Trish Bares Basketball Profits iTestifies He Got 10 P. Net From Collegiate Games. Ned Irish, acting president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation and promoter of basketball at the Garden since 1934, admitted before Judge Leibowitz of Kings county today that his scheduling of basketball at the sports arena was primarily to make money for him- self, but emphasized that in addition he was interested in presenting college basketball under better conditions and where it could be attended by large numbers of fans. Irish, who allegedly supplied. the police’early last fall with a list of - professional gamblers ‘whom he wished kept away from the Garden, was the day’s first witness at the resumption of the Brooklyn inquiry into gambling and its relation to college bas- ketball in New York. The investigation was prompted by the disclosure weeks ago that five former members of the Brooklyn College basketball team had ac- cepted a bribe to throw a game which Brooklyn College was scheduled to play in Boston against Akron University. Irish declined to say to what} - extent he had profited out of col- lege basketball at the Garden, and with respect to the general financial arrangements for basketball games there said that it was not a case of the colleges getting stipulated percentages for sending teams there,. but of the Garden getting a stated per- centage. The Garden executive said he was graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1928 and that while there he was a college sports writer for a Philadelphia newspaper. On his graduation he continued as a sports writer for a New York newspaper until 1934 when he persuaded Garden of- ficials. to allow him to introduce basketball there. Tells of Profits From Games. “T realized and knew,” he said, “that conditions, both in the local gymnasiums and armories, were very poor for the playing of bas- ketball. The capacity of these places was inadequate, the light- ing poor and the attendance at games beyond anything they could handle. Only in the case of Fordham University was the asium nearly adequate to fone the attendance. Also, the gymnasium of Columbia Univer- sity came close to being ne quate.” SPORT C. and Garden 40 of Giri ae as ON ROP OP tH Geo td ~ Ns MN ethkn es iss During the 1934-35 season, bas-|* ketball was put on at the Garden on eight nights. The percentage paid to the Garden was 40 per cent of the net receipts. Various expenses had to be deducted, such as those incurred by visiting teams and to cover the Garden personnel. The first game played there brought gross receipts of t $15,000. Expenses and taxes to- taled $4,000, leaving a balance of|- $11,000 of which the Garden got 40 per cent. The four colleges involved divided 50 per cent and the Irish got 10. In reply to Judge Leibowitz’s questions Irish denied that he ‘ever had invested any money in the games or that he had ever is had a partner in their promotion. He said that the first season of basketball at the Garden re- turned gross receipts of under), $100,000. “And what was your personal return?” asked Assistant District Attorney Charles N. Cohen. “I prefer not to say,” Irish an- swered. Decision Is Reserved. Irish pointed out that basket- ball receipts increased gradually as schedules were lengthened at the Garden and that the financial arrangements of the first year), continued for several seasons. He persisted in his refusal to divulge what he got out of Garden bas- ketball personally on the ground|' that “my personal income is a f personal matter.” Judge Leibo-|. witz said he would reserve deci- sion on whether the promoter was required to give the desired information. The witness said he paid cash to cover certain expenses, such as lunches for coaches and others and for minor promotional items, |. butv igorously denied that he ever gave any money to a basket-|. ball coach, a trainer or a player. Seasonal receipts hit the $200,-}: 000 mark for the first time in 1939-40 when sixteen games were| layed and the following year nineteen brought $230,000. Irish} denied that he got a penny for basketball beyond his percentage except for.$125.aqn each night of a game which covered minor ex- penses incidental to publicity and advertising. Trish sai dhe was a Garden ‘stockholder, owning 100 shares, |t and that, as acting president, he}; gets a salary of $12,500 a year. He has had this salary since the]; start of 1948, he said. lea i Oa NSE =) C07 Fok ok Son -O2P R. E. GRIFFITHS 48, — HOTEL BECK Operated by Beck-Griffiths Hotel Company SrockTon KANSAS CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED ) CHECK \ (? DOMESTIC CABLE TELEGRAM FULL RATE DAY LETTER DEFERRED ACCT’G INFMN. 