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

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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.

 

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~ “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,

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