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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22 (A. P.).
Dr. H. ©. Carlson, Univer:
Pittsburgh basketball coach, today
joined Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen,
‘University of Kansas mentor, in the
latter’s assertion that gambling on
basketball games in Madison Square
Garden is a serious threat to the
intercollegiate sport. Ss

“Mr, Allen is right,” said Dr. Carl-
son. “Something will have to be
done to stamp it out, The gamblers
are getting out of hand and bold in
their dealings. And not only in New
| York. Their fingers are on the game
everywhere, in the small towns as
well as in the large cities.”

Coach Vadel Peterson, of the Uni-

 

 

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New York was closed as far as he

versity of Utah, however declared,
“T am sure the management of Mad-
ison Square Garden would be the
first to move if it thought that gam-
pling affected the outcome of any
game.” He also admitted, as Dr.
Allen charged, that a man last year
approached him in a New York hotel
room and asked how much it would
cost to have Utah lose a game.
Peterson, in Salt Lake City, ad-
mitted that fans wagered on the
outcome of basketball games just as
they do on elections or on any other
contest. He added, however, that
he did not want to become a party
to any reform movement against
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (U. P.).—
Ned Irish, acting president of Madi-
son Square Garden, said today that

Dr. Forrest €. (Phog) Allen’s charge
of college basketball games being

 

was concerned when ‘he shut ‘the.
door of the hotel room in the man’s

face.
After his statement in Lawrence,

Kan., Dr. Allen was criticized by
Emil Liston, executive director of

the National Association of Inter-

collegiate Basketball. Liston said
in his Baldwin, Kan., home Satur-.

day, Dr. Allen had shown “lack of
faith in American youth, and meag-
er confidence in the integrity of the
coaches.” 3 : >

Dr. Allen’s only reply to Liston’s |
statement was, “I find Dr. Liston’s |
childlike faith very touching, and I}

hope nothing ever happens to en-

lighten him,” nt

 

thrown here was “nothing more)

than a baseless repetition ‘of allega- |
tions which he picked up by way of
hearsay.” |
Trish, replying to charges by the
University of Kansas asketball
coach, that gamblers had arranged
to “fix” the results of certain games
here, said that “there is nothing:
new in what Dr. Allen alleges.”

REPORT PROVED BASELESS

“The situation he refers to was |
investigated thoroughly by local |
authorities and the newspapers, |
when the rumor first develoyfed last
season,” Irish said. “That iavesti-
gation proved that the rumor was
baseless. No player was ever. dis-
ciplined and no other action was
taken.”

Trish said. that he _ personally

 

 

“would like to let the entire matter
drop rather than give Allen a chance
to talk again.” :

“He has been doing that sort of
thing for years now, and the mystery
to me is that people take him ser-

 

‘false prophecies,” Irish said.

| Irish confirmed that he had re-

iously in the kght of his previous

“However, in this instance, it was
a very.serious thing for him to do,
based, strictly on 4 second-hand
‘story, and in justice to the players
he named, I feel moved to say there
was nothing to it.”

ceived Allen’s telegram in which he

 

named the players allegedly in-
‘volved in the “fix.” -