ULYSSES FLOYD» RIBLE, A. 1: A- GEORGE B.ALLISON,A.I.A ALLISON 4ND RIBLE ARCHITECTS SIX FIFTY SOUTH GRAND AVENUE LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA [os og BASKETBALL GAMBLING RIFE, AVERS ALLEN .. LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 21. (®)—Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Kansas University basketball coach and critic, sees gamblers as the ‘termites who are about to fell the castle of intercollegiate athletics, but denied today that he had said games were thrown in Madison Square Garden. — g — = « “T said there had been two) known cases of college boys throw- ing basketball games in Eastern} tournaments,” Phog_ explained when asked if he had received a telegram from Ned Irish, presi- dent of the Garden, asking for| names of the offending players. - “Pm not striking at Ned Trish ‘or any other promoter,” the lo-)- . quacious ee maintained. “The| “point I’m making is that these/ eae N big time betting boys are going to) 2 Citi zene eLws get to basketball and football 1 : sitieniincatiahis.e! players and ruin so-called ama- teur collegiate sports. “Nothing Irish or any coach or ; promoter can do will stop the gamblers, Only the college presi-|. oe dents can stop it by appointing an ee Zp Rice as baseball has): Judge Landis.’ Allen said that he held Trish in Hollywood, Saturday, Oct. 21, 194 high esteem and that basketball aaa REE aba NENT tournaments held in the Garden fae . Were run on the up and up. ~ “But gambling is rampant in the Garden and every other audito- rium where tourneys are oe Allen added. par aero k eee Mace pte is a Sh Sk tn Si ena THE POST PHONE—MAIN 21 _ JOSEPH (44 NSIGNED letters belong in the waste basket. That’s where they go, ordinarily. There’s an exception to every rule, however. Despite its lack of signature, this letter, mailed at a railroad postoffice, deserves an answer. The writer identifies himself as “A DENVER POST reader” ' over the last ten years, and goes into Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) -Allen’s charges relative to the alleged “throwing” of college basketball games in Madison Square Garden. He writes: _ ( AR you remember, after Ned Irish’s tournament in New York last spring, Bob Considine came out with charges about the same as “Phog” Allen’s, but not so broad. His complete charge was carried in THE DENVER POST and he claimed that gambling was very bad: in these _ basketball tournaments.: In fact, his words were similar to these: “Gambling is rife and is all over the country, New York, Los Angeles and in Denver, another eage crazy town.” He was speaking of basketball. , “As you have always insisted that sports be carried on the level in. 1 Denver, I waited patiently for your answer to Considine’s charges, but | to date you have never mentioned anything. Surely if the above charges | are not true. it is your duty. to defend PORN EE: If they are true I would . keep. mum... It is true there is “betting” on basketball games in Denver... But betting here is of the “I’ll bet you a buck” variety. What Bob Considine was talking about, and what “Phog” Allen is talking about are two ‘widely different things. Nobody—and I think this includes “Phog” Allen —objects to wagers being made on ball games, even when these wagers | ‘are made by what we in Denver laughingly call “gamblers.” What Allen is talking about is gambling syndicates, who have thou- sands upon thousands of dollars riding on the points of a game—like the fellow who rushed out on the floor in Madison Square Garden, kissing a | Utah player whose basket, he said, made him $15,000. A The plain fact is you can take all the so-called gamblers in * Déenver—every last one of them—and I doubt if they own that much * between them in cash, personal property and real property. Between them they couldn’t raise enough ready cash to pay off anybody to - throw a ball game. Nothing would give me more pleasure than: * to name names—to list our so-called “gamblers” who make a habit of betting on basketball games. The majority of them think they have a big day when they wager and win five bucks. To the very best of my knowledge, and I think I would know some- thing about it if it ever happened, no so-called “gambler” in our town ever approached either a member of or a team appearing in the National A. A. Uy tournament. The principal reason is that any such approach * would, in the first place, require something more in the way of cash than the price of a beer—and that’s about ‘the extent of the wealth of “ the local gambling mob. : : Occasionally one appears sai claims he has ventured as much as $500 on a& sporting event. The word spreads all over town like wildfire. When you check up you find ~ bet was Bea net five hundred. * ERRY HECKERT, ie in the see Kan., State Joutnalone .of “Phog” Allen’s neighbors—sums the situation up quite well this way: “Allen, being from Kansas, would be the first to pop his eyes when a New Yorke: flashed a roll during a tournament in the east. Why? ‘Well the Sunficwer State never has gone in for gambling in public. “Betting is more or less considered completely legal in the Gotham state. They lay the Morgenthau paper on the horses all of the time. They put it on the boxers. It’s common as getting up and dressing every morning—gambling in the east. “But out here in Kansas the guys who have an extra buck they’d like to wager have to (cr should have to, according to law) sneak thru. backrooms to lay it on the line. There’s plenty of parlay cards in the state and plenty of dough going on them each week. “Of course, we realize this isn’t the type of gambling that Allen is campaigning to crush. But he may be a bit confused because he saw it | being done ror in New York and renee = ‘whole aah.” * ees I DO NOT think Allen is confused at all. ge as fae. as I can read hie writings, has no beef about the type of gamblin} that goes on in- Kansas or anywhere else, where betting: is a friendly ¥ wager. The m~ is | such betting lends interest and zest to all sports. ~ What Allen is talking about, I think, is described in the sunowitke article by Leonard Cohen, sports columnist for the New York Post, The | New Yorker writes with authority, for he is.on the scene: “Sooner or later the charge that gamblers had tried to fix the haaket- ball games at the Garden had to come out in the open: The surprising angle of Dr. Forrest C, (Phog) Allen’s statement that the heavy betting gentry last season had fixed at least one player, (whose name Allen was reported to have sent to Ned Irish, Garden promoter) was that Allen should have started the fuss months after the incident was supposed to have occurred, and two months before the coming season got under way. “We don’t intend to get into any. controversy with Dr. Allen, who may know something of a really sinister nature. We do know, however, that the bettors and gamblers have probably been more active at the college basketball games at the Garden than they have been at the professional sports of boxing and hockey. “College basketball at the Gerdan could ill afford any scandal to be attached to it, Irish is smart enough to realize that if the general run of court fans smell a rat in the form of a fixing scandal, his attend- ance at the Garden will drop as fast as it rose. Allen’s idea of awakening the college presidents to stop the gambling by appointing a ezar, similar to baseball's Landis, sounds like a bad dream to us. “How to keep out about a thousand or more of the gamblers who crowd inte the Garden for every game seems to be a problem which even Irish will have trouble solving. However, what he can do, if they gain admittance to the Garden, is to stop them from congre- gating in the lobby where for several seasons they have been openly quoting odds and making bets. trish has built up a tremendous business out of collegiate basketball, one which you can be sure he will do anything in his power to keep flourishing and untainted by any breath of scandal. - “Another danger confronting Irish, aside from the possible loss of interest by the spectators who have filled his coffers, is that the colleges themselves will refuse to. play at the Garden. The teams have been getting nice cuts. of the gate, it is true, but graduate managers will quickly be told: by their university councils not to schedule games for the Garden if the educators auP Est: their Mi Gergraduates are being ex- posed to corruption. 