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lowed by a ‘‘Ha, ha, ha.

Laughing’ Boy went on to say
that if no one else would swear out
a warrant there is nothing in the
world to prevent the police from

signing their names to such papers, |
provided, of course, they can waite. |

“1 see by the morning paper, too,”
Laughing Boy’ continued, “‘that
Chief Price says that his officers,
ordered two weeks ago to clean out
gambling joints in Lexington, have
been unable to find anything sub-
stantiating Phog Allen’s~ charges.
If Chief Price admits he has been
unable to find any gambling joints,
then a new police chief should be
found, because such joints do exist
and every man in Lexington—ex-
cept, of course, Chief Price and his
officers—knows these joints have
been operating. Ha, ha, ha.”
That Telephone Number

Dr. Allen listed the telephone
number as 3730. ,That was the
number of the betting center in
question up through last Friday, be-
cause a fellow called the sports
editor and asked where Leroy Ed-
wards, the former basketball star
at the University of Kentucky, went
to high school. The sports editor
didn’t know, asked for the number
and offered to call back as.soon as
the information was uncovered.
Would the caller leave the num-
ber? Sure, 3730! ®

Edwards attended Arsenal Tech
at Indianapolis. After securing this
information we called 3730 at once
and furnished the data requested.

Today, however, the telephone
number 3730 had vanished into thin
air. We tried to call it and ended
up with a special operator.. She in-
formed us in a very delightful voice
that this must be the wrong num-
ber, that there was no such num-
ber listed. She even intimated that
no such number ever had existed.

But 3730 existed as recently as
last Friday, and for months has
been used by us to fimd out how
many points Kentucky was sup-
posed to win over such teams as
Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Tennes-
see, Temple, and so on. We even
used it during the football season
to learn the odds on the various
Saturday games and particularly on
‘the Bowl games. As a matter of
fact, the number still is scrawled
on the back of my _ typewriter
shield, because it has not been in
the: phone book as such and was
scribbled down as a safety measure.
We got the number originally from
the guy who ran the gambling
joint, located over the Mayfair bar,
located at 224 East Main street.

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(Pirates, Phillies, Dodgers),
(Red Sox), Bill -
Fuchs, Hy Chapple and’ Chuck
Munday (from the minors), box-
ers Lew Hanbury and Frankie
Rubino and Ike Cheroff; 13-
award winner at Brooklyn Col-
lege ard Columbia...Maybe guys
will learn to recondition the cur-
rent crop of 4-F athletes . . .Lt.
Earl Mitchell, former Indiana U.
miler, now is in training with
the Marine war dog training
company. . .Well, the first thing a
runner has to learn is how to
take care of his dogs. :