Novenber 8, 1944, ot iy edftale dns Ha Gillie lje pte sPagAnes HE iat Tiley Willi dieti: OH a ey ray Bis tae Hi lain HLT MET Hae ait ii; Hi af fditite! eae ih aul tdute iit pie i iteeas . allie i gal Ht pti aR =) in 435292 ae te ip i: ate aint Bet whee =2e pe Hh . | H A me jel aul 643% gas; Gh gia i ase at i i, itis 7 Director of Physieal iducation, Varsity Basketball Coach. 7 Very cordially yours, FCA: An November 8, 1044. Mr. James A. NoFarland, 110 ~ 35 ~ 72 Road, Forest Hills, Long Island, New York. of appreciation of the same. On the other hand, I deeply regard your fine statements, It is most unusual to find a man who will write a letter as you did and sign his name. Certainly I will not use it in any public way, but it gives me courage to do a better job when I find we have men like you who follow sport for the love of the game. _ I @m sending you confidentially a sopy of my letter in reply to Ned Irish's letter to me of October 24, I am also sending you a copy of the letter that he wrote me. I want you to kmow that he has failed to wake a case with me. And in confidence you and I ean enjoy the faulty camouflage put forth. : . It hope some time to have ‘the pleasure of nesting YOU. Sincerely yours, : *‘Divector of Physical Edusation, POA:AH Varsity Basketball coach. ) NOVEMBER 6, 1944 f j j fie ey i Ve \ a DEAR Mr, ALLEN? ATTACHED §S COPY OF LETTER WRITTEN TO Reo Smith OF TRE PHILADELPHIA RecorD Epo Poucock oF THE Eventnc BULLETIN ART MORFOW, OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED. Ohne ee L. Orman 5819 MaAL.verRN AvENUE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov, 6, 1944 Aw OPEN LETTER TO RED SMITH, PHILADELPHIA RECORD ~ §® POoL.ocK, EVENING BULLETIN _7” ART MORROW, PHILACELRHIA INQUIRER GENT LEMENS QUITE RECENTLY THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMOTION RAISED AMONG THE SPORT PAGES OF THE COUNTRY AND IN THE COLLEGIATE WORLD ABOUT THE CHARGES BROUGHT BY Dr. Forrest C, "PHOG" ALLEN, BASKETBAL BIRECTOR OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY, ABOUT GAMBLERS REACHING COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL PLAVERS. ‘One Ned IRISH QUICKLY DENIED ALL CHARGES AND SAID THaT "PHoOG” ALLEN tas in A "FOG" AND DIDN®*T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKENG ABOUT, ‘ FRANKLY, THE WRITER 1S NOT WRITING THIS WITH THE THOUGHTS 0: CONDEMNING ANY ONE §NDEIVEDUAL, OR UNIVERSITY, OR PLAVERS, OR GAMBLERS, OR ANY ONE €uSe. However, | 00 CLAIM TMAT MR, ALLEN $5 NOT ALTOGETHER WRONG, THE PUBLICITY MAN OF ONE OF OUR LOCAL UNIVERSSTIES WAS ALSO VERY QUICK TO CONDEMN THESE CHARGES. HOWEVER, ALL | WANT TO ASK #5 THES? - JF GAMBLERS D#D NOT REACH THEM BEFORE THE MUHLENGER® GAME OF 1943 OW THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION HALL DOUBLER HEADER, WHAT HAPPENED (MMEDEATELY AFTER THAT GAME TO REO BLUMENTHAL AND ‘LBV INGERMAN OF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY? TEMPLE HAD A BIG LEAD AT THE HALF AND DIED COMPLETELY §N THE SECOND HALF. MUHLENBERG WON BY SEVERAL POINTS, THESE BOYS "DISAPPEARED" AFTER THE GAME, VAR#)US REASONS WERE ADVANCED, THE RUMORS CERTAINLY WERE FLYING FAST AND THICK ABOUT GAMBLERS HAVEING REACHED THESE TwO PLAYERS FOR A "PAWYOFF® AND IF THESE CHARGES WERE GaASE= LESS, THEY SH)ULO CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN IMMEDIATELY DENIED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1N ALL JUSTICE TO THEMSEL\ES, THE COACH AND THE TEAM, Mavec MR. &LEN SOES KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING AcouUT? L. OrMAN LO:CcP CC Dr. ALLEN oe: oO 2 2 1510 Madrid St., Coral Gables, Fla. 31 October 1944 Dear Doc: Itve been reading with interest your blast against gambling at high school and college athletic events. You'll be interested to Jmow that Miami ... one of the gamblingest cities in the lend ... is among the first to make on effort to curb gambling at its athletic games. Clippings from boththe Miani Herald and News are enclosed. My wife and I always read every word of your bulletin to the service- men and if it isn't too much trouble I would like to have my address changed to: Lt. Jim Reed 1510 Madrid St. Coral Gables, Fla. I'ma public relations officer at Miami Army Air Field and like it fine. It's the busiest domestic base of the Air Transport Command and we have plenty to write about -- both nationally and locally. Some time ago I sent a clipping to Clyde McBride, quoting Hal Surface regarding basketball in