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Phog Mien hake. ‘Czar,
Other Coaches Comment

By the Associated Press.

LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 30. —
The real blame for the Brooklyn
incident, declares Phog Allen, rests
with athletic directors, coaches
and faculty representatives “whe
have failed utterly to protect col-
lege athletics from the stigma of
professional gambling.”

The University of Kansas bas-
ketball coach, long has been a
militant crusader against big-time
betting on intercollegiate games.

“Intelligent people have known
all along that big time gamblers
were getting to college basketball
players in the East,” Phog de-
clared. “Instead of facing the facts
and acting, our national athletic
bodies, to save face, have been
meeting and denying that these

ditions exist when every well-
pa ormed person knew better.”

Phog, who last fall insisted that
he knew of two instances of play-
ers throwing games in Madison

Square Garden, again urged that f

the college presidents of America
appoint a czar comparable to the
late Judge K. M. Landis, high
commissioner of baseball.

“They (the college presidents)
are the only ones who can save
college athletics from the gamblers
who are using the athlete as a
pawn in gigantic operations:
Bookies from closed horse racing
parks are moving into the inter-

collegiate field now and the sit-}.

uation is bound to get werse. Pro-
fessional bettors occupy more than
50 per cent of the choice seats in
the large basketball arenas of the

United States,” the fiery, voluble

Kansas coach continued.

“And where are those coaches
today who were decrying my lack
of faith in the American .boy?’
Allen demanded. “Or those sanc-
timonious bodies which deplored
the ‘unfavorable and unfounded’
publicity given to gambling on
college games?”

If something isn’t done quickly
to curb the inroads of betting
syndicates, a “confused public is
going to wonder what games are
on the up and up when the col-
lege teams meet.”

_ And when that time comes, Al-
len asserted, “intercollegiate ath-
letics will be on the way out.”

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care _ Events Will Go On.

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March, would go on as scheduled.
“After all,” he said, “you don’t
stop going to church because a
preacher goes wrong.”

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Vice at Beginvring. Says Coach.
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