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FULL RATE CABLES 4 An expedited service throughout. Code language permitted. DEFERRED HALF-RATE CABLES Subject to being deferred in favor of full rate messages for not exceeding 24 hours. Must be in plain language of country of origin or of destination, or in French. This service isin effect with most countries throughout the world. CABLE NIGHT LETTERS An overnight, low-rate. plain-language service. Delivery by mail beyond London will be made if a full mailing address is given and the words “Post” and ‘“‘London”’ are written in the address. Minimum 20 or 25 words charged for. WEEK-END LETTERS At still lower rates. Similar to Cable Night Letters except that they are accepted up to midnight Saturday for delivery Monday morning, if telegraphic delivery is selected. Minimum 20 or 25 words charged for. Mr. Ned Irish, Director, Madison Square Garden, New York. Have made Statens that it was alleged that basketball players sold out to gamblers or were connected in such a way that they were dismissed from the squad. It is alleged that Albie Ingerman, star set shot, Temple University, and other teammates were dismissed for this infraction. It is very difficult to get proof to substantiate certain charges in my possession. Much information that I have from coaches who frankly and honestly told me things, they now refuse to take responsibility for. Tom Dewey is the only ak a I know of who has been able to Chex ees sett. eae <7 Cour any information on gambling is no reflection on your highly efficient promotional venture of basketball. My desire is to awaken the college presidents of America to their responsibility in providing a source of power in fighting these professional gambling rodents. Forrest C. Allen. ee s Lyk. Oe SPORT The T a The football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarter- back Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn’t work. Last week, contrary evidence was appar- ent on almost every college gridiron: pink- cheeked freshmen scurried and whirled out of the T formation to touchdown after touchdown. More than 50% of college coaches now start their football alphabet with a capital T. The other half burn mid- night oil devising ways & means to stop it. Few have succeeded. Theme with Variations. Converts to the T have concocted all kinds of pet vari- ations and exclusive trademarks. Colum- bia’s Lou Little has a “split T,” Michi- gan’s Fritz Crisler an “unbalanced T,” Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa a “part- time T.” The Boston (professional) ~ Yanks call theirs the Q.T. Washington’s ~ Coach Ralph (‘Pest’) Welch, who took on a T with man-in-motion last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off- tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense (a man on each corner). In the quiet of the locker room, he calls this conglomera- tion the “bastard T.” But in all variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans. - At the head of the non-T list are Navy and Georgia Tech, whose conventional single-wing formations clashed last week in a weird, fumbling game at Atlanta. Tech’s gained yardage was minus 6 against TIME, OCTOBER 30, 1944 the Middies’ plus 221, but the final score was Tech 17, Navy 15. Bo McMillan’s Indiana team is the lone Big Ten eleven shunning the T. Last week the Hoosiers _upset Northwestern’s T, 14-to-7. Gambling in the Garden College basketball in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden has become a big business. Teams travel from all over the country to play there before crowds which last season averaged 15,657 a game. Last week a famed coach, University of Kansas’ Dr. Forrest C. (“Phog”) Allen, charged that it is also becoming a dirty business. Predicting an imminent “scandal that TIME Diagram by James Cutter would stink to high heaven,” he declared: “Vadal Peterson, Utah University coach, knocked down a gambler who came to his room in New York last spring and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth in the N.C.A.A. finals. . . .* Professional gamblers al- ready have caused two boys to throw basketball games.” Retorted the Garden’s acting president, Ned Irish: “If Allen has any proof of dishonesty in basketball games at the Garden, he’d better come through with it.” (Allen promptly wired the name of one player who had “sold out,’ had been ex- pelled from college for it.) President Irish announced that he would have 36 uni- formed policemen, almost as many plain- clothesmen and private detectives on duty this season with express orders to prevent all known gamblers from entering the Garden. At Rhode Island’s Pascoag track near Providence last week, 40 racehorse owners -and trainers issued an ultimatum to State racing officials: unless an immediate end was put to “race-fixing by a gambling ring,” they would stop entering their horses at Pascoag. * Said Coach Peterson last week, denying that he had struck the gambler: “I shut the door in | his face, and that closed the incident.” 