“SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1944 THE DENVER POST—FIRST IN EVERYTHING : THE POST PHONE—MAIN 22a Le MADISON SQUARE CALLS FOR GAMBLING PROOF HE good and loud Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, has, it appears, started something. For the moment the sports world is concerned primarily with his unqualified charge, made in letters printed in Friday’s DENVER POST, in which he made the flat statement that basketball games, played in Madison Square Garden, New York, had “been thrown” in return for gamblers’ cash. The good doctor, Saturday, in answer to a demand for a bill of par- ticulars from Ned Irish, Garden promoter, stated “. . . there have been two known cases of college boys throwing basketball ‘games in eastern tournaments.” Okay. As stated Friday and repeated here, let Dr. Allen now make his indictment as to time, place and names. And then, if the proof be there, let the colleges—for it is the colleges and not Madison Square Garden or any other promoter or group of promoters Allen is hitting —act. Out of the growing welter of excitement over Allen’s charges comes this telegram from Harry Hughes, the dean of them all in the Rocky Mountain area—Harry Hughes, who in his long service at Colorado Aggies has demonstrated a deeper understanding of what is right, and What is wrong with college sports than any other man in this section: “As for Allen’s charges against basketball players, I have no comment,” wires Aggie Athletic Director Hughes. “But there is much sound logie as to what “Phog” says concerning athletics at a whole. “We need a national organization with authority, vision and courage to make competitive athletics a sport for the development of our boys who go to college to obtain an education. “BIG-MONEY TOURNAMENTS AND POSTSEASON GAMES DO NOT SERVE FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF COLLEGE SPORTS AND PLAYERS.” Harry Hughes hits the nail square on the head. Take Bob Considine’s story, appearing in another column of this issue of THE POST. Read it and you have no doubt about what goes on in Madison Square Garden when college boys play there. It is a gambling enterprise—not a sports event. Now this is no reflection on the Garden—or on Ned Irish. It is, in truth. as Dr. Allen said in an Associated Press story out of Lawrence, Kan., Saturdsy: “Nothing Irish or any coach or promoter can do will stop the gamblers.” But it has always been a mystery to us why colleges lend them- selves to private promotions, such as Madison Square’s Invitational tournament. Nobody is fooling anybody on that one. The pro- moters can talk all they please about “charity” and “Red Cross benefits” and “war relief funds.” That is plain, unadulterated hooey. If you think it isn’t then get a financial statement of any of these tourneys. You will find that they write off, the top, a figure for rental, and for other expenses, that would simply knock the hat right off your head. Anybody—any promoter in the land—would be only too willing to give “all profit over expenses” to anything if, “taking off the top” he can charge such rentals as the Garden demands—and as are demanded by other eastern promotions in which college clubs are exploited—and out of which the players get what? A aD to New York. F THE time ever comes when “Phog” Allen puts over his dream of a ezar for college athletics it is to be hoped that the first act of the commissioner’s office will be the abolishment, entirely, of privately promoted big-time tournaments using college boys as an attraction. Perhaps Allen’s idea of a national commissioner would not work. Among those who feel it would not is the capable Jo E. Irish of Colorado College, who telegraphs: “T think Dr. Allen is sincere in his desire to further the interests of college athletics. Personally, I am in no position to pass judgment, one way or another, on his charges. I would prefer to reserve opinion until I see proof to support such accusations. “So far as my experience goes in years of association with college athletics, I have never had the slightest reason to think that a contest by any college in any sport has been ‘thrown.’ _ “There are close to 700 colleges and universities in the United States who sponsor intercollegiate athletics. It would take a tre- mendous amount of organization and thought before their sport activities could be governed by one commissioner, “Professional football and baseball involve a comparatively small number of teams and regulation of their activities by a commissioner is relatively simple. “I do agreé that there should be some uniform regulations—a high level of standards enforced upon a national basis, if possible, and cer- tainly on a regional basis such as many intercollegiate conferences attempt to do now with more or less success.” I, for one, am glad that Jo Irish concluded with the qualifying sentence: “With more OR LESS success.” * * * MESSAGE from Dean Harry Carlson of the University of Colorado brings high hope. Dean Carlson wires: “Dr. ‘Phog’ Allen’s state- ments raised many questions. I will send you my views at some length by mail.” It is to be hoped, most sincerely, that Dean Carlson will take recogni- tion of one paragraph of Dr. Allen’s letter to the writer—the paragraph in which he denied harboring any jealousy as to Basketball Coach For- rest (Frosty) Cox of Colorado U. In this paragraph the good Kansas doctor said: “Ask him (Cox) if there were any scholarships, any easy money in any way, directly or indirectly” paid to Kansas U. basket- ball players. “He (Cox) ought to know, shouldn’t he? ...I am strong for a (college athletic) commissioner because there it would show the fellows who can coach; not as it is now—the fellow who can assemble is the big shot. “The only thing that I have ever objected to is when a coach who is hired to coach and not to recruit comes into a state (Cox came from Kansas) and gets the majority of his players from an alien state. “I think,” wrote Allen, “you know what I mean.” I know. So does Dean Carlson. So does Coach Cox. So let’s have at it. ‘ a * * V SHELTON, -Wyoming’s coach, came into the office Saturday, making the trip from Laramie to discuss the Allen charges. “Tuast year,” said Shelton, “Buddy Hassett, playing for me on the Dow team, told me that when Georgetown played Wyoming in New York somebody telephoned their rooms, getting Krause and Mankin of the Georgetown squad on the phone. This unknown person asked if George- town would be interested in throwing the game. He said Krause and Mankin tried to get the party to the room for, he said, they would have beaten him within an inch of his life. “Nobody ever approached Wyoming. our last trip there Ned Irish asked Elton Davis and myself if we were sure of our club, He said it might be some gamblers would approach the players. We told him not to worry about Wyoming’s boys. But Irish posted guards around our rooms for our protection. We made four trips to New York, and nobody ever approached a Wyoming player. “We all know ‘Phog’ Allen. That’s all I can say, except that he has put every losing club playing in the Garden on the spot. Shelton, like Vadal Peterson of Utah, is going back to New York this fall to lead his college boys into gyms where private promoters will have them hanging from the rafters. In this connection there was a little paragraph, just a few days ago, in Hugh Fullerton’s Associated Press “Roundup” column defining the difference between “professional promotion” and an “amateur promo- tion.” The pro promotion was described as one in which the “promoter shares the gate with the participants’; the amateur promotion is one in which ‘‘the promoter takes it all.” Make no mistake about this. This department thinks it is a fine thing for college teams to travel intersectionally, meeting clubs in other districts and other areas. But these intersectional trips should be staged, not under private promotion, but by the participating colleges. That brings us back to the statement of the man no man alive can gainsay—Colorado Aggies’ Harry Hughes: : “BIG MONEY TOURNAMENTS,” wires Hughes ... “DO NOT SERVE FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF COLLEGE SPORTS AND THE PLAYERS.” o * * I aT Is TO BE hoped, indeed, that Dr, Allen will come forward with the bill of particulars on his charge that college players “HAVE AL- READY THROWN GAMES PLAYED IN MADISON SQUARE GAR- DEN.” It will give weight to what else he said. And that was plenty. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT NEW YORK—Tony Janiro, 138, Youngs- , Flow town, Ohio, outpointed Santa Bucea, ue Carvi veil, “igsig" Cambetice outeo ee Fede Philadelphia iene Nat Litfin, 140%, YWOOD, CALIF. eter Kid, 156, York. ae 0, Jackie Connor, 146, New- Pot Rico, outpointed Jack Chase, 160, ark, N PH HILADELPATA—Jobnny Wolgast, 118%, Pade tpi knocked out. Willie Alexan- dér, 120%, Cheater Pa, (1); Danny Dev- Denver (10). Race Results lin, rye Aulento wn, Pa., Cee Nelson Canty, 1 Ebiladelphia (6 AT JAMAIC/ Ase kan Dunstan, $5.10; BR SW CK, MUP }ash Dutil, 137,| Grant Rice. Stronghold Me.,_ outpointed Al Michaud, AT TAUREL top “Reward, $7.90; Sabo- %. Lisbon (8); Ed Hudson, 135, Bath, | teur, Connachta. and Bob Pooler, 140, Bangor, drew’ (6). AT ROCKINHAM—Tumult, $4; Public WORCESTER, MASS.