Five-Star Final

 

Allen Wants MacArthur

As Amateur

Sports Czar

LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 2—It begins to look as though Gen. Douglas
MacArthur’s “cleanup” jobs will never end.

Phog Allen, Kansas basketball coach, who started yelling a few months
ago-about how gamblers were getting to basketball players, wants the five-
star Pacific boss to clean up gambling on college sports as soon as he

finishes cleaning up the Japs.

Allen, who considers himself Mr.
Basketball in the Midwest, insists he
would not consider taking such a job
himself.

“I’m not after any job; I have one,”
he shot back when asked if he would like
to fill the position of collegiate sports
czar which he proposed.

’“T would. feel highly honored if the
college presidents offered me the job, but
I wouldn’t accept it in any shape or form.

‘But I know what’s wrong and I haven’t
been afraid to speak out against it when
| the NCAA wouldn’t do it,” he said.
Thorough Renovation Needed
“It will take a great organizer and Gen.
| MacArthur, who has always been a great
| sports fan, would be the man to give col-
\Jegiate sport the thorough renovating it
i meeds. There are plenty more things he
| could look into, such as college baseball
coaches acting as scouts for big league
teams, sub rosa payments to athletes and
| other evils.”

Allen said last fall that a scandal

would develop such as the one which

brought indictments to two men on

charges of bribing five Brooklyn College
| basketball players. And the Kansas
‘mentor has carried on a one-man cam-
| paign to have college presidents convene,
| Mame a sports czar and take control out
of the hands of the NCAA.
Allen claims the NCAA is_ useless
because “it is run by a bunch of money
| grabbers who want to perpetuate them-
| selves in office.” ;

 

Phog Allen
I Would Be Honored, But...

 

Canucks in Tie

With Hawks, |-l

MONTREAL, Feb. 2—The last-place
Chicago Black Hawks pulled a major sur-

prise here last night when they displayed
thai- o dofa i e p a

came the