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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

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complaint that his state
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Allen that the menace
moved by appointing a
czar like baseball’s Jud
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Allen, suggesting
of a czar like Land
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as to the candida