—Francis (Corky) Opinion, Jamoke. Davis, 130%. Worcester, outpointed Eddie| AT SPORTSMAN PARK—Donne Brand, Deangelis, 125, Boston (10); Baby Tiger'$i0.60; Fafi, Mideau. OUT OF cayeecenesuaeneauussusussnugersunsrnunereaecgrerturgersaay7. Here’s a New Grid Formation Philadelphia, Oct. 20.—(A. P.j)—The boys who pull rab- bits out of hats can take a tip from Greasy Neale, in- ventive Philadephia Eagles pro football coach, who ap- parently has a magic T for- mation. It is a version of the old off-tackle strategy, says Cards-Pitt co-owner, Bert Bell. Its design and execu- tion make it the best in the National Football league. “No club has come up with a good defense for it,’ hex! said. It. works like this: The quartebcak gives the ball to the right half or flips it to the left half running wide. The right half with the fullback leading, outflanks the end. “Tf the tackle or end looks up to see which way the play’s going, he’s licked,” Bell said. “They have to commit themselves right away and at least half the time they’re wrong.” Neale tried the play for the first time in the next to last game of 1942 when it helped to give him his first victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. He’s used it with success last year and so far this year, and it will undoubtedly play a big part in the Eagles’ game Sun- day with Boston at Shibe park, MAY HAMPER GRID PROGRAN (By TED MEIER.) New York, Oct. 21—(A. P.)—In- clement weather may hamper Sat- urday’s curtailed college football program, altho rabid fans are ex- pected to turn out as usual, f In one of the top three games of the afternoon the country’s No. 1 eleven, Notre Dame, runs against a Wisconsin team at South Bend, Ind., that may spoil the Irish’s dream of an undefeated, untied cam- paign. At Columbus, Ohio, a crowd of some 60,000 is expected to disregard the elements to watch Ohio State’s Buckeyes tangle with Paul Brown’s Great Lakes aggregation. Ohio State is ranked fourth nationally with Great Lakes fifth. The third headline game of the day is at Atlanta, Ga., where Navy’s No. 9 eleven bumps into Georgia Tech’s No. 8 outfit. Some of Navy’s preseason glory has been soiled by the North Carolina Preflighters and Duke, but the midshipmen are ex- pected to get rolling in the deep south. Army’s unbeaten and untied team, ranked No. 2 in the latest Asso- ciated Press poll, meets the U. S. Coast Guard Academy at West Point in the leading eastern fray. The Coast Guard boys have been pointing for this game since the season opened and may provide Army with some stern opposition. The Colgate-Penn State and Cor- nell-Sampson Naval engagements also are of interest in the east. Other interesting games include the North Carolina Preflight vs. Georgia Preflight; U. C. L. A-St. Mary’s; Tula-Mississippi; Texas Ag- gies-T, C. U.; Tennessee-Alabama; Indiana - Northwestern; Tulane-Au- burn; Purdue-Iowa; L. S. U.-Mis- sissippi State; Texas- Arkansas; Rice-S. M. U.; Denver-Oklahoma Aggies, and California-Fleet City. CHASE LOSES; TAYLOR WINS Hollywood, Oct. 2i—Cocoa Kid, 156, Puerto Rico, and Jack Chase, 160, Walsenburg, Colo., gave 6,000 Legion stadium fans a smooth box- ing display Friday night with the Puerto Rican grabbing an early lead to win a unanimous ten-round decision. Cocoa landed the harder blows thruout and was awarded every round but one by Referee Benny Whitman, There were no knock- downs. Freddy Taylor, 135, Denver, Colo., outslugged Billy Hale, 141, Los An- geles, to capture the six-round semi- windup event. Both boxers were groggy at the final bell. : In the preliminaries Dave Bar- rios, 130, Los Angeles, decisioned Stanley Jamison, 131, Pasadena (4); Augie Rodriguez, 117, Los Angeles, decisioned Mickey Romo, 118, Los Angeles (4); Arturo Stewart, 190, Los Angeles, decisioned Allen Ar- nett, 191, Long Beach (4), and Bobby Taylor, 148, Los Angeles, tko’d Dupie Guerrero, 148, Los An- geles (1). Nova vs. Knox Newark, N. J. Oct. 21—(A. P.)