Basketball Player Not Even Stude Continued From Page 1 Cohen. “I told nobody anything jand I asked no questions.” bea copy of the report was sent by the Mayor to Ordway Tead, president of the Board of Higher Education. A sweeping inquiry by that body was forecast, since the Bromberger report contained the pointed suggestion that Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn College, had ‘informal’ knowledge ,of Pearlstein’s status during the |first week in February but failed |to pass on the information although he was a witness at hearings con- ducted by Commissioner Bromber- ger on Feb. 15 and 16 in connection with the bribery episode. Commissioner Bromberger’s re- port disclosed that Dr. Gideonse weeks ago, in his first report on 'Ithe Brooklyn College basketball '|situation, Commissioner Brom- ‘|berger exonerated the Brooklyn College administration, its faculty “land athletic advisers from any fault in connection with the basket- = |ball situation. The same exonera- tion was broadcast by the Mayor in one of his Sunday radio talks from City Hall. _| It was a different story yester- day, however, as the Mayor told querade. “There is no excuse for this,’ he said. “It indicates a laxity and ins difference and negligence on the 3|part of the college faculty respon- 2 le that borders on the unpardon- 2 e »? Declaring that he had no juris- diction in the matter, the Mayor said that copies of the Bromberger report would be sent to the Board of Higher Education, ‘for appro- priate and essential action.” Copies .|will also go to Dr. Gideonse, Dis- trict Attorney William O’Dwyer of ‘|Kings County, and County Judge .|Samuel §. Leibowitz, who is con- ducting a John Doe inquiry into ‘|the basketball situation in city col- leges. Pearlstein, who is an honorably discharged war veteran, was, ac- cording to the grand jury indict- ‘|told him about Pearlstein’s mas-| querade last Friday. Only: a few. e|the story of Pearlstein’s mas-) Jersey Gambling Raid Is Sequel to Mayor’s Tip By The Associated Press. GARFIELD, N. J., March 11— Twelve persons were taken into custody tonight in a raid on a garage and dress shop at 207 Malcolm Avenue, several hours after Mayor La Guardia in a radio talk listed four telephone numbers for New Jersey places where he charged gambling bets had been placed. Assistant Prosecutor Steven J. Toth Jr., of Bergen County, who led a raiding party of Garfield police, said the twelve persons were released after several hours of questioning, because no evVi- dence was discovered either by the questioning or by a sega of the premises. The telephone company said the numbers were listed for one place in Clifton, two for the Mal- colm Avenue address in Garfield and one in Linden. Bergen Prosecutor Walter G. Winne, who assigned Mr. Toth to investigate the Garfield place, learned of the La Guardia “tips” in calls from newspaper men. “What the hell can we do with this kind of information?” he said. “It’d be a lot better if New York authorities gave us the in- formation so we could work on it. It’s tough getting evidence under these circumstances.” ment of two men, alleged to have bribed the five Brooklyn College basketball players, the first of the group to be approached. Ac- cording to the indictment, he in- troduced the gamblers to his four associates on the squad. Commissioner Bromberger, after being told by Dr. Gideonse of Pearlstein’s status as a non-stu- dent member of the team, ques- tioned the youth last Saturday. On Friday he interrogated Dr. Gid- blared “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and then modulated into the Marine Hymn which customarily follow the Mayor’s weekly talks. Before,he got around to baseball the Mayor paid his respects to the gentry who handle bets on basket- |ball games in Madison Square Garden. They will have a hard time of it Saturday night when the in- vitation contests start, he said. Promises “More Activity” “Something was said the other day about basketball games at Madison Square Garden,” he de- clared. ‘TI noticed that a great deal -|}of activity was observed. Well, if you think there was a lot of ac- jtivity the other day, you wait until next Saturday and you will see some activity.” The activity referred to was the s}police drive Thursday night, when thirteen arrests were made for gambling and disorderly conduct in and near the Garden in connec- tion with a boxing match. | The Mayor had some telephone numbers to give to his radio audi- dence. said, by some gamblers on basket- ball games at the Garden. “Take your pencil,” he ordered. “Here are some of the tinhorn tele- phone numbers in New Jersey where bets were phoned to on the games at Madison Square Garden. Are you listening, New Jersey? Are you listening, Mr. Attorney General of New Jersey? All right, {of the bribery exposure. They were those used, he] eonse, Coach Morris Raskin and Dr. Harry A. Scott, chairman of} the Department of Hygiene and member of the faculty etanan committee on athletics. Pearlstein, according to the re-| port, was. ‘honorably discharged from the armed forces on Dec. 10, | 1943, having played basketball in| the Army and desiring to continue in the game, he tried to enroll at New York University and to ob-!| tain a scholarship there. Failing, in this, he decided to try Brooklyn College. On Jan. 24, 1944, he vis-| ited the War Counseling Service| office at the college and thereafter] took a qualifying examination, the} result of which was that he was not} eligible for the day course but| could take the night course. He did) not care to take night courses and never took any. He merely re- ported to the basketball coach as a candidate for the team. According to the report, Pearl- stein played for three or four minutes in each of four intercol- legiate contests in the spring sea- son of 1944 and in all but one of the intercollegiate games in the fall season, until Jan. 30, the time He was a substitute in all of the games in which he took part. In his report Commissioner Bromberger urged that Brooklyn College send apologies to the In- tercollegiate Athletic Association and all teams against which Pearl stein played. He also urged that there be a “reversal of scores” of all games won by Brooklyn Col- lege “during the time Pearlstein was on the team.” Pearlstein testified, the report said, that he bought some books, whose titles he could not remem- ber, and carried them around the campus, to basketball practice and to and from his home to create the| impression that he was a student.| “The fact remains,” the report) said, “that Pearlstein at no time} ever registered or matriculated as| here you go: Passaic 3-2590, Pas- saic 3-1043, Passaic 2-9333, Linden 2-3763. There must be some tin- horns hanging around these num-} bers, because bets were phoned to’ these numbers. I hope the tele- phone company will rip them out.”