Big Gambling Menace
To Collegiate Sport,
Phog Allen Fears

By. the Associated Press. :

LAWRENCE, Kans., Oct. 21.—Dr.

| Forrest’ ‘C. (Phog) . Allen;-- Kansas

 

STORM CENTER — You're

looking at Phog Allen,’ whose

charge that gambling on col-
legiate events is rampant has
stirred sports circles.

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\legiate football and basket ball

 

University basket ball coach and

critic, sees gamblers as the termites
who are about to fell the castle of
intercollegiate athletics, but denied
today that he had said games-were
thrown in Madison Squaf@ Garden.
“T said there had been two known
cases of college boys throwing bas-
ket ball games in Eastern tourna-
ments,” Phog explained when asked
if he had received a telegram from
Ned Irish, president of the Garden,
asking for names of the offending
players. . ;
“I’m not striking at Ned Irish or
any other promoter,” the loquacious
doctor maintained. “The point I'm
making is that these big time bet-
ting boys gre going to get to basket
ball* and tball players and ruin
so-cailed amateur collegiate sports.
College Sports Need Czar. |
“Nothing Irish or any coach or
promoter can do will stop the gam-
blers. Only the college presidents
can stop it by appointing an abso-
lute czar such as baseball has in
Judge Landis.” E
Allen said that he held Irish in
high esteem and that basket ball

tournaments -held in the Garden:

were run on the up and up. }
“But gambling is rampant in the
Garden and every other auditorium
where tourneys are held,” Allen
added, “If they aren’t there, why
did a spectator run out and embrace
a Utah player on the floor of Madi-
son Square Garden last spring with
the assertion that a goal the boy
had scored saved the man $15,000?”
Allen declared that gamblers had
laid 10-point odds on Kentucky
against Utah and the last-minute
goal had reduced the margin to
eight points. ee ;
“That’s why the man was jubi-
lant,” Phog related.
Big Scandal Held Likely. _

The amount of money bet on éolé

would “stagger the imagination” if
the total were known, Phog said.

“If big betting isn’t stamped ‘out,
there’s going to be an awiul stink
one of these fine days,” he asserted.
“Eventually the shady dealers will
bribe a college boy and it will make
the rankest kind of a scandal.”

In Salt Lake City, Vadal Peterson,
University of Utah coach, refused to
confirm or deny an assertion by Al-
len that he had knocked down a
gambler who asked “how much it
would cost to have Dartmouth win
over Utah” in the NCAA basket ball
finals last spring.