Gambling in college sports has grown
to such proportions there is now ‘a cen-
tral clearing house known to the trade
2s the ‘‘Minneanes House.’ It is
known among the touts as a reliable
trading firm dealing in sports information
and betting prices, and bookies
pay for the information they get
from the Minneapolis. House just
as they would pay for a pair of
boots at Montgomery Ward’s. This
house collects sports information all
over the country and sets prices and
wholesales information on sports events
throughout the nation. They work
through professional agents or dope col-
lectors and naturally the best bet is to
have someone -on the teams giving them
the dope, or second best someone on
the college campus.

NED Irish, the Garden basketball mag-
nate, has made an effort to run the
gamblers out of the Garden, but the fact
“is, if he stamped out gambling he would
stamp out-a great deal of Garden basket-
ball. Not all of those 17,000 people were
at the Garden the other night because
either St. Francis or Muhlenberg were
dear to their hearts. They were there for
the same reason they go to the horse
races—and that ain’t to watch the nags
run. 2s
The hardest comment to answer about
such gambling is, ‘‘So what??? But it
is true that gambling makes for a bad
smell and dishonesty. Judge Landis did
a good job of keeping professional base-
ball divorced from the professional
bettors and it might be a good idea if
the colleges went at the business of
wiping the gamblers out of college
athletics.