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Grand Jury Probe Extended:Pair Sax ThevTen More Players From Six MoreIf ent .411 OutSchools Involved In Cage ScandalDespite UribeBv DON WEISSI**—NEW YORK (AP»—The doud of • widespread bribery scandal that had hung ominously over college basketball for six weeks ha* descended, engulfing 10 more players from six more schools.TTrere were strong indications today that more disclosures and possible indidments resultingI#from point (having and eame fir APRIL 28. 1961ing were due from the district_attorney's officeHANOVER, PAPAGE 12MThe term of the grand jury investigating college basketball has been extended until June 30. Dist Atty. Frank Hogan said after announcing a 37-count indict -ment for corruption against previously convicted football fixer Aaron Wagman of New YorkThe indictment, confirming earlier reports that the scandal might mushroom to equal or top the size of the one that jolted the game in 1951. named 10 players from six colleges in the Fast and South and dted 26 games played in 13 cities. One player was named as one of four co-conspiratorsTogether with previous disclosures. it brought the count of thecurrent scandal to 12 players from seven schools. The 1951 scandal involved 33 players from seven schools Hogan also con ducted the investigation thenThe players named Thursdaymere:Jack Egan, high-scoring ace ofSt Joseph's of Philadelphia, which finished third in the Na-NAMED IN BASKETBALL GAMBLING PROBE - These four Philadelphia college basketball players were named as being involved in basketball gambling activities by the New York distrid attorney's office Named were, from left: Jack Egan. Vince Kempt on and Frank Majewski, seniors at St. Joseph's College, and Ed Bowler, sophomore at LaSalle College.tional Collegiate Tournament Iasimonth, and two teammates— I .»i /W/i v'DPi* Vince Kempt on of Cambria » wtej tI 9Heights. N. Y., and Frank Ma j I / ’jewski of Jersey City. N J Allll LOlltPStS Egan. who said he needed theMoore Will StriveBy HUGH FULLERTON Jr.Associated Press Sports WriterTwo of the 10 new college basketball players involved in the second major bribery scandal in 10 years said today they had given their best efforts to their teams even after accepting payments from gambler Vron Wagman I took the money and I know T did wrong by taking it.'* said Mississippi State Star J c r r y Graves. But I never did anything to earn the money’Jack Egan, captain of the St Joseph’s lt;Pa» College team, said he and his two teammates involved. Frank Majewski and Vince Kempton had decided to play it straight” in a game against Xavier (Ohio) after accepting $1,000 each to see thattheir team lost by more than ninepoint*.I didn’t think we were that much of an underdog and I thought they were trying to pull a phony deal on us, so we decided to play it straight.” Egan said. “Even so we lost by more thannine pointsEgan, married and thlt; father of two children, explained: “I was against it at first. Then I thought about it and I really needed the money.” His wife. Sue. suffered a miscarriage just before the start of the 1960-61 season Egan and Kempton were on the draft lists of National Basketball Association teams this year Play er* involved in the 1951 bribery cases never have been permittedto play in the NBA.Graves, who recently signed with the Chicago Club of the new American Basketball League, said he hoped his involvement wouldn’t prevent his playing pro ball. I* ♦NFL Clomoney, is married and the fa In Fix (therHe lives inAgainst Repetition Annual Meciaf$31 5 millionBethlehem Pa , and Thursday j * - —-•--'; SAN FRANCISCO lt;AP—Fortynight was to have been honored NEW YORK lt;AP - Here are GEORGE ESPER he has not lost any faith in his -vears **° most National Footat a banquet as St Joseph s out some of the games and players PHILADELPHIA lt;AP- Dudey players, the school or college ath- b*11 League *•«»• couldn'tstanding