European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Woj f basketball scandal puts heat on gamblers k coach Morris Tubby Raskin addresses Brooklyn College squad after five players implicated in scandal had been left to right Paul Frank Sam Sherman Bill Rosenblatt Only Mem Ber of original varsity not Mason Seymour and Morty team will play out scheduled the heat is on the shadowy characters with out visible support who will bet you at their prices that you cant pick the Winner of the con Louis the army notre Dame game or the Nyu City College affair at the Madison Square Call pm gamblers As mayor Laguardia and but right now these off color gents Are about As popular As a polecat at a Lawn not since seven members of the Chicago White sox became the Black sox by Selling out their 1919 world series against the Cincinnati reds has the sports world had a scandal to com pare with the one recently uncovered in Brook there had been rumours that gamblers were insuring themselves against risk by bribing basketball players before five members of the Brooklyn College team confessed they had received an Advance of on to be paid them when they lost to the University of Akron in the Boston but these had been accepted As just the usual rumours with which a bettor alibis his failure to pick a nobody in College circles seemed to have taken the rumours very seriously except Forrest Prog publicity conscious University of Kansas basketball professional gamblers already have caused two boys to throw basketball games in Eastern collegiate Allen charged last More Money is bet on collegiate football and Basket Ball than on horse but All the trouble it would get together and appoint an absolute Czar Over All if they some of these College boys who have never seen big Money Are going to sell and it will cause a scandal that will stink to High Allens blast was poo poohed by Ned acting president of Madison Square and by the metropolitan sports writers and Bob sports columnist for International news recalled after the Brooklyn scandal broke that he had said Allen was an inveterate Popoff who never missed a bet to get his name on the sports pages and that by saying something was corny in Copenhagen he was indirectly indicting a lot of decent kids who have the gumption and perhaps the family connections to resist an offer from some rat who was out to pollute Bob wrote the thing to i is to apologize to Prog but the Brooklyn expose did More than make an i told you so Prophet out of the five players involved were expelled from col lege and a clamor went up for the scalps of the gamblers and just As legislative action followed the Black sox so were Bills framed for introduction in the various state Legislatures to make bribery or attempted bribery of Amateur athletes a serious District attorney William Odwyer of Kings county Brooklyn who fought the Black Market in Italy As a Onestar resumed his office in time to take charge of the i Mony of sports writers and invited mayor la Guardia to appear before the Little Flower earned a Chance to speak his piece when he de voted most of one of popular sunday Broad casts Over City owned nyc to the tin horns and parasites who have been the target of his Wrath for 11 its Tough on Brooklyn col said the because it happened to be the place where the scandal but the in fluence of gamblers in Amateur sports is much More him not this is generally the scandal also had its effect on gambling on other police As signed to the Madison Square Garden were instructed to keep the lobby free before and during All sports events Wilfred Tulane athletic director who was recently elected president of the National collegiate athletic asked newspapers not to print Odds on College the exposure convinced the big league base Ball magnates that the need for a judge Landis was greater now than when the late Jurist took Over As High commissioner of the National Pas before the Brooklyn scandal there had been a tendency on the part of some to mini Mize the immediate need for appointing a re placement for while there was some demand for the re Moval of collegiate athletic contests from the big definite stands were taken Only by the athletic directors of the big ten conference and president of Akron uni whose team was to have played Brook Lyn College at the Boston the big ten officials adopted a Resolution against playing contests away from campuses except with per Mission of the Simmons was More the University of he will compete in no More intercollegiate athletic contests where we do not con tract directly with the educational institution with whom we Are bookmakers went Back into the at least Frank Philadel phia record sports reported that he was unable to bet on anything at a basketball doubleheader at the convention Hall after roam causes could be eliminated if College presidents the Kings county grand jury heard the Testi ing around the bleachers All on a show at the fifth army rest Center in Italy with Joe Nick Etten and Tom Leo Durocher spied Bert Haas in the crowd and had him join in the Haas figured in the Trade that brought Medwick to the dodgers from Louis but was with the reds when he went into the after catching Virgil trucks in the army Navy game at Bill Dickey says the former Detroit twirler has the Best fast Ball he has Ever a b24 outfit in the Vii bomb group in Burma India is known As Cronin kids because they All Wear red sox baseball when a shipment of sports equipment was unloaded somewhere in North Africa and revealed a set of hockey gis thought something was snafu until the special service officer explained that he had ordered the Sticks for a desert version of the game he was going to teach Fred who took Jack scar key and lefty Gomez on a Uso sponsored tour of Africa and Italy last wants to take a Golf show Walter Gene Tommy Armour and Sam sports service record Byrd have already expressed a willingness to killed in action Ray Bud Topflight Amateur in the died Hans former fullback for the new York soccer in the Walter Reed Hospital of injuries received in the Salerno missing in action Walter Woody former ail american end at the University of who flew Waddy Wagon on the first b29 raids on Tokyo and after a raid on promoted Marty former Syracuse and olympic track to first lieutenant in the usic at Cherry transferred Rollie former Cleveland and new York Yankees Catcher from Bam Bridge train ing Center to the naval air technical training Center at f go Cpl Milton Srur now station cd in Fork wins pole i u of a a Unotti iffy leap 1 3 6