A BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, GRAND JURY HAS STARTED INVESTIGATION OF

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GAMBLING ON BASKETBALL GAMES. THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION GOT
UNDER WAY LATE LAST NIGHT AFTER IT HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY JUDGE
SAMUEL LEIBOWITZ TO HAND. DOWN ANY INDICTMENTS NECESSARY.

“THE INVESTIGATION STARTED AFTER TWO MEN, HARVEY STEMMER AND HARRY
ROSEN, WERE ARRAIGNED IN NEW YORK ON CHARGES OF BRIBING FIVE BROOKLYN
COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO THROW A GAME THAT HAD BEEN SCHEDULED
WITH AKRON FOR TONIGHT IN THE BOSTON GARDEN.’ THE GAME, INCIDENTALLY,
WAS BEEN CANCELLED AND A SERVICE CONTEST SUBSTITUTED. |

THE FIVE BROOKLYN ATHLETES, NAMED BY PROSECUTORS. AS HAVING

AGREED TO THROW THE AKRON GAME, ARE BERNARD BARNETT, LARRY PEARLSTEIN,
ROBERT LEDER, JFRRY GREFN AND STANLFY SIMON. ALL FIVE HAVE BEEN
DROPPED FROM THE BROOKLYN SQUAD.

BUT THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE TEAM WLLL CONTINUE ITS PROGRAM AND PLAY
OUT ITS CAGE SCHEDULE, ALTNOUGH TONIGHT'S CONTEST WAS ERASED.

BROOKLYN WAS THE UNDERDOG FOR THE AKRON GAME AND THE ALLEGED

ARRANGEMENTS WERE PLANNED TO INSURE.ITS LOSS BY A.SPECIFIED NUMBER
OF POINTS.

- THE FIVE PLAYERS INVOLVED SAID THE SAME ARRANGEMENTS WERE

COMPLETED FOR A GAME WITH SAINT FRANCIS, SCHEDULED FOR MADISON
SOUARF GARDEN ON JANUARY 10TH. KINGS COUNTY POLICE SAY THE BROOKLYN
YOUTHS TOLD THEM THEY ALREADY HAD RECEIVED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND
WERE AROUT TO CET TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE WHEN THEIR CONTFRENCE was.
INTERRUPTED BY POLICE.

A SHOCKED SPORTS WORLD RECEIVED NEWS OF THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE
SCANDAL WITH VARIED EMOTIONS, ASA BUSHNELL, COMMISSIONER OF

EASTERN ATHLETICS, SAID ATHLETIC DIRECTORS MUST: ORGANIZE IN STRENGTH
AND FIND THE MEANS OF ELIMINATING GAMBLERS FROM THE SCENE.

IN NEW ORLEANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION, WILBUR C.SMITH, ALSO DECLARED COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY
CHIEFS MUST STAMP OUT THE EVILS OF GAMBLING IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS. SMITH ADDED THAT THE N-C-A-A WILL TAKE UP THE
TOPIC OF GAMBLING AT ITS NEXT MEETING.

NED IRISH, ACTING PRESIDENT OF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, CALLED A
\ MEETING OF THE COACHES AND ATHLETIC DIRECTORS OF NEW YORK
METROPOLITAN SCHOOLS. AFTER THE MEETING ENDED, IRISH SATD THAT
FURTHER ACTION WAS TAKEN TO DIMINISH GAMBLING ON THE OUTCOME OF
GAMZS AND TO PROTECT PLAYERS FROM APPROACHES BY GAMBLERS. -

... COACH PHOG ALLFN, WHO TS A VETERAN CRUSADER AGAINST
BETTING ON INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES, SAYS THE REAL BLAME FOR THE
BROOKLYN INCIDENT RESTS WITH ATHLETIC DIRECTORS, COACHES AND FACULTY

REPRESENTATIVES. ALLEN SAYS THE ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AND OTHER
COLLEGE OFFICIALS FAILED UTTERLY TO PROTECT COLLEGE ATHLETICS os

THE STIGMA OF PROFESSIONAL GAMBLING.