TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1944 NVER THE DENVER POST—FIRST IN EVERYTHING THE POST PHONE—MAIN 2121 17 IN TO HAVE VICTORY CAGE LEAGUE SEE by the paper where Ned Irish, promoter of basketball in Madison Square Garden, expresses his “personal wish” that the charges brought last week by Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, famed basketball authority, coach and director of physical education at the University of Kansas, “be dropped.” Mr. Irish is amazingly frank. He, if quoted correctly, wants to forget the whole matter so that Allen be silenced—that he (Allen) be given no further opportunity to But what is Mr. Irish going to talk. do about Sergt. Lou Greenberg of the United States army, former manager of the Syracuse (N, Y.) Reds of the professional basketball league—Sergeant Greenberg who says players TOLD HIM how they, as he puts it, “CO-OPERATED” with New York gamblers in having the point scores of their COLLEGE GAMES fit the gambling odds. ’ Perhaps Mr. Irish shouldn’t do anything about it at all. In truth, this is the business of the National Collegiate Athletic association, the ruling and governing body of all college athletics— the men who, after all, must give their sanction before college players can participate in big money tournaments, or go on barn- storming tours under private promotion. From where we sit it looks like athletic structure sitting on the hot “Phog” Allen has the whole college seat. When he made his original charge, thru THE DENVER POST last Friday, Irish, from his Madison Square Garden office, demanded that Allen supply him with a bill of particulars, including names of players. New York writers, who, Allen said in his original charge, had “kept the matter quiet, or fairly quiet,” bristled with indignation. Never, they wrote, had they heard of any such thing. particulars. Irish now states that since “investigated” Allen supplied the both he and the newspapers long the matters and the names laid before him by Allen, and that he “feels moved to say there was nothing to it.” From this corner it looks like “Phog” Allen has won round one—and by a very, very wide margin. Now comes the question, and round two: Greenberg’s charges? * * What about Sergeant % LL THIS talk about what player took what money in the past is beside the point. It would do Smith of Middle State, either margin in return for such-and-such “threw” no good whatever now to say Joe or “co-operated” on the point a sum. The need—the immediate need—is for the college people to make it impossible for future Joe Smiths to do likewise. Now none can object to college clubs taking trips. Goodness knows the college athlete gets little else in a material way out of all the time and effort and sweat and sacrifice he puts into his game. What else he gets must be an inner satisfaction in playing a game he loves, and in representing his school in competition with other schools. football, tennis, basketball or what. have you, is good. Intersectional competition, whether it be in baseball, It should be encouraged and expanded. But this competition in the college world should be between colleges, and staged under college pro- motion and sponsorship. Surely no college man can defend the use of college players, and college teams, in private promotion. They cannot, unless they are willing to admit that what they seek is hard, cold cash and not the fostering of athletics for the sake of the participants. * less us go right to the record for this. ‘ calls “The Basketball Coaches’ Creed.’ to by every man associated with the Coaches and the N. C. A. A. follows: * The N. C. A. A. has what it This “creed” is subscribed National Association of Basketbal! It reads—not a comma is left out—as “J BELIEVE that basketball has an important place in the general educational scheme and pledge myself to co-operate with others in the field of education to so administer it that its value never will be questioned. “J BELIEVE that other coaches protection as I am, and I will do endeavors. of this sport are as earnest in its all in my power to further their “] BELIEVE that my own actions should be so regulated at all times that I will be a credit to the profession. “] BELIEVE that the members of the National Basketball commit- tee are capably expressing the rules of the game, and I will abide by these rules in both spirit and letter. “I BELIEVE in the exercise’ of all the patience, tolerance, and r diplomacy at my command in my relations with all players, co-workers, game officials and spectators. “T BELIEVE that the proper administration of this sport offers an effective laboratory method to develop in its adherents