THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Irish Defends Off-Campus Cage Games
New York, Jan. 6—(UP)—Basketball's second "fix" attempt in New York within four years was expected today to renew the sporadic clamor for the game's return to the campus but Madison Square Garden promoter Ned Irish wasn't running a fever.
Irish is the reformed sports writer who dreamed up the Garden double headers. Since those inaugural days in 1834, his brain child has grown into a lusty giant.
Ned sold the Garden a bill of goods and began promoting his double headers. The fans started swarming to the Garden to see the nation's best teams and now the average attendance for each of the
regularly schedule dates
morning and evening night. On many
nights it is an 18,500 sellout.
It was inevitable, as college basketball took solid hold during the past decade, that it should become a gambling sport. And where gamblers are involved, there always are attempts to fix the outcome for a cleanup.
Thus broke the 1945 scandal in which five Brooklyn college students allegedly agreed to a fix. This game was not played in the Garden but the reaction, among college heads, was that playing off campus and commercializing the game set up these conditions.
Now, with four men accused of attempting to bribe a George Washington player to throw a Garden game, the return-to-the-campus drive apparently will gain renewed impetus.
"We work closely with outside teams and tell the coaches who to contact if such a situation should arise." Irish explained.
"As far as the Garden is concerned, we do everything humanly possible to make certain that underexables are barred and gambling is stamped out," Irish added. "We have our uniformed police, a plain clothes force and an additional un-
"The undercover force reports directly to me," he said. "They attempt to notice any irregularities whatsoever; anything at all which would indicate that all wasn't as it should be."
Irish asserted that bringing teams into New York was an aid in stamping out such attempted "fixes."
"In this case," he pointed out "contacts were made in Virginia but the 'fixers' were held off until the team came to New York so that the case would be within jurisdiction of our penal law. Some states don't have this penal law in such cases."
Whether the game ultimately is sent back to the campus is immaterial in this corner. But the college heads, if such action is taken had better realize that basketball now is big business with the bookies and
the gamblers—and constant surveillance is necessary. This case has proved that the campus is as violate as the big city arenas.
Capitols Lose 1st At Home
The high-riding Washington Capitals were additional proof today that all good things must come to an end.
An up-and-coming Baltimore five aided in re-establishing the old adage by handing the Basketball Association of America pace-setters their first home court backof the season last night, 88 to 69, ending a 14-game streak. It also marked the fifth defeat in 29 starts for the Caps who tried desperately in the second half but couldn't make up a 46-29 intermission deficit.
Sooners Big 7 Bid Pinned To Kansas Nemesis, Courty
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 6—(UP)—Missouri's unintentional gift to basketball at the University of Oklahoma, southpaw forward Paul Courty, was the big reason today why the smooth Sooners from Norman were favored to win the Big Seven championship.
It was Courty's shot that enabled Oklahoma to beat Kansas for the
Big Seven tournament championship$here last week,
And it was Courty's overtime basket that gave the Sooners a 38 to 36 victory over the Jayhawkers at Stillwater Tuesday night, in the Big Seven regular season opener.
Oklahoma, almost a unanimous pre-season choice to run away with the conference title, has not enjoyed beginning in the 1948-40 campaign.
The Sooners lost four of their first five starts before hitting a jackpot of three victories in a row in the tournament. Their latest triumph over Kansas lifted them to a 5-4 figure for the season.
But Courty has been going great from the start. A member of Oklahoma's 1947 N.C.A.A. runnersup, he led the Big Seven in scoring last season while his team was finishing in a tie for second place.
Courty, six feet three inches and 190 pounds, learned to hit the hoop on an outdoor clay court at his home at Windsor, Mo., where he had to figure the wind drift of a seamed ball. He played high school basketball at Warrensburg, Mo.
How he got away from the University of Missouri's corps of talent scouts and landed in Coach Bruce Drake's camp at Oklahoma has never been learned.
Drake has a wealth of fine ball players, among them Paul Merchant, possibly the finest playmaker in the Midlands.
But Courty is the key. If his left-handed flips remain hot this season, his fourth at Oklahoma, the Sooners will be the team to beat in the Big Seven race.
DA To Quiz Fem'Fix'Decoy
New York, Jan. 6 — (UP) — A plump brunet identified as the feminine decoy in an alleged attempt by gamblers to "fix" a college basketball game was called today for further questioning by District Attorney Frank Hogan.
Hogan said he hoped to learn if a national gambling syndicate masterminded the $1,000 bribe offered Dave Shapiro, 25, co-captain of the George Washington university basketball squad, to throw a Madison Square Garden game Tuesday night.
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The brunet, Sylvia Brill, 24, is a sister-in-law of Joseph Aronowitz, one of four men held in $50,000 bail each for grand jury action on attempted bribery charges. Hogan said a date between the girl and Shapiro had been arranged for a New Year's eve party. She was questioned extensively yesterday.
John Crawley, who tutored the linemen in the disastrous season just closed (the team won only from Arkansas State), announced he will resign, effective at the end of the present school term.
Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 6-(UP)—Kansas State college had a new football worry today—a line coach for next season.
Crawley Resigns At K-State
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Philadelphia, Jan. 5 — (UP) — Alexis Thompson, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles National football league champions, announced today that he had decided to sell the team.
The option includes a provision that the financial support obtained by Ewart is satisfactory to N.F.L Commissioner Bert Bell and the league members.
The Eagles office, in announcing Thompson's decision, said the owner gave his general manager Charles D. Ewart a 60-day option to purchase the club.
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