— Lou Nova, one of the nation’s former ranking heavyweights, now on a comeback trail, has been matched to fight Buddy Knox of >| Dayton, O., November 6 at Laurel Garden here, Matchmaker Babe Culnan announced Saturday. Culnan said he concluded ar- rangements for the Californian’s appearance here Saturday with his manager, Frank Pacciassi, by long distance telephone to Omaha, Neb. MAJOR HUBBARD IS | THE ARMY Maj. Clyde C. (Cac) Hubbard’s long awaited release from the army came thru Friday afternoon. Hubbard, Saturday, returned to the bench to handle the} Pioneers on the field for the first time this year. release has long been expected by Denver authorities. Hubbard entered the army before the start of last year’s season. He has served in the air corps in World war I and was in the reserve. Under this setup he was given an imme- diate majority in the same branch of the service! It was at first expected Hubbard would be stationed at Lowry field in some athletic post! However he was “shipped” to Iowa and was not con- nected with athletics in the army. Later he was sent to a base in the Dakotas. He was transferred to Lowry field shortly before the open- ing of the present season. At Lowry Major Hubbard served as a mess officer. This did not permit him to engage: in full time coaching of the Pio- neers, He was able, however, to give Some time, in off hours, to the work. For the last week his duties have permitted him considerable time with the Pioneers. It was also possible for him to go to Utah, last week, there to attend a meeting of Big Seven officials drawing up the coming season’s basketball schedule. Hubbard will be assisted in the¥ coaching by Adam Esslinger and Cliff Rock. Dave Wyatt, the man of. all work at Denver U. will con- tinue to handle the line. Wyatt has turned in an outstanding job in this department, as have Hsslinger and Rock in their end of the coaching to date. The return of Hubbard, to full time and to full authority, will, it was expected, have a marked bearing on the play of the team as a whole for the balance of the sea- son. WHEAT RIDGE AND ARVAl Hubbard’s | | Knocked Down A “Tin Horn’ _ VIDAL PETERSON, Coach of Utah university’s N. C. A, A. champions, who according to Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, knocked down a New York-gam- bler who asked him “how much it would cost” to have “Utah lose to Dartmouth.” Peterson, who discussed the incident following the N. C. A. A. tourney in the spring,. refused comment Satur- day, saying his Utes “were going back to Madison Square Garden” and that he “did not want to be involyed in an argument.” AWN IN SUBURBAN LEAGUE GAME Wheat Ridge, in a Suburban league game Friday night, defeated its chief rival, Golden, 20 to 13, to. keep its record unsullied for the season. The win was the fourth straight for the Farmers, Bright star of the Wheat Ridge club. was Harry Narcisian “who played the leading part in all three Farmer touchdowns. The young- ster scored one marker on a 12-yard end run. He passed to Coleman for another, This play netted 65 yards. He scored the third touchdown on a 4-yard plunge thru the line. Top performers for Golden were Her IF f5* Graves and Ludington. In another Suburban ete Atr- vada took second place -in league Colleges POLES ESS Be See ie iS) (ti E42, New Jonk Uni- N_STATE 8, oe o ie] Fi . ster 0. é aps 7 Jackson i NG eoURiH INFANTRY 33, Louisiana Tech. 0. High School SOUTH -7, North 6. STERLING 19, For forgan 13. er eae puvon 6. Bie . Fruita 0. Bot DDE R BLS, CENTRAL’ 40, Pueblo Centen- MCoLoRaDo. SPRINGS 18, Trinidad 7. eland 0. Westminster 0. Colorado Military Acad- WOOD 5: Br Adams City 6. A 26, Del Norte 0. ontrose 7. Cj a eeere 0. 3, Olathe x 10, Fort mroisad 13. UM 18, Brash 0. ARVADA ttleton 14. FORT COLD) Englewood 0. WHEAT RIDGE . Golden 13. ne SK Suni GILLETTE iG "Upton 6. 6. SOUTH WINKER OVER VIKINGS South’s defending champions, Saturday morning scored a 7-to-6 victory over North’s previously undefeated Vikings in a city high school league football game played at Denver university sta- dium. South’s win threw the league into a two-way tie between the clubs. Manual high was to play West in the second game and a win by Manual would make the tie, for first place, a three-way affair. North and South battled thru a scoreless first half. Both clubs scored a touchdown in the third period. The difference was that South converted and North did not, The game remained scoreless thru the final period. standings with a 32-to-14 win over Littleton. Arvada has won three of its four league games. Eloy Manchego was top scorer, register- ing two touchdowns for the win- ners, On his second touchdown he suffered a broken collar bone. He will be lost to the club for the bal- ance of the season. Other touch- downs were made by Gordon Gor- ll