Coa sports, particularly
basketball, are reaping a
‘bumper crop of embarrassments.
_At the moment when the Madison
| Square Garden management and

‘Cage Seandal ™0°st of the
executives in

‘Surface Only . ojjege ath-
| Scratched? letics prob-
ably were hopeful that the Brook-
lyn college bribery scandal talk
|had subsided to a whisper, Radio

{Commentator Walter Winchell
proceeded Sunday night to boom
| the charge that the ‘scandal sur-
rface ‘had no more than been

| seratched- :
| Meaning, of course, that ex-
posures may be on the way in-
volving various previous games at
the Garden that have been out of
line with honest. practices.

If the Winchell indictment has
its verification in subsequent de-
velopments, the glib-tongued New
Yorkers who, a few months ago,
were so busy denouncing Coach
Phog Allen of Kansas will have
plenty for which to apologize, as
it’s in the record that Phog gave
full warning a Garden showdown
was on the way that would “stink

to the high heavens.”
* * 3

YALTER WINCHELL, of
course, might have been
popping-off a bit—guessing at cor-
ruption in college sports without
having the definite proof to back
him up. Whether or no, the ex-
pose involving Qhance For
oe een Mr. Smith To

players was
sufficient in Call His Shot