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.