China, its future, etc. You undoubtedly saw mention of it in Mac's colum. Again this season I'll have a busy officiating schedule dowm here and altho basketball in the South can't compare to what I%ve been used to in the Big Six and Valley, I'm looking forward to it. The death of T, P. Hunter was a shock to me. I've seen T. P. play many a game for you from my seat in the press box and always thought highly of him. This war has taken many of our favorites. : T'm looking forward to the day when we can come home in “pin-striped suits" ... home to God's country. Give my best to all and good luck in the coming basketball season. With all good wishes, (Signed) Jim Lt. Jim Reed P.S. -- Give my best to Ernie Quigley. DeTLOrs, EXTRA POLICEMEN |AT PREP CONTEST Twenty to 25 auxiliary po- licemen will be on hand Sat- urday night at the Miami High - Woodlawn football game in an effort te curb gambling and disorder, it was announced by Sgt. V. L. Martin. The organization: is headed by Capt. Edward L. Hoppe. The policemen did such a good job on the Miami-Wake Forest game officials of Miami High asked them to be there for the Saturday night game. They will be present at all of the remain- ing games, : THE MIAMI HERALD Thur sday, Oct. 26, 1944 Rosenfelder Promises T o Curb Many fans complained that‘upon arriving they were unable to ob- tain the seats for which their tick- ets called. Juveniles also have caused trouble by throwing paper and other objects. : “I can assure the fans that the gambling will be. stopped,” Ros- enfelder declared. “The plain- clothesmen should be able to stop it. If they can’t we'll put more of them there.” | — Promises of better protection for the fans comes at an opportune time, as a crowd of 20,000 is ex- pected to see the Hurricanes make their upset bid against the un- beaten Wake Forest team, part of which arrived here. Wednesday night, a day in.advance. The Hurricanes will hold their final workout. today, stressing passing. and punting. . They. have worked hard all week ying to add an offensive punch. Bob Wylie, the ailing quarter- back, took part in the scrim- mage Wednesday. Al Smith, ailing center, was unable to take part in the rough workout. If Wylie is unable to start Friday night Tom Perrin or Bob Har: _ vell will take’ his tg i and ~ _ the punting. Dunn worked his squad two. and a half hours and then sent the first eam through 30° minutes is = nal drill. Y o At Orange Bowl xe 5 History * University Hires Extra | Policemen i By JIMMY BURNS - Herald Sports Writer Complaints by football fans re- garding triple annoyances at Or- ange Bowl stadium games Wednes- day brought promises of relief from two sources. _ Safety Director Dan C.. Rosen- felder declared that he would per- sonally order plainclothesmen: as- signed to break up gambling at the University of _Miami-Wake Forest game Friday night. He also said that regular policemen assigned to the stadium would be instructed to help curb activities of profes- sional gamblers who have been plying their trade in the open. University of Miami officials’ said that’ ‘they would employ eight extra policemen to help check rowdyism by juveniles, and to stop “seat crashers” from the cheaper sections helping themselves to ‘choicer seats in the better reserved sections. Complaints regarding these mat- ters were brought to the attention of the Quarterback club: at: its meeting last Monday. Open gam- bling carried on among the specta- tors brought. sharp criticism, par- ticularly as the regular stadium police were said to be doing noth- ing about it. 1510 Madrid St. Coral Gables, Fla. Sl October 1944 Dear Doc:- I've been reading with interest your blast against gambling at high school and college athletic events. . You'll be interested to know that Miami...one of the gamblingest cities in the land...is among the first to make an effort to curb gambling at its athletic games. Clippings from both the Miami Herald and — are enclosed. My wife aha I always read every word of your bulletin to the servicemen and if it isn't too much cc omaha I would like to have my address changed to: : ; Lt. Jim Reed 1510 Madrid St. Coral Gables, Fla. I'm a public relations officer at Miami Army Air Field and like it fine. It's the busiest domestic base of the Air Transport Command and we have plenty to write about--- both nationally and locally. Some time ago I sent a clipping to Clyde McBride, quoting Hal Surface regarding basketball in China, its future, etc. You undoubtedly saw mention of it in Mac's coluun. Again this season I'll have a busy officiating schedule down here and altho basketball in the South can't compare to what I've been used to in the Big Six and Valley, I'm looking forward to it. \ The death of T.P. Hunter was a shock to me. I've seen T.P. play many a game for you from my seat in the press box and always thought highly of him. This war has taken many of our favorites. I'm looking forward to the day when we can come home in "oin-striped suits"....home to God's country. Give my best to all and good luck in the coming basketball season. With all good wishes, Lt. Jim Reed P.S.