athlete. The banquet involved in the indictment handed Moore basketball coach at I j letms for that matter lord a chance of uniforms. Todavwent on without him down Thursday against Aaron sX coS which hTone pl£ not a tail* thf ****** '« *a™Ed Bowler, sophomore at La Wagman charging bribery or at- *r involved in the latest point on thf, t.am or th# vhooi or anv forSalle College in Philadelphia, tempted bribery or attempted bri shaving scandals, said today he’s on* Hse ” he declared There Thlt; ’W*** fantastic developfrom Jersey City, berv to fix college basketball more determined than ever to are thousands and thousands of ment w*8 strikin*1-v evident atJerry Graves. All-Southeastern 8ame' make sure something like this athletes who never have been **** c'ow ^s annual meetingConference star at Mississippi Games in which payment al- never happens again ” touched, which proves the basic w*l€n CommissionerState, from Jackson. Tenn legedly was accepted Instead of cautioning them honesty* of college athleticsDick Fisher, senior Memphis. jc to. t9MV— Dayton 67 St. Jo- 'the players* once well caution Something like this reinforces , and Ed Test, senior. Chattanooga, lt;^ph's 65 at Philadelphia Pales-them 10 times to report anything your faith. It makes you think plan for revoking teams in both of the University of Tennes-tra wagman paid Frank Majew- suspicious,” said Moore. I guess about all the honest ones Why ca** disaster, with the league•** ski. St Joseph's $750. St. Joseph’s we’ll have to talk to them more don’t they start naming them?” m*‘*nnK each team for $2,250,000.Pete Kelly, senior. Orlando. waR wjn |,y {hlin „ften for one thing.” Moore said that he was happy , ,n.e*Fla. and Glenn Cross, senior, or to Moore, long recognized as one that Brother Daniel Bemian , _ , * year fr*n !*WUhmantic. Conn , both of the ^ the 0utx t a n d 1 n g basketball -University of Connecticut. „* 1 . “ coaches in the nation, said that (Continued On Page 13(Lou Brown, senior. Jersey City, !?n HaU 71 'overtimei iit Palestra — — --2-Of North Carolina Pa,d Majewaki $1,000 St p i, IT _ J_ Cnp.L,All but Brown were granted Jlt;**Ph * was 10 w,n by ,aa* **»■»» V^OllC{*C JLlCauS OpCaKlimmunity from prosecutionPete Rozelle and the circuit’s directors announcedtheir testimony. Hogan said, add- ' , 1961—Xaucr'Ohio1 87tng that each allegedly accepted Joseph • 75 at Cincinnati., or agreed to accept from Wag. P*lfl Majewski $1.000. St.man sums ranging from $750 to Jos*Ph 8 wa‘ *® Iow b? more than $1,500 for shaving points in 11 P°*of* ;games The games includedduring the 1959 W season and 25 a c0unt8 w*r(* charged m connec this past season Of the 36. Hogan ,lor w,th hcibe payments to Vince said 12 were successfully Kempton of St. Joseph’s and cor-ngged nipt dealings with Jack Egan St jBrown, who played in only two Joseph * captainDec. 16, 1969—Duquesne 79, Ten- Dropping SportsDenied Solutionleague s new contract with the National Broadcasting Company for radio-television rights to the annual championship game Establishment of a National Football League Hall of Fame at Canton. Ohio, where the league was bom 41 years ago in an automobile showroom Earlier in the meeting — one of the smoothest the NFL has ever had — Rozelle announced a new two-year contract with the Columbia Broadcasting System formore than *9 million This willBy RALPH BERNSTEIN ute to the poise and character be divided equally among all 14Associated Press Spans Writer and leadership of boys and young teams and involves CBS telecastsPHILADELPHIA (API — Two men ** of regular season game*or three games near the end of ^ _the season after having been a m s,°fl R(m! presidents of colleges stunned by He said, looking at the matterfirst-line reserve with the Tar »t Pittsburgh Wagman paid Dick [ht ihavmg scan-calmly and objectively, St Jo-Heels in 1959-60, was not success isher, lennessee, $1,000 Tennes- agrM(j today that abolish soph's has come to the conclusionful. Hogan said, in making such »«e was to lose by at least seven men, of ath|rtir programg « not!there will be no change in the MTttflanaata at North Carolina. | pomu-lllue Grassi„ A the solution to the basketball point sound athletic policy which has al-s mioi*llia*LBrown made efforts to line Dec 10, 1%0 - Niagara 77 La shaving scandals 1____ .. 