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GENERAL NEWS
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEB. 1. 1945
NO. 49
THE
Grand Jury Starts
Its Investigation
Of Game Gamble
By Carl Lundquist
(United PreM Sufi Correspondent)
New York, Feb. 1 (IB The
Kings county (Brooklyn) grand
jury continued Its investigation
of gambling in connection with
collegiate basketball today amidst
demands that the game be re
turned to college gymnasiums.
.In Washington, Rep. Donald L.
O'Toole of Brooklyn, referring to
the bribe money offered by pro
fessional gamblers and accepted
by five Brooklyn college basket
ball players to throw a game
against Akron university at Bos
ton, said the incident "smells to
high heaven."
"But,'.' O'Toole added, "they
ought to put the game back in
the college gymnasium, or, if
they're going to play for profes
sionals, pay the boys salaries. It's
a temptation to kids when they
see big crowds paying big prices
for games staged by professional
promoters."
Legislature Acts
Meanwhile the state legislature
at Albany acted to bring bribe
giving to amateur athletes under
the felony statutes.
Those events, precipiated by the
signed confessions of the five
players that they had accepted
money to throw the game against
Akron university scheduled at
Boston last night, but later can
celled, rocked the college sports
world -with its first major gam
bling disgrace.
The grand jury yesterday In
dicted three men, one as yet un
named, on charges of conspiracy
to cheat and defraud. Judge Sam
uel S. Leibowitz ordered the jury
extended one month in order to
complete its inquiry and set Feb.
13 for the trial of Harvey Stem
mer and Henry Rosen, the two
men named in the indictments.
The third man, known only as
"Danny," has not yet been appre
hended and .the indictment was
returned in the name of "John
Doe."-
Jury Complimented
""Leibowitz",' formerly a famous
criminal attorney, complimented
the jury on its speedy action and
indicated that he would allow
more than a month's extension if
it proved necessary. He asked
that the jury "seek out any evi
dence of crime in connection with
past games."
At Albany a bill was introduced
in the state legislature which
would amend the penal law to
make amateur athletes liable to
extreme penalties for accepting
bribes. It urged legislation impos
ing fines up to $10,000 and im
prisonment from one to five years
on any amateur who accepted
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throw a game. The bill also asks
the imposition of similar penal
ties on any party (gambler) who
seeks to bribe an amateur athlete.
To Be Witnesses
The Brooklyn players, Capt.
Bob Leder, Buddy Barnett, Larry
Pearlstein, Stanley Simon and
Jerry Green, have not been
charged with any offense and will
be used as material witnesses at
the trial. The two gamblers were
held in $25,000 bail.
Meanwhile police said they
would not relax, their vigilance
against gamblers at Madison
Square Garden and other sports,
arenas. Recent activities by the
department, it. was said, have re
sulted in the arrests of 30 per
sons for gambling on Garden bas
ketball, hockey and boxing.
BASKETBALL RESULTS
(Br United Fran)
Army 73, West Virginia 47.
Navy 60, Penn State 27.
St. Johns 71, Fordham 35.
Carnegie Tech 59, Allegheny 37.
Rice 59, Texas 48.
Holy Cross 64, Worcester Poly
tech 47.
Dartmouth 45, Columbia 38.
Quonset Navy 55, Yale 54.
Lafayette 44, Drew University
36.
Brown 59, Harvard 32.
Marquette 83, Lawrence 47.
Villanova 46, Rider 36.
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By Jack Cuddy
(United Pres. Scaff Correspondent)
New York, Feb. 1 (lit Asa S.
Bushnell, executive director of the
central office for eastern inter
collegiate athletics, warned today
that changing the sites of college
basketball games will not cure
the betting evil.
Conservative Bushnell, whose
office serves 19 collegiate organi
zations in the east, cautioned:
"those who demand loudly that
colleges withdraw their teams
from large arenas like Madison
Square Garden ate merely evad
ing the gambling issue. They are
not facing the facts. They are
trying to grab a quick solution
out of the air.
