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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-

 

 

 

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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.

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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.

 

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FIFTEEN GAMES |
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_ 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.

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