2 “We think the headache is ‘tiaws. ‘He's. known about the gamblers; he’s seen them, even as you and JI, standing around the lobby, smoking their big cigars, talking quietly but none the less obviously in terms of points, etc. We don’t know how: seriously. he’s tried to stop them in the past, but his highly successful basketball monopoly is now.in jeopardy. and we look: for him to put the pressure on the betting fraternity this winter as never before. It was.thé success of his basketball venture that led to his becoming acting president of the Garden in the wartime | absence of Brigadier General Kilpatrick. Irish likes the prestige and | the financial stipend that go with the title too much to have his dream- empire-come-true totter mea disappear Tener putting up a terrific fight in self-defense.” Bee ne , lated via the wire. “You can cite : ae Jayhawker Cornhuskers — > sly arrangemen eed oe whereby the Us Down Kansas U. man-| agement was holding over a num- -against the Cornhuskers; that he dence provided by the official _ JHE LINCOLN STAR— THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1944 ENTION was made in this column last. week, same in advance of the Nebraska-Kansas game at Lawrence, that a possible “shenannigans” was in store for ee the youthful ber of V-12 naval trainees who, having completed their courses, nevertheless were to be in K.U, suits, « And, at that time, this column] — also mentioned that the scheme brewing in the Kansas camp| seemingly duplicated an Iowa State deal of a year ago, when a trainee at the Ames institution, his special course concluded, was kept on ice for subsequent use scored two of the three Cyclone touchdowns and a few hours later | was on board a train bound for the new navy station to which he had been assigned, ; The printed reference here to} the trainee status at K. U. appar-| _ ently’ stirred the ire of a Jay-| hawker grad, one who used the phone yesterday to put us on the pan, ; ; EB Be “Wor suggestion that Kansas @ was set to take an undue ad-| vantage of Nebraska was all wet,” the Jayhawk follower expostu- no evidence to _. substantiate Proof At the charge. Hand to Back | (t’s all very clear that you Our Charge dished up an alibi in advance of what you feared was coming—a | Nebraska defeat, ° ie We might have said “ouch” to that one but for the fact that we had the evidence necessary to; make the. charge stand up. Evi- ublicity agent, one Fred Ellsr, ort for the Kansas U. depart- ment of athletics. s -We quote from a news story forwarded to this column by Mr. Ellsworth, in which he sets forth} the reason why the K. U, coaching | staff is new developing—replace-| ts for departed K. U. players: | - ARREN REIGLE, Don - Reigle and _ With Nebraska, of course, in- _ lease and stand ready, on request, | Basketball Coach Phog Allen of Kansas on the one hand and New| Lp Sp eee Barrington, Charles Daig- ~neault, O, J. Endicott and John Schimenz are gone, These five lads completed their naval train- ing work on Mt. Oread and have been transferred to other points Barrington for further train- Oe ing.” Move On Familiar names, two of the above—Bar- rington and Reigle, : Extra familiar, in fact, inasmuch as Reigle was the K.U. end who scored two of the Jayhawkers’ three touchdowns against the Cornhusker “Kids,” : Who is Barrington? No mystery bere, He’s the husky, 200-pound fullback who did most of the heavy work for the Jayhawkers ‘in K,U’s games to date, the one Im case the outraged Kansas alumnus questions the accuracy of our “quotes,” we still have the copy of the Ellsworth press re- to present it as convincing evi- dence that our hunch was 100 per cent verified by subsequent results, NOTHING much has come—nor - apparently can come— from the recent sulphurous re- marks bandied back and forth by York sports writ- ers on the other, Phog Allen Pe ree Plan Has - on @ =. en. charge that the Our Okay gambling racketeers of Gotham had been tampering with college players, plus the alleged insinua- tion by the loquacious K. U. coach that the writers in question were not in.sympathy with the Allen demand that the gamblers be Is ever so right in demanding that ousted from the basketball temple, eaning Madison Square Garden, _ Whether Coach Allen was right r wrong in his allegation that he gamblers of Gotham had ealt with college players, he e college executives of the na- “shenannigans” | 1 Judge Landis—of athletics, grant- ing him blanket authority to give sports of all sorts the “rough and dry.” é _ One needs have only a passing acquaintance with college ath- letics the country over to know | that corruption of athletes is ram- pant at certain institutions and in certain conferences; also that the house-cleaning which the National Collegiate Athletic association Strangely fears to do could be ac- ‘complished easily and effectually gon proceed to install a czar—a : with a “czar of sports” in com- mand. — Marniny World-Herald Sports Section OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1944. Oldstuf t--- Danger! Re of this paper didn’t get to see a torrid piece on Phog. Allen, written by Lawton ‘Carver: and sent ‘out over the INS printers Wednesday. They didn’t get to see it, be- cause a “kill” was sent out a couple of hours after the story - was filed. a And someone in the INS or- ganization made a wise decision in stopping publication. The story certainly was unfair, to Kansas’ “veteran basket ball coach. It was perfectly all right to call him a “loud-mouth,” a “pub- licity-seeker” and a “popoff” be- cause Phog probably is all of those things. But it was going too. far to call him “a bumpkin of no particular standing and of ques- ‘tionable ability as a basket ball coach.” .t Regardless of what you think of Allen personally, you C¢an’t deny his ability as a coach. Few in the nation outrank him at the business of showing boys how to make more points than-their op- _ ponents. — ; ‘ * * * a latest Allen explosion, in- volving charges of gambling on games in the Madison Square Garden tournament, isn’t such a . wild outburst, actually, as some of Phog’s previous ravings. _ It’s a ticklish question, this gambling on college sports. It’s one most fellows have dodged when talking for publication. Other coaches have ‘expressed. grave concern over the trend, but have lacked the courage to. bring: _it out into the open as the Kansan has done. We wouldn’t say Allen was justified in charging some college ys had taken money from gam- blers to hold down the score, but we do think he’s right in saying the gambling element constitutes a distinct threat to the future of amateur sport. * * ES Bee on college football as well as basket ball games has grown tremendously in the past few years. It’s a definite evil. The great number of so-called sports fans who have become habitual gamblers no longer be- long in the “fan” class. They aren’t unselfishly cheering for a team because they enjoy having it win. They want the club to win or lose by a certain margin, in order to whip the parlay oper- ators. The element of sport is gone. Friendly’ wagers between a couple of office workers never will harm college sport. But it has advanced far beyond that. stage now. It’s big business—a cold, hard, money-making proposition. Since thousands and thousands of dollars change hands on the outcome of almost every major ‘football and basket ball game, it’s only natural that big gamblers sooner or later will attempt to buy off some of the competitors. So Phog Allen is right on one point. College leaders should recognize the danger, and do