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A scanning of the national
scene prompts the following “top
ten” ratings for the current poll:

1—Ohio State.

Tied for second, third and fourth
—Randolph Field, Notre Dame and
Army.

5—Georgia Tech.

6—Penn.

7—Tulsa. ‘

Tied for eighth, ninth and tenth
—Iowa Seahawks, Great Lakes
Sailors and Wake Forest.

* * * *
ERE’S a slap on the back for
| Coach Phog Allen, Kansas
| Us distinguished coach of basket-
_ ball, His bombshell charge that
college basketball double-
headers at Madison Square Gar-
den of the past few annums have

been played in pombshell
an atmosphere

that stinks of Yossed By
inordinate K.U. Coach
gambling points finger at.a fester-~
ing sore in collegiate athletics that
demands speedy attention by col-
lege executives. Attention such as
clearly would justify slapping ‘a
ban on collegiate participation in
the Garden enterprise.

Coach Allen tosses no rocks at

Ned Irish, the Garden promoter—

gives him credit for having clean
hands and honest intentions—but
cites the danger that confronts
any sport when professional gam-
blers take over so boldly as to
wager thousands of ‘dollars on
point-margins in game-results.

The danger, of course, is that
players may be corrupted; induced
to enter into a “bought-and-paid”
atrangement such as precipitated
the Black Sox scandal that left its
smear on major league baseball a
quarter century azo.

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proposes that college heads get
together in creating a new of-
ficial—a high commissioner of

Spor t Needs collegiate ath-

letics, grant-
Czar Like ing that of-

Judge Landis ficer authori-
ty comparable to that possessed
by Judge Landis in professional
baseball.

The need for more stringent
control of intercollegiate athletics
has been shockingly apparent for
many years. Although the by-laws
of the National Collegiate Athletic
association forbid corrupting
methods via recruiting and sub-
sidization of athletes, as flagrantly
practiced, for instance, in the
Southeastern conference, N. C.
A. A. heads have been content to
twirl thumbs, thereby making a
jest and mockery of specific regu-
lations which, if enforced, would
compel the Dixie offenders to
either clean their house or suffer
expulsion from the national body.

Coach Allen has pointed finger
at the disease and prescribed the
cure—a Judge Landis in intercol-
legiate athletics to crack knuckles
and knock heads,