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.