--Give my best to Ernie Quigley. November 24, 1944. Mr. James A. MoFarland, 110 - 35 = 72 Road, Porést Hills, A Long Island, N.Y. Dear li. MoParland ; It was very generous of you to write as you did in your letter which I received today. I assure you that Mr. Irish has not heard the last of this, and some time along about Christmas one of the large influential publications will come out with an editorial . that may shake Mr. Irish loose from some of his smugness. I, too, will be happy to hear what your son says to you in con~ fidence, and I will treat it as such. But it is well enough to get the dope on these boys who deny everything and admit nothing. With deep appreciation and with an asgurance that the thing is not settled from this end of the line, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA: AH | Varsity Basketball Coach. December 28, 1944. Mr. Robert Fuoss, Managing Editor, The Saturday Bvening Post, Philadelphia 5, Pa. Dear Mr. Fuoss: Certainly your timely masterpiece has wielded a tremendous influence in the public thinking regarding the athletics situation in Amerioan colleges. ‘g 7 ' Varsity Basketball Coach. EDITORIAL ROOMS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BEN HIBBS FOUNDED BY THE CURTIS EDITOR 4 te PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 5 December ll, 1944 Dear Dr. Allen: Thanks a lot for your note and for the copy of the Copeland letter. The editorial will appear in the December 23rd issue. Sincerely, ilopid Fron Robert Fuoss Managing Editor Dr. Forrest C. Allen RF*em THE ASSOCIATED PRESS General Office 50 Reckefeller Plaza New Yerk 20, Ne Ye Dece 31, 1944 Dear eae: I wish I had saved that letter from Major Griffith about which yeu wrete so I could quete it mere fullye One ostut Zi apparently didn't bring eut before when I was picking out a few quetable phrases from a letter that really sine bpletind fer publication, was that he was speaking more from a (Big Ten! Viewpoint than frem a breader ene when he speke of cenducting athletics on a aenupaid basis. The peint he breught eut there was that the western conference is pretty ‘clean’ as veinnied te, say, the seutheastern and it can aveid being associated with the se-called 'Pre' colleges any time it ace 4 merely by refusing te play with them. I agree with him that mest of the preblems can be handled on that A general basis without reserting te a czar if the celleges want te handle them. That is, the rules er ‘laws! already exist in the separate schoels and conferences and could sa war ioacd by existing machinery if the celleges really want te de it. Appointment of an eneresite hak czar with the powers ef a Landis weuld net only tend te separate ‘is sees from the celleges more than ever but weuld require a huge enforcement agency te prevent cheating by these seheols er athletic danertnente that wanted te cheat. I alse deubt very much if such a cues we im ot the gembling evil, which I frankly think has Vink areteniensieed lately. I believe that the cleser the authorities are + On de Se ues affected, the better chance they have of finding eut eush things and preventing theme I deubt if any colleges weuld give any ene man the unlimited pewer that baseball gave Judge Landis. Fer iastance, hew weuld yeu like te have Kansas barred LFS I a ee ety from suharesVieciats athletics fer lire er perhaps permanently, because a ‘ezar' had what he censidered sufficient proef ef some action that he believed ‘detrimental te athletics.' Landis never actually put a club eut ef business, but he tessed out club owmers. : | Alse, Landis ability te track dewn many cases of rule violations depended upen the fact that players whe felt they weren't getting enough money er that they were getting the dirty end ef seme deal would cemplain te hime in presumably amateur