Phog Allens, Kansas Mentor,
’ Blasts Eastern Cage Teams

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. -9_Dr.
_ Forrest C. “‘Phog” Allen, Kansas Univer-

i sity basketball coach, indulged in his

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 Hastern 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 body con-

tact business.” -

Dr. Allen. also deplored the narrow |

out-of-bounds “space surrounding the
Eastern courts. “But even at that, with
their coutts and their officials, _we beat

‘em!
| Allen said he would be willing to pay
Eastern teams the same money as Madi-
/son Square Gardén to come West and

play for charity.

 

“What's more, mi Us will

rt
let them et one of fen own officials
‘along. That’s more than we ever got out
-of the East. 2