81 Famous for Quality Every tool in the complete Plomb line is designed for better, safer, longer-lasting service. Each is outstanding in efficiency of design and manufacture for its particu- lar job. Safety and speed are the great features Plomb builds into this Combina- tion Box and Spud End Wrench for heavy in- dustry. They are typical of the exceptional qual- ities of all Plomb tools. See them at your Plomb distributor.— Plomb Tool Company, Los Angeles 54, Cal. Special alloy steel construc- tion. 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The man is Dr. Forrest C. (“‘Phog”’) Allen, head basketball coach at the University of Kansas; his idea, that basketball, which has become a big business, is also becoming a dirty business. Specifically, as you may recall, Doctor Allen charged several weeks ago: 1. That gamblers have become a threat to college athletics; 2. That Vadal Peterson, Utah University coach, shut the door in the face of a gambler who came to his hotel room in New York last spring and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth in the finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament; _ 3. That professional gamblers have already caused two boys to “throw”’ college basketball games; 4. That a “scandal that would stink to high heaven” is in the making. What happened when this story, filed by Sam Smith, of the United Press, hit the sports pages was astonish- ing. Dozens of college basketball coaches and directors of athletics hastened to give the lie to the Allen charges. In one way or another, they accused him of (a) lack of faith in American youth, and (b) seeing things under the bed. Simultaneously, Ned Irish, who rose from relative obscurity as a sports-writer to the acting presidency of Madison Square Garden on the strength of his flair | Pint POST does not often poke its editorial nose for basketball promotion, was doing his best to make . Phog look like the heel of the month. According to Trish, the Garden employs so many cops that a gambler can’t get closer to the playing court than Times Square and, if he could, the players and coaches are such sterling characters that a gambler would be - .»@Wasting his time. The result of all this sugar-coated double-talk was that Phog Allen’s charges disappeared from the sports pages within a week, simply because sports editors tired of printing rebuttals that sounded like quotations from a high-school principal’s com- mencement address. And Phog, after shooting the works on his first announcement, did not have enough additional libel-proof information to keep his one-man crusade alive. Perhaps there is no reason for exhuming the story now, but we think there,is. Amateur athletics have lost much of their luster in the last ten years. We have learned to sneer at “‘tennis bums” and “golf-course insurance men”; we have learned to accept the overt professionalization of college football players. Indeed, we have come so far that the very word ‘“‘amateur’’ now means “‘tyro”’ or “beginner” rather than a person who does something just because he likes to do it. Somehow we feel that Phog Allen, sentimentalist and pop-off guy that he is, had something like that in mind when he cut loose with his barrage against Gar- den gambling. He must ‘also have been thinking of the millions that change hands each Saturday on college football pools, where the professional gamblers are now brazen enough to get their information from the players themselves and from undergraduates working on campus newspapers. He must have been thinking of the fact that in Miami this last fall, extra police were assigned to quell gamblers working high- school football games. And he must have been thinking of the millions of kids who want to play ball, either at the Garden or at Goose Crick Corners Gym, whether the odds are 6-5, 100-1 or even money, give or take three points. No matter what the Allen episode proved, it did suggest to a lot of people that their estimate of col- lege athletics ought to be revised again—and down- ward. And it did make a lot of good cash customers wonder why professional baseball, under the late Judge Landis, has been able to deal with its problems more forthrightly, and to police itself more effectively, than have intercollegiate