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Scandal in Basketball
Overshadows Grid Games
By HARRY KECK, SPORTS EDITOR

Overshadowing the football results of the weekend
was the blast let forth by Dr. Forrest (Phog) Allen, Kansas
basketball coach, to the effect that the life of the college

 

game is menaced by the actions of gamblers, especially at | ,

the doubleheaders played each winter i in n New York’s Madi-

son Square Garden.
Phog, always a volatile fig-
ure in the sport, calls upon the

. basketball and college authori-

ties to do something about the
situation, and there is plenty
of corrobo-
rating testi-
mony to his
charges. He
makes the
flat state-
ment that at
least one
player “sold
out” to the
gamblers last
winter and
that many
players and

been ap-

 

ee: proached by
Phog Allen the men who
wager large

sums on the games. The play-
er in question, Phog says, has
been dismissed by his college.

Dr. H. C. Carlson, coach of
the Pitt team, which has played
in the New York college games
and tournaments, is one of
those who confirms the charges.
He ‘told me that he saw Ned
Irish, promoter of the Garden,
order a gambler ejected from
the premises and said Ned is
doing what he can on his own
accord to eliminate the evil.

Ev Shelton, coach of Wyom-
ing University, says he has been
cautioned by Irish to guard his
players from contact with the
gamblers, and Coach Vadal
Peterson, of Utah, says he was
approached by a gambler be-
fore his team’s game with Dart-
mouth at the Garden last
winter. ~-

Allen has been in frequent
conflict with his brother coaches
in the East and. has been a
consistent dissenter from some
of the rules changes, but in his
present crusade he appears to
have the backing of the mem-
_ bers of his profession.

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Gambling on. basketball
games has been a_ growing
racket in recent years, extend-
ing even to the high school
games. There is considerable

RS aneIne. on the scores

‘the. games and the bettors
cheeate n the open at the local
and sectional tournaments.

The solution obviously is to
have the police pick up the
gamblers on sight and also for

_ the colleges and schools to issue

warnings that any monkey

_ business by players will be

penalized not only by prompt
disbarment from the squad but
also by dismissal from classes.
Many states have laws making

h “fixing” of any athletic contest

a criminal, offense, and it would
not take many arrests to dis-
courage manipulations.
Baseball cleaned its house,
boxing ¢@mmissions have done
a pretty good job of weeding

 

out their undesirable elements, .

and now basketball plainly has
a job to do.
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