Evening star., 1945-01-31
NcAA Chief Suggests
Return Of Game 10
Campus Might Aid
BY TED MEIER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

BY TED MEIER,
! Associated Press Sports Writer.
BROOKLYN, Jan. College
basket ball authorities throughout
the Nation, disturbed by the admis-
sion of five Brooklyn College play
ers they had accepted $1,000 to
throw game, pondered anew today
methods of combating widespread
gambling on games that one source
estimated ran as high as $4,000, 900
weekly.
Leaders of the indoor sport, from
Ned Irish, promoter of the double
headers at Madison Square Garden,
to Wilbur c. Smith, president of the
National Collegiate Athletic Associ-
alton, asserted that the action of the
five Brooklyn players in no way
typif1ed the attitude of the college
athlete in general. Smith called
upon the every day fan, who is in
no way to be confused with the pro-
fessional gamblers, to help us by not
betting on college athletics"
Meantime, a Kings County grand
jury called into a rare night ses-
sion by Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz,
heard testimony from the five play
ers, Bernard Barnett, Larry Pearl
stein, Robert Leder, Jerry Green
and Stanley Simon; their coach,
Morris Raskin; police and assistants
District Attorneys Edward Heffer-
nan and Louis Andreozzi. The jury
concluded its session shortly before
midnight and was expected to hand
up its findings to Judge Leibowitz
sometime today.
Twelve Arrested in Garden.
| While authorities awaited the
Brooklyn jury's findings Manhattan
police disclosed that more than II
men have been arrested in Madison
Square Garden on bookmaking
charges since the horse racing ban
January 3. Their names are not
made public.
Police said arrest of the men, ac-
cused of making book" on fights,
hockey and basket ball, followed
confidential orders issued by Police
Commissioner Lewis j. Valentine
January Is after complaints had
been received that race-track fol-
lowers had mushroomed new
| business.
The confidential orders, officials
said, converged four separate under
cover investigations on the sports
arena. "The bookies have been
reaping a harvest" police asserted
Athletic Directors, Coaches Act.
Irish announced that further ac-
ton to diminish gambling on games
and to protect the players from ap-
proaches by persons interested In
influencing the outcome" was taken
at a meeting Of New York Metro
politan athletic directors and cage
coaches.
"The measures are designed,
Irish said, ''to give the player as
surance of protection from these
advances, but in order to be
effective, must remain undisclosed
at the moment"
Asa Bushnell, commissioner OF
Eastern athletics, asserted athletic
directors now must organize In
strength to protect college games,
while Smith, in his statement at
New Orleans, declared "the causes
which may be facilitating the in
crease in gambling should be close
ly examined. Such questions as to
whether games should be played In
any gymnasium or arena not To-
Gated on the campus of one of the
competing institutions =" -" should
be considered"
Vadal Peterson, coach of Utah's
NCAA champions, said at Salt Lake
City that the players admission
may be the lesson needed to check
a vice at its beginning" Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia of New York
asked the aid of the public to see
to it that cheap, tin-horn chiselers'
be thrown into Jail.
Judge Demands Stern Methods.
Judge Leibowitz, in instructing the
grand jury to "hand up any indict-
ments necessary" declared "to cor
rupt a college boy is to destroy him
in his formative years. - Wher
these vermin stretch their filthy
paws into our college halls they
pollute the flower of our country.
youth and they have got to be de.
stroyed. " = Take fortnight action
Smash these barnacles and smash
them hard"
The disclosure of the scandal
likened to baseball's Chicago Black
Sox of the 1919 World Series, broke
suddenly late Monday night with the
arrest Of Harry Rosen and Harvey
] Stemmer on charges of conspiracy.
i-,e players, later dropped from
the Brooklyn squad, signed a state.
ment they received $1,000 from
Stemmer to throw the Akron game
originally scheduled for tonight ir
Boston.
i Stemmer, described as a gambler
was held in $2,500 bail for further
hearing February 5. Rosen was ar.
raigned in Manhattan on another
charge. The D. AS Office said hi
would be arraigned later on the con.
spiracy count.
Brooklyn College authorities sale
that with the exception Of the Akror
game, which was Cancelled, the team
would play the remainder of it!
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