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0 Fix Probe Spreads To All N Y. Teams Using Garden Friday, Feb. 23. 1951 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. By RAY KOHN , (J Auorialea fro Snort.. ntr Q NEW YORK - (.PI -The colleRe basketball "fix" probe has spread toOill New York learns which played games last year in Madison Square Garden. The current sports scandal reached back into last season when, newspapers reported, police had wiretap recordings of a laslyear fix. The newpapers said the evidence involving all local teams was or dered withheld by an , unidentified high official. Former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien entered a gen eral denial of ihe reports: Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy, while saying he had no informalion that such evidence ex- i REPAIR Clutch slipping? You'r losinf powr . . . ful cotti ara highar. La our axpart pur your clutch I bock into tip-top ihopt. Hava It ' dona today! HANSEN MOTOR CO. isted. had ordered a search of po lice files. The commissioner said the departmental record c h e ck might take "a couple of days. District Attorney Frank S. Ho gan, who last Sunday broke the basketball bribe case which rocked i he sports world, said he never saw or heard of suppressed wir- YMCA Boys Hoop League Playoff Set The YMCA church basketball playoffs have been scheduled for Saturday morning and afternoon at the Junior High and Benson school gyms. At 10 a.m. the First Christian quintet will tangle with Baptist Presbyleiian. Both teams were in volved in a three-way tie for the third spot in the Junior high school league. The winner of this game will meet St. George's Episcopal at Ihe Benson gym at 1:15 p m. The semifinals of the "B" league will get underway at 3:15 as First Methodist meets the loser of the 1:15 game. Sutherlin Christian will meet the winners. "A" league semi-finals feature the first place Dillard Methodist team battling the First Methodist squad at 1:15 and the other first place First Christians against Faith Lutheran at 2:15. There games are scheduled to be played at Benson gym. These games will determine the teams to play in the finals the fol lowing Saturday, March 3. The championship teams in each bracket will receive trophies. tap evith-nce. He added that his , officOiad no wiretaps prior to last I Jan. 12. Wiretap evidence rwas: used to gain confessions in the present "fix' 'case. The newspapers said 40 wirelap recordings made during the 1949 190 season indicated a giant "fix" involving all Garden dates Drive-In Cleaners Edge Ahead In Comm'l League Drive-In Cleaners bowlers i n- 1 creased their lead slightly in Com mercial league competition last I night by taking three points from M and H market. R. Wamsley of Yoncalla Mer chants cornered both ends of the individual honors by rolling a 222 I game and a 555 series. COMMERCIAL LEAGUE W L Pis Drive-In 18 6 25 Wavne's 17 7 22 Cal Pac 15 9 2D i Coen Sup. 16 8 19 iTodd Bldg. 11 13 16 1 Sig Fett 12 12 15 Lockwood 10 14 14 Yoncalla 10 14 14 Chrvstalite 10 14 13 D and 1. 9 15 13 M and H 9 15 12 Melo Maid 7 17 9 kept by every Metropolitan area team. lloan had a long talk yesterday with Eddie Card, former Long Is land University (Brooklyn) player accused of offering bribes to three LIU stars, and a trio of City Col lege of New York team members. Card also is charged with acting as a go-between for the alleged brains of the fix, Salvaiore P. Sol laiio. The district attorney said he questioned Gard about any others who might have been mixed hp in the scandal. Hogan declined to say what progress, if any. resulted from the questioning. He added that the inquiry was "far from comnlete." As a result of the New York in vestigation some half dozen schools throughout the nation have pulled their teams out of further Garden competition. In a radio address last night, Commissioner Murphy praised the progress of the fix inquiry and as sured out-of-town teams there would be no relaxation in police vigilance against future fix at- tempts. Offering "a special word" to the mothers and faihers and friends jof college athletes whose teams play in New York in the future, Murphy said: I "Let me assure them that New 1 York is a city we are proud of, and we prop.se to maintain it in the j best interests of those we welcome las visitors and our own citizens ' alike." The New York grand jury, which , started sifting fix evidence Wednes day, is expected to take about a week or 10 days bfore deciding what charges might be made against eight accused collegians and Sollazzo. Accused in Ihe fix case, besides Solazzo and Gard, are CCNY play ers Ed Warner, Ed Roman and Al Roth. I. Ill lari tjirnu Cmitk I Adnlph Bigos and Sherman While! and NYU player Harvey (Connie) ctcnaii. As other basketball bribe at tempts were reported around the country, the U.S. Senate Crime Investigating committee indicated it might Jnnk into besketball fixes but said that no extensive study was planned. Sen. Estes Retainer (n-Tcnn), committee chairman, pointed out in Washington yesterday that the fommiltee officially joes out of ousiness March 31. The New Y'ork probe, he said, "is in mighty good hands" re ferring to the conduct of Hogan's investigation. Home Court Pays Wins For PCC Hoop Teams and 9 of 12 f"r an even 75 percent in the SoutHPrn division. In the north the home teams LOS ANGELES The h o m e I an vrage winning margin court advantage ha, paid off in 0'y ? .f' ?.. Vpoin? Five" victory for the host team approx-, l.point victories and three 2- imately three-fourths of the time in 1951 Pacific Coast Conference basketball play, the commission er's office disclosed today. pointers were recorded in the first 32 games. In the south Ihe home teams won by a 15.1 average and the uirilnM, k.. 1 T r Il - ,.,'.inin-U,h ,Wp .WC,k .of Py 1 n one 4-pointer were the closest remaining, home teams have won I sanies ?vee.ltih.f V'-9 Sercent! wshi"K'n. Oregon and UCLA average in the Northern division I are undefeated at home. University Says Solution To Fixes Is No Admission Oak & Stephens Phone 446 BALTIMORE UP) Is it the "evil" of large gate recipts which has drawn som ecolleges down the road to the current "basketball fix" scandals? 1 A world-famous. university here believes it has the solution. Let spectators in free, says John ' Hopkins University. They've been doing that at Hop kins now for 16 years. 1 "If intercollegiate athletics have any value other than monetary, I nicy miuuiu ue iiiiauicu uj uic uin- I' versity and controlled by the ed ucational and not the monetary values." I Hopkins appropriates $40,000 a year for athletics. 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