‘“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.