THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, B Phog Allen Says College Heads Can Stop Trouble LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 31 (4) —Officials of the NCAA send their basketball teams right into the nest of professional gambling and then deplore betting on intercol- legiate' athletics, says Phog Al- len, who has been yelping at the heels of gambling for months, “The National Collegiate Ath- letic Association met in Columbus in January and expressed ‘regret’ at the prevalence of gambling on intercollegiate sports,” Allen, bas- ketball coach at the University of Kansas, asserted in an interview today. ‘““But they continue to team up with professional promoters to hold tournaments ih arenas where everyone knows big-time gamblers operate in hordes.” Sad Commentary “What a paradox!” yelled Phog. It is a “sad commentary” on the NCAA, Phog observed, when with the top teams of the nation it is forced to seek aid from pro- fessionals to conduct its own tour- nament. é “The political oligarchy of the -those men had the power and op- AMUSEMENTS CHICAGO, ILL. OPERA HOUSE Tonight at 8:30 “THE TOAST OF THE TOWN” JAN MARTA “Migs Widow Seats Now on Sale—Mail “Orders Accepted Eves,, Incl. Sun., $3.60, 3.00, 2.40, 1.80, 1.20 Mats. Sat. Only, $3.00, 2.40, 1.80, 1.20, Tax Incl. HARRIS—HIT! NOW! EVERY NIGHT, Including SUNDAY YEAR'S PRIZE MYSTERY COMEDY / AGATHA CHRISTIE'S LITTLE INDIANS Eves., $1.20, $1.80, $2.40 Mat. Vv , $3 Sat., $2.40, $1.80, $1.20 (Tax Incl.) NCAA is busy keeping a self-per- petuating group in power rather than trying to smash at the trouble with intercollegiate athletics,” Al- len contended. “They'd better get busy or in-|. tercollegiate athletics will fade out. These Brooklyn gamblers charged with giving bribes are just small timers. Just peanuts. There are some really big operators back East. It will take more than talk to stop those babies,” the colorful veteran coach believes. Had Power Officials of the NCAA, with “their Pollyanna attitude,” said Allen, “allowed gamblers to ply their trade right under their noses. And the pity of it all was that portunity to strike at this betting Frankenstein. Had they had vision and nerve they would have en- gaged a man with the standing of J. Edgar Hoover to clean up this nasty business. “But they haven’t done it and I don’t think they will. I think the college presidents rather than overcautious athletic directors and faculty representatives are the ones to do the job.” Pettinger Proves Worth to Barons By the Associated Press Helped by Gordon Pettinger, whom they purchased from Hershey on Sunday, the Cleveland Barons beat the Bears, 3 to 2, in the American Hockey League last night and climbed into a tie with Indianapolis for first place in the western division. A crowd of 7,997 at. Cleveland saw Pettinger rap home the goal that tied the score at 2-2 just before the end of the second period and set the stage for Lou Trudel’s winning goal early in the last stanza. The tail-end St. Louis Flyers registered a major surprise by shutting out the Buffalo Bisons, ; 4 to 0, before 4,078 at St. Louis., Buffalo, leaders’ of the eastern) division, had 32 shots turned aside by the St. Louis goalie, Hec Highton. as S—-*. (an Holding Fritz Nagy to less than 20 points per game appears to be a man-size job. The sharp-shoot- ing ace of the Akron University Zippers started off the current season averaging about 25 points a game to further enhance his reputation as one of the finest players in college basketball. Cer- tainly, he is as accurate a shooter as you will find. agy is a product of Akron High School basketball. His record of 369 points as a schoolboy still stands. He spent a year at Nor Carolina before he returned to Akron and became the backbone of the Zippers. Last year, Fritz was selected for a berth on the little All-America. NTS FIFTEEN GAMES | LAST SEASOV ks _ A&P Newsfeatures Breaking scoring records is just Nagy’s dish. Last year he tallied 358 points in 15 games for an Akron U. record and then created. a new individual rhark by getting 34 points against Ohio Wesleyan. He erased the record of 31 points set by Eddie Wentz against De- fiance in 1920. He tied his own mark when he scored 34 points in a game with Oberlin this sea- son. Nagy, a rangy 170-pounder th | standing two inches over the six- foot mark, is a fine ball handler and an excellent shot out of the pivot. He has the speed and drive to keep the vital half step ahead of his opponents. | } BROOKLYN, Jan. 31. (@)— College basketball authorities throughout the nation, disturbed by the admission of five Brooklyn College players they had accepted $1,000 to throw a game, ponder anew today methods of combatting widespread gambling on games that one source estimated ran as high as $10,000,000 weekly. Leaders of the indoor sport, from Ned Irish, promoter of the double-headers at Madison Square Garden, to Wilbur C. Smith, president of the National Col- legiate Athletic Association, as- serted that the action of the five Brooklyn players in no way typified the attitude of the college athlete in general. Smith called upon the “every-day fan, who is in no way to be co with the professional gamblers, to help us by not betting on collegiate athletics.” Night Session Meantime, a Kings County grand jury called into a rare night session by Judge Samuel S.|w. Cc. A.A Leibowitz, heard testimony from the five players, Bernard Barnett, \Larry Pearlstein, Robert Leder, Jerry Green and Stanley Simon; their coach, Morris Raskin: police and assistants district attorneys Edward Heffernan and Louis Andreozzi. The jury concluded its session shortly before midnight and was expected to hand up its findings to Judge Leibowitz some- time today. Irish announced that “further action to diminish gambling on Colleges Prepare Attack On Gambling Fraternity red |directors and cage coaches. .|advances, games and to protect the players from approaches by persons in- terested in influencing the out- come” was taken at a meeting of New York metropolitan athletic “The measures are designed,” Irish said, “to give the player assurance of protection from these but in order to be effective, must remain undisclosed at the moment.” Must Organize Asa Bushnell, commissioner of eastern athletics, asserted ‘“ath- letic directors must now organize in strength to protect college games” while Smith, in his state- ment at New Orleans, declared “the causes which may be facili- tating the increase in gambling should be .closely examined, Such uestions “as to whether games should be played in any gym- nasium or arena not located on the campus of one of the compet- ing institutions should be consid- ered.” Vadal Peterson, coach of Utah’s . C, A. A, champions, said at Salt Lake City that the players’ ad- mission “may be the lesson needed to check a vice at its beginning.” Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York asked the aid of the public. to see to it that “cheap, tin-horn chiselers” be thrown into jail. Judge Leibowitz, in instructing’ the grand jury to “hand up any indictments necessary” declared “to corrupt a college boy is to destroy him in his formative years. When these vermin stretch. their filthy paws into our-college halls they pollute the flower of our country’s youth and they have got to be destroyed. Take forthright’ action. Smash these barnacles and smash them hard.” Two Arrested | The disclosure of the scandal, | ‘likened to baseball’s Chicago Black Sox of the 1919 ‘World Series, broke suddenly late Mon- day night with the arrest of Harry Rosen and Harvey Stemmer on charges of conspiracy. ; ' The players, later dropped from the Brooklyn squad, signed a statement they received $1,000 from Stemmer to throw the Akron game originally scheduled for to- oston night in temmer, described as a gam- bler, was held in $2,500 bail for a further hearing Feb. 5. Rosen was arraigned in Manhattan on. another charge. The D. A.’s office said he would be arraigned later on the conspiracy count. Brooklyn ‘College authorities said that with-the exception of the Akron game, which was canceled, the team would play the re- mainder of its games as best it could with the other members of the squad who were not involved. X14 ‘ CHICAGO, OCT. 24-=(UP)=-THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIED NEW MEANS TODAY FOR CONTINUING ITS "HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL" ANTI-GAMBLING CAMPAIGN FOR AS MANY YEARS AS NECESSARY. DRe WILBUR Cs SMITH OF LOUISIANA STATE, CHAIRMAN OF THE NeCeAeA. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHICH ENDED A TWO-DAY MEETING YESTERDAY, CALLED THE PROGRAM A “HUGE SUCCESS.® , : HE SAID N.CeAeA. MEMBERS, WHICH INCLUDE MOST OF THE NATION'S LEADING UNIVERSITIES, WOULD POOL THEIR INFORMATION AT THE N.CeAcAs'S ANNUAL CONVENTION IN ST. LOUIS JAN. 9-10 AND MAP A NEW 1946 PROGRAM TO COUNTERACT THE "MONEY MENACE.” THE NeCeAeAse BEGAN CRACKING DOWN ON GAMBLERS AFTER THE BROOKLYN BASKETBALL SCANDAL LAST YEAR, LAYING DOWN A DEFINITE PLAN OF ATTACK AT ITS JANUARY MEETING THIW YEAR. KENNETH L. (TUG) WILSON, BIG“TEN ATHLETIC COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY-TREASURER OF THE NeCeAeAs, SAID ASSOCIATION MEMBERS WERE PREPARED TO WORK FOR YEARS IN AN EFFORT TO STAMP OUT BETTING. "THE TRUE JOB IS TO KEEP GAMBLERS AWAY FROM THE PLAYERS AND IT IS THERE WE HAVE DONE OUR BEST WORK,® WILSON SAID. THE SCHOOLS HAVE DONE A “REMARKABLE JOB," WILSON SAID. "THEY HAVE BEEN DILIGENT IN WIPING OUT GAMBLING ON THE CAMPUS AND IN THE STADIUM AND PUBLICITY DIRECTORS HAVE REFUSED TO GIVE OUT ‘TEAM DOPE’, THEREBY CUTTING OFF GAMBLERS AND BOOKIES FROM THEIR INFORMATION SOURCE." : WILSON SAID THE JOB WAS SQUARELY UP TO EACH INSTITUTION. "CURE GAMBLING AT THE SITE OF THE GAME AND YOU ELIMINATE THE RISK," HE EXPLAINED. “WE WILL JUST HAVE TO KEEP PLUGGING AWAY, CUTTING THEM ‘DOWN WHERE WE CAN YEAR BY YEAR UNTIL THE MENACE IS STAMPED OUT.” BG725A NEW SENSATIONAL CHARGE MADE IN CAGE GAMBLING | Army Man, Former Manager of Syracuse Pro Club, | Says College Players Told Him of Their ‘Co-Op- eration’ With New York’s Gambling Element. OLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 24.—With Ned Irish, manager of Mad- ison Square Garden, in New York, expressing the ‘‘per- to “let the entire matter drop rather than sonal wish” give (Dr. Forrest C. “Phog’’) Allen a change to talk again,” new, and by far the most damaging, indictment against “the “Broadway mob” and its alleged control of basketball was written into the record here Tuesday. Sergt. Lou Greenberg, former manager of the Syracuse (New York) Reds, professional basket- ball team, now stationed at Co- ‘ lumbus, said that eastern pro layers had told him of their alleged “co-operation” in having the point scores in their col- lege games fit the oe odds. Greenberg said: “The only remedy for it is to | have a basketball czar.” | This brought immediate opposi- tion from Harold G. Olsen, Ohio State basketball coach and chair- | man of the National Collegiate Ath- letic association tournament com- mittee—the group which arranges the college games played in Madi- son Square, and on other eastern | courts, as well as the Kansas City |tournament held each March. Olsen called Greenberg’s sugges- tion “silly.” “I’ve been coaching for more than twenty-five years,” he said, “and I never knew of a single instance where any boy ever has fallen for any of that gambling stuff.” In New York Irish, promoter of the winter program of basketball games, was quoted as saying that he received Allen’s telegram, nam- ing names in the latter’s charge that certain college players has “thrown” games. Allen, dean of midwestern basket- ball coaches and tutor of the game at the University of Kansas, last week charged that gamblers had |approached certain players and | paid them to throw games. He }mamed the players allegedly in- | volved in a telegram to Irish. “The situation to which Allen a refers was investigated thoroly by the authorities and the newspapers when the rumor first developed,” Irish said. “That investigation proved that the rumor was base- less. No player was disciplined and no other action was taken.” Irish ‘said it was his penal: wish to “let the entire matter drop rather than give Allen a chance to talk again.” “He (Allen) has been doing that sort of thing -for years now and! the mystery to me is that people | take him seriously in the light of his previous false prophecies,” Irish said. “In this instance, it was a very serious thing for him to do, based strictly on a second-hand story, and, in justice to the players he named, I feel moved to say there was nothing to it.” The new phase of the Allen case, as brought into the open by Green- berg, has been touched on before.’ The matter of “co-operation”—the term used by Greenberg—resulted in several articles in the New York | Daily Mirror, in which its sports} editor, Dan Parker, and its sports | columnist, Bob Considine, com-| mented. Considine wrote, recently: “Most of the warnings... have ! centered around the curious way in which so many of the final scores of Garden games have ended ‘in the middle.’ . ‘In the middle’ is a gambling expression denoting a final score which is just right for the gam- bler—in that he collects from both wagering side. For instance, a.gambler ordains that one team is ‘15-13’ over another, meaning ‘that if you want to bet on the favorite you must bet not that the favorite will win, but that \ the favorite will win by at least fifteen points, or if you want the underdog you ‘bet. that said underdog will come within thir- teen points of winning. “A lot of games. have been ending in the middle, which, in the hypothetical case outlined above, would mean that the win- ning team wins by only fourteen points. Thus the bookmaker col- lects from both bettors. “There have been a few too .many in-the-middle games to suit the lovers of the law of mathematics .. .” What, if any action, the N. C. A. A. will take relative to the state- ment of Greenberg was not known Tuesday. In his statement Green- berg said the players involved—men who had played on college teams and at the end of their amateur careers had turned “pro”—told him of their experiences, and actions. , Greenberg made it clear these state- | ments did not relate to professional | basketball, but to what took err in college games, PIR eae EE Ase eee ee ne eae pia ie Ne aN gi lat a ae are OMe ee deals is ice t Deeley SR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CORPORATION BO7 WEST 49% STREET NEw YorK 1I9,N.