something to correct it before it’s too late. oh Sports Editor. . Floyd Olds, | | Dat Oeste be RO ONE re er ee eee me ek et a a ae Go ede ae aE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1944 DENVER AND he Second Guess eeee ad GP. son Square Garden, and an assorted collection of New York sport writers went into the screaming meanies, “demanding” that Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen supply names in connection with his charges that boys, playing on college basket- ball teams, appearing in.Madison Square Garden, had been first ap- proached and, in some instances at least, had “sold out” to New York gamblers, “throwing” games played in that temple of sports. When Allen accommodated everybody, Mr. Irish and the sports writers took a new course. Irish said he would “prefer” to “forget the whole thing” and the sport writers, who stood accused of having ‘put the soft pedal on the scandal, attempted to laugh it off—to write “funny pieces for the: paper.” They succeeded only in being very unfunny. That great and august body, the N. C. A. A., composed of the repre- sentatives of our puleeen cms colleges and universities, has just stood silently by. _I think I understand why Mr. Irish would “prefer to forget” ‘‘Phog” Allen, and I know very well why certain New York sport writers changed course from bristling indignation to the oldest dodge in all the world, when you find yourself in the middle—the old “laugh off.” But for the life of me I can’t figure how the N. C. A. A. and its offspring, the National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada, can afford to take it sitting down. 7 Let’ us, just for the sake of argument, “forget” “Phog” Allen as Mr. Irish wishes. And laugh at “Phog” Allen if you will—but I won’t join you. But how the N. C. A. A, and its baby, the national committee, which includes in its directorate such gentlemen as our own Forrest (Frosty) Cox of Colorado university, director of the committee’s seventh district; H. Jamison Swartz, University of Pennsylvania; Norman Shepard, David- son college; H. G. Olsen, Ohio State; George Edwards, Missouri U.; C. S. Demundson, University of Washington, and Dale Lash, Williston acad- enmy, can shut its eyes to this one is beyond understanding. * * * HIS is a letter Sergt. Lou Greenberg, U. S. A., manager, before he entered the service, of the Syracuse Reds, a professional basketball team in Syracuse, N. Y., wrote to Bill Reddy, sports editor of the Syra- cuse Standard, following publication of a statement by Greenberg in which he said, “ ‘Phog’ Allen is right.” ‘Greenberg, in his original statement, carried by the Associated Press out of Cleveland, O., where the ex-Syracuse manager is now stationed, said “college boys had told him how, in return for payoffs by gamblers,” they had “gigged games, as to points,” at the Garden. Greenberg writes Reddy, sports editor of his home town paper: “I should like to make one thing clear and that is IF I COULDN’T PROVE MY STATEMENTS I WOULD NEVER HAVE MADE THEM FOR NATIONWIDE DISSEMINATION. “A lot of people have been trying to laugh off ‘Phog’ Allen’s assertion for quite scme time, BUT I HAPPEN TO BE ONE WHO KNOWS WHEREOF HE SPEAKS. ‘ COUPLE of weeks back Mr. Ned Irish, head man at Madi- ‘“My associations in basketball brought me in contact with basketball players from every part of the country and I HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THESE GAMES BEING ‘FIXED’ FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. “MIND YOU, IT ISN’T THE COLLEGES OR THE COACHES OR, THE PROMOTERS WHO FIX THESE GAMES. IT IS THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES ... “I believe it is high time ane college basketball as played in the Garden be investigated. “I CAN NAME THE PLAYERS WHO GAVE ME THIS INFORMA- TION. AND THE TEAM THEY PLAYED ON.” Greenberg concluded his letter by saying: “If you are ever interested, contact me.” _ Well, sir, what is Mr. Asa Bushnell, the high commissioner of the N.C. A. A., and all the directors of the N. C. A. A.’s basketball committee waiting for? ; oF oe * ° F EVER there was a direct offer, that’s it. There are no “ifs,” “ands” or “buts” to that one. “I know,” writes Greenberg. “I know,” he writes, “out of my experience in basketball.” “I can,” he adds, “name players and their teams.” “I'll do so,” he says, “if you want me to.” Language just couldn’t be stronger, or more to the point, than that. It is a challenge—a challenge to the colleges and universities of the land who, year in and year out, lend the boys sent to their keeping to a private promotion which, no matter how well run within itself, is, according to these charges, the last place in all the land for a college kid to be playing. “Tt is not,’ writes Greenberg, “the-promoters, the colleges or the coaches who fix games.” That is exactly what “Phog” Allen charged in the first place. Nobody, in all this storm of charge and counter-charge, ever so much as hinted that Madison Square Garden was anything but on the dead level. In fact, Ev Shelton, Wyoming coach, came up with the story of how Irish himself came to him, and to Elton Davis, Wyoming’s athletic director, and warned them against the New York gambling element. Shelton said guards were placed around the kids’ rooms. For some un-understandable reason Irish undertook to deny any such warnings, only to be met with a statement by Vadal Peterson, coach of Utah U., the present N. C. A. A. champions, who told of a gambler coming to the Indians’ rooms, and there asking how much it would take to “throw” that night’s title contest. Peterson sent the man spinning. a Apparently all New York gamblers, however, have not met the fate of the man who approached Peterson. Not if Greenberg knows what he is talking about—and he begins his letter to his home town sports editor |™ ' by saying he does know—and would not be talking if he couldn’t back up his knowledge with proof. “TI,” writes Greenkerg, ‘will furnish that proof if you ask for it.” It appears the next move ” up to the N. C. A. A. and its basketball eommittee. Silence—further silence—is only hurting one of America’s greatest sports. * ¥ * ENVER cage fans were given assurance, Monday night, of one of the greatest—perhaps the greatest—baskethball season in the region’s history. The Victory league met, approved its schedule, which will get under way at Mammoth Garden on Dec. 11, continuing thru until almost National tournament time. A call was sent out for officials in this area, Victory League Com- missioner Arlie Beery asking any competent basketball officials, now located in this area, to contact him. An increased fee was voted for officiating this year. Beery can be contacted at his home, 1836 South #fankiin street. * * * MEMBERS of the D. U. Quarterback club, in meeting Monday, joined with the D. U.-exploitation committee, composed of Bob Selig, Roger Rambeaux and Don Cowell, in giving Head Coach and Athletic Director “Cac” Hubbard a “vcte of confidence in all matters athletic.” The joint bodies addressed a letter to D. U.’s board of trustees asking that body to join them. _ The gesture was in support.of Hubbard’s recent slap at the Big Seven conference—and you can look for things to happen, and soon. Kansas Coach Claims Gamblers Employ College Boy Representative on Outstanding Clubs; He And N. Y. Writer Exchange Verbal Punches, AWRENCE, Kan., Oct, 25.—(I. N. S.)—Dr. Forrest C. (Pheg) Allen, basketball director at Kansas university, Wednesday renewed his demands for an over-all czar to supervise collegiate athletics... At the same time, he denied that he had at any time charged any college coach with maintaining TH gambling connections. Allen, who in a letter to Jack Car- berry, DENVER POST sports edi- tor precipitated a national contro- versy over charges that professional | gamblers had. approached college athletes playing basketball in New York’s Madison Square Garden, is- sued the following statement: “T have never charged any college coach with gambling connections in the betting racket, Such action. on the part of some might be taken as an effort to becloud the main issue which is the appointment of a na- tional czar to control gambling rackets and other allied ills of col- lege athletics. “For instance, I know of two nationally prominent football teams each of which had a play- er who was asked by professional gamblers to furnish weekly in- formation regarding physical condition of the players, esprit de corps of the team and other vital factors. In return for this information these players were ' to be paid substantially by the ‘gamblers. This clandestine rela- tionship was discovered and ‘broken up by the respective coaches. ~ ~ “Tt is not my intention to play the roll. of prosecutor. which boys competing in college wthletics are being subjected to great temptation under the present setup. This is the sole reason for my plea to hire a man like Judge Landis who will give to intercol- legiate athletics the same _ high) standing that is now enjoyed by professional baseball.” _Striking out at individual criti- cism, Allen declared in a telegram to Lawton Carver, International News Service sports editor, that he kad not backed down on his charges of gambling interference in collegi- ate athletics and said Carver and other “eastern writers” have “mini-, mized the gambling hazard.” In reply to Harold G. Olson, FUR FLIES IN ALLEN’S WAR ON NEW YORK TIN HORN MOB However, the! above cases are just two of many in| Ohio State coach and chairman , of the National Collegiate Ath- — ietic association tournament committee, Allen asserted that ‘gamblers stay away from the coaches and seek connections with the weakest boy.” “Proselyting and recruiting of players lead to big town athletics all out of proportion to their place in college life,” Allen said, ~ ~_ Allen and New York Writer Trade Telegrams and Brickbats 4 R. FORREST C. (PHOG) ALLEN, according to news | dispatches ‘from New York, addressed the following | | telegram to Lawton Carver, International News Service | | sports editor, who, in an article Monday, stated “Allen backed | 'down” on his original charges: | “Your statement that I have backed down is untrue, I stated that certain eastern writers have minimized the gambling hazard, and your story prompts me to be- lieve you are one of them.” In his Monday story Carver wrote: “Allen should prove his charges or get out of the game which has given him so much.” Allen’s telegram continued: “As far as my getting out of + the game I am in is concerned, I suggest you apply the same yardstick to yourself in your pro- fession. What could you know of how much basketball has given me.” Carver sat down Wednesday 'morning and wrote a bristling arti- \ele distributed to all newspapers taking his service. He began by saying: “Let us take the well-known loud-mouth apart,” referring to | This was a matter Allen. He referred to Allen as a | bumpkin of no particular standing and of questionable ability as a basketball coach.” The article got “rougher” from there on—much rougher. i Hours later his news service tele- griphed a “kill” on Carver’s story— directing editors, who had received it, not to print it as a part of the gpIniernational News Service’s daily | Baportincss. ta yet § Amr mets ante my quested court ivestization of “Basketball scandal, making-par- . “tieular point that. coll are being x A ,and faculty “same being inj (stop) Your letter received in@icates yeu hesitate demand transfer -of national collegiate tournament from New York, this iad arrangements made for Garden rental (stop) I am her asking you: Would, the late’ Jud: Landis have hesitated to demagd tournament transfer: in similar circumstances? , ce “Oo. &, SHERMAN, *Snerts Editor, Lincola Star.” age hari, x * ‘ 7 — 7 # Fe DP Evie y \ Silence Only Thing Heard From Police On Gambling BY HENRY HORNSBY Leader Sports Editor The morning mail brought another letter from the guy tell him where the gambling joints are located. Today, Laughing Boy started his letter with that same “Ha, ha, ha” who calls himself “Laughing which he used Tuesday. Boy,” a fellow apparently in- terested in the gambling and book-making racket here in Lexington. Tuesday, Laughing Boy had the audacity to laugh at Police Chief Austin B. Price, our law- enforcement leader, who said he couldn’t do anything about gambling because nobody would swear out warrants or “Ha, ha, ha,” says Laughing Boy. “Now that you and Phog Allen of Kansas have told Chief Price the location of the biggest yambling joint in Lexington, the biggest para- site on college sports in the coun- try, and have told him what the telephone ‘number WAS, has he done anything about it? Ha, ha, ha!’ Has He Investigated? After catching his breath, Laugh- ing Boy continued, “Now that you also have cited the Revised Ken- tucky Statute stating that raids, seizures and arrests can be made in connection with gambling—with or without a warrant—has our police chief done anything about it? Has hé made it his business to visit the Mayfair bar at 224 East Main street, go through the bar and up the stairs, turn right and go through the door into the big room on the second floor and prove to himself that you and Phog Allen are telling bear tales? ‘Ha, ha, ha,’ Laughing Boy chuckled. And then this mirthful one ended his letter with this question: . “Have the police done anything since City Manager Will White sev- eral days, ago ordered the chief to order his men to clean out the gambling joints in Lexington?” | Well, Laughing Boy, I have only this to report. The police have re- ported nothing. The arrest book at the city hall carries only one cita- tion for a gambling offense since the managerial order was issued, and.this pertains to a routine slot- machine case. You may rest assured, Laughing Boy, that when and if the police do ‘anything, and when and if they care to report what they do, you and other readers will be duly in- formed. The morning mail also brought a letter from “Dee Em Jay.” ’ “Congratulations,” says Dee Em, '“on your most interesting story in 'tonight’s (Tuesday’s) Leader! Iam sure it must sve given hundreds _of people real satisfaction. When I read in Tuesday’s morning paper about Chief Price’s desire to squash any gambling joint if only someone would ‘tell him where to find one and would be good enough to Swear out a- warrant a waists “=a had to laugh, too.” Allen Still ‘Crusading’ Out in Kansas, Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, who was first to point to Lexington as the No. 1 college and high school gambling center of the nation, today con- tinued his crusade against the gam- blers. “These betting mobs are vicious,” said the Kansas U. basketball coach. “They..don’t want to gamble; they want a sure thing., And they have been getting it by buying off col- lege boys who have never seen big money. We’d better treat those rats (gamblers) rough’ or they’ll ruin in- tercollegiate athletics,” Dr. Allen continued. “Many of those who are deploring this expose of bribery (the Brook- lyn college incident) should be glad it happened. ~ It will bring this thing out in the open where it be- longs and where I tried to put it lasttallacs. It was Dr. Allen who predicted a national basketball betting scan- dal four months before one was un- covered at Brooklyn college. ir “re Feb. 20, 1945 és q Chief Price Does Nothing — About Gaming Accusations | BY HENRY HORNSBY. Leader Sports Editor I notice in the mor .n* paper that Police Chief Austin| || SPORTS ROUNDUP B. Price has been unable to} || BY HUGH FULLERTON JR. - find out anything about what) yew YORK, Feb. 20 (®)—At Phog Allen of Kansas de-} least two college basketball scribes as the nation’s biggest| teams that played in the Boston Garden this winter hinted that college and high school gam- . they’d like to return for a March bling center located here in| tournament, but no dates were Lexington. available, what with two school- boy tourneys. coming up... Dr, Allen, basketball coach Chances are they’ll be starting at the University of Kansas,| one in another year or so—and stated in a telephone conver-| Maybe it’s just as well that no : . plans were made ror 1945, since sation that the gambling cen-| there seems to be a eharinge “at ter was located over the May-| tournament-qualified teams... fair bar, 224 East Main street, a pte oe na yet and that the telephone nuM-| cage tourney, setup... .The: Utes. | ber was 3730. expéct td qualify for the National | Apparently someone Sige saw| play-offs again and feel they owe Chief Price’s amusing report on his oening hee ech hides hi difficulties, because the late morn- Jean’ BUt they. fect theyeiso may ing mail brought a letter from one? get a bid to the New York in- who signs himself “Laughing Boy.”| vitation event, which is more Laughing Boy says: “I see that| lucrative. Chief Price is having a lot of dif- Today’s ean es S tar—Eddie ficulty. -No one will co-operate} Brietz, New York World-Tele- with him, poor fellow. He says: ‘But) gram: “Track fans hope baseball if some of the people who know so| will delay drafting G-Man much about these gambling joints}! Hoover for czar until he can will swear out warrants, I assure] find what has happened to Gun-, them that the:places will be raided.’ der Haegg.” | Since when,” Laughing Boy asks, ay as “does a policeman have to have a Quote, Unquote — Lt. Frank warrant to enter a gambling joint?”| Leahy: “It’s a strain in the serv- And Laughing Boy followed his! ice, but nothing to compare with s question with “Ha, ha, ha.” the constant fall tension . of The writer continued: “The Re-| coaching Notre Dame.” vised Kentucky Statutes (436.280) a aie ae states that any bank, table, con- Service Dept. — Ex - Cardinal trivance, machine or article used!) Terry Moore is leading hitter in © for carrying on a game prohibited’ two leagues in Panama. He has an by KRS 436.230 (dealing with) even .400 in an Army league and gambling) .... may be seized by any! .429 in the Canal Zone circuit... justice, of the peace, sheriff, con-| Some of the guys attending the stable or police officer of a city | school. for rcconditioning instruc- WITH OR WITHOUT A WAR- “tors at Fort Lewis, Wash., in-— RANT.” | elude baseballers Lloyd Dietz And this paragraph also was fol-| oe | George Lacy lowed by a ‘‘Ha, ha, ha. Laughing’ Boy went on to say that if no one else would swear out a warrant there is nothing in the world to prevent the police from signing their names to such papers, | provided, of course, they can waite. | “1 see by the morning paper, too,” Laughing Boy’ continued, “‘that Chief Price says that his officers, ordered two weeks ago to clean out gambling joints in Lexington, have been unable to find anything sub- stantiating Phog Allen’s~ charges. If Chief Price admits he has been unable to find any gambling joints, then a new police chief should be found, because such joints do exist and every man in Lexington—ex- cept, of course, Chief Price and his officers—knows these joints have been operating. Ha, ha, ha.” That Telephone Number Dr. Allen listed the telephone number as 3730. ,That was the number of the betting center in question up through last Friday, be- cause a fellow called the sports editor and asked where Leroy Ed- wards, the former basketball star at the University of Kentucky, went to high school. The sports editor didn’t know, asked for the number and offered to call back as.soon as the information was uncovered. Would the caller leave the num- ber? Sure, 3730! ® Edwards attended Arsenal Tech at Indianapolis. After securing this information we called 3730 at once and furnished the data requested. Today, however, the telephone number 3730 had vanished into thin air. We tried to call it and ended up with a special operator.. She in- formed us in a very delightful voice that this must be the wrong num- ber, that there was no such num- ber listed. She even intimated that no such number ever had existed. But 3730 existed as recently as last Friday, and for months has been used by us to fimd out how many points Kentucky was sup- posed to win over such teams as Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Tennes- see, Temple, and so on. We even used it during the football season to learn the odds on the various Saturday games and particularly on ‘the Bowl games. As a matter of fact, the number still is scrawled on the back of my _ typewriter shield, because it has not been in the: phone book as such and was scribbled down as a safety measure. We got the number originally from the guy who ran the gambling joint, located over the Mayfair bar, located at 224 East Main street. | (Pirates, Phillies, Dodgers), (Red Sox), Bill - Fuchs, Hy Chapple and’ Chuck Munday (from the minors), box- ers Lew Hanbury and Frankie Rubino and Ike Cheroff; 13- award winner at Brooklyn Col- lege ard Columbia...Maybe guys will learn to recondition the cur- rent crop of 4-F athletes . . .Lt. Earl Mitchell, former Indiana U. miler, now is in training with the Marine war dog training company. . .Well, the first thing a runner has to learn is how to take care of his dogs. : : 5 19 3 Feb. L: 45 Phog Allen Says Lexington _ ds Biggest Gam bling Center By HENRY HORNSBY Leader Sports Editor _ Phog Allen—Dr. Forrest ci Allen — outspoken crusader against gambling on college sports; basketball coach at the University of Kansas, the man ‘who gave Adolph Rupp his training in hardwood science, today stated in a long distance telephone call from Lawrence, Kansas, that “Lexington is probably the biggest high school and college gambling center in the United States.” Dr. Allen, long an advocate of “cleaning out” gambling within col- lege sports, made the assertion a few days ago that Lexington was the college gambling center of the nation and repeated his charge in _ the telephone conversation. The Kansas coach said that head- quarters for the wagering customers _ ‘Was a room above the Mayfair bar, lecated at 224 East Main street, and that the telephone number was 3730. Dr Allen said that he did not know whether there was any con- nection between management of the bar and the gambling joint. _ “But I do know that a “gigantic handbook agency is located above the Mayfair,” the coach continued, “and that the establishment, dur- ing the period of racing, handled considerable money on horse races, end that on Saturdays during the football season ,handled as much as $500,000 on college football games. The place has been doing a _ big business in basketball gambling. The joint has telephone lines to a number of major cities,’ Dr. Allen went-on, “and, with a monthly tele- phor2 bill, of around $2,500, can put calls through to. these cities in less time than can an Army general.” Predicted Scandals Dr. Allen long has argued that gambling on college sports was choking the very life out of such sports, and months ago predicted that if college authorities didn’t wake up they would be confronted with scandals which would make the White Sox World Series’ affair. of 1919 seem tame by comparison. His contentions were borne out to a marked degree with the recent disclosure of the Brooklyn College “sell-out.” Though primarily a “basketball” man, Dr. Allen says that he is con- cerned with the threat which other sports face—football being endan- gered most of all. “Even track,’ he said, “has now been invaded by the gamblers, especially in the eastern cities and in the midwest.” ; The Kansas coach believes that the only solution is the selection of a “ezar’ who is empowered to wield a heavy club in college ath- letics much in the manner the late Judge K. M. Landis did in base- ball. Dr. Allen said he has no qurrel with tne subsidization of. college athletes if it’s done in the right way. But since there is little super- vision of such tactics and since) there is little that can be done to schools violating agreements, he believes that a commissioner of col- lege sports is the only logical answer. “Subsidization is all right, but doing it surreptiously—as it’s being done—is very dangerous,” he as- serted. Deplores Proselyting One of the most deplorable prac- tices in college athletics, according to Coach Allen, is that of prosely- ting. “Coaches go after a boy, who) already has settled at some school; offer him a large amount of money and take him away.” ; But getting back to the question of gambling, Dr. Allen stated that ‘athletic directors and not “long bearded deans and_ professors’ | should be im full charge of athletic programs at educational centers. “Athletic directors should be in full charge of sports programs,” he said. “They, and not faculty rep- resentatives who know nothing about the business, should deter- mine policies and be answerable for all criticisms.” | qld continued that under. the present set-up in most sections coaches and athletic directors are nothing more than business man- agers. These two groups should be mede fuli professors, Dr. Allen be- lieves, with the powers and priv- ileges and the respect accorded to | professors. A ce - And another thing. Dr. Allen says the threat to college sports will ‘not be removed until gamblers, who invade the sanctity of the “campus, are jailed for offenses. | “Those Brooklyn gamblers are stili_laughing about the affair at the coliege there. They’ve been ‘gambling on college — sports for years, and they’ll keep on until the law puts a stop to it. The Brook- lyn College scandal was a_ small thing by comparison to what goes on. And as long as we have places like the one there in Lexington the threat to our colleges .and to our ‘college boys will continue.” alt - Lexington Herald, Feb. 20, 1945 Wee May Have Inside Dope, But 3730 Not Payoff Number The nation’s “biggest gambling center” may or may not be located in Lexington, but its telephone number isn’t 3730. This was the number given by Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Uni- versity of Kansas basketball coach, for an establishment which he said was located on the second floor at 224 East Main street and which, he said, is a “gigantic handbook agency” handling many thousands of dollars in bets on high-school and college athletic games. Lexington telephone operators said last night that they had no such number listed. Furthermore, |the information operator declared | that she had no record of 3730 ever ‘ being listed. | Chief. of Police Austin B. Price said that city police, directed two | weeks ‘ago to clean out gambling | joints in Lexington, had not veri- | fied Phog Allen’s charges. | rants, we could get action sooner.” “But if some of the people who know so much about these gam- bling joints will swear out war- rants, I assure them that the places. will be raided,” the chief declared. He said police have been ‘unable to enter some places which in past have been suspected of carry-| ing on gambling operations because the officers have been unable to find anyone who would swear out search warrants. - Asked if he planned any action as a result of the Kansas coach’s allegations, Fayette Common- wealth’s Attorney James Park said, | “It is my belief that when the next grand jury convenes, we will get to the bottom of the situation. “Of course,” he added, “If some- body would swear out some war- Ore cl Bice tt Boakethall-Seandal Never Student at Brooklyn College By PAUL CROWELL a| Lawrence E. (Larry) Pearlstein, one of the five Brooklyn College basketball players “expelled” last month for taking bribes to “throw” a game, was never a student at the institution, never attended a single class and never did anything more academic than carry an armful of textbooks about the campus and to and from his home. The exposure of Brooklyn Col- 1 lege’s “student” athlete was made yesterday by Mayor La Guardia in 3\his weekly radio broadcast from ‘City Hall and details were supplied in a report submitted to the Mayor by Investigation Edgar Bromberger. . _ Pearlstein, who is 20 years» old -|and lives at 422-A New York Ave- Commissioner: nue, Brooklyn, was summoned to the office of Assistant District At- torney Charles N. Cohen soon after the Mayor’s broadcast. Mr. Cohen said that the youth had told substantially the same story as that related by him to Commis- sioner Bromberger. According to Mr. Cohen, Pearl- stein said that he got an algebra textbook and one on economics from the college library and car- ried them with him almost con- stantly, but had never used either of them. “I don’t know why they did not become aware that I was not a student,” he said, according to Mr. Continued on Page 32, Column 2 ¢) BOBBY CLARK, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST MAN Athine? Awenwds in ¢hea Aucinel G@moch a+ LIFE INSURANCE LOANS, $1500 up, low in- Basketball Player Not Even Stude Continued From Page 1 Cohen. “I told nobody anything jand I asked no questions.” bea copy of the report was sent by the Mayor to Ordway Tead, president of the Board of Higher Education. A sweeping inquiry by that body was forecast, since the Bromberger report contained the pointed suggestion that Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn College, had ‘informal’ knowledge ,of Pearlstein’s status during the |first week in February but failed |to pass on the information although he was a witness at hearings con- ducted by Commissioner Bromber- ger on Feb. 15 and 16 in connection with the bribery episode. Commissioner Bromberger’s re- port disclosed that Dr. Gideonse weeks ago, in his first report on 'Ithe Brooklyn College basketball '|situation, Commissioner Brom- ‘|berger exonerated the Brooklyn College administration, its faculty “land athletic advisers from any fault in connection with the basket- = |ball situation. The same exonera- tion was broadcast by the Mayor in one of his Sunday radio talks from City Hall. _| It was a different story yester- day, however, as the Mayor told querade. “There is no excuse for this,’ he said. “It indicates a laxity and ins difference and negligence on the 3|part of the college faculty respon- 2 le that borders on the unpardon- 2 e »? Declaring that he had no juris- diction in the matter, the Mayor said that copies of the Bromberger report would be sent to the Board of Higher Education, ‘for appro- priate and essential action.” Copies .|will also go to Dr. Gideonse, Dis- trict Attorney William O’Dwyer of ‘|Kings County, and County Judge .|Samuel §. Leibowitz, who is con- ducting a John Doe inquiry into ‘|the basketball situation in city col- leges. Pearlstein, who is an honorably discharged war veteran, was, ac- cording to the grand jury indict- ‘|told him about Pearlstein’s mas-| querade last Friday. Only: a few. e|the story of Pearlstein’s mas-) Jersey Gambling Raid Is Sequel to Mayor’s Tip By The Associated Press. GARFIELD, N. J., March 11— Twelve persons were taken into custody tonight in a raid on a garage and dress shop at 207 Malcolm Avenue, several hours after Mayor La Guardia in a radio talk listed four telephone numbers for New Jersey places where he charged gambling bets had been placed. Assistant Prosecutor Steven J. Toth Jr., of Bergen County, who led a raiding party of Garfield police, said the twelve persons were released after several hours of questioning, because no evVi- dence was discovered either by the questioning or by a sega of the premises. The telephone company said the numbers were listed for one place in Clifton, two for the Mal- colm Avenue address in Garfield and one in Linden. Bergen Prosecutor Walter G. Winne, who assigned Mr. Toth to investigate the Garfield place, learned of the La Guardia “tips” in calls from newspaper men. “What the hell can we do with this kind of information?” he said. “It’d be a lot better if New York authorities gave us the in- formation so we could work on it. It’s tough getting evidence under these circumstances.” ment of two men, alleged to have bribed the five Brooklyn College basketball players, the first of the group to be approached. Ac- cording to the indictment, he in- troduced