sports under the loose politi- — cal associations which seem to divide their time evenly between cherishing the ivy and counting the house. Another Garden basketball season is now in full swing. For the sake of a lot of kids who enjoy a trip! to New York, and for the sake of American sports, we hope that Doctor Allen’s prediction of another and bigger gambling ‘‘scandal”’ will prove false. In the meantime, it would seem only routine good sense for college associations to learn to meet their problems head on and not merely to hush up the critics. . \ Mr. Whiskers Breathes Easier TS eight states which have community-property laws have long been a headache to the Federal Treasury. The theory of community property is that husband and wife share equally in the income earned or enjoyed by either of them. In community-property states, husbands and wives add their incomes together, divide it by two and then file separate income-tax returns. It is easy to see that a man with a $20,000 income comes off better by paying the tax on two incomes of $10,000 each than he would if he had to pay the higher rate assessed against the whole $20,000. The Treasury has repeatedly tried to get around this by compelling married couples to file joint returns, but up to now, no soap. However, a tax case recently decided by the Supreme Court seems to remove the threat of a spate of new community-property states, all eager to ease the citizen’s tax burden by permitting husband and wife to divide their incomes equally. The case arose from the attempt of the Internal Revenue officials to collect from C. C. Harmon, an Oklahoma oil man, a sum assessed against him as a result of his efforts to take advantage of the community-property law recently passed by the Oklahoma legislature. The orig- inal community-property states—California, Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington—inherited their laws from the colonial Spanish or French regimes under which husband and wife were joint and equal owners of all property avail- able to either of them. Oklahoma, however, did not inherit her community-property tradition from- any regime antedating her statehood, but adopted it by statute. Furthermore, she permitted Oklahoma couples to go community property or not, as they pleased. The claim of the Government was that, inasmuch as Oklahoma passed this law after the Federal-income- tax law came into effect, it wasreasonableto assume that the statute was “enacted for the purpose of enabling the citizens of that state to enjoy the tax advantages of the traditional community states.” Mr. Harmon won in the tax court and in the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals. The Circuit Court was un- able to see any legal difference between Oklahoma’s made-to-order community-property law and those of the eight states which were, so to speak, born in the community-property tradition. The Supreme Court, however, felt otherwise and ruled that Oklahoma had not ‘“‘adopted any legal community-property system.” Thus the Treasury is free from the fear that the thirty-nine other states may adopt Oklahoma’s device for automatic tax reduction. (.1. Plan for Educating Civilians PDROBABLY the notion that the war is over is less prevalent than it was six months ago, but there is still considerable ersatz optimism around which no war news seems powerful enough to shake. Perhaps one way to bring the citizenry back to reality would be to adopt (in part) the suggestion made by a soldier in Europe, as reported in a letter by John Groth to The New York Times. Mr. Groth, who has returned from Europe’s battle areas, said that what particu- larly irritated the men at the front was to read accounts of plans for victory celebrations, directions for conduct on V-E day and news concerning the insurance of property against damage by celebrants. One G.I. asked Mr. Groth, “Why don’t they create in Central Park a string of foxholes in that wooded, hilly area north of Eighty-third Street near Central Park West and put in some representative civilians, turn on the rain that lasts all day and every day, fire mortar shells at them, and when the mortars get too close, make them get out and dig another foxhole, and 80 ' when the mortars find that one, make them do it again? Make them feel like worms dodging a shovel. After a few days of this and of being wet, standing in ice water, not having any warm food, a letter from home or a magazine, ask them whether it is all quiet on the western front. and whether the war is over.” Perhaps the home front does not need such a going over as this to give it a better perspective. But as a peek into how the men in