"I take exception to their state
ments because they are danger
ously misleading at a time like
this when a thorough investiga
tion and intelligent consideration
is necessary before we can even
hope for a solution. Would that
the situation were as simple as
the site-changers describe. In that
case, I would be the first to accept
their cure-all. I would be the first
to say, 'take the games away from
the big arenas and the promoters.'
But unfortunately it's not that
simple, because the sites have vir
tually nothing to do with the
problem."
Bushnell speaks with authority
on the situation not only because
of his key position in eastern col
lege athletics but also because he
was a member of the National
Collegiate Athletic association's
three-man investigating commit
tee which turned in a report on
gambling at last month's NCAA
convention at Columbus, O.
He emphasized today that in
vestigation disclosed most big
betting on basketball games as
occurring away from the build
ings where games are played,
"although some wagering is done
on the premises." Most transac
tions are made before the games
in offices, hotels, taverns and on
the streets, he said.
Bushnell continued, "handlcap
ing services quote prices on cam
pus games, just as they do on
games staged in New York, Phila
delphia, Boston and other large
cities. It's almost as easy for a
man in Bethlehem, Pa., to bet on
a game at Madison Square Gar
den, as it Is for a New Yorker to
bet on a Lehigh-Lafayette game at
Bethlehem. The sites are inciden
tal to the situation, and whether it
would be easier for gamblers to
attempt preliminary telephone
contacts with athletes on a cam
pus or in a city is purely a matter
of opinion."
Bushnell's warning was issued to
combat efforts of back-to-the-cam-pus
apostles like Dr. Forrest C.
(Phog) Allen of Kansas U.; Bill
Alexander, recently resigned foot
ball coach of Georgia Tech.; and
V. S. representative Donald L.
O'Toole of Brooklyn. These men
are urging a return to college
gymnasiums as a preventive of
gambling and collusion, such as
was disclosed in the recent Brook
lyn College scandal where in five
B.C. players confessed having ar
ranged to "throw" a game for
money.
Bushnell concluded, "advocates
of a return to the college gym
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good faith; they may mean well;
but I hope the nation's college
athletic directors do not listen to
them. They are offering a quack
cure-all for the gambling evil, in
stead of buckling down to the
difficult task of diagnosing the
case."
Nelson Favored
To Take Tourney
Corpus Christ!, Tex., Feb. 1 UP
Byron Nelson of Toledo, O.,
golf's top money winner last year
and favorite in every tournament
he enters, held that spot today
even before he arrived on the
scene of the first Corpus Christ!
open, despite several sub-par prac
tice rounds fired by other top
notch professionals.
Nelson and Harold (Jug) Mc-
Spaden of Philadelphia, second in
money winning last year, were
scheduled to arrive here today in
time for a tune-up round over the
par 70 layout over which play
starts tomorrow.
Indications were that it would
take a 261 or better to win the
first prize of $1,000 in the $6,675
tournament. Several early arriv
als found the course to their lik
ing and 66's were carded by
Jimmy Demaret, stationed at the
Corpus Christ! naval air station;
Bob Hamilton, P. G. A. champion
and Ted Houck of Memphis.
Short iron play and putting ap
peared to bo the points on which
the tourney will be won, the 5,897
yard course not requiring terrific
length off the tee.
A field of 135, 90 amateurs and
45 professionals, was expected to
play in today's pro-amateur event.
Oakland Scores
Win Over Eagles
San Francisco, Feb. 1 Uli The
Oakland Oaks scored a 6-5 win
over the Portland Eagles in a
Pacific coast league hockey league
game last night, knocking the
northern team out of the league
leadership in a hotly-contested
game.
Ed Vigneau of the Oaks scored
the winning goal with two min
utes and 35 seconds to go in the
last period. After the Oaks took
a 2-0 lead early in the first period,
the Eagles rallied to run up a 3-2
advantage in 16 minutes of play.
