Evening star., 1952-04-29
'Spivey 10 Surrender
In Kentucky as Soon
As Indictment Arrives
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 29.-The
University of Kentucky, famed
for its championship basketball
teams, felt the full brunt today of
game fixing reverberations rock
ing the college sport.
One of the university's ALL
America stars, 7-foot Bill Spivey,
faced arrest on f1rSt-degree per-
jury charge despite his repeated
protests of innocence. Conviction
carries maximum penalty of five
years imprisonment or $4,000
fine, or both.
Meanwhile, three other Ken
lucky greats-Alex .Groza, Ralph
Beard and Dale Barnstable-were
given suspended sentences by
Judge Saul S. Street today in
General Sessions Court after
pleading guilty earlier to charges
of conspiring with gamblers to fix
a National Invitation Tournament
game in 1949. (Story on Page AID
Groza and Beard, like Spivey,
were All-America selections and
they were spearheads of Ken
tucky's fabulous team which
represented the United States in
the 1948 Olympic games at Lon
don.
Spivey Awaits Indictment.
Spivey was indicted for perjury
by the New York grand jury yes
terday and District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan issued warrant
for his arrest.
Word from Lexington, KY, to-
day was that Spivey had prom
ised Walter P. Franklin, Fayette
County patrol chief, that he would
be available for arrest when coun-
ty officials receive a copy of the
New York Indictment accusing
Spivey.
Spivey and two attorneys were
called to the Office of Chief
Franklin this morning. Franklin
advised the former basketball star
and his attorneys, Elmer Drake
and John Y. Brown, that he re-
ceived a telephone call yesterday
from Capt. William j. CRATE
necker of the district attorneys
Office in New York advising him
that Spivey had been indicted for
perjury.
Until he received the papers,
which the New York official said
he would mail Immediately,
Franklin said, he asked the attor-
neys to keep Spivey available for
arrest on fugitive warrant.
The indictment charges the big
center with falsely denying that
he discussed deals with alleged
fixers and accepted $1,000 in the
winter of 1950-51 to arrange the
point spread of games. The dis
trict attorney said Spivey's testi-
money in a voluntary appearance
here in February was not borne
out by that of the others ques-
toned.
Spivey, who steadfastly has
maintained he has had no part in
the mushrooming scandal, first
learned of the indictment before
taking the floor for an exhibition
game in Williamstown, KY, last
night.
| THAT is not true" he said of
the charges.
Several hours before the Hogan
announcement of perjury charges,
Spivey, two other former Ken
lucky performers and four former
Toledo University players were
mentioned in indictments filed
! Eagainst four alleged fixers.
Part-Time Coach Involved.
The Kentuckians were Walter
Hirsch and Jim Line, the latter q
part-time assistant to Coach
Adolph Rupp in 1901. The -four
Toledo players were William
Walker, Carlo Muzzi, Robert Nc
donald and Jack Feeman, accused
of being involved in three fixed
games between September, 1850
and January, 1851.
The allegations were contained
in new indictments filed against
Joseph Benintende and Eli Kaye)
'IKlukofski of New York and Jack
West and Jack Rubinstein o1
Brooklyn.
The indictment against West
charged he, Line and others con-
spired to bribe Kentucky players
,Iduring the 1901 season. Hogan
: said that at a meeting in Gin.
cinnati in January, 1851, West
gave money to Line to be divided
among Line, Spivy and Hirsch
Line gave $1,000 to Spivey anC
$500 to Hirsch, the district at.
torney added.
Went "Under the Points"
This payoff was made, Hogan
said, for "going under the points
in the 1850 Sugar Bowl game be-
; tween Kentucky and st. Louis
won by st. Louis, 43-42. Spivey
; Line and Hirsch also conspireo
, with West to shave the points ir
the De Paul and Notre Dame
5 games in January, 1851, the of.
f1cial said.
Klukofsky was accused of pay
ing $1,75O to Walker, Muzzi ane
mcdonald after Toledo had ''gont
under the points" in beating Nj
agara, 1910, in September, 1850
Benintende and Rubinstein were
accused of paying $4,000 to the
same three and Feeman after To.
ledo lost to Bowling Green ir
January, 1851.
Spivey didn't play last season