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Phog Allen, Kansas Coach,
GAVE WARNING — Se es
ON GAMBLING

Declared Last Fall That Scan-
dal Was Likely To Occur

 

 

Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 17 (P)—
Phog Allen, who views with alarm
a lot more often than with ap-
proval, probably has the best
chance in sports history to say “I
told you so,” and he hasn’t mel-
lowed his strident voice a particle
in saying just that.

He wasn‘t popping off last fall:
he knew what he was talking about
in predicting a national basketball
betting scandal four months before
it erupted.

It’s for the good of the game that
he’s still sounding off, the Kansas
University basketball coach insists,
and he stands today, after the
scandal, just where he did before in
_ advocating a collegiate athletics

czar and a national housecleaning
of gambling that sill teeop +h. |
“fixers” away from the kids who
play the game.

Is Big Wind ne

There were ample grounds, how-
ever, for doubters to pooh-pooh Al-
len’s dire predictions last October.
The wind blows in gusts out here
on the Kansas plains and one of,the
reasons, claim his hecklers, is
breezy Phog Allen.

On a windy day mid-westerners
are apt to meet in the street, hold
their hats and greet each other
with the’ observation that Allen
must be riling up the air currents
again.

Lid Blows Off

And likely as not they’d be right.
Forrest C. Allen for years has fired
from the lip at things he didn’t
like in the sports realm. His critics
always said Phog was wrestling
with straw men just to get his
name in the headlines.

But the lid did blow off January
30 when five Brooklyn College boys.
told the prosecutor’s office they wa

 

accepted a $1,000 bribe to throw a
game scheduled with Akron Uni-|
versity in Boston. Two men were
indicted for giving the collegians|
a bribe. |