-Y. COLUMBUS 5-6800 October 24, 1944, Dr, Forrest C. Allen Basketball Coach University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Phog: Your wire of Saturday, October 21st, was delivered to the wrong address and has just reached my desk. In this wire you mentioned the name of Albie Ingerman of Temple University and other teammates. This rumor was widely spread last year and discredited completely in Philadelphia newspapers following investigation by Temply University as well as independent investigations by the newspapers. The boy played in the game, which was questioned by rumor — mongers, with a high fever and was in bed with a severe _ case of the grippe for a week to ten days after the game. His illness was verified both by his family physician and by the University. In addition, sports writers visited his home and verified this fact. which was published in the papers and was far from suppressed, On his recovery, the boy was drafted into the Navy and he is still in service. There was one other player injured in that game who was unable to participate in any others after the one which started the rumors. This boy's injury necessitated several stitches being taken from a cut on his face, and his shoulder was dislocated in the same collision that resulted in this cut. The boy was not dropped from the squad but obviously could not play any more games that season since there was only three weeks ef competition remaining. He is still in. school and it is my understanding from the Athletic Director at Temple University that he will be a candidate this year if his shoulder, which is still far from perfect, permits him to engage in “ee eee sports, It should hardly be necessary for me to go into detail on this subject since I have the fullest confidence in the college authorities here in the East and know that every effort is being made to suppress the increase in gambling upon college sports results, mainly in football and basketball, ; : : Nieinae eet aaeaben nee es esd goa ni ene : 4 = sf lacing tr Sa Ba 2 ; SE a Sl ae aS arma idl aliases! Sealant ee Dr, Forrest ©. Allen -2e October 24, 1944. Your allegations based on second or third hand rumors certain- ly place a terrific burden on a youngster who may consider competing in intercollegiate sports. iit has always been my feeling that a boy who competes and is good enough after a strenous training session to make a varsity team...has demonstrated his character pretty well to a coach.) I certain- ly think that any coach would not use a player thet did not have the spirit and desire to win predominant. {Continued allegations regarding tampering with players will certainly cause the public to get the impression that these boys are not the fine upstanding youngsters that you and I know them to bes It has not taken a statement from Lawrence, Kansas or Denver for me to realize the seriousness of gambling on college sports. Every precaution, including the employment of some 30 to 40 uniformed Special Officers in our building, has been taken. New York City authorities from Mayor La Guardia and -Commissioner Valentine on down have discussed this situation with me in the past and have always cooperated by assigning adequate police to events here. Any person arrested for gambling is automatically barred from entering this building. Various other protective measures are taken which I am not at liberty to discuss publicly ~ tut you may rest assured that I have confidence that they are of such a nature that it is extremely unlikely any gambling can emanate from the building here. Very ly yours, RISH Acting President NI :df eo sae Re elie ca Ss uk alee Maia November 6, 1944, Mr» Ned Irish, Acting President, New York 13, N.Y. Dear Ned; T an quoring your, Latter of Ootober 24th. First, I want to assure you that the information came to me first hand, and not second or third hand, And I Ce ee You state, "Tt has always been my feeling that a boy who competes and a strenuous training session to make a varsity team . . « has demonetrated his character pretty well to a coach.” That %, to sey the least, You also state, "Continued allegations regarding tampering with players will certainly cause the public to get the impression that these boys are not the fine upstanding to ii i that be Upon that statement I should say that you would have gained much move Wy speting ih idoue uqiareiy wah Baidtting nemo some of the facts that you know hava happened, rather than to have sugar-coated a very bad situation, oP Daa go an Ste Rs i. toe gti ele ig eveland. See ee oe ee ee ee his election were going to print the fact that it was alleged he had an illegitim- ate sone They wired him for advice. He replied "yell the truth", ouh seam Mee laoibainee te weg Ghavted Foes at ee ted States. The public had confidence in his integrity. Had you met the issue squarely end admitted that there was much vicious gambling with teamper= ing of college players, then the public, many of whom are in on the lmow, would have had much more confidence in your statement. Lawton Carver, in his stenchy Internstional News Service story of New York on October 23, says: “There are men on the main stem whose 8 can see a great many of them in Madison Square maar nt: bon gtd ad fairly important Garden sports program, dickering and ain odds, while a platoon of cops thirty yards amy handles gush on eneseme problem as the traffic on Eighth avenue." | my motive activitie: i : czar to control the athletic NSAS CITY STAR, THE MAYOR JOINS ALLEN NEW YORK HEAD USES “TINHORN GAMBLERS” AS OBJECTS. | A Writer Suggests Kansas Coach Prove the Charges That Games Have Been “Thrown.’’ By LAwTon CaRvER. (International News Service Sports Editor.) NEw York, Oct. 23.—Fiorello H. LaGuardia, revered mayor of New York City, has been blowing his bazoo again on the subject of “thieving, tinhorn gamblers,” and his complaint is especially timely today, since it came in the wake of getting to be revolting. Gambling in any city is one of | the more unusual subjects of con- versation, since, to paraphrase Mark | Twain, everyone talks about it but! no one does anything about it. Allen came out with the flat state- ment that court teams have taken to the tank for pecuniary consider- ations, and he has backed down. The mayor trains his cannon on) a local radio station, causing multi- | tudes to weep, but the police force | over which he exercises such pa- ternal control has failed utterly | to remedy the situation even by a/| fraction. BROADWAY CROWD RESPONIBLE,\ | New York is open to charges of gambling (as it very well should be) chiefly because of Beer |crowd, or part of it.. There are men| on the main stem whose life and_ |passion is gambling and these rep- | tilian characters are sometimes in- |to such an extent they dip their un- washed thumbs in activities over | |which they seek financial control. ,You can see a great many of them| ‘night of any fairly important| ;Garden sports program, dickering | jand bargaining over the odds, while |@ platoon of cops thirty yards away |handles such an awesome problem | |as the traff Right anima \celebrant who has just been tues |by the heels into a bathtub full of jbroken ginger ale bottles, we feel rather gloomy about this. Our sad- ness Is further weighted by the fact s = growing business affairs.” RESCUED IN PHILIPPINES. Three Missourians Among Group Removed From Islands. General MacArthur’s Headquar- ters, Philippines, Oct. 22 (Delayed). (AP)—The names of the first eighty-three American prisoners of war to be rescued from the Philip- pines were released here today.|| They were on a torpedoed enemy |i transport and were hidden by guer- rillas until removed from the is- || lands. Three men from Missouri were |} among the eighty-three. They were Lieut. John -C. Playter of Joplin, |({ Lieut. James K. Vann of Winona|} and Cpl. E..A Motsinger of Webb City. | Also. included in the list was|) Lieut. Ralph R. Johnson, whose ad- |; dress was given as Springfield, O.|/ He is the brother of Mrs. Robert |! Dodds, 3325 Farrow street, Kansas City, Kansas. — rr Te PLANE BULLETS HIT TOWN. Carey, Ind—Residents of Carey recently had a taste of. war when more than 100 50-caliber machine- gun bullets tore through houses and ricocheted from sidewalks. It was later reported that the bullets came. from planes firing at a towed target at 20,000 feet. Fortunately, no one was injured. ee er nS Not a Plane of Armada ‘of 2,500 Is Lost. Lonpon, Oct. 23.