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Bookie Charge

LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 1 uP)—|
ir. Forrest C. Allen, the Univer-|
sity of Kansas coach who last Sep-|
tember predicted a “Black Sox’)
gembling scandal in basketball, had
his answer today for the staff of a
|horse racing magazine who pro-
tested his charge that bookies were
going into intercollegiate athletics.
| The staff of the Thoroughbred
|Record, Lexington, Ky., wired Allen
demanding that he either supply in-
formation to substantiate his charge
or retract it.

In return, Allen shot back a wire
urging the magazine to “have its
operatives call at 510 North Dear-
born street, Chicago, where you
will find a nationally-known book-
maker who has operated big time
racing forms and who now is oper-
ating big time basketball form
charts, quoting odds on all of the
important games played in the
United States.”

The record staff asserted that
horse racing has been “accused
unjustly in the past months of
everything from the manpower
problem to the gasoline shortage.
We don’t think it is either legi+
‘timate or decent of you to attempt
shifting the blame for crooked-
ness in your own game into a
sport which is entirely innocent of
the wrongdoing attributed to it.”

To that, Allen said: “I assure
you we are not attempting to shift
the blame. We are putting it where
it belongs.”

Allen said he had in his pos-
session horse racing form charts
sent out by Milton J. Danenberg
of Chicago. He said that Danen-
| berg operated from the Dearborn
street address and now was send-
ing out form charts quoting odds
on basketball games throughout
the nation.

The Record wired that “our in-
formation is that neither Harry
Rosen nor Harvey Stemmer, the
men involved in the Brooklyn Col-
lege case, has ever been identified
with racing in any capacity.”

Allen charged that there were
several different syndicates operat-
ing in the basketball betting picture
and that “when one mob starts out
to get another, that’s where the
fixing comes in.”

He declared that in Lawrence
alone there were 20 different places
—drug stores, confectionaries, gro-
cery stores—where a bet can be
placed on a basketball game.

“And the storekeepers get 20 per
cent for handling the bets,” he add-
yon “just like the old slot machine
cut.”