the foxholes regard fatuous optimism, Mr. Groth’s report is impressive. Christmas, 1944 N CHRISTMASTIME, when we want to be gay and protect ourselves a little while from the callousness and cruelty of the world, we are tempted to resent the intrusion of the grim fact that for the great majority of the human race, Christmas is not merry at all. The tortured people in Hitler’s jails and concentration camps; homeless thousands in the war- ravaged areas of France, Russia, the Balkans, China, Italy and the Netherlands; our own boys slugging it out in the freezing plains of Western Europe or the insect-infested islands of the Pacific—all these seem very far away from the crowded shops and streets of our untouched native land. But the truth is, of course, that Christmas belongs to dispossessed, suffering and perilously situated peo- ple more truly than it belongs to the rest of us. The first Christmas was the concern of a small group of poor people living under alien, totalitarian rule. Not — even the promise of a new hope escaped the local Ges- tapo, and the thoroughness of its murderous activities is reflected in the Gospel account: ‘In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.” So we need not think of this. Christmas as an inter- ruption in the great tradition. On the contrary, we can be sure that those who are far away from home firesides or who have no present means of celebrating the day as they wish they could, have not given up on Christmas at all. One day in the year in which peace and good will gets even lip service must be especially precious to those whose lot it is to endure the rigors of war and witness daily the barren harvest of hate. No wonder that hard-pressed men everywhere snatch a moment of time or sacrifice some hard-bought luxury from their scant stores to celebrate the day. “The wind is chill. But let it whistle as it will, we’ll keep our Christmas merry still!” Printed in U. S. A. ay Another big rush om Long Distance lines this Christmas... It was a big rush last year. It may be even bigger this Christmas. So please help keep Long Distance lines clear for essential calls on December 24, 25 and 26. War still needs the wires—even on holidays. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Tae Re if THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENERAL OFFICE SO ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK 20, N. Y. DEC, 31, 1944 DEAR PHOG, 1 WISH 1 HAD SAVED THAT LETTER FROM MAJOR GRIFFITH ABOUT WHICH YOU WROTE SO 1! COULO QUOTE IT MORE FULLY. ONE POINT | APPARENTLY OIFON'T BRING OUT BEFORE WHEN | WAS PICKING OUT A FEW QUOTABLE PHRASES FROM A LETTER THAT REALLY WASN'T INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION, WAS THAT HE WAS SPEAKING MORE FROM A *BIG TEN’ VIEWPOINT THAN FROM A BROADER ONE WHEN HE SPOKE OF CONDUCTING ATHLETICS ON A NON=PAID BASIS, THE POINT HE BROUGHT OUT THERE WAS THAT THE WESTERN CONFERENCE 1S PRETTY *CLEAN® AS COMPARED TO, SAY, THE SOUTHEASTERN ANDO 4T CAN AVOID BEING ASSOCIATED WITH THE SO-CALLED *PRO* COLLEGES ANY TIME IT WISHES MERELY BY REFUSING TO PLAY WITH THEM, / AGREE WITH HIM THAT MOST OF THE PROBLEMS CAN BE HANDLED ON THAT GENERAL BASIS WITHOUT RESORTING TO A CZAR IF THE COLLEGES WANT TO HANDLE THEM THAT 18, THE RULES OR *LAWS* ALREADY EXIST IN THE SEPARATE SCHOOLS AND CONFERENCES AND COULD BE ENFORCED BY EXISTING MACHINERY IF THE COLLEGES REALLY WANT TO DO IT. APPOINTMENT OF AN INTERCOLLEGIATE CZAR WITH THE POWERS OF A LAND1S WOULD NOT ONLY TEND TO SEPARATE THE ATHLETICS FROM THE COLLEGES MORE THAN EVER BUT WOULD REQUIRE A HUGE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO PREVENT CHEATING BY THOSE SCHOOLS OR ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS THAT WANTED TO CHEAT « | ALSO DOUBT VERY MUCH IF SUCH A CZAR COULD WIPE OUT THE GAMBLING EVIL, WHICH 1 FRANKLY THING HAS BEEN OVEREMPHASIZED LATELY. I BELIEVE THAT THE CLOSER THE AUTHORITIES ARE TO THE BOYS LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED, THE BETTER CHANCE THEY HAVE OF FINDING OUT SUCH THINGS AND PREVENTING THEM, |! DOUBT IF ANY COLLEGES WOULD GIVE ANY ONE MAN THE UNLIMITED AM POWER THAT BASEBALL GAVE JUDGE LANDIS, FOR INSTANCE, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE KANSAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENERAL OFFICE SO ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK 20, N. Y. BARRED FROM INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS FOR YEARS, OR PERHAPS PERMANENTLY, BECAUSE A *CZAR* HAD WHAT HE CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT PROOF OF SOME ACTION THAT HE BELIEVED "DETRIMENTAL TO ATHLETICS," LANDIS NEVER ACTUALLY PUT A CLUB OUT OF BUSINESS, BUT HE TOSSED OUT CLUB OWNERS, ALSO, LANDIS ABILITY TO TRACK DOWN MANY CASES OF RULE VIOLATIONS DEPENDED UPON THE FACT THAT PLAYERS WHO FELT THEY WEREN'T GETTING ENOUGH MONEY OR THAT THEY WERE GETTING THE DIRTY END OF SOME DEAL WOULD COMPLAIN TO HIM, IN PRESUMABLY AMATEUR COLLEGE SPORT, | DOUBT IF YOU COULD FIN@ MANY PEOPLE READY TO *BLOW THE WHISTLE,® THE NCAA, AS | UNDERSTAND THAT BODY, ISN'T & INTENDED TO BE AN ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AS MUCH AS A BOOY FOR FORMULATING POLICIES ON WHICH THE SEPARATE COLLEGES WILL ACT. THE AAU IS A BETTER EXAMPLE OF A BODY WHICH HAS REAL POWER IN AMATEUR ATHLETICS, AND YOU KNOW HOW SELDOM IT GETS *THE GOODS* ON ANYONE. FOR INSTANCE, HOW ABOUT THE STORY THAT GLENN CUNNINGHAM PAID AN INCOME TAX ON NEARLY $30,000 ONE YEAR WHILE HE WAS STILL A STUDENT? GETTING BACK TO BASKETBALL AND BETTING=-AND INCIDENTABBY I THINK NED IRISH HAS TAKEN AN UNJUSTIFIED BEATING FROM THE SPORTS WRITERS ON THAT SUBJECT== | DON'T KNOW OF A SINGLE CASE WHERE IT COULD BE PROVED THAT THE COLLEGE BOYS WERE PLAYING ALONG WITH THE GAMBLERS, HAVING SEEN THAT NYU TEAM YOU MENTION, ' DON'T THINK IT 1S GOOD ENOUGH TO CUT THE POINT MARGIN THAT FINE=-CERTAINLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE GAMBLERS TO RISK MUCH MONEY ON IT, APPARENTLY TEMPLE KNEW WHAT IT WAS DOING LAST SPRING WHEN THAT KIO WAS QUIETLY ALLOWED TO DROP OUT, BUT THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES HANDLING A CASE TO EVERYONE'S SATISFACTION, IT MAY BE BESIDE THE POINT, BUT ONE OF OUR MEN WHO 1S ON FRIENDLY TERMS WITH *THE MOB® TELLS ME THE GAMBLERS THEMSELVES DON'T WANT TO PUT abies wakeoie Aue sue en Sin Sip at gE id Rh a PR PS Te ETN SS se THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENERAL OFFICE 5O ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK 20, N. Y. THE FIX ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL ANO THAT THEIR FAVORITE BETTING GAME 1S BASE BALL BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT IS ABSOLUTELY ON THE LEVER. HIS STORY 1S THAT THEY FEEL THEY HAVE A BETTER CHANCE BY GETTING THE BEST POSSIBLE INFORM- ATION AND JUDGING THE ODDS FROM THAT THAN TO RISK A DOUBLE CROSS TRYING TO PUT OVER A SURE THING, HE INSISTS THAT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED CAME BECAUSE THE NEW YORK CROWD FIXED UP ONE GAME TO *TAKE® THE PHILADELPHIA CROWD AND THE PHILADELPHIANS RETALIATED, BUT TO GET BACK TO GRIFFITH'S LETTER, HE POINTED OUT THAT THERE WASN*T ANY TROUBLE ABOUT BASKETBALL UNTIL IT MOVED INTO THE GARDEN, CHICAGO STADIUM AND OTHER LARGE ARENAS AND THAT IT COULD MOVE OUT AGAIN ANY TIME THE COLLEGES DESIRED, | OON*T KNOW THAT I*VE PROVED ANYTHING HERE, BUT | MAY HAVE SHOWN THAT 1 °M AGIN CZARS AS LONG AS THERE*S ANY POSSIBLE WAY TO AVOID THEM, CORDIALLY, £ i f & fi fh Sem: £ aes f é on fj f £ if [A f: yg Tih oy HUGH FULLERTON, JR. VU Ze, hens Deoonber 21, 1944. Mr. Hugh Pullerton, ore Tho Assooiated Press, New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Fullerton: Major Grigeith' iiahinanh snk teen ack 1 ALA eee but nog fer philioation. . _ Major Griffith and I heave inewn each other for a long time; in Sera mk ade cnt fo, See SAGs St Sin Chak SARS Shp 10, nn Si | Bulted me very often. He was fighting for the colleges to have denunciation of the autocratic attitude of the Anerioen Olympic Conant toe. a fight was wearing on a person's nerves, but $f i¢ was necessery for hin to sscrifies his life for « principle he was willing to do it. | He used Generel Palner 8. Pierce, the president of the NCAA, as his lancet, and a bitter warfare wos waged. With the resignation of General Pleros, pence came between the AAU and the NCAA. Major Griffith received the right to appoint the coaches of four Olympic sports, - In your article you quote Major Griffith as : you eean't make athletic people good by legislation, and it is foolish to make laws before there ia a demand for the lews. Second, our athletics can be controlled better by local groups than by a national tion eesee” By this, 4t would appear that Major Griffith would subseribe to the policy that it would be necessary to have an insurance seandal in New York State before Charles Evans Iughes would write a lew prohibiting @ yepetition. Or there would have to be a Black Sox scandal before Judge Landis should be engaged. By this thinking, it would be better to have & geubler's scandal connected with college athletics before we did anye thing rather than to forestall it. ww ll, : eps fi He dit fe al i ge UE em He ea ahi tin ie mth hi i fy i 8 i HH ih ih Hh ty Hit (i | if ee “ ti Hdl | in 4H _ abu yous bet. low, believe it or not, Now York U. bagged the viotory by a i4-point margin, on which basis the gaublers swept the board on every bet. The sane old “in the middle” cans. Asking that hypothetical question, Is somebody's face red? Sincerely yours, | Direotor of Physical Rducation, FCAsAH | Varsity fasketball Conch. NN aaa ARDEL Major Griffith Scored Allen (By HUGH FULLERTON JR.) New York, Dec. 9.