Phog ’ Allen
Blasts Again

This Time He Seems
Trifle Mercenary

NEW YORK, Dec. 29,—-UP)—In-
vasion of the east by basket ball
teams from other sectors has failed
to standardize the type of play, Dr.|:
F.-C. (Phog) Allen of the Univer-|-

sity:-of Kansas, said today, “but we
will continue to come here to give
our kids a trip and to -get that
check.”

‘Sectional styles of play differ
more now than ever before,” Allen|
continued at a luncheon attended
by coaches from al! corners of the.
nation, “but we can get $2,000 for
‘lcoming here compared with the
‘| $300- we get for an NCAA tourney
‘|at home.”

Allen critcized the college coaches
for attempting to stifle ideas
‘| brought forth by high school tutors.
_ “It is the high school coach, who
is a teacher rather than an ath-
lete, who has the ideas and spends
the time on research and those
teacher-coaches are the backbone
of the game.”

James St. Clair of Southern
Methodist University, head of the
National Collegiate Association
basket ball ruies committee, said
he hoped there would be little rule
changing during the war, “but. I
can see no reason for freezing
them for the duration. If there is
something bad in the code, we
should get it out at once.”

His idea was seconded by Harold
Olsen of Ohio State, who also listed
|Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana > as
the powerhouses of the Big Ten.