college sport, I deubt if yeu ceuld find many people ready te ‘blew the shdiebios! The NCAA, as I understand ae body, isn't intended te be an entiveninn’ igéiey ae mugch as a bedy for fermulating pelicies en which ue separate celleces will act. The AAU is ‘ better ain ef a bedy ae has real pewer in amateur athletics, and - knew hew seldom £4 cote 'the cubis? en anyone. For instance, Soe abeek the stery shet Glows Cunningham paid an income tax on uri $30,000 ene year while ks still ‘. student? Getting back te basketball and betting-- and incidentally I think Ned Irish has teken an dateutatien beating frem the sperts writers on t hat subject-- I dentt knew ef a. single sage tiers 4+ could be vreved shat the ceolleze beys were playing aleng with the vagiieees. Having seen that NYU team you mention, I don't think it is geed eneugh te cut the peint margin that fine--certainly net geed ae fer the gamblers te risk much sr ite Apparently Femple knew what it was doing last sprinz whem that kid was quietly allewed te tres eut, but that's an example of lecal authorities handling a case te srevynernewett erection. It may os beside the getae, bur ene of eur men whe is en friendly terns with "the meb' tells me the gamblers ieeeiten ia want to put the Pix en cellege basketball and that their faverite betting game is base ball because they knew it is absolutely en the level. “His stery is that 4 = - they feel they have a better chance by getting the best pessible informa- tien and judging the odds from that then te risk a deuble cress trying te put ever a sure thing. 7 He insists that these things which are suppesed te have happened came because the New Yerk crowd fixed up one game to ‘'take' the Philadelphia crewd and the Philadelphians retaliated. But te get back te Griffith's letter, he peinted eut cha’ there wasn’t any treuble abeut basketball until it meved inte the garden, Chicage Stadium and ether large arenas and that it ceuld move out again any time the celleges dusieeds I dentt kmow that I've preved anything here, but I may have shew that I'm agim ezars as leng as there's any pessible way to aveid them. — Cerdially, (signed) Hugh Fullerten Jr. Hugh Fullerton, Jre November 25, 1944. Mr. Leonard Orman, 5819 Malvern Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Orman: I deeply appreciate your writing me as you did on November 21. If at any time you get additional information, I will appreciate your sending it to me, and I will reciprocate. With kindest regards, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, POA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. * COPY 5819 Malvern Ayenue, Philadelphia, Pa. November 21, 1944. Dr. Forrest ©. Allen, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach, University of Kansas, Lawrence, K ans. Dear Dr. Allen: Your letter of November 9th has been received, together with the carbon copies of Mr. Smith's letter of September 6th, your answer of September 22nd and the answer of the Madison Square Garden Corporation dated October 24th. These were certainly very interesting and rest assured they are received by the writer in the same confidence with which you sent them. I have nothing further in the way of evidence in the case but that which we are both familiar with, but I believe I may be able to acquire some concrete facts for you. However, at this time all I want to do is tear down a bit the letter of Ned Irish. He states that the rumor was discredited completely in the Philadelphia newspapers. I am an ardent reader of the sporting pages of every Philadelphia newspaper and I do not remember seeing any statement of any sports writer discrediting this rumor. The only thing that appeared at all after the game was a statement that one of the men had injured his shoulder in the game and would be unable to play for several more weeks and the other chap in question had played with a high fever and wuld be unable to play any more due to being drafted in the Navy. I recall no other statement being published in the Philadelphia papers about the entire matter. I do know however, that immediately following the game (which the writer attended) among many of the so called "sporting fraternity” there was talk about the protection of bets of several thousand dollars made by certain men. Before the hall was cleared of these individuals, the words “pay off" were being used quite commonly. Of course, one cannot indict a person on hearsay evidence such