(AP)—Achiev- ing complete mastery of European skyways, 2,500 American and Brit- ish planes roamed hundreds of miles into Germany yesterday at- tacking six separate targets with- out a single loss. It was the first time an ne of this size had escaped at least some minor tage casualties. Only - difficulties, because the late morn- oy Chief Price Does Nothing _ About Gaming Accusations | BY HENRY HORNSBY Leader Sports Editor T notice in the morning paper that Police Chief Austin B. Price has’ been unable to find out anything about what Phog Allen of. Kansas de- scribes as the nation’s biggest | college and high school gam-| bling center located here in Lexington, ; Dr, Allen, basketball Bock at the University of Kansas, stated in a telephone conver- sation that the gambling cen- ter was located over the May- fair bar, 224 East Main street, and. that the telephone num- ber was 3730. Apparently _ someone else saw Chief Price’s amusing report on his} ing mail brought a letter from one who signs himself “Laughing Boy.” Laughing Boy says: “I see that Chief. Price is having a lot of dif- ficulty. No one will co-operate with him, poor fellow, He says: ‘But if some of the people who know so much about these gambling joints will swear out warrants, I assure ‘them that the places will be raided.’ Since when,” Laughing Boy asks, “does a policeman have to have a warrant to enter a gambling joint?” ‘And Laughing Boy followed his question with “Ha, ha, ha.’ . . . The writer continued: “The Re- vised Kentucky: Statutes (436.280) states that any bank, table, con- trivance, machine or article uséd for carrying on a game prohibited by KRS 436.230 (dealing with . gambling) ... may be seized by any justice of ‘the peace, sheriff, con- stable or police officer of a city | OR WITHOUT A WAR-| RANT.” | And this paragraph also was fol: 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 ‘write. “T 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 find 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 Allen May Have Inside Dope, But 3730 Not Payoff Number The nation’s “biggest gambling center” may or may not be located in Lexington, but its telephone number isn’t 3730. This was the number given by Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Uni- versity of Kansas basketball coach, for an establishment which he said was located on the second floor at 224 East Main street and which, he said, is a “gigantic handbook agency” handling many thousands of dollars in bets on high-school and college athletic games. Lexington telephone operators said last night that they had no such number listed. Furthermore, | the information operator declared | that she had no record of 3730 ever i being listed. Chief of Police Austin B. Price said that city police, directed two | weeks ago to clean out gambling ‘joints in Lexington, had not veri- i fied Phog Allen’s charges. “But if some of the people who know so much -about these gam- bling joints will swear out war- rants, I assure them that the places will be raided,” the chief declared. He said police have been unable to enter some places which in the past have been suspected of carry- ing on gambling operations because the officers have been unable to find anyone who would swear out | search warrants. ) Asked if he planned any action as a result of the Kansas coach’s allegations, Fayette Common- wealth’s Attorney James Park said, “It is my belief that when the next grand jury convenes, we will get to the bottom of the situation. “Of course,” he added, - body would swear out some war- rants, we could get action sooner.” Phog Allen Says Lexington 4 Is Biggest Gambling Center By HENRY HORNSBY ' Leader Sports Editor _ Phog Allen—Dr. Forrest C. ‘Allen — outspoken crusader against gambling on college sports; basketball coach at the University of Kansas, the man who gave Adolph Rupp his training in hardwood science, today stated in a long distance telephone call from Lawrence, Kansas, that “Lexington is probably the biggest high school and college gambling center in the United States.” ‘Dr. Allen, long an advocate of “cleaning out” gambling within col- ‘Jcge sports, made the assertion few days ago that Lexington was the college gambling center of the nation and repeated his charge in the telephone conversation. The Kansas coach said that head- quarters for the wagering customers ‘was a room above the Mayfair bar, located at 224 East Main street, and that the telephone’ number 3730. Dr Allen said that he did not know whether there was any co nection between management of the bar and the gambling joint. “But I do know that a gigantic was handbook agency is located above the Mayfair,” the coach continued, “and that the establishment, dur- ing the period of racing, handled ‘considerable money on horse races, end that on Saturdays during the football season handled as much as $500,000 on college football games. The place has been doing a. big business in basketball gambling. The joint has telephone lines to a number of major cities,’ Dr. Allen went on, “and, with a monthly tele- phore bill of around $2,500, can put ‘calls through to these cities in less time than can an Army general.” Predicted Scandals “Dr. Allen ‘long. has argued that gambling on college sports was chcking the very life out of such sports, and months ago predicted that if college authorities didn’t wake up they would be confronted with scandals which would make the White Sox World Series affair cf 1919 seem tame by comparison. His contentions were borne out to a marked degree with the recent disclosure of the Brooklyn College’ “sell-out.” Though primarily a “basketball” man, Dr. Allen says that he is con- cerned with the threat which other sports face—football being endan- gered most of all. “Even track,” he said, “has now been invaded by the gamblers, especially in the eastern cities and in the midwest.” 2 The Kansas coach believes that the only solution is the selection of a “ezar”’ who is empowered to. wield a heavy club in college ath- letics much in the manner the late Judge K. M. Landis did in base-| ball. Dr. Allen said he has no qurrel with tne subsidization. of college athletes if it’s done in the right way. But since there is little super- vision of such tactics and _ since there is little that can be done to schools violating agreements, he believes that a commissioner of col- lege sports is the only logical answer. “Subsidization is all right, but doing it surreptiously—as it’s being done—is very dangerous,’ he as- serted. Deplores Proselyting One of the most deplorable prac- tices in college athletics, according to Coach Allen, is that of prosely- ting. “Coaches go after a boy, who already has settled at some school; offer him a large amount of. money and take him away.” But getting back to the question of gambling, Dr. Allen stated that athletic directors. and not “long: bearded deans and_ professors” should be in full charge of athletic programs at educational centers. “Athletic directors should be in full charge of sports programs,” he said. “They, and not faculty rep- resentatives who know nothing about ‘the business, should deter- mine policies and be answerable for all criticisms.” He continued that. under’ the /present set-up in most sections coaches and athletic directors are nothing more than business man- agers. These two groups should be /made fuli professors, Dr. Allén be- 'lieves, with the powers and priv- _ileges ane the respect accorded to ' professors. And another thing. Dr. Allen “says the threat to college sports will not .be removed until gamblers, who invade the sanctity of the campus, are jailed for offenses. “Those Brooklyn gamblers are still laughing about the affair at the college there. They’ve been gambling on college sports for years, and they’ll keep on until the law puts a stop to it. The Brook- lyn College scandal was a_ small thing by comparison to what goes on. And as long as we have places like the one there in Lexington the threat to our colleges and to our college boys will continue.” PM, WED Hats Off! | When Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, University of Kansas basket- ‘ball. coach, charged last Fall wat at least one player he knew had been approached by gamblers in| |Madison Square Garden, he drew| a loud guffaw from New York po-| lice and from Ned Irish, president of the Garden and the Nation’s No. 1 college basketball promoter. | “What happened in Brooklyn| ‘should come as no surprise té any | ‘intelligent coach,” Allen said today, | after the scandal broke involving | five Brooklyn College players ac-| | cepting a $3000 bribe to throw two | games. “They have known these | |things were going on. Most were| jafraid to say anything about it.