high ideals of sportsmanship; qualities of co-operation, courage, desire for clean, healthful living; self-control; discipline and authority. unselfishness and and respect for wise “I BELIEVE that these admirable characteristics, properly instilled by me thru teaching and demonstration, will have a long carryover and will aid each one connected with the sport to become a better citizen. “] BELIEVE in and will support all reasonable moves to improve athletic conditions, to provide for adequate equipment and to promote the welfare of an increased number of participants.” There is nothing there about exploiting the college athlete for gain. So it goes without further saying that the colleges are not sending their teams into the highways and byways for money. They are not if there is one speck of honesty within the collegiate setup. % % HY, then, it must be asked, do the colleges permit teams within their association to take part in private promotions—to take the place which rightfully belongs to the professional performer? That is the,main question “Phog” Allen raised in his letter of last week—the mein question which all have sought to ignore, and which Ned Irish and Madison Square Garden would by-pass by a “personal wish’ that the entire matter be dropped so that Allen might be “silenced.” For my part, I-do-not believe the colleges of the land can “silence” Allen now. His charge that games “already have been thrown,” plus played in Madison Square Garden Sergeant Greenberg’s charge that players TOLD HIM—HIM, not somebody else--how they, IN THEIR COLLEGE GAMES, co-operated to odds—has focused national attention make the points fit the gambling upon the entire setup as it exists. This brought out into the light of day conditions surrounding college players appearing in Madison Square Garden—detectives posted outside their hotel rooms to keep away the rodents, as Alien calls them, of the gambling world; telephones severed to re- move the boys from the temptations of bribery; gamblers knocked down, or thrown out of college hotel suites when they came to make their bribe offers; Madison Square described as “filled with Broadway mobsters bickering and dickering” in its aisles during the contests, the police standing idly by. Is this college athletics—sport designed, as the coaches’ “creed” puts it, to instill ‘“‘a desire for clean living” A lot of people would, no doubt, that Allen be silenced. in the participants? like to make the “personal wish” “Phog” Allen has thrown down the gauntlet. Let the colleges of our land pick it up. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT (By Associated Press.) —Billy Arnold, 145, Phila- cd out Ernest. (Cap) Robin- York, 2. sy pueTnO, Pat T. K. O., Victor Jade, 37, and, 6. EW HAVEN, CO} 149, n, outpointed 1é Haven, 10. He 8 Haven, k Seren out ‘imms w Yor AR Flynn, 212, ad. Ran Joe tone. “J.—Jonnny , outpointed Rocheste dolph, 1 « ‘ga shes LYOKE, ara Portland, 162%, Bout Called Off wane Los Angeles, Oct. 24—A fifteen- round bantamweight title rematch between Champion Manuel Ortiz and Luis Castillo, No. 1 challenger in the new N. B. A. ratings, sched- uled for Tuesday night, was called off until] Ortiz recovers from intes- tinal influenza, “Manuel isn’t going to fight until he’s well and in shape,” said Tommy Farmer, manager of the champion. Eagles Get Rest Philadelphia, Oct. 24—(A. P.)— The Philadelphia Eagles won a one- day vacation for their 38-0 victory Sunday over the Boston Yankees but start drills again Wednesday for Sunday’s game with the New | one York Giants in Manhattan, Moore, 15744, vate Stream, N. Y.. 151, New MOrst Ditpoiinted . Portla nd, a ae K, 0O., Howard Ben- Buck Streator, _ 0., Johnny Den- lint Conway, tpointed Johnny I—Ernie Forte, 1 outpointe Sidney “M ). Sammy Mam- Howard Burton 13 ATO IDE CK, Prov idence 51 Yo 148% Bould ILADE it a York, outpointed ‘Johnny i Philadelphia, 10. Freddy, Arch New York, outpointed McCoy Jones, Philadelphia, 8. 2 LEANS.—Bernard Doeusen, Hi Gene PH knocked out Eddie Lee. SCRANTON, PA,—Henry Jones, 209, York, ontpointed "Be arly Lohman, Washington. HICAGO, — tS opby Richardson, outpointed Bill Parsons, St. Lou ew 200i, 150%, 145, Detroit, Balti: ones 2azo, Danville, M., DETROIT.—Sam Hughes, decisioned Johnny Finazzo, more, New Fistic Star Wins New York, Oct. 24.