Ken Charleton, Oaks star re
cently sold to the Chicago Black
hawks, scored thrpe goals and two
assists. Portland's Millard also
hung up three goals to lead the
Eagle's scoring.
Chicagoans Fear
Gambling Scandal
Chicago, Feb. 1 UM If Chicago
is to avert a gambling scandal
similar to the one recently un
covered in New York, sDorts
leaders must organize and map
a program of prosecution, presi
dent Hill Tohln of the Chicago
Black Hawk hockey team said to
day. Gamblers long have bothered
the Black Hawk management and
professional and ameteur sports
leaders here should organize Im
mediately to prevent a scandal, he
said, adding that wagers on
hockey games In the stadium us
ually average about $70.
Big League Nines
Outline Plans to
Play This Season
Chicago, Feb. 1 tin With the
spring training season less than
a month and a half away major
league baseball teams are better
staffed today than they were a
year ago and have almost double
the manpower they had during
World War I.
The major league clubs, en-'
couraged by the player situation,
are going about their regular late
winter business of mailing con
tracts, issuing roster lists and lay
ing the plans necessary for the
big training push giving. every
possible indication they will be
operating at the same old stand
this summer.
Despite the burning manpower
question which has threatened to
black out America's No. 1 sport,
American league teams for ex
ample have 275 men on their
reserve lists which is about 20
more than last year at this time
and almost double the total dur
ing World War I when teams
were performing with 17 and 18
players.
The addition of rookies, over
age veterans and honorable serv
ice dischargees were cited as rea
sons for the Improved manpower
setup.
"Baseball is in good shape," a
veteran National league official
said. "During the first war, we
used to play with less than 20
men, nutting a pitcher in right
field, a catcher in the infield and
so on."
Another bit of optimism was
supplied by President William
Harrldgc of the American league.
, Make Play Plans
"We are makins Dlans with the
idea of playing this summer,"
Harrldge said as he boarded a
train for New York and the joint
major league meeting there this
week-end.
The 16 big league clubs have
approximately 500 players, an av
erage of better than 31 players
per ciuQ and baseball officials be
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In half during the season and the
teams could continue to play.
An example of big league base
ball's player situation Is the
American league's condition. Out
of its 275 players, 197 of the men
are either under or over age, or
4-F's. At present, Washington has
inn mosr on hs reserve list, 41,
Cleveland Is next with 39 and
Chicago has 35.
In the National league, the Chi
cago Cubs Issued their 1945 roster
this week, llstine 40 n avers In
cluding all the regulars of last
years team.
Oregon Quintet
To Play Huskies
Eugene, Ore., Feb. 1 ilPi The
University of Oregon Webfeet
entrain this afternoon for Seattle
where they will meet the Wash
ington Huskies In a pair of basket
ball games Friday and Saturday
at the University pavilion.
Coach John Warren polished
off the practice preparation for
the series yesterday afternoon
and named the starting lineuD for
the Husky tilt. .Forwards will be
Dick Wllklns and Del Smith,
while Ken Hays has the nod at
center. Bob Hamilton and Jim
Bartelt will play the guard posi
tions. With the Huskies at full
strength and aided by a couple of
competent naval trainees the
Washington team will be fighting
lor revenge because of two de
feats suffered in Eugene last
week. On the series depends Ore
gon's chances for staying in the
northern division lead. The Web
feet currently have seven wins
and two losses.
MIKE BELLOISK DEFEATED
Houston, Tex., Feb. 1 (tPi Juan
Zurlta, 137, Mexico City, N. B. A.
lightweight tltllst, scored a fourth
round technical knockout over
Mike Belloise, 136, New York city,
In a 10-round, non-title bout here
last night.
SIGHTLESS TEAM WINS
Needham, Mass., Feb. 1 UP).
Though all its members are
sightless, the wrestling team from
the Perkins institution for the
blind defeated the Needham high
school team In a match,-16-8.
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