| ‘With the closing of the tracks, the| bookies had to turn to collegiate | sports. I still think the college presi- | dents of America are missing their greatest opportunity to hire a high | commissioner to serve and protect | college sports, as Landis did base ball. They are the ones to solve this | thing.” For which, PM says: | Hats Off! Mt _* Lash CH {hit asketball— Gamblers“ 7“ Ruining It? Famed Phog Allen, Veteran Jayhawker, Fears for Future NEW YORK (4) — A remark- able blue-eyed, dynamic per- sonality, who loves basketball more than any living man, has stirred up quite a fuss about the hoop sport. He is Dr. Forrest C. Allen, {| better known as Phog, coach of ; the Kansas Jayhawkers for the - past 34 years—a record that is hard to match. Phog has been worried about his favorite game for several years—"ever since the pros got hold of it,” he tells every writ- Cre”: Not so long ago, the Crimson and Blue mentor charged that the gamblers are ruining ama- | * teur collegiate sports, especial- ly basketball. Allen went on to explain that he particularly meant the guys who take most of the seats for the big hoop games in Mad- ison Square Garden. Said the Kansas coach: -“Ym not striking at Ned Irish (the garden promoter). The point ’m making is that these big-time betting boys are going to get to basketball and ruin the game.” “Nothing Irish or any coach’ can do will stop the gamblers. | || Only the college presidents can |: halt it by appointing an abso- || lute czar such as baseball has in Judge Landis.” Phog went on to say that he held Irish in high esteem and that the Madison~Square~gar- ~~ den tournaments “were run on the up and up.” Every hoop coach and fan knows that. But they also know that gamblers support the sport in the garden. If anyone doubts that the guys who pass the green keep the: sport going, all he has to do is buy a seat in any section of the big indoor arena and he can see the green stuff being passed under his nose all night. Allen adds: “If they (the gamblers) aren’t there, why did a spectator run out and embrace a Utah player on the floor of the garden last spring, saying that the goal the boy had scored saved the man $15,000.” Add that to the recent state- ment by the Utah coach, among others, that they have been ap- proached in this big city, and it adds up. Everyone knows that it’s im- possible to stop a bet on any- thing where the issue may go one way or another. Fans and coaches in the bas- ketball games at Madison Square garden admit that if it weren't for the guys who like to bet a little mazuma on the outcome, there | wouldn't be enough around to support the sport. ° es But Allen shouldn’t be kick- ed aside as “another old wo- man.’ The coach.-knows more about the game than most of its followers ever will. He was |. one of the fathers with Dr. James Naismith. He hasn’t any axe to grind. He just loves bas- ketball. So how can anyone condemn a philosophical gentleman whose admirers believe he has done about everything for his love but put the bounce into} the ball? eoeccpwwoe BETAS to | irave someone on the teams giving them the dope, or second best someone on | the college campus. NED Irish, the Garden basketball mag- nate, has made an effort to run the gamblers out of the Garden, but the fact is, if he stamped out gambling he would stamp out a great deal of Garden basket- ball. Not all of those 17,000 people were at the Garden the other night because either St. Francis or Muhlenberg were | dear to their hearts. They were there for the same reason they go to. the horse races—and that ain’t to watch the nags run. Thé hardest comment to answer about such gambling is, “So what??? But-it— is true that gambling makes for a bad smell and dishonesty. Judge Landis did a good job of keeping professional base- ball divorced from the professional bettors and it might be a good idea if the colleges went at the business of wiping the gamblers out of college athletics. SUUR EERO Ga PCMhy qeecre” pre ie © ere tn >, OSTLY what Phog Allen was talking ! ,. about was Madison Square Garden. | ~-~where the biggest basketball business in America is being carried on every winter by Ned Irish. The facts are that hun- | dreds of thousands of dollars are ex- |} changing hands on the results of the! Garden winners and where there is that much involved someone is gcing to get. approached. College gambling is not a! haphazard affair participated in by a few | track bookies during the off season; it is a big time racket all- by itself. These odds often quoting the prices the gamblers are offering are not set by giless work and too often they are set by in- formation not available to the public. Gambling in college sports has grown ° to such proportions .there is now a cen- tral clearing house known to the trade as the ‘‘Minneapolis House.’ It is known among the touts as a reliable trading firm dealing in sports information | and betting prices, and bookies | pay. for _.the...infermation.. they get- from the Minneapolis House just as they would pay for a pair of boots at Montgomery Ward’s. This | house collects sports information all over. the country and sets prices and wholesales information on sports events throughout the nation. They work through professional agents or dope co!- ~ lectors and naturalle the hecs * * jn ee. ‘FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1944 THE DENVER P coe Pamy ST—FIRST IN EVERYTH -C. €. MEET FRIDA E, IN THIS basketball capital of the world, where year-in-and-year-out the fans see the finest the cage gamé offers, do not take Mr. ‘‘Phog’’ Allen too seriously, The Kansan is a great coach, jealous of Colorado’s ‘‘Frosty’’ Cox, among others, and given to getting his name in large type when- ever and wherever possible. ‘“Phog’s” latest, set forth in another column, is, more or less, just some new words to an old tune of his—the commis- sioner-to-be-named-by-the-president being the new motif to his song. Fundamentally, ‘“Phog” Allen is dead right. His fears relative to the @angers besetting college youths engaged in games which command betting in figures almost. beyond belief have been shared by many, espe- cially coaches who lead clubs into New York’s Madison Square Garden during the winter basketball season. The dangers found wide publicity last year, and the vider before. The stories were told how the gambling fraternity around New York haunted the hotels where the visiting cagers stayed, and how coaches, could not let their charges out of their sight for even a minute Pere é * * NE paragraph of Allen’s charge is funny. He suggests. that “the gentlemen running the A. A. U.” call in the colleges and, in effect, tell: them how they (the A. A. U.) keep their house clean. Is Allen kidding? He must be. Surely no man who has been in athletics as long as Allen could say that