Phooie, Says Dr. Allen
To Eastern Basketball

Co CITY, Mo. — (UP) — Basketball, Dr. Forrest Oo.

(Phog) Allen said last night, belongs to the West, and
if the ‘‘half-baked, toady lot’’ of Eastern. teams. want to
come out, he’ll prove it to them.

The volatile Allen, whose Kansas Uni-
versity quintets dominate the Big Six Con-
ference, almost any year, said he’d even
turn promoter if it would get the East
teams into’ his bailiwick,

He’s made tentative arrangements with
the director of the Kansas City -Municipal
Auditorium and he’s all ready to play in
St. Louis and Chicago, too, he said. All he
needs is a few eastern outfits to accept his
challenge. :

““Kvery year,” he said, ‘‘some of our Pern
teams have gone out there and played those ALLEN
boys on their own courts and with their own officials and
we've beat them repeatedly. But this half-baked, “on lot
still don’t realize it.

. “Why, last year they came sldne with a aed short
ealling St. Johns University the king of the court, And after