1 I# kJlIt I lilt KThe Very Rev, R. Joseph Bluett! Three members of the St. Jothings up for Wagman at North Salle 71 at Niagara Wagman paid “ ‘ Way* *rat^'t'ona'Carolina.” said Hogan, but he Ed Bowler $1,000 LaSalle was to Th* i Tnk'thJri LEXINGTON. Ky lt;AP»(Brown) was more successful at lose by at least eight points When . '3, h-nn ,^ nLth * scaa ll, Sh^r'5 unheralded Sherluckluring players at St Joseph s and LaSalle lost by only six. v * *u. ^ banquet Pa« In °th “c,{? b proved himself a prime KenJaLaSallehad to return $600... . i^ir --^ tucky Derby candidate with an ef,As a result. Biown was nameo Dec 21, I960 — North Carolina In such circumstances a presi acK. nempton ana |0|1]m ^ix-length win m the $34,- 1W0INB liSl§d r% k *•% _* m.a co-conspirator along with BiU State 71 LaSalle 68 at Palestra dent could do man things He 1 rank Majewski — —* ’“’■'‘ 300 Blue Grass Stakes at KeeneMinnerly of White Plains, N. Y. Wagman paid Bowler $1,000 La- could say: ‘Let’s dose the college amonS 10 Payers from six col )andace halfback of the Connecticut Salle was to win by less than four since its honor ha* been be *8^* wbo acceptelt;1 bribes to S-year-old son of Corre* 1football team; Jerry Voge lof the points or to lose trayed.’ He could say. at least, “ha'e spondent-Samminiato took a comBronx N. Y , and Dan Quindazr Game* mi which the district at- let’s call off the varsity sports The NCAA announced Thursday mandmg lead at the first turn 1of Yonkers. N. Y , both former toraey said bribes had been offer- dinner .,. or he could keep his night that St Joseph's will be Thursday and easily wrested the 1Alabama basketball players and ed but there was no allegation head and do none of these foolish stripped of its third-place finish $22,2% first money from Alberta *Joseph Green of New York, de they had been accepted things in the NCAA tourney if reports Ranchflt;lt; favored Flutterby and 1scribed as a close associate of Dec. 27, I960—St Bonaventure He should balance the evil about the basketball scandal are flght other derby eligible* !1Wagman Green has disappeared 83 St. Joseph's 70 at Madison which has happened—student ath confirmed. jgr Consistency. Travis Kerr’sand is wanted for questioning Square Garden Holiday Festival, letes betrayed their coach, their Brother Daniel Bemian preoi California derby winner, was 1According to Hogan, all four Wagman offered Majewski *1.000 teammates and their college — dent of 1-aSalle. said that despite three-fourths of a length back in 1* Continued On Page 13allegedly were contact men with basketball players—visiting various campuses to make arrangemenu With Orirkl^c*Of the 10 players named, five till a lit* \_/i IVJIUN.against all the tremendous good which competitive sports contrib-(unturned On Page 18)■we—«eihave been expelled by the schools, j So has M1 nner 1 y Bowler has been suspended Graves left school sev •ral weeks ago Fisher and Testdid not re-enter Tennessee for the spring quarter, and Brown last month withdrew from schoolDick Hall Hurls Best Gamethird place and 24 lengths ahead (of Eastwood Stable’s Loyal Son * Flutterby broke first from the 1 gate but led for only a few yards before Sherluck passed him and spurted in front in the mile and one-eighth derby prep Under a good ride by jockey Braulio Baeza, Sherluck opened s the gap to four lengths atWASHINGTON tAP — Pitcnei Dick Hall of the Baltimore Onthe..For Sait Lake in 1969 he waiked five e i g h t h s and three-eighths just 28 in 217 innings as he nad poles and five at the turn for [
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