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. council announced last night it . : mm: 4 ’ here,” Gardner said. “It was Joe Williams Says—— : LI : would strike from.its record tne Gallls Tilt With "Birds Ragged mostly (Sherman) White throws $7 LE C h } game played with City College of| MANHATTAN, Kas, Feb, 20 “It's a great place to play and the ID8 the ball through the hoops : S C a Ls 1 . be U odac Is As ounde New York if charges agains; (UP)—Coach Jack Gardiier said Garden is good for basketball” |made 37 points and that's enc . thiee CONY players of “dumping | K-State was beaten, 60-69, in than any player ever 2 EA B Bribe Confessions {the contest are sustained. |bath._his Kansas Stdte College ,, first meeting with LIU. Sher- against any team I have ever » WwW on’t Bl Off : ; LIU Game ‘On’ basketball team and Long Island man White, Leroy Smith and coached.” wit ‘ : . . : {University * were “ragged” when Adolph Bigos of LIU have ad-' ms OW ; At First, He Cited Faith in Players, : | CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 20 (UP) [they met Dec. 2 in New York's mitted they took money for "INCOME TAX RETURNS. Only Action by College Heads Then Said, You Can't Tell by Looking’ '~University of Cincinnati will Madison Square Garden. |“shaving points” on that game, . a
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By STAN OPOTOWSKY, United Press Sports Writer : NEW YORK, Feb. 20— Yesterday Long Island University game with Long Island University Dim suspect three LIU players * #8
Will Clean Up Sportin N. Y.
ey : Basketball Coach Clair said, “My bo, they’ waren VOT shaving points. | THE SECOND time K-State |; bh Bur. of Int. Revenue 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 20—What can be done to save pel om That's ha poll] for me." ¥ boys say, they're not In any as a result of the cage “fix” «I expect to return to the Gar- met LIU was at Manhattan Jan. |=" "BR. 8753 ne ge basketball around here? Today Bee mumbled, “Oh, my God, this is awful. Oh, Lord!” scandals, UC Coach John Wiethe den whenever we can play under 31, Kansas State won 85-65. . ’ pm ' Ta oe said today. _ ‘Proper auspices,” Gardner sald. “If there was any throwing “i
Listening to the coaches, A TR » Asa Bushnell, who speaks for| THE INTERIM was tragedy. Three of Bee's star players— the Eagtern Collegiate AA, and Ned Irish, Madison Square|Sherman White, Adolph Bigos Ee reso ar Piajars-— | Garden promoter, discuss the latest stinker at lunch-|>Pd Leroy Smith—had confessed dal more than he does a $500
the led the scores of their| hit” on a 10 to 1 shot by one of eon yesterday, you got no more than a blurred impression ni games in return his clients. All the bookie wants of futility and confusion.
| \ history. If this is to be the ap-' These men expressed their proach toward delousing the er
Warenges of the perilous con- its future is indeed black. on of the sport and were con- "ve. vineing in detailing the safe. EARLIER a paper from Dr. IN they have erected, Harry N. Wright, president of J one came up with a suggestion City College, had been read , . .! that promised either correction or| AS Ar as the future is concerned solution. Their group attitude the college authorities are making! seemed to say: “Gosh; this is per-|® thorough examination to deterfectly terrible, but what can we Mine where we will play our do about it?” games next year.” Dr. Wino- ous when asked Wager on either team. Thus, a Obviously answering. District 872d admitted he didn’t know pre-| Bee if his players ‘Client’ must lay the odds Attorney Hogan's characteriza-/Cisely what that meant. Some- might be included in the “fix” Whether he bets on the favorite tion of the Garden as “unwhole- how it was remindful of Brook- | ring. jor the underdog. some” and therefore undesirable|/lYn’s war chant, “Wait until next “I've got faith in my boys,” | As a result, by “balancing the for college competition, Irish de- year.’ | he shouted. “Implicit faith, I |P0OKS"—-Dby evening the amounts scribed how extensively the arena’ The disposition of emotion- | trust ‘em all {wagered on each team—a booke is policed. ally unstable young men to the way I maker almost always is assured |
for gamblers’|is plenty of “action” on sporting Jl. ’ bribes. events,
~ # » : Bat a ous: Fas] HEKE IS how these self-styled a little stunned’ ‘Petting commissioners” operate yesterday when On basketball games: : three City Col-| After computing the “point- A
lege of New| Spread” (the margin by which one ;
York players/team is favored to defeat anwere arrested on Other), bookmakers demand odds * Regular Gas Genuine Ethyl mse
bribery charges, of 11 to 10, or sometimes even 5 And he was furi-/t0 4, from bettors wishing to
“We've done everything stray from the straight and | went over to of a profit from the odds he re- - humanly possible,” sald the narrow in troubled rev. was | Sherman geives. The only exception {0 this |
gentleman who took basketball | touched upon, the newspapers | White and said 118 When 4 pame ends by she Exact out’ of the gyms and made it | were criticized for publishing major boxoffice. I would have | odds. to agree with him about the policing, too. »
{margin of the point-spread, in § {which case all bets are off. = n 2
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to him, ‘Are you in this? Howard Cann, New York Uni-| “He said, ‘No, versity coach, lamented his in- coach, I'm not.
2 =» lability to dis | “That's good the interviewed bookie pointed THEN Irish stressed that the ater 3 SigtinEuish PIOYers SOM, Sign for me.” Sut, betting on basketball in New Garden serves merely as the land-| Bushnell thought something _ °* * * OFk and other Big cities 18 brisk. : lord. . .. “The colleges make their ought to be done about collegians. EDDIE GARD, eal bookmakers never are in- : ¥ own schedules, they get firstplaying summer basketball in the # former Long Gard volved in these fixes,” he insisted. ®
choice of the tickets, they] _ Island Univer- “It's these creepy, -tin-horn gam(through Bushnell's offices) aD | Phils Where Bruadwed Shalb sity player, was the “middle man” Plers who louse up the works. point their own officials.” What with nature. and Clair Bee deliv-/in the ring—and it was reported’ ‘‘And every time these tin-horns he seemed to be saying was that/oreq a stirring defense of the that his “co-operation” with the get into the act and create a scanthis mess is the colleges’ own d0-| athletes who play under him at|Police helped crack the scandals. dal, it scares the betting cus-
ing, not the Garden's. | |" “Gard _|tomers away. People then think Long Island University. (Several ard comes from a bad neigh- |; 0. ove fixed,
Later Irish was to be chal- hours later three of Bee's stars borhood,” Bee said. “Brownsville,(*" 5 , . lenged. = Bill McGuire, St. were arrested by the district at- Brooklyn—where they had Mur-, Lm tellin’ ya,” he concluded Francis College athletic director, |torney’s office.) |der, Incorporated. What can YY, something oughtta be [8 said it wasn't true the colleges 7 'do about it? ‘ (done about it. |
. ‘ | make their own schedules and | THERE could be no “There i I ‘ o/ question of re is no line on character CCNY Gam hare ia you (the sincerity of the doaches, the OF ny AR van’, tell any- Tucson A Sur (UP) : vigilance of the Garden or the thing by looking at the boys. | y FO , don’t get dates in the Garden, | chaste Ivy League concern of “Once in a while you reporters The University of Arizona athletic! or in any Uther arens pri the | Bushnell, but the over-all impres- COme to me after a game and say) Pe we oY takable in. Sion nevertheless was ome of Didn't that look funny to you?! ere weve mista al "1 in" resignation and bewilderment. | “Not to me it didn’t. Youngsters sinuations of ‘monopoly Irisn.| Nobody seemed to know what Take mistakes on the floor. When Hiniastion 0 te young Irish- to do. 3 ant trust my boys I'll get out man's rebuttal | Nobody had any realistic ideas, Of this business.” i mes was man] RO and Fie nd demanded 2roused to want to roll up his' A FEW hours after Bee made 2 a sen ™ a esent be Sleeves and do a fighting job in a'that vow detectives ushered the! a 8 ae WATLE va dirty situation. The feeling seemed three Long Island University Salleg upon Dorel ed Ido to be that in time the stench Blzyers into the district attorney 8 that he, not Irish, was Sonducuing To bidw AveY: . | Ther came the questioning . . J the meeting, .but when he did ' hours . . . and hours . ... and] acquiesce no coach volunteered WELL, gentlemen it won't. Not , 50g 004’ Bee was at home, fiti
to tak the promoter’s baton. this time. ; | gh A the II to McGuire. Basketball as it’s played around fully trying to sleep i
i Shortly after 5 a. m. a reporter | enw {here has become the most notor- teleppond him. Po
2 DESPITE the fact that scan- ious of all sports. It has become “Coach,” the reporter said, | dal was unknown in college bas- 8 disgrace to the colleges and to “The three boys have confessed.” ketball until the game moved OUr town. If you can’t clean your, «gp God!” Bee screamed. “All! from the campus to the commer- house, close it up. I believe you've (nhree of them? Oh, Lord!” | cial arenas all the coaches were done the best you can. Obviously _ ., . , _ ..0, in favor of continuing their Gar- your best hasn't been enough. For | Stink Killing den games from which, of course, Six years now we've had recur- . . their schools receive sizable ring scandals. ‘Bookie Business NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UP)—
monetary rewards. “That's not! It's time we heard from your where the fixing goes on,” they bosses, the college presidents. explained. How much longer are they go- Big City bookmakers are the The only complaint Dr. Sam| ing to stand for. this degra- jmost disgruntled guys in town toWinograd, faculty manager of| dation? day because of the latest college athletics at City College, around! The primary blame lies with basketball “fix” scandal. which one of the present storm them, anyway. It was they who As one harried bookie, who roars, had against the Garden gave the word that took the game must remain anonymous for obwas that he doesn't get enough off the campus. I can’t believe Vious reasons, put it: “This latest tickets on the “50-yard line” and that they were influenced wholly stink is killing business.” that the payoff at the gate isn’t by concern for the old grads. Contrary to widespread opinion, # as munificent as it might be. | Dr. Sam Winograd’s thoughts 2 bookmaker hates a sports scanThis seemed a strangely frivo- still echo . . . City College's pay- : lous attitude for the representa- off is inadequate. Come, my good Other Sports tive of a college which had just men — you college presidents, I ’ sustained the worst shock in its mean. —Speak up. Page 18
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