NSAS CITY STAR,
THE MAYOR JOINS ALLEN

NEW YORK HEAD USES “TINHORN
GAMBLERS” AS OBJECTS.

 

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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