—Billy Arnold, fast-rising young welterweight prospect from Philadelphia, Tues- day held his twenty-seventh knock- out in his twenty-nine professional fights, a two-round TKO over Ernie (Cat) Robinson of Jamaice, N. Y. Arnold, 18-year-old 145-pound prospect, eut down the veteran Robinson, who weighed 146%4, with a vicious left and right hand punch- 153, 151, bing attack to the head and body, sonal wish” to “Broadway mob” and. its. alleged control of basketball was written into the record here Tuesday. Sergt. Lou Greenberg, former manager of the Syracuse (New York) Reds, professional basket- ball team, now stationed at Co- lumbus, said that eastern pro players had told him of their alleged “co-operation” in having the point scores in their col- lege games fit the gambling odds. Greenberg said: “The only’ remedy for have a basketball czar.” This brought immediate opposi- tion from Harold G. Olsen, Ohio State basketball coach and chair- man of the National Collegiate Ath- letic association tournament com- mittee—the group, which arranges the college games played in Madi- son Square, and on other eastern courts, as well as the Kansas City tournament held each March. Olsen called Greenberg’s sugges- tion “silly.” “T’ve been coaching for more than twenty-five years,” he said, “and I never knew of a single instance where any boy ever has fallen for any of that gambling stuff.” * In New York Irish, promoter of the winter program of basketball games, was quoted as saying that he received Alien’s telegram, nam- ing names in the latter’s charge that certain college players has “thrown” games. Allen, dean of midwestern basket- ball coaches and tutor of the game at the University of Kansas, last week charged that gamblers had approached certain players and paid them to throw games. He named the players allegedly in- volved in a telegram to Irish, “The situation to which Allen it is to Army Man, Former Manager of Syracuse Pro Club, Says College Players Told Him of Their ‘Co-Op- eration’ With New York’s Gambling Element. OLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 24—With Ned Irish, manager of Mad- ison Square Garden, in New York, expressing the “per- “Jet the entire matter drop rather than give (Dr. Forrest C. “Phog”) Allen a change to talk again,” a new, and by far the most damaging, indictment against “the refers was investigated thoroly by the authorities and the newspapers when the rumor first developed,” Irish _ said. “That investigation proved that the rumor was base- less. No player was disciplined and no other action was taken.” Trish said it was his personal wish to “let the entire matter drop rather than give Allen a ehance to talk again.” “He (Allen) has been doing that sort of thing for years now and the mystery to me is that people take him seriously in the light of his previous false prophecies,” Irish said. “In this instance, it was a very serious thing for him to do, based strictly on a second-hand story, and, in justice to the players he named, I feel moved to say there was nothing to it.” The new phase of the Allen case, as brought into the open by Green- berg, has been touched on before. The matter of “co-operation”—the term used by Greenberg—resulted in several articles in the New York Daily Mirror, in which its sports editor, Dan Parker, and its sports columnist, Bob Considine, com- mented. Considine wrote, recently: “Most of the warnings ... have centered around the curious way in which so many of the final scores of Garden games have ended ‘in the middle.’ “In the middle’ is a gambling expression denoting a final score which is just right for the gam- bler—in that he collects from both wagering side. For instance, a gambler 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 fifteen points, or if you want PROGRAM Rebels, take on EHast’s Angels at 10:30 in a game that, because of the added zest of traditional rivalry, will command at least equal atten- tion. This, by far the most attrac- tive program of the season to date, is expected to draw a crowd of at least 7,500, possibly more. The last time this same double- header was offered—on the open- ing day of the season—the sec- ond largest paying crowd in Denver Prep league history at- tended. This time, with the known championship contend- ers competing in crucial games, a crowd of at least the same size is anticipated. Manual hasn’t been beaten since the opening game with North when the Vikings posted a 13-6 triumph. Since that time, however, Manual has shown rapid improvement while North has done no better than stand still. So the two teams ought to be about a tossup by kickoff time, or with Manual a slight favorite. South had a hard time eking out a 7-0 win in its last meeting with the Angels and may find the going even tougher Saturday since East will at last have all of its backfield strength together at one'time. The Angels didn’t have big Carl Sund- MIKE JACOBS HAS A DREAM (By CHRIS KIERAN.) (N. Y. News Sports Writer.) New York, Oct. 24—As he prepared to board a plane