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Allen, Kansas M entor,

Blasts Eastern Cage Teams

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan: 6 er oe

Forrest C. ‘‘Phog”’ Allen, aaa Univer- |
“sity basketball coach, i
favorite. pastime. of knocking Eastern

basketball in general and: officiating in

particular in an interview. with the United.

Press -here yesterday.

“Every year some of our teams have‘

gone out there and played those boys on

their own courts with their own officials
-and,

we've. beaten them _ repeatedly,
but this half-baked lot today still don’t
realize it,” was Allen’s opening shot for
1944 at Eastern basketball.

“The officials, let the game degenerate
into a rough house brawl. Anything
goes. Here they keep the game clean

| and won’t put, up with all that per. con-
| tact business.”’

Dr. Allen also deplored the narrow
space surrounding

Eastern courts. “But even at that, with

their courts and their officials, we beat |
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Allen said = hould De. ee to. pay
Eastern teams the.same money as Madi-
son Square Garden to come West and
play for charity. ‘‘What’s more, I will

indulged in -his-

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‘Phog Allen
let them bring one of their own officials

along. That’s more than we ever got out
of the ‘East. aH