as this and like yourself, I believe the fault is with the system and nothing else. I only wrote you and the sports writers about this entire matter because I did not think it was fair to you (even though I have never met you) to take a blasting from these sports writers claiming that you only caused all this due to the fact that you were looking for. the job of “czar™ of basketball. I didn't even receive the courtesy of a. reply from any of the three writers, although truthfully, I did not expect one. If at any time there is anything I can do to help you in your endeavor along these lines, please do not hesitate, but feel free to call upon me at any time. Anticipating the pleasure of some day making your acquaintance, the writer begs to remain, Yours very truly, (Signed) Leonard Orman Noveriber 9, 1944. Mr. Leonard Orman, 5819 Malvern Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Orman: I thank you very much for your letter of the 6th instant; also the carbon copy of — open letter to Red weenie Ed Pollock and Art Morrow. In confidence I am sending you a carbon copy of a letter I have written li. Ned Irish. It is perfectly plain and to the point. You and I both know the situation. If at any time in the future you can supply me with added information I assure you that I will appreciate its I have some very interesting documents, but do not propose to make them public. I would not want to soandalize the boy. The fault is not with the boy, but with the system. I am also sending you a copy of a letter that Sam Smith, United Press sports writer of as City, wrote me and my reply to him. I am not a policeman nor am I endeavoring to persecute or prosecute anybody. I am wetne to save the finer things that should be preserved in a athletics, with basketball as one of the sports coverage. ‘ Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, ‘FPCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Enc. November 6, 1944 Dear Mr. Allen: Attached is copy of letter_written to Red Smith of the Philadelphia Record Ed Follock of the Evening Bulletin Art Morrow of ‘the Philadelphia Inquirer Thought you might be interested. Leonard Orman 5819 Malvern Avenue Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1944 fn Open Letter to Red Smith, Philadelphia Record Ed Pollock, Evening Bulletin Art Morrow, Philadelphia Inquirer Gentlemen: Quite recently there was a lot of commotion raised among the sport pages of the country and in the collegiate world about the charges brought by Dr. Forrest C. “Phog™ Allen, basketball director of Kansas University, about gamblers reaching colleg- iate basketball players. One Ned Irish quickly denied all charges and said that “Phog" Allen was in a "fog" and didn't know what he was talking about. Frankly, the writer is not writing this with the thoughts of condemning any one individual, or university, or players, or gamblers, or any one else. However, I do claim that Mr. Allen is not altogether wrong. The publicity man of one of our local universities was also very quick to condemn these charges. However, all I want to ask is q this: If gamblers did not reach them before the Muhlenberg game of 1943 on the Philadelphia Convention Hall double header, what happened immediately after that game to Red Blumenthal and Alby Ingerman of Temple University? Temple had a big lead at the half and died completely in the second half. Muhlenberg won by several points. These boys "disappeared" after the game. Various reasons were advanced, The rumors certainly were flying fast and thick about gamblers having reached these two players for a “pay-off" and if these charges were baseless, they should certainly have been immediately denied by the university in all justice to themselves, the coach end the teame Maybe Mr. Allen does know what he is talking about: LO:CP CC «Dr. Allen November 25, 1944. Mr. Robert Fuoss, Managing Editor, The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia 5, Pa. Dear Mr. Fuoss: I am enclosing a letter from Mr. Leonard Orman, | of Philadelphia, which came to my desk yesterday afternoon. © You will recall that I sent you his first letter to me with which he enclosed a copy of his letter written to Red Smith | of the Philadelphia Record, Bd Pollock of the Evening — and Art Morrow of the Inquirer. I thought you might be interested in this Letter | from Mr. Orman dated November 21. i ) I Sincerely y ours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach.