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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

 

 

 

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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