for Miami for a vacation Mike Jacobs was dreaming of busi- ness—specifically of a heavy- weight championship fight next summer at the Yankee stadium between Joe Louis and Billy Conn, with both boxers in civilian status. This, of course, would be big business for the promoter, the most important piece of fisticuffs since both boys went into the army. “T expect both will be re- leased from the service when the European war is over,” Jacobs revealed. “Of course, you can’t tell when that will be, but it might be by the spring. I believe unquestion- ably that Louis and Conn will be released. They deserve it. They’ve been in the army for three years.” Mike, who doesn’t talk thru his hat, seemed definite about this and indicated that he expected a crowd of 100,000 would see the return match for the crown. Louis recently returned from a seven-month exhibition tour in which he boxed before G. Is in the European theater of opera- tions, and Conn is in Italy doing the same thing now. Louis, now over 30, is in good shape and Jacobs doesn’t think that age will slow him up much. PREPS OFFER TIP TOP SATURDAY (By FRANK HARAWAY.) At least one of three teams sharing first place in the bristling Denver High School league football race will fall by the wayside Saturday morning at D. U. stadium when North’s Vikings and Manual’s Thunderbolts tangle at $:30 a. m. The third member of the first-place triumvirate, South’s gren available the last time. However, Sundgren or no Sundgren, the Rebels will be .favored slightly but the Angels are in a swell spot for an upset with no championship: pressure on them as a result of their three first-half defeats. Manual’s Tony Delmonico con- tinues to usurp individual back- field honors. He leads in scoring with 30 points compared to 18 for South’s Gasper Perricone. The sit- uation is reversed in the ball carry- ing department which Perricone leads by four yards. Topping the passers in yards gained is West’s Bobby Flieger, whose tosses have gained 134 yards. Delmonico is third in this department with 105 yards behind Lowell Stuckey of North with 108. The Pigures TEAM Sv. Manual South Mesa eee ‘0, Manual tb. e, South, fb. No Lynch, North, HeIn(osh, North, ¢. d, No Pac ello, North, at O° Donnell, S ia nu North, Schneider, TEAM Teams 1st D. G Manual 6 North 0 of may, Ww ‘e Table feune Meet Starts on Tuesday Table tennis makes its 1944-45 seasonal bow in Denver Thursday night with the start of sixth annual preseason tournament at the Den- ver Table Tennis club, now located at 1405 Glenarm street. The tour- nament will start at 7:30 and will run thru Thursday night. Officially opening the season will be a color guard of the Olinger Highlander boys. Tuesday will be Highlander boys’ night at the tour- nament, with all boys in unifrom admitted free. Jim Wolfe and Rita Kerns, the latter ranked thirteenth nationally, rule as strong favorites in the men’s and women’s singles respectively. They were the dominant players in last year’s local competition, a irittenden’ 5) Wall Romer 5 | Southern NEW SENSATIONAL CHARGE MADE IN CAGE GAMBLING the underdog you bet that said underdog will come within thir- teen points of winning. “A lot of games have been ending in the middle, which, in | the hypothétical case outlined above, would mean that the win- ning team wins by only fourteen points. Thus the bookmaker col- lects from both bettors. “There have been a few too many in-the-middle games to suit the lovers of the law of mathematics .. .” What, if any action, the N. C. A. A. will take relative to the state- ment of Greenberg was not known Tuesday. In his statement Green- berg said the players involved—men who had played on college teams and at the end of their amateur careers had turned “pro”—told him of their experiences, and actions. Greenberg made it clear these state- ments did not relate to professional basketball, but to what took Place} in college’ ORES U.S.C. HEADING FOR THE BOWL; BEATS HUSKIES Statistics Sou. Calif. Wash, First Downs ....... 1 4 Net Yards 95 45 Net Yards Passin: . 4 95 Forwards Attempted | tees . 14 i4 Forwards Completed 6 7 Forwards Intercepte 3 0 ‘umbles Se 56) 4 all Lost o1 or 2 ards Penalized - 50 80 (By GENE FRIEDMAN.) Los Angeles, Oct. 24.—The South- ern. California Trojans posed a growing threat Tuesday for the Pa- cific Coast conference football championship after a humiliating 38-to-7 trampling of the proud Washington Huskies Monday night before 70,000 fans at Memorial coliseum, The Huskies brought an unde- feated, untied record and a burning desire to avenge last year’s 20-to-0 Rose Bowl trouncing. They left, outplayed for four periods by the hard-charging Southern California forward wall, dazzled by the bril- liant passing of Jim Hardy and left floundering by the running of All- America Candidate Gordon Gray. Southern California threatened during most of the first period, but didn’t score until the closing min- utes when Gray grabbed a punt in midfield, picked his way between futile Washington tacklers, darted to the sidelines and with a host of blockers, sprinted for a touehdown. That play, Trojan Coach Jeff Cra- vath said after the game, had been rehearsed. Gray played safety man by himself on the punt, the first time this season, sped to the side- lines as per schedule and found his escort waiting for him. Hardy’s punting kept the Huskies in the hole in the second period, the Trojans getting the ball on the Washington 39-yard line. Don Burn- side broke thru right tackle for 17 yards. Milt Dreblow smashed for 6 more and in two plays Hardy made 16 yards and the second touchdown. In the closing seconds Hardy faded back and hit George Callanan in the end zone, giving Southern California an 18-to-0 halftime lead. The speedy Gray set up the next Trojan score in the third period with a 44-yard run thru the whole Husky team to the 19-yard line. Cal- lanan dived over on the fourth down. The Huskies finally scored on a weird play, after Bob Gilmore re- covered a Trojan fumble on South- ern California’s 37. Gilmore passed to Dick King on the Trojan 15, where King lateraled to Gordie Ber- lin, who raced over. Burnside and Dreblow did most of the ball-earrying in the Trojans’ 39-yard touchdown drive in the fourth period, Burnside scoring. A few plays later, Paul Salata recov- $jered a fumble on the Husky 24 and West smashed over from the 7. The lineups: SoU. CALIF, » WASHINGTON me Hardy 5 D. eae ae Arecundy Antles . Berlin yenhagen McGovern Melusky Washington Touchdo nan 2. Bu Wi Points ‘flor “foes , substitut i 73 96 ¢ TWELVE LEADING G R a Players, Team Tr.» G ve. ta é Perricone, South...62 2 aS, |e Cad n. Os \|Delmonico, Manual 276 euch; guards, Hosack, an Steiner; mauel. NSCOR ae center, Thompson; backs, Gilmore, Moore, Landrum, Man ee Pavelka, South. eferee; Joe Leming. U. C. L, A. Um- Hirsch. North. pire: Verne Landreth, Friends, Head Lines- Karbatseh ' man; Voyle Brennan, Pomona. Field Judge: Biffle. Bast g Larry Houston, U. ¢. L. A Sundzren, E 93 3 6.2 Owens, Mant 980 1 8a eisi x Ibert, 98 7 86 43 Stuckey, 95 12 83 3.4 F LEADING PASSER Player, Team Atts, Comp, Gain Pet. Elieger “West, 8 134.100 aay iS City Auditorium Johnny Taylor o! of AOaliand) Calif., bartender, will weigh in at 148 pounds with Jesse Jackson, Negro battler from Fort Francis E, War- ren, Wyo., coming into the ring two pounds heavier Tuesday night in their scheduled ten-round bout at the city auditorium. Merle Vannoy, Buckley field kayo artist, will enter the ring at 117 pounds, while his Fort Warren op- ponent, Wilber Meredith, will have a seven-pound advantage. Three four-rounders, featuring Denver's Joey Garcia against Willy Toy, will round out the program. The show opens at 8:30 p. m. Tigers Don’t Want Star Chicago, Oct. 24—(In N. S.)— Ralph Brizzolara, general manager of the Chicago Bears, denied pub- lished reports Tuesday that the Brooklyn Tigers were seeking to get the services of Sid Luckman, an en- sign in the maritime service, for the remainder of the season. New Officials Of “‘V’ League CHARLES BRESNAHAN (top) LIEUT., COL. HOWARD REED (center) HORACE NASH (bottom) Newly elected officers of Den- ver’s Victory Basketball league, one of the fastest cage loops in the nation. Bresnahan was named president, Lieutenant Colonel Reed vice president and Nash treasurer. Clubs repre- senting Ambrose & Co., managed by Jack McCracken, and includ- ing, among others, the great “Ace” Gruenig, Lowry Field, Buckley Field, Fitzsimons hos- pital and Fort Logan have en- tered the league. Fort Francis E. Warren has been invited to join. GREENE FROWNS ON PEP FIGHT Paterson, N. J., Oct. 24—Presi- dent Abe Greene of the National Boxing association, declaring that there were “enough legitimate light- weights around entitled to a crack at the title,’ Tuesday frowned on any attempt to match Juan Zurita, lightweight champion, with Willie Pep, featherweight champion of the world (New York version). Greene said that Zurita must risk his championship against some of the men on the ranking list issued quarterly by the association. “A title isn’t owned by divine right,” Greene said. “It is merely bestowed on a champion only for such period as he can properly de- fend it and demonstrate he is the best man in his class. If he freezes it, and manipulates it for his own selfish purpose, he deprives. the up and coming contenders of the opportunity every boxer strives for —an ultimate shot at the title in his own class. KIDS LEARN HOCKEY GAME (By HUGH FULLERTON Jr.) New York, Oct. 24.—(A. P.) —The Amateur Hockey asso- ciation is organizing a series of schools to teach the young idea how to shoot pucks at the net . . That isn’t espe- cially important in the gen- eral sports program, as the eight schools all will be held in the east and on the Pacific coast, but one phrase in Presi- dent Tom Lockhart’s an- nouncement stands out: “Any American-born boy with a pair of skates and a desire to learn hockey will be wel- comed” . . . This corner has taken occasional raps at other sports, particularly baseball, for neglecting the kids until they are good enough to be professional prospects. Now it will be interesting to see how the hockey folk will do in . their effort to start from the very bottom. ORGANIZATION FOR SEASON SET UP; BRESNAHAN IS PRESIDENT Lieut. Col. Howard Reed Named Vice President: Horace Nash New Treasurer and Charles Mc- Cabe Secretary; Fort Warren Invited In. (By JACK CARBERRY.) (Denver Post Sports Editor.) ENVER, “the cage capital of America, where over the last decade the best basketball in the land has been offered the followers of the court game in seasonal and tournament A. A. U. competition, will once again hold the spotlight of attention thru the Full assurance of this was given Monday night when, meeting at the American Legion home, the men who earried the city’s far-famed Vic- tory league to success thru the 1943- 44 season, met, elected officers and mapped their plans for the new year. The officers elected are: PRESIDENT — Charles (Chuck) Bresnahan, Denver realty man, an outstanding athlete in his college days at Colorado Aggies, and the outstanding basketball and poo teall official of this area. VICE PRESIDENT — Lieut. Col. Howard (Bill) Reed, head of the se- lective service in this area, maker of championship high school teams in northern Colorado over many years, and present coach of St. Jo- seph high school’s highly regarded Bulldogs. TREASURER — Horace Nash, Western Union public relations chief for this section, whose work has won him marked recognition from his company. Thru the last three World Series Nash has been in charge of press box relations. He served in the same capacity for the National A. A, U. in -its last tournament here, SECRETARY — Charles McCabe, an associate of Rocky Mountain-A. A. U. President Lou Wilke, retiring president of the Victory league, drafted to again serve, as he did thru the 1943-44 season. COMMISSIONER — Arlie Barry, another who was drafted to again handle the officiating, a job which he accomplished with distinction thru the 1943-44 season. The board of directors consists of the representatives of the partici- pating clubs—Ambrose & Co., (Jack McCracken); Buckley Field (Capt. Jack Whelan); Fitzsimons hospital (Capt. J. E. Griffin); Fort Logan (Lieut. Frank Noble); Lowry Field (Capt. William Schmits), Fort Francis E. Warren was, Tuesday, invited to join the league and name an official, probably Capt. Willis Smith, to the board. The explotation committee, all men who, by their hard and bril- liant work, made the league the great success of last year, again accepted draft to serve thru the coming season. This committee, all important to the league’s success, is composed of K. S. (Kollie) Barnett, Tom Flood and Mickey O’Donoughue. They will be given assistance by Wilke, and by Maj. Juan Reid, the league’s retiring vice president. Games will again be played each Monday night at Mammoth Gar- den. The season opening has been tentatively set for Dec. 11. Clubs will play “on post” games, for the benefit of*the enlisted men and of- ficers at the participating’ army in- stallations—these will be free to service men—on Thursdays of each week. The price scale will permit en- listed. men to see all Mammoth Garden contests for 30 cents. This year, in answer to popular demand, the west section of the Garden will be reserved. The entire east sec- tion will be thrown open to general admission. Two regular league games will be played each Monday night at the Garden. Tickets for the season will go on sale within the next two weeks. There was every indication that the league, one of the strongest aggregations in the country last year, with Ambrose & Co., winning the title in a hard fought race with Buckley field, will be even stronger this year. Post teams are now in the process of formation. Postwide tournaments are being staged and the cream of the crop being selected to represent the instal- lations. Each team will be a twelve-man squad. Ambrose & Co. will again’ be managed by the great McCracken. The club will, once more, be built around “Ace” Gruenig, and will have back once more such men as Art Unger and Pete Leuty, with new faces, as yet unannounced in the lineup, To Ambrose & Co., and to Phillips 66 goes the honor of opening the 1943-44 basketball season national- ly. These clubs will meet in the Chicago stadium on Friday, Dec. 1, in a double bill which will include the College All-Stars and the world’s champion professional team. This game is played under sponsor- ship of the Chicago Herald-Amer- ican, all money going to the Chica- go service men’s center. Ambrose & Co., will be very strong for this game, bolstered by such stars as Don Putman, of Buckley field, Arnie Wilhelm of Fort Logan, George Gibson of Fort Logan and Kenny Jastrow, the Fort Warren flash, voted the most promising young player in America by the National A. A. U: this year. R As was the case last year not one individual will profit thru the league operation. Every officer, di- rector and committee member serves without compensation of any kind. Their one interest is to give Denver good basketball—the best basketball to be seen anywhere. {n coming 1944-45 season. this the Mammoth Garden man agement has lent fullest co-operae tion, making the arena available at a nominal figure which will just about pay the cost of operation. In that the league is not a money making venture the plan is to ren- der every possible service to make for the comfort and enjoyment of the fans. To this end it was voted, by the league directors, to employ ~ professional ushers, and to take all necessary steps to correct any evils which may have existed thru last year’s league operation as relating to the seating of the customers. Un- der the new league setup Nash, the treasurer, will be in full charge of all tickets, and their sale. While Fort Warren had not of- ficially entered the league Tuesday an affermative reply to the league’s official invitation to take part was expected before the end of the week. After this scedule will be drawn and announced, and tickets wil be placed on sale. Girls’ League To Be Formed The 1944-45 season will see a new ' day for girls’ basketball in Denver, The city recreation department thru Assistant Director J. Harl Schlupp, Tuesday announced that at least six sponsored teams and four unspon- sored clubs would be in competition. All interested, players, sponsors and managers, are urged to contact Schlupp either by telephone, MAin 1133, branch 547, or by writing to him at room 426, City Hall, before Friday, Oct. 27. A date for an organization meeting will then be set and all interested will be econ- tacted and invited. The city recreation department is, this year, furnishing all facili- ties for play cost free. The gyms will have full supervision during contests, which will be open to the public, COAST PROS ARE SILENT Los Angeles, Oct. 24—(A. P.)— Talkative as clams, representatives of the American and Pacific Coast Professional Football: leagues emerged from a conference and would say nothing on a report that a merger of the two circuits is in the air. - All that was forthcoming was this statement, issued by a press agent: “Officials of the American league and the Pacific Coast league said that a meeting was held in Los Angeles, at which the future of pro-_ fessional football of the Pacifie © coast was discussed. No definite conclusions were reached, and fu- ture meetings are contemplated.” Jerry Giesler, president of the American league; J. Rufus Klaw- ans, president of the Pacific Coast league, and directors of both loops attended the meeting. 4 Grange’s Mark Now Threatened Champaign, Ill, Oct. 24.—(A. P.) —The 20-year-old touchdown record of Harold (Red) Grange at Illinois is in imminent danger of being shattered. Grange scored thirteen touch- downs in 1924, including four in twelve minutes against Michigan. ~ In six games this year Claude (Buddy) Young, the Illini’s little “buzz-bomb,” and national sprint ehampion, has raced across the goal line for ten touchdowns. Illinois has four more games on its schedule. Young’s scores for the most part have been scored on end runs, in- cluding one of 92 yards and one of 93 yards. Those long runs have built up an eye-lifting average for Young of 12.7 yards per try. In forty-three ball-carrying sprints, he has piled up 546 yards. Sports Mirror TODAY A YEAR AGO—Chicago Bears trounced Brooklyn Dodgers, 338-21, and Green Bay Packers whipped Detroit Lions, 27-6, in Na- tional Football league. THREE YEARS AGO—Baseball Commisioner K. M. Landis ap- proved Brooklyn Dodgers’ ‘World Series shares of $4,829.40. 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