without putting his tongue very deep into his eheek. games without having the boys approached for “information.” oe A. A. U. until Bob Russell took the helm—lent itself to probably the rottenest “racket” of all time—the amateur boxing racket. Surely men who stood by while lice, in the guise of “sponsors,” not | permitted little kids to drink liquor, but actually supplied the drink before sending them into the ring, are not the people to tell the colleges how to conduct their athletic programs. COLLEGE BETTING SCANDAL BREWS, SAYS “PHOG’ ALLEN Famed Kansan Wants High Commissioner Named By President; Says Grid and Cage Players Face Dangerous Temptations to Toss Games. (By SAM SMITH.) AWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 13—Dr. Forest C. (Phog) Allen, basketball mentor at the University of Kansas and self- styled sage of middle-western coaches, suggested Friday that colleges employ a national high commissioner to rule in the manner of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in baseball to “save the decency of collegiate athletics after the war.” Allen, critic of proselyting in col- lege athletics, said that unless such an office was created there would be a postwar scandal in football and basketball that would overshadow any similar incident since baseball’s The national A. A. U., under a long-decayed leadership—and the local “Black Sox” World Series dea] of 1919. Allen, whose cage thea are prac- tically the perennial champions of the Big Six, predicted a postwar golden age of sports. “It will have to be golden,” he said. “There won’t be. enough silver to hire the big boys.” Allen suggested that “college ad- ministrators should see to it that the office of the president of the United States should nominate the commissioner. “Something is going io hap- pen,” he said. “If educational in- stitutions are efficient, they will set up some machinery that will protect them from a ‘national scandal. As sure as you live, the thing is going to erack wide open sometime when they lay bare an incident where some group of col- lege boys have thrown a game for a tidy sum. That will happen be- cause there is more money being bet on football and basketball games in America today, than is bet on all the horse races pons run. ” Allen said “The fellows who run the Amateur Athletic Union should invite the highly proficient baseball and fvcotball executives into their fold to teach them how to run their professional (sic) athletics.” The Jayhawker coach pointed out that the American Association of University and College Presidents has failed to do anything about ath- letics from a postwar angle: except to acknowledge Hat they eee gone professional. “Now,” he said, “the scramble is on to get big name coaches to man the guns and fill the stadia to dripping capacity. They will be out after the returning stars, when they doff their uniforms and campaign ribbons and will use “the G. I, bill of rights to help them lure the boys inte the fold. “Along with the goverriment they (the coaches and schools) will be of- fering bonus dough for playing on their particular team.” Allen said he had no objection to scholarships, openly arrived at and lived up to. “But what we are facing today,” he said, “is that some schools pay $45 a month, some $75, some pay beard and room, tuition, books and on up. A commissioner would sta- bilize these things and this hypoc- risy that is practiced now would be dealt with summarily.” ‘he national A. A. U. must look to its own house before i goes barging into the colleges of the country. The men at the top of the A. A. U., nationally, are honest enough, goodness knows. The fact is they are so honest in their ... _own rights that they know little or nothing of the world in which they live. Men, for example, like National A. A. U. President L. . di Benedetto, the New Orleans playground instructor, and his assistant, J. Lyman Bingham, once of D. U., cannot conceive, thru training and background, that there are men who would see a little kid all but get his brains knocked out for the lone dirty dollar paid to the manager of a winning boxer in an amateur bout. When, as mentioned by Allen, baseball faced its “Black Sox” scandal, it didn’t go into the playgrounds and colleges for a “czar.” It went into the courts—the courts where life as it is actually lived is on daily parade. It took for its chief a man who knew all about life on the other side of the college and playground fence—a hard-boiled, plain-spoken, wise and un- derstanding jurist that nobody can fool—and nobody tries to fool, either. mK. * * E DC not think Allen has overstated the situation. He has not as far as basketball in Madison Square Garden is concerned. This is not intended for, nor is it a reflection on, Ned Irish, the Garden promoter, @ man who has done as much, or more, to make the cage game popular as any individual you can name. It is simply that basketball, in the Garden, is more than a sport. It is a gambling enterprise, just as Allen states. } Let us look at the men involved in this gamble. Let us look at them , - from our own local viewpoint, for we of the Rocky Mountain west are sending two teams into the Garden this year—Wyoming and Utah. Out here we are frankly a bunch of hypocrites. We say we are playing college games purely for the love of sports, and for the good of the kids taking part. We go around with pious faces making rules and regulations “designed to keep our sports pure.’ We, on the quiet, give athletes free tuition—somezof them thelr booxs, others just their school- tug. But we deny the kids a training table or a place to live. That, we | of the Big Seven say with solemn looks-upon our faces, is done.in the interest of “the purity of athletics.” Phooey! : For we, in council meeting as we draw our schedules—what do we talk about? The gate, brothers and sisters—the gate. The gate means how many cash customers we can expect for this con- test or that one. Then of a Saturday we send these kids out to play . ~ befere these cash customers. The kids down there on the field— many of them—haven’t had a square meal inside them all thru the football season. I know and I can name names. I can tell you the names of kids in the Big Seven who lived on hamburgers because they were unable to hold down jobs that would pay them sufficient money to keep themselves decently. The reason they couldn’t hold down such jobs is that their school work plus their athletic drills took up every waking minute. Well, sir, this hungry kid, of a Saturday afternoon, looks up in the stands and counts some 10,000 or 20,000 customers who came there for what? To see him play. That’s what they came for. The kids may be young. But the kids can think. And the kids are human. You put those elements together and you have a kid who, unless he’s made of ; some mighty wonderful stuff, could very well lend an ear to some gam- | _ bler who showed ‘him a sheaf of greenbacks in return for not playing quite as hard as his alma mammy—that’s starving him—expects him to Play. * * * 7E DON’T believe this has happened as yet. The wonder is that it hasn’t—that we haven’t had the scandal Allen predicts. But with money like it is—well, that remark of Allen’s about the coming period being “a golden age of sports because there won't be anauEe silver to pay off the athletes” isn’t just wise cracking. This department is, and ever has been, against “buying” and “pay- ing” college athletes. ‘But by the same token it is high time that the colleges of this nation—of our own section, especially—treat the athletes like human beings, giving in return for their services as boxoffice attrac- tions, honestly awarded and openly acknowledged scholarships, plus the training table, with quarters, during the periods of competition. If we need a national commissioner to bring this about, well and good. This department believes that just a little common honesty ean do the job unaided. ‘It Will Have To Be Golden’— 'Allen Warns Colleges Face Post-War Athletic Scandal LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 13 (UP)—Dr. Forest C.