: , U tah Mentor Wants No Part,
In Allen’s War on Gamblers. |

But Peterson Upholds Phog’s
Assertion “Fix” Was Tried .
Before Game in N.Y.

 

 

 

Lawrence, Kas., Oct. 22.—(AP)—
Emil Liston, executive director of
the’ National Association of Inter-
collegiate Basketball, who censured
Dr, Forrest C, (Phog) Allen of Kan-
sas University for “lack of faith in
American youth,’ has been joined
by Vadal Peterson, Utah’s cage
coach, in minimizing Phog’s asser-
tion that gamblers threaten integrity
of college athletes.

Peterson confirmed Allen’s asser-
tion that a man had come to his hotel
‘room in New York and asked how
much it would cost for Utah to lose
}a game. But Peterson said the inci-
\dent was closed when he shut the
door in the man’s face. He added 4
that he did not want to become a Dr. F. C. “Phog” Allen

 

 

party to a reform movement against
gambling.

Pitt Coach Upholds Allen
(At Pittsburgh, Dr. H. C. Carlson,
‘ ;University of Pittsburgh basketball
‘coach, upheld Allen. “He’s right,” st
said Dr. Carlson ‘n a statement, “and
something will have to be done to
stamp it out. The gamblers are get-
ting out of hand and bold in their
_ dealings. And not only in New York.
Their fingers are on the game every-
where, in the small towns as well as

in the large cities.”)

Liston, coach at Baker University,
Baldwin, Kas., said in a statement
Saturday that Allen’s’. charges
showed a “deplorable lack of faith
in American youth and meager con-
fidence in the integrity of coaches.”

“I find Mr. Liston’s childlike faith
very touching, and I hope nothing
ever happens to enlighten him,” was
Phog’s only retort to his former
pupil’s statement.

Allen coached Liston whan the i
latter was a student at Baker in 1907.
. Peterson, in Salt Lake City, said
that fans bet on basketball games
just as they do on elections or any}
other contest.

Says Garden Would Act
, “I am sure the management of
| Madison Square Garden would be
the first to move if it thought that
gambling affected the outcome of
; ‘any game,” Peterson said,
> Allen had this to say about Peter- )
son’s comment: ‘ i
‘Vadal is talking about betting by |.
fans. I have no argument with the}
fan who wants to bet on any game.
“But the man who cam ). his
hotel room and asked how i
|would cost to have Utah th ay
game was not a fan contemplating) Se 4
le casual wager.”
Allen said that he joined Peterson
in his belief that Madison: Square
‘Garden made every effort to prevent
gambling. He added that his only
7 target of criticism was the profes- °
: sional gambler who, Allen said,
would like to fix college games. -

 

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