who, recovered a blocked Kick, Bob “Reck, whe-ran 55 yards on & Kick. Don Fisk scored on an in- tercepted pass. Chavez registered hoth of Littleton’s tallies. Two Good Ball Games Saturday “Stop Bob Fenimore’ was the slogan of the once-beaten Denver university Pioneers as they took the field Saturday afternoon against the highly touted Oklahoma A. and M. eleven in an intersectional tilt at Denver’s Hilltop stadium. Fenimore is the undefeated Ag- gies’ star triple-threat ace. Feni- more & Co. was installed as a two- touchdown favorite at the kickoff. * * * Boulder, Colo., Oct. 21—(I. N.S.) —Johnny Ziegler, the high-scoring backfield ace of the Colorado Ti- gers, and several other naval-ma- rine players on-both the Tigers and the Colorado university Buffaloes played their farewell game Satur- day as the Tigers and Buffs clashed at Boulder’s Norlin stadium. Ziegler and the others will be transferred after the game by the navy to new posts. The game is ex- pected to possibly decide the inter- collegiate 1944 championship of the Rockies. At the kickoff, the result still looked like a “‘toss up” battle. * * a Logan, Utah, Oct. 21-—-(I, N. S.) —Dick Romney’s Utah Aggies sought their second victory of the season Saturday in a clash with the University of Nevada eleven. The Aggies returned to the. grid- iron last Saturday, after a year’s layoff due to manpower shortages, and whipped the Pocatella, Ida., Marines, 40 to 0. CHURCHILL DOWNS IN OPENING SATURDAY Louisville, Ky., Oct. 21.—Churchill Downs lifted the curtain on its fall meeting Saturday, with Three Dois carrying top weight of 126 pounds in a classy band of seventeen in the $5,000 added autumn handicap. Three Dots, which holds the Chi- cago track record for six furlongs, loomed as the favorite in the event, altho Occupy, which showed a re- turn to form on the New York cir- cuit, was expected to boast many backers in the six-furlong dash. . Other outstanding starters were Signator, Harriet Sue, Alforay and Sirius. Temple 7, Syracuse 7 i Philadelphia, Oct. 21—(. N. S.)— Temple university battled thru a driving rain and slashing wind to gain a 7-7 deadlock with Syracuse on the soggy ground of Temple sta- dium before a meager 500 fans Fri- day night. The highly favored Orange pushed over their touchdown in nine min- utes of the first quarter on a 71- yard march opened and closed by eel-like Arden McConnell, halfback. But the Templars fought hard to capitalize on the brilliant play of Jimmy Wilson, who did the almost- impossible to tie up the game inj; the last quarter. Wilson, defying the elements, heaved three perfect forward passes to put the ball on the 4-yard line, lugged it over him- self to score, and then kicked the extra point to tie the game, [Mich. State 8, Maryl’d 0] College Park, Md., Oct. 21—(A. P.)—The Spartans of Michigan State college maintained their un- defeated season’s football record Friday night by defeating the Uni- versity of Maryland, 8 to 0, in a nightmare of mud and a driving northeastern rainstorm. Jack Breslin, 190-pound State fullback ace who spearheaded the Michigan attack, blasted off his left tackle in the second period, and with fine interference splashed 12 yards over Maryland’s goal for the only touchdown in a dreary game) that was interspersed by fumbles | and poor kicks because of the high wind and beating rain. State garnered two more points in the fourth period on a safety. Less than 500 persons braved the -lweather for the game. ‘PHOG’ ALLEN MAKES ALLEGATIONS IN SCANDAL Says Utah’ s Coach ich Knocked Down Down a Gambler Who Came to Him Seeking to Have Indians Throw Game With Dartmouth Last Spring. Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 21.—(I. N. S.)—“It would take a Thomas E. Dewey ts preve that the professional gamblers are approaching college athletes,” Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas university basket- ball mentor, declared Saturday. “Ym not a detective but there is prima facie evidence and every college coach knows it is so.” Allen, who has by his own admission made a hundred speeches condemfing gambling in collegiate sports, said that he was direct- ing his attack against prefessional gamblers and not against the coaches or Madison Square Garden directors, where he had previ- outsly stated cellege basketball games had been “thrown.” “There is only one group in America that can avert a catas- trophe in collegiate sports,” Allen declared. “Unless the college presidents can pool their interests by obtaining a strong personal- ity—such as Judge Landis in the baseball world—then college athletics are doomed.” (By JACK CARBERRY.) (Denver Post Sports Editor.) HARGES—direct and unqualified in any See it by Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, director of physical educa- tion at the University of Kansas, one of America’s out- standing basketball coaches, in which he stated college players “had thrown games” played in Madison Square Garden, New York, for what he said were “tidy sums” paid by gamblers, have stirred the sports world as has nothing since the historic and tragic Black Sox scandal of a quarter of a century ago. Allen’s charges were made in letters to the writer, printed in full in Friday’s DENVER POST. Allen, in addition to mak- ing the charge that games had been “thrown,” added that “news- papers had ae the scandal. This Jatter charge, as much as the direct allegation of “thrown games,” caused New York sports writers to go into what amounted to almost frenzied tirades of denial. % Proof of Allen’s charges was demanded by Ned Irish, acting presi- dent of Madison Square Garden, who sent the writer the following telegram: “JACK CARBERRY, SPORTS EDITOR, “DENVER FOST (DVR): “INTEKNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE HAS TELEPHONED ME QUOTES FROM A SFORY REPORTED TO BE PUBLISHED IN YOUR PAPER STATING THAT DR. FORREST C. ALLEN OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY HAS MADE A DIRECT CHARGE THAT COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN GAMES PLAYED IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN HAVE SOLD OUT TO GAMBLERS. I AM WIRING DR. ALLEN ASKING IF THIS STATEMENT IS CORRECTLY CHARGED TO HIM AND IF SO REQUESTING THAT HE FURNISH ME SPECIFIC INFOR- MATION SUBSTANTIATING THESE CHARGES. SUCH IN- FORMATION. WILL IMMEDIATELY BE TURNED OVER TO THE COLLEGES INVOLVED AND ALSO TO THE POLICE FOR ACTION IF SUCH ACTION IS WARRANTED BY THE EVIDENCE. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN DOES NOT PER- MIT BETTING NOR SOLICITING OF BETS IN THIS BUILD- ING AT ANY SPORTING EVENTS. THE POLICE-OF NEW YORK HAVE ALWAYS CO-OPERATED WITH US-IN OUR EFFORTS TO PREVENT SUCH ACTIVITIES IN THIS BUILD- ING. IN ADDITION WE EMPLOY A LARGE NUMBER OF SPECIAL POLICE WHOSE MAIN DUTY iS TO ASSIST IN ENFORCING OUR REGULATIONS AGAINST GAMBLING. ALL KNOWN GAMBLERS OR PERSONS WHO HAVE PREVIOUS. | LY BEEN ARKESTED FOR GAMBLING ARE BARRED FROM “ENTERING THE BUILDING. WOULD) APPRECIATE IT IF”, YOU COULD FORWARD TO ME FYNFORMATION AS TO WHERE DR. ALLEN’S STATEMENT IS REPORTED, TO HAVE BEEN MADE AND THE FULL DETAILS OF THIS STATE- MENT, TOGETHER WITH A CLIPPING OF THE STORY WHICH I. N. S. HAS QUOTED TO ME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION IN THIS MATTER. (Signed) “NED IRISH, ACTING PRESIDENT, “MADISON SQUARE*GARDEN.” From his office in Lawrence, Kan., the good doctor let loose with a new blast against college authorities:who, he said, were “doing noth- ing” about the “scandal” which, he said, was about to lay the entire structure of collegiate athletics in ruins. In his new blast, as reported by the Associated Press, Dr. Allen stated that Coach Vadal Peterson of Utah university—Utah is booked into the Garden again this season—“knocked down a New York gambler who came to his room to ask ‘how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth’ in the N. C. A. A. finals.” Peterson, in Salt Lake City, refused comment. Last fall, however, when Peterson returned home after winning the title, he discussed the incident at length with Utah sports writers. Peterson, in an Associated Press dispatch from Salt Lake City Saturday, said: “We're going back to New Ons again this season and I don’t want to get mixed up in any argumenis.” Here is what the Associated Press, under a Lawrence, Kan., dateline, has to say: “Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 21.