| (Phog) Allen, basketball mentor at the University of Kansas and self-styled sage of middle-western coaches, suggested today that colleges employ a national. high commissioner to rule in the manner of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in baseball to “save the de- cency of collegiate athletics after the war.” Allen, critic of _ proselyting in college athletics, said that unless such an office was created there would be a@ post-war scandal in foot- ball and basket- ball that would overshadow any similar incident since baseball’s: . ‘Black sox World Series ™ deal of 1919. - Phog Allen Allen, whose cage teams are prac- tically the perennial champions of the Big Six, predicted a post-war golden age of sports. ‘It will have to be golden,” he said. “There won’t be enough silver to hire the big boys.” Recommends Commissioner Allen suggested that “college ad- ministrators should see to it that the office of the President of. the United States should nominate the commissioner. “Something is going to happen,” he said. “If educational institutions are efficient, they will set up some machinery that will protect them from a national scandal. As sure as you live, the thing is going to crack —w * e: ~~ wide open sometime when they lay bare an incident where some group of college boys have thrown a game for a tidy sum. That will happen because there is more money being bet on football and_ basketball games in America today, than is bet on all the horse races being run.” Allen ‘said “the fellows who run the Amateur Athletic Union should invite the highly proficient base- ball and football executives- into their fold to teach them how. to run their professional athletics.” College Heads Confess Danger The Jayhawker coach. pointed out. that the American Ass of University and College Presi- dents* has failed to do anything|- about athletics from a post-war ‘angle except to acknowledge that they have gone professional. “Now,” he said, “the scramble is on to get big name coaches to man. the guns and fill the stadia to dripping capacity. They will be out after the returning stars, when they doff their uniforms ‘and cam- paign ribbons and will use the GI Bill of Rights to help them lure the boys into the fold. _ “Along with the Government money they (the coaches and schools) will be offering bonus dough for playing on their par- ticular team.” _Allen said he had no objection to scholarships, openly arrived at and lived up to. : “But what we are facing today,” he said, “is that some schools pay $45 a month, some $75, some pay board and room, tuition, books and on up. A commissioner would Stabilize things and this hypocrisy that is practiced now would be dealt with summarily.” Sena STITT NTT jation | St cet na ot rt mm NM Prem Us.” (Rada. Pune GC be GD wrere him %.. ~ Phog’ Allen’s Charges Of Fixed’ Court Games Proved Baseless—Irish GN. ~ 3 het ons! N. Y. Garden Promoter Declares Coach —— Ils Merely Repeating Allegations Investigated Last Year W YORK, Oct. 23 (UP)—Ned Irish, acting president ison Square Garden, said today that Dr. Forrest C. Allen’s charge of co llege basketball games being ere was “nothing more than a baseless repetition ions which he picked up by way of hearsay.” Fix by Gamblers Trish, replying to charges by the University of Kansas basket- ball coach, that gamblers ar- ranged to “fix” the results of cer- tain games here, said that “there is nothing:new in what Dr. Allen alleges.” “The situation he refers to was investigated thoroughly by local authorities and the newspapers, when the rumor first developed last season,” Irish said. “That investigation proved the rumor was baseless. No player was ever disciplined and no other ac- tion was taken.” “Same Old. Stories” Irish said he personally “would like to let the entire matter drop rather than give Allen a chance jto talk again,” “He has been doing that sort of thing for years now, and the mys- tery to me is that people take him seriously in the light of his previ- ous false prophecies,” Irish said. “However, in this instance, it ‘was a very serious thing for him to do, based strictly on a second- hand story, and in justice to the players he named, I feel moyed ? to say there was nothing to it. Irish confirmed that he had. r:- ceived Allen’s telegram in which he named the players alleged y involved in the “fix.” A Case of Put Up or © Shut Up — By RED SMITH Dr. Phog Allen, who: has made a career out of proving that he would have invented basketball if James Naismith hadn’t thought of it first, is an extraordinarily fortunate man gifted with many talents, rare personal charm and a reverent admiration. for the -|sound of his own voice. Out in Kansas, where school children are taught that Dr. Allen ~ invented the very peach basket that Naismith first tacked up ona pole, editors would as lief go to press with- out the weath- er report as publish an edi- tion lacking an announcement by Dr. Allen that basketball is going to the demnition bow- ; wows. AS a _ Red Smith consequence, cae Dr. Allen’s ordinary fulminations now create almost as much ex- citement among readers aS a forecast that tomorrow -will be mostly cloudy with rising tem- peratures in the afternoon. However, within the last few days the Kansas coach has given tongue to a set of contradictions which eannot be shrugged off without comment. — z He started out by disclosing that im certain sinful circles bets were laid on basketball games. What’s more, he was quoted as declaring he knew of at least two cases in which players in Madi-- son Square Garden games sold out to gamblers last winter. Twenty-four hours later he de- nied making any specific charges involving games in the Garden. Games were run on the up and up there, he said. When he spoke of sellouts, he’d been referring to a certain tournament held in the East. ° Inasmuch as the two major college tournaments conducted in the East last winter were run off in the Garden, this had all the earmarks of a distinction without a difference. However, Dr. Allen was not abashed. _ 2 In a third statement he an- {nounced he had furnished Ned Irish, promoter of the Garden games, with the name of one player influenced by professional gamblers. He did not identify the .