to say.
Simply, Phog told
everyone who
wanted to hear it
and some who
.didn’t that gam-
“_blers have become a
threat to college
athletics. ~ Speci--
fically Allen pointed
out the case of
se i Utah University

PHOG ALLEN Coach Vadal
Peterson, who answered the door in his
hotel room in New York before a. game
in the Garden and was confronted with
a man who asked the question: ‘‘How |
much will it cost me to have you see to |
it that your boys lose to Dartmouth in

the finals of the NCAA basketball
tournament?”’ Peterson slammed the
door.

Allen offered further information
without laying himself open to a libel
case about two college players who sold
their own team to professional gamblers
for a price. And lastly, Allen suggested
that there is a scandal in the making
which will make the Black Sox mess |
look like a penny pick-pocket affair.