—(A. P.) —Professional gamblers © already have caused two boys to.throw bas- ketball games in eastern collegiate tournaments, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas university basketball coach, charged Saturday in predicting the betting fraternity would create a ‘scandal that will stink to high heaven’ unless college presidents ine tercede to save the game. “‘There hasn’t been enough pub- licity given known cases where bribes were taken,’ Allen asserted. “He said Vadal Peterson, Utah university coach, knocked down a gambler who came to his room and asked ‘how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth’ in the N. C, A. A. finals in New York’s Madison Square Garden last spring. “What Peterson told the gambler is unprintable but that doesn’t mean that they won’t eventually get to boys on the teams,’ Allen said. “A spectator ran out on the floor and kissed a Utah player who had made a last-minute goal against Kentucky in the Sports Writers’ In- vitation tournament last year be- cause the goal had saved the man $15,000, the contentious doctor re- lated. “‘The betting boys had laid ten points on Kentucky and that last- minute score gave the Kentuckians only an eight-point margin,’ Allen explained. ““More.money is bet on collegiate football and basketball than on| were the White Sox before they Horse racing, the outspoken basket-| became the Black Sox.” ball tutor declared, ‘but all the trou- Rae ble it causes could be eliminated if HIS brought the following na- bet on football and. baskeball games in America today than is bet on all the horse races of the country. “Judge Landis will not have a racing, man connected with his organized baseball because rac- ing is so crooked and everybody knows it. It is the money angle, the betting angle, that has made it so. “Judge Landis is fighting bet- ting on professional baseball in his vigorous manner, but the col- leges are doing nothing about it, and as sure as you live the thing is going to crack wide open sometime when they lay bare a scandal where some group of col- lege boys have thrown a game for a tidy sum that will rock the college world. It has already hap- pened in New York in Madison Square Garden, but the newspa- pers have kept it quiet, or fairly quiet. “Therefore, I say that the col- lege presidents are now contrib- uting to this delinquency by fail- ing to do anything about the matter. of setting up proper ma- chinery to guard against the thing that is sure to happen. “Some of the boys that live across the track and desire a col- lege education will play for pay and will be as susceptible to the gamblers’ crooked dealing as college presidents would get to- tionally distributed story by gether and appoint an absolute czar|T,awton Carver, International News over all college sports. Service sports editor, Saturday: ““Tf they don’t some of these col- lege boys who have never seen big'}- money are going to sell out and it will cause a scandal that will stink to high heaven. It could ruin inter- collegiate sports. “<«There was only one reason why no eyebrows were raised over the St. Louis Browns’ four straight vic- tories over the Yanks at the end of the American league baseball sea- son,’ Allen concluded. ““The reason was Judge Landis. We need the same kind of a ezar in intercollegiate sports. If the college presidents don’t provide one, it will be just too bad.’ * “New York, Oct. 21—(I. N. S.)— With the same excited awe that greeted the recent ninety-mile-an- hour hurricane along the east coast, New York sports writers and fans all over the nation are waiting Sat- urday for. “Phog” Allen to set forth in detail his charges that college basketball teams have been throw- ing games in Madison Square Gar- den for money. “Tf these charges, as reported by Jack Carberry of THE DENVER POST, are true, more havoc will be wreaked in college basketball cir- cles than possibly could be accom- plished by a hurricane, and the noise will be just about the same. Phog, noted basketball coach at University of Kansas, is the first basketball. man of significant stat- ure to openly point .a finger at al- leged crookedness in the game, and x OF HE meat of Allen’s ch: es, as contained in his letters printed in Friday’s POST, written and signed by him, are contained in the following excerpts: “There is more money being he has irrevocably put himself on a spot from which he cannot move without proving what he has said, “Alien let fire a blast not only at allegedly crooked teams and the gamblers from whom they are supposed to be accepting money, but at eastern sports writers. Carberry writes: ‘Allen, in making his charge, alleges that newspapers, with full knowledge that games have been thrown in Madison Square Gar- den, have kept it quiet, or fair- ly quiet. This leads us to con- clude that Allen is talking thru his hat, or, as the case may be, his Phog. “Ned Irish, acting president of Madison Square Garden, was igno< rant of Allen’s story Friday until an International News Service sports writer read it to him over the phone. At first he exclaimed, ‘Oh, my!’ And then came thru with the statement that Allen had better forward proof... and fast. “By inferring that ew York newspapers and sports writers are purposely hushing up evidences of erookedness in basketball, Allen also hints that the writers may be open. to bribery, or, if not that, would refuse to look upon bribery with horror. Allen should have been acquainted long ago with a few facts which we now will set forth. “In the first place, we cannot ~ think of a New York newspaper which, especially in the last sea- son, did not editorialize in its - sports pages on the very marked upswing of gambling at Garden basketball games. Dan Parker of the New York Daily Mirror, printed a blast against the ac- tivities of the Broadway crowd at Garden court games, and Bob Considine, in an ‘On the Line’ column last year, gave basket- ball-connected gambling a shot in the puss in no uncertain terms. “We are not remarkedly naive when we say that a local sports writer who knew the detailed, in- side facts on gambling in basket- pall (if facts there are), would ninety-nine times out of a hundred hurry the facts right into print. * * * OB CONSIDINE of the New York Daily Mirror, ranked as America’s top sports writer today, has this to say in his “On the Line” column in Saturday’s Mirror: i “Phog Allen, the Kansas basket- ball coach who'll help a sports” writer who needs a rainy-day story, has come out with an unqualified charge basketball games at Madison Square Garden are crooked. “Them’s fighting words, of course. But he goes on to say that the New York sports writers gloss over the ‘scandal,’ presumably for pay: —-- “Séme very pointed pieces have been written about Garden basket- ball by New York sports writers. But there apparently has never been any proof that games have been fixed. “Most of the warnings to Ned Irish, the promoter of the Garden shows, which have done much to make basketball a big league sport, have centered around the curious way in which so many of the final scores of Garden games have ended ‘in the middle.’ “Tn the middle’ is a gambling expression denoting a final score which is just right for the gambler —in that he collects from both wag- ering sides. For instance, a gam- bler ordains that one team is ‘15-13’ over another, meaning that if you want to bet on the favorite you must bet not that the favorite will win, but that the favorite will win by at least 15 points, or if you want the underdog you bet that said un- derdog will come within 13 points of winning. “A lot of games have been ending in the middle, which, in the hypothetical case outlined above, would mean that the win- ning team wins by only 14 points. Thus the bookmaker collects from both bettors. “There have been a few too many in-the-middle games to suit the lovers of the law of mathematics. This has led to a lot of grumblings and a few seattershot charges, but no in- dictments. There has never been any real evidence, or, if so, if has never been unearthed. “But don’t think for an instant that the Garden has a monopoly on in-the-middle games. It is the target of Allen’s blast for several reasons, mainly because New York is more in the sportlight than any other city, and because its own writers—despite what Allen says— have always been willing to discuss any suspicious happening in basket- ball. “For every in-the-middle game in the Garden there must be a hun- dred in other parts of the country. “Allen has been at odds with New York basketball coaches for several years. He and Nat Holman, coach at 'C. C. C. N. Y., do not get along. He has let loose several broadsides against eastern basketball—which is his right—and the upshot of the whole matter seems to be that he and his team never get invited to play for Irish any more. “What Allen now says hurts all of basketball, not just those teams who have passed thru Madison Square Garden. We wonder if he would repeat his charges to the individual schools whose clubs have played for Irish: Notre Dame, Southern California, Stanford, Kentucky, Texas Christian, Syracuse, Georgetown, Oklahoma, Cornell, Tennessee, Ohio State, Detroit, Hilinois, Duquesne, Texas, North- western, Duke, etc., etc., ete. “Allen used to have a hand in the National Collegiate Athletic associa- tion’s annual tournament in Kan- sas. The N. C. A. A. moved the show to the Garden some time ago. That may possibly have entered into his blast. “When a man comes out swinging like that, he ought to have a well- stocked dossier of confessions in his gloves. “We think Allen should put up his proof or risk lockjaw by remaining quiet for a change.”