the gamblers to his four associates on the squad. Commissioner Bromberger, after being told by Dr. Gideonse of Pearlstein’s status as a non-stu- dent member of the team, ques- tioned the youth last Saturday. On Friday he interrogated Dr. Gid- blared “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and then modulated into the Marine Hymn which customarily follow the Mayor’s weekly talks. Before,he got around to baseball the Mayor paid his respects to the gentry who handle bets on basket- |ball games in Madison Square Garden. They will have a hard time of it Saturday night when the in- vitation contests start, he said. Promises “More Activity” “Something was said the other day about basketball games at Madison Square Garden,” he de- clared. ‘TI noticed that a great deal -|}of activity was observed. Well, if you think there was a lot of ac- jtivity the other day, you wait until next Saturday and you will see some activity.” The activity referred to was the s}police drive Thursday night, when thirteen arrests were made for gambling and disorderly conduct in and near the Garden in connec- tion with a boxing match. | The Mayor had some telephone numbers to give to his radio audi- dence. said, by some gamblers on basket- ball games at the Garden. “Take your pencil,” he ordered. “Here are some of the tinhorn tele- phone numbers in New Jersey where bets were phoned to on the games at Madison Square Garden. Are you listening, New Jersey? Are you listening, Mr. Attorney General of New Jersey? All right, {of the bribery exposure. They were those used, he] eonse, Coach Morris Raskin and Dr. Harry A. Scott, chairman of} the Department of Hygiene and member of the faculty etanan committee on athletics. Pearlstein, according to the re-| port, was. ‘honorably discharged from the armed forces on Dec. 10, | 1943, having played basketball in| the Army and desiring to continue in the game, he tried to enroll at New York University and to ob-!| tain a scholarship there. Failing, in this, he decided to try Brooklyn College. On Jan. 24, 1944, he vis-| ited the War Counseling Service| office at the college and thereafter] took a qualifying examination, the} result of which was that he was not} eligible for the day course but| could take the night course. He did) not care to take night courses and never took any. He merely re- ported to the basketball coach as a candidate for the team. According to the report, Pearl- stein played for three or four minutes in each of four intercol- legiate contests in the spring sea- son of 1944 and in all but one of the intercollegiate games in the fall season, until Jan. 30, the time He was a substitute in all of the games in which he took part. In his report Commissioner Bromberger urged that Brooklyn College send apologies to the In- tercollegiate Athletic Association and all teams against which Pearl stein played. He also urged that there be a “reversal of scores” of all games won by Brooklyn Col- lege “during the time Pearlstein was on the team.” Pearlstein testified, the report said, that he bought some books, whose titles he could not remem- ber, and carried them around the campus, to basketball practice and to and from his home to create the| impression that he was a student.| “The fact remains,” the report) said, “that Pearlstein at no time} ever registered or matriculated as| here you go: Passaic 3-2590, Pas- saic 3-1043, Passaic 2-9333, Linden 2-3763. There must be some tin- horns hanging around these num-} bers, because bets were phoned to’ these numbers. I hope the tele- phone company will rip them out.” nt at Brooklyn College Police Check War Plants As Precaution in Strike The Police Department will be- gin a check of the garment sec- ‘tion today to determine. what concerns are engaged in turning out war orders in view of the threatened strike apainst build- ings in this area by the Building Service Employes International Union, American Federation of Labor. The union served the customary thirty-day notice of strike under the provisions of Smith-Connally Act at a meet- ing last Friday night. The strike vote was taken after negotiations for a new con- tract with thé Midtown Realty Owners Association reached an impasse. The agreement that expired recently called. for a forty-six-hour week, but the workers want this cut to forty hours. Union agreements with building owners in other parts of the city expire on April 20. a student, day or night session, at Brooklyn College.” The Bromberger report placed primary responsibility for Pearl- stein’s presence on the basketball team on the Department of Hy- giene and the Faculty Student they failed to discover the youth’s disqualification. Secondary blame registrar’s office for failure to note that a list of players submit- ted by the coach disclosed no data on registration or matriculation. Dr. Gideonse and other college officials concerned, the report de- ‘clared, said that their early infor- mation on the Pearlstein case was not transmitted because they felt Committee on Athletics, because’ was placed by the report on the] the Feb. 15 and 16 hearings were concerned primarily with gam- bling; because the inquiry into Pearlstein’s status was not com- plete, although there was “infor- mal” knowledge of it the first week in February, and because Dr. Gid- eonse intended to make the facts public himself but wanted to delay the announcement until remedial procedure had.been set up. In a statement issued after the Mayor’s broadcast, Dr. Gideonse accused Pearlstein of abusing the college’s “deliberate policy of gen- erous flexibility” toward war vet- erans desiring to continue their ed- ucation. Lack of.continuity of serv- ice in many of the college depart- ments, coupled with lack of expe- rience with war veteran cases, he declared, contributed to the failure to detect Pearlstein’s disqualifica- tion. The statement hinted that low clerical salaries at the college, resulting in loss of experienced clerks, played a part. in the situa- tion. Commissioner Bromberger will hold additional hearings, at which he will question a student manager of the team and others concerne¢ with the case. eee eo September 22, 1944. Mr. Sam Smith, | United Press Association, - 600 City Bank Building, Kansas City, Moe Dear Sams I have had little time to dictate some of the things that have been in my mind for a long time, and I won't have much time now, but here's one statement that can preceed all the rest. Here it goess No longer are the so-called amateur athletics taken seriously by John Qe Public. The administrators of the National Collegiate Athletic Assoc- iation and the boys that run the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States should invite the highly efficient national professional baseball and football executives into their fold to teach the amateurs how to run their professional athletics. This is all the outgrowth of the failure of the American Association of University and College Presidents to do anything about athletics from a postwar angle except to acknowledge that athletics have gone professional, and now the scramble is to get big mame coaches to man the guns and to fill the stadium to dripping capacity. Sure, it will be a “golden age era" of sports. There won't be enough silver to hire the big boyse It will take golde The public doesn't care what the boys are paid so long as they perform but the educators of the country are in a different position, or should bee They are running educational institutions. And if educational institutions are efficient they should set up some machinery that will protect them from some scandal akin to the Black Sox scandal of 1925. There is more money being bet on football and basketball games in America today thanis bet on all the horse races of the country. Judge Landis will not have a racing man connected with his organized baseball because racing is so crooked and everybody knows ite It is the money angle,-the betting angle, that has made it so. Judge Landis