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

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CC Dr. ALLEN