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