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.
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