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N. Y. Garden Promoter Declares Coach

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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

 

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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

 

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