is fighting betting on professional baseball in his vigorous mamner, but the colleges are doing nothing about it, and as sure as you live the thing is going to crack wide open sometime when they lay bare a scandal,awhere some — oup of college boys have thrown a game for a tidy sun(that. att rock the> er It has already happened in New York in Madison Square Garden, Secreted -2= but the newspapers have kept it quiet, or fairly quiets Therefore, I say that the college presidents are now contributing to this delinquency by failing to do anything about the matter of setting up proper machinery to guard against the thing that is sure to happen. Some of these boys that live across the track and desire a college education will play for pay and will be as susceptible to the gamblers’ crooked dealing as were the White Sox before they became Black Sox. Then the college presidents will stand aghast. They never dreamed that such a thing could happen, and then _ of course r may hire a commissioner te protect the good old educational ZAM e “A nation that lacketh vision perisheth. And I say here and now that these college administrators and athletic directors, faculty representatives, . managers and coaches, are bling ~ knowingly blind ~ wanting to be bling, be- cause they are afraid to face the facts and do something about a until an explosion eccurs that will rock the whole college world. You know this is 2 true, don't you, Sam? Nobody wants to stick his neck out. The fellows who are in are living in a fool's paradise, and saying, we are doing a swell job in building manhood, morale, and so forth. They are not following the rules) °° - of their own conference and they know it, but they are doing as well as the _ other fellows in following the rules; therefore, they are satisfied. ‘That is exactly what took place when the Allied Nations allowed Hitler | to invade the Ruhr. Everybody was affraid to move and it kept getting worse and everybody knew what was coming but they kept putting it off. The only commissioner that we have had"that—was-amy—geo0d is dead, and that was Warre G. Atherton of the Pacific Coast. The other commissioners are a bunch of stooges, following the faculty representatives in their administration of hypocritical procedure of laws that they know they are not following. Yes, the competition will be much tougher. The men will be older, they | will be rougher, tougher in every respect. They will be tired of discipline, just like they were after the first World War. I came here ip September, 1919 just after the first World War conflict was over. The men were much more ma- ture and they knew what they wanted, and they did not brook much interference. They were a fine bunch of fellows to deal with. But they had their own ideas and you had to temper yours along with theirs. This second World War bunch of boys will be even finer, if possible, than the first World War group weree The boys will all be G. I. Joes, they will all want the right to a jobe You may think that will relieve the competition among the so-called big-time coaches, but it won't. They will be after those returning stars, and the G. I. Bill of Rights may will give the boys financial assurance, but —_ will still go out for the extra doughe A Judge landis over collegiate sports is the only thing that will same the deceney of collegiate athletics, and when I saya Landis I mean a Landis. He should be some great judge, some man with legal experience, a national figure. If the college administraters were halfway intelligent they would have it in their by-laws that the President of the United States should nominate this man. Now I am not a Roosevelt follower. I said the office of the President of the United States shovld nominate the man. That would give it standing and character. Of c@urse some of the boys might think that I would want Rogsevelt to nominate him, but if Dewey is elected he would suit _me perfectly. You get what I mean, and if the office should ever be vacant the nomination should be from the President of the United Statese College presidents are talking adeat what they are going te do for the G. I, Joes and Janese They have had meetings by the score for the rehabili- - tation of returning veterans, but they have not done one thing, these college and university presidents, in rehabilitating collegiate athletics, the thing that comes closer to the college students * life than most “eae else in his college day se If you need any fuetiner elaboration you cancall mee I am putting the ei responsibility where it belongs, and I am not blaming the faculty repres- entativese They are deans and administrators who have a full-time job, and it is just as asinine to expect these men who handle full-time jobs to run one of the most important functions on spare time as it would be for a board of directors of a big corporation to hire some one of the vice presidents to outline the policy for the whole corporation and not pay him anything for it or make much allowance for his time consumed in doing this important job. While they say athletics are a department of a university, it is the only 3 thing in a university where the entire student body will stand en masse time after time singing their alma mater and paying homage to — university. Can you think of anything else like it? The faculty representatives are college professors most of whem do not understand the business or the mechanics of runnihg a great university athletic plant, and yet are making the laws and administering them, and allowing the athletic director to be only a business agent because he neither makes the laws nor enforces them. This director of athletics should be the dean of athletics, and they should give him full responsibility and hold him account- able to the same degree that they give him authority. He and the other athletic directers should be the deans who make these laws and administer them, Then with the full responsibility on their shoulders there should be ‘no question but what ‘they would protect the good name of intercollegiate athletics. It is still the horse-and-buggy-deys in athletics so far as the college presidents are concerned. It is the day before the invasion of the Ruhr. But something is going to happen, mark my wordse And the people who are, or will be at fault, are the ones who close their eyes to this thing that is apparent to everyone. George Marshall, the owner of the Washington Redskins, says the professional teams admit that they pay their players, but the universities and colleges hypocritically deny that they doe I am not against scholarships or dividends openly arrived at and lived up to, but what we are facing today is the fact that some schools pay $45. a month and books; some pay $75. and books; some pay board, room, tuition and books; and on upe The commissioner would stabilize things and this hypocrisy that is practiced now would be dealt with summarily. SL TSE ERLE ERAT Sa SL A ae NT in ee mE eee era The national commissioner would be paid according to the student population of the conference schogls, and $100,000 salary would not be out of linee This man would have to be a man of great vision. He would administer the thing nationally, and commissioners like Reaves Peters and Artie Bilers would be perfectly fine to work under him because then they would only enforce the edict of the national ezar. Only schools subscribing to this voluntary plan would be permitted to play with member schools. Therefore, the outlaws and the professionals would play with their owm classe And every school in the conference would have a chances I+ wouldn't be a “small pocket=book" league and a “big pocket-book" leagues ‘The “small pocket-book" leagues would have no more business playing the “big pocket-book" leagues than the antiquated artillery of Poland had in meeting Hitler’s panzer division. If you get what I meane Sincerely yours, : Director of Physical Education, FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach.