The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-30
College Hoopsters Bribed By w. Y Gamblers
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(Reg. U. s. Pat. OH.) By JACK CUDDY

New York, Jan. 30.-(UP)-ASa S Bushnell, executive director of the central office for eastern intercol- legiate athletics, declared today that the Brooklyn college basketball scandal will force athletic directors of the nations colleges to organ ize in strength" to protect theirs games and players from gamblers
 Did Bushnell infer that the Na1 tional Collegiate Athletic associa@ tion should hire a staff of investi4 gators or detectives to prevent repe< titions of the Brooklyn incident in which five players admitted con4 spring with gamblers to "throw's basketball games for money?
 T am making no suggestions as to the exact preventive meaSuree necessary" Bushnell replied. That is a matter which probably will bel decided by special N.C.A.A. com- mittee to be appointed soon a committee that will continue the work of the three-man investigat- ing committee which made its re- port on gambling at the recent N.CA.A. meeting at Columbus. Bushnell was member of the lat. ter committee.
 When informed of the Brooklyn incident by the United Press, Bush nell made this statement:
 This deplorable happening casts an undeserved slur upon the over- whelmingly great majority of play CTS in intercollegiate basketball - the thousands of boys who would not be vulnerable to any tempta-. tions put in their way by gambling interests.
 "Collegiate athletic authorities have naturally been worried about the menace created by the steadily in- creasing amount of professionally directed betting on college sports, ' but they have been confident that attempts at tampering could not succeed
 These athletic directors must now organize in strength to protect college games and the undergradu- ates who play them. They must find the means of eliminating the gamb- lers completely from the picture"
 Bushnell said his office has nd jurisdiction over Brooklyn Collegey which is member only of a Metro politan basketball league. However, he emphasized that the long sought proof of actual collision between gamblers and college athletes would serve as a warning to all collegiate organizations that where there has been so much smoke recently there may have been some fire
 The N. c. A. As special commit-1 tee, Of which Bushnell was a mem- Der, made a lengthy investigation of the gambling situation before sub- hitting its report to the annual NJ c. A. A. convention at Columbus, O. January 13. The committee failed to unearth any actual cases in which gamblers attempted to tamper with players in basketball or other sports.A
 However the committees report which was adopted by the N. c. AN A-expressed regret" at the pre- valence of gambling on college games and called upon all members Of the organization to "co-operate in the establishment of remedial measures It proposed that gamb- lers be barred from college games, and that sources of information for gamblers from sheets be dried up"
 Nine days after this report was adopted at Columbus, five Brooklyn College players entered into collu- sion with gamblers a collision that was discovered accidentally by Brooklyn police. This development indicated that police are more po- tent than policies.