|player, the college, the game in question or the gamblers. Instead he hedged, explaining that “it is very difficult to get in| proof.” ~ Oo J 21 wore OD es —so OFrM OD TAR ws © Dm we Fh wd — era — ae recon PAX WW | I don’t know-whether ay ‘\lege player ever bet a @ ‘|aecepted’ a penny from a ‘|when he calls gambling a |that maintenance of a po _ And that, of course, is pre- cisely the point. Unless a man is prepared to submit proof, he has no right whatever to broad- cast charges of crookedness. He Must Name Names Or Keep Quiet Allen makes his living, or at least part of it, out of basketball. The very least he owes the game in return is to put up or shut up. He must name names publicly, and give the accused a chance to make a public defense. Or else he must stop rapping the sport that feeds him. t The good doctor’s discovery that some people bet on_basket- ball games will not astonish fans in the East. The literate ones have been reading storm .warn- ings for years. cts It has been pointed out time and again that gambling on col- lege games has attained. approxi- mately the Se of the steel industry. Professionals ex- change such copious and minute information about teams that a bookie in New York can learn what the star center of Sioux City Normal ate for. breakfast three days before a game, and how it sat on his stomach. © A coach may think his team is in perfect physical and mental condition for a big game, but some total stranger in Jersey City knows the left forward. has a slightly sprained ankle, the right guard has been fighting with his girl friend, the first-line substitute can’t sleep on.a Pull- man and the custodian of the water bucket is ailing with a cut -|suffered while shaving. With gamblers maintaining such -lintimate contact with players, it is a mortal cinch that some day somebody is going to get to a kid with a financial proposition— if it hasn’t happened already. Even without selling out, it is possible for a player to. make at least a good try at influencing the payoff on bets’based on the score done on a point basis, mo ing staked on the propositi Team A will beat Team say, 10 points. = Angle guys insist the seen cases in which a Team A seemed determi his club shouldn’t win by than eight points. — But I do know Allen to the game. The mealy- complaint that his state tray a “lack of faith in A youth” is as sensible as ‘|refiects distrust of the 4 }peoples |e. 2 te of a game. The big wagering is ae Jorganization as baseba tla commissioner with ;/have the indispensable ‘|fine offending players, ‘| colleges. | oo However, one can’t ag Allen that the menace moved by appointing a czar like baseball’s Jud Basketball: has no suc and .a .commissioner There is a susp) Allen, suggesting of a czar like Land pared to recomm ‘date for the job. as to the candida r= Basket rn ee aS PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22 (A. P.). Dr. H. ©. Carlson, Univer: Pittsburgh basketball coach, today joined Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, ‘University of Kansas mentor, in the latter’s assertion that gambling on basketball games in Madison Square Garden is a serious threat to the intercollegiate sport. Ss “Mr, Allen is right,” said Dr. Carl- son. “Something will have to be done to stamp it out, The gamblers are getting out of hand and bold in their dealings. And not only in New | York. Their fingers are on the game everywhere, in the small towns as well as in the large cities.” Coach Vadel Peterson, of the Uni- Ey ball Gambling Serious—Carlson _ New York was closed as far as he versity of Utah, however declared, “T am sure the management of Mad- ison Square Garden would be the first to move if it thought that gam- pling affected the outcome of any game.” He also admitted, as Dr. Allen charged, that a man last year approached him in a New York hotel room and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose a game. Peterson, in Salt Lake City, ad- mitted that fans wagered on the outcome of basketball games just as they do on elections or on any other contest. He added, however, that he did not want to become a party to any reform movement against gambling, and that the incident in OE ws eee Charge Baseless, § N (| | h NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (U. P.).— Ned Irish, acting president of Madi- son Square Garden, said today that Dr. Forrest €. (Phog) Allen’s charge of college basketball games being was concerned when ‘he shut ‘the. door of the hotel room in the man’s face. After his statement in Lawrence, Kan., Dr. Allen was criticized by Emil Liston, executive director of the National Association of Inter- collegiate Basketball. Liston said in his Baldwin, Kan., home Satur-. day, Dr. Allen had shown “lack of faith in American youth, and meag- er confidence in the integrity of the coaches.” 3 : > Dr. Allen’s only reply to Liston’s | statement was, “I find Dr. Liston’s | childlike faith very touching, and I} hope nothing ever happens to en- lighten him,” nt thrown here was “nothing more) than a baseless repetition ‘of allega- | tions which he picked up by way of hearsay.” | Trish, replying to charges by the University of Kansas asketball coach, that gamblers had arranged to “fix” the results of certain games here, said that “there is nothing: new in what Dr. Allen alleges.” REPORT PROVED BASELESS “The situation he refers to was | investigated thoroughly by local | authorities and the newspapers, | when the rumor first develoyfed last season,” Irish said. “That iavesti- gation proved that the rumor was baseless. No player was ever. dis- ciplined and no other action was taken.” Trish said. that he _ personally “would like to let the entire matter drop rather than give Allen a chance to talk again.” : “He has been doing that sort of thing for years now, and the mystery to me is that people take him ser- ‘false prophecies,” Irish said. | Irish confirmed that he had re- iously in the kght of his previous “However, in this instance, it was a very.serious thing for him to do, based, strictly on 4 second-hand ‘story, and in justice to the players he named, I feel moved to say there was nothing to it.” ceived Allen’s telegram in which he named the players allegedly in- ‘volved in the “fix.” - : , U tah Mentor Wants No Part, In Allen’s War on Gamblers. | But Peterson Upholds Phog’s Assertion “Fix” Was Tried . Before Game in N.Y. Lawrence, Kas., Oct. 22.—(AP)— Emil Liston, executive director of the’ National Association of Inter- collegiate Basketball, who censured Dr, Forrest C, (Phog) Allen of Kan- sas University for “lack of faith in American youth,’ has been joined by Vadal Peterson, Utah’s cage coach, in minimizing Phog’s asser- tion that gamblers threaten integrity of college athletes. Peterson confirmed Allen’s asser- tion that a man had come to his hotel ‘room in New York and asked how much it would cost for Utah to lose }a game. But Peterson said the inci- \dent was closed when he shut the door in the man’s face. He added 4 that he did not want to become a Dr. F. C. “Phog” Allen party to a reform movement against gambling. Pitt Coach Upholds Allen (At Pittsburgh, Dr. H. C. Carlson, ‘ ;University of Pittsburgh basketball ‘coach, upheld Allen. “He’s right,” st said Dr. Carlson ‘n a statement, “and something will have to be done to stamp it out. The gamblers are get- ting out of hand and bold in their _ dealings. And not only in New York. Their fingers are on the game every- where, in the small towns as well as in the large cities.”) Liston, coach at Baker University, Baldwin, Kas., said in a statement Saturday that Allen’s’. charges showed a “deplorable lack of faith in American youth and meager con- fidence in the integrity of coaches.” “I find Mr. Liston’s childlike faith very touching, and I hope nothing ever happens to enlighten him,” was Phog’s only retort to his former pupil’s statement. Allen coached Liston whan the i latter was a student at Baker in 1907. . Peterson, in Salt Lake City, said that fans bet on basketball games just as they do on elections or any} other contest. Says Garden Would Act , “I am sure the management of | Madison Square Garden would be the first to move if it thought that gambling affected the outcome of ; ‘any game,” Peterson said, > Allen had this to say about Peter- ) son’s comment: ‘ i ‘Vadal is talking about betting by |. fans. I have no argument with the} fan who wants to bet on any game. “But the man who cam ). his hotel room and asked how i |would cost to have Utah th ay game was not a fan contemplating) Se 4 le casual wager.” Allen said that he joined Peterson in his belief that Madison: Square ‘Garden made every effort to prevent gambling. He added that his only 7 target of criticism was the profes- ° : sional gambler who, Allen said, would like to fix college games. - ee