—(A. P.) —Next to picking a successor ‘to Judge Landis, about the hardest sports job of the com- ing year will be to select a Western conference commis- sioner who can_fill the place of the late John L. Griffith. . . « Some folks will tell you :| the major didn’t have any real power, but-he had plenty of influence and a common- sense way of using it....The |: ‘last letter this department had from Griffith commented — of Fort on Phog Allen’s. proposal to son saw appoint an athletic czar: “First, you can’t make people ‘| good by legislation, and it is 2 White foolish to make laws before S. Navy there is a demand for the 2al old- laws. Second, our athletics can be controlied better by : erowd local groups than by a na- "-A-V-Y, |=]. tional organization.” ... By way of illustration he added: cer of “We do not deal with this mets problem’ of recruiting and subsidizing as tho it were a matter of ethics or morals, but rather from the stand- | point of fair competition. Our men are agreed that they want to conduct athletics on a nonpaid player basis and while, now and then, some- body may help an athlete, we feel that we are handling our own problem pretty much to our own satisfaction.” TIGERS OPEN Caw —shoes, bruptly APPR MCR E RRC R RECUR RE MAJOR GRIFFITH SCORED ALLEN (By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.) New York, Dec. 9. —- AP. Next to picking a successor to Judge Landis, about the hardest sports job of the coming year will be to select a Western conference commissioner who can fill the place of the late John L. Griffith. . « Some folks will tell you the major didn't have any real power, but he had plenty of influence and a commonsense way of using it. . » The last letter this department had from Griffith commented on Phog Allen's proposal to appoint an athletic czar: "First, you can't make people good by legislation, and it is foolish to make laws before there is a demand for the laws. Second, our athletics | ean be controlled better by local groups than by a national organization." « » e By way of illustration he added? "#6 do not deal with this problem of recruiting and subsidizing as tho it were a matter of ethics or morals, but rather from the standpoint of fair competition. Our men are agreed that they want to conduct athletics on a nonpaid player basis and while, now and then, somebody may help an athlete, we feel that we are handling our own problem pretty much to our own satisfaction.” He (By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.) o11 Satter By fan groups than by a national organization." illustration he added: ""6 do not deal with this problem 7 ee 28 were 6 wetter sf elias Se Mepaie, wan —athl dos on a nonpaid player basis and while, : d then, somebody may help an athlete, we feel that we are handling cur om problen pretty moh to our om satisfaction.” tt Viho 3S Je Ln Siitle ie ae One big reason why there is so much organized gambling at the games is due to the way the seats are ae Years ago one could purchase a pretty good seat, a week before the fame. Now the choice seats a sold in Sanesn sabsuekettons: Last year after season subscriptions were in, a second choice was allowed for part subscription. ' Welts-a great many followers of the gane can not afford to dig up from fifty toa hundred dollars in advance. So a& new crowd has taken over at the Garden. They are @er dress and hat manufacturers and-so-on. what is called in N.Y. the "cloak and suiters". This crowd is "gambling nhs In the summer it's the "tracks"; In winter it's the basketball games. I oes ray eer every day i a man's — cafe. ‘Gus Side of the restummant is peopled by men who are makers of ladies' hand=-bags. It turns your stomach sick to listen to them. Adal they talk of is points on this team or points on that team. The following day after a game to hear them excoriate some boy, for mis sing a foul shot ond thereby causing them to lose a Hohe ‘No talk about the ane points of the game, or no pity for a youngster ead tightened up when the game was on his shoulders. They are @ mean lot, money is their god and I predict they will eventually yaw the game. JAMES A. MCFARLAND 286 FIFTH AVENUE NEw YORK CITY LACKAWANNA 4 - 1859 ate 7 Bo Ha eet oe — Pen ee, ee JAMES A. MCFARLAND 286 FIFTH AVENUE NEw YORK CITY LACKAWANNA 4 - 1859