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Brooklyn Five Paid to Throw Akron TiltSpud’s Still PitchingPlayers Admit Gamblers•Bribe Totalled $3,000BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 31—The Kings County grand jury commenced investigation into basketball gambling activities today and had questioned their first witness less than 13 hours after*it became known that five members of the Brooklyn College quintet had accepted bribes totaling S 1,000 from professional* gamblers to lose by a certain number of points to Akron University at Boston tonight. The game was subsequently cancelled.Harvey * Stemmer, one of two men j *Former Yankee mound ace Spud Chandler is still using the old throwing arm, but not for the high, hard one. Now Pvt. Spurgeon Chandler to Uncle Sam, Spud, onfurlough, here shows his son, Frank, how to cast for trout.Arturo Godoy ArrivesinStatesWith Familiar Line of ChatterMIAMI, Fla., Jan. 31—Arturo Godoy, Chilean heavyweight boxer, arrived on American soil yesterday and promptly started pawing the earth ike a wild bull of the pampas and breathing defiance at guess who—nobody butchampion Joe Louis, who only beat Godoy’s brains out twice.The Chilean Jumping Bean didn’t come up here with the idea of making money. The fact that there is a shortage of fighters and that he is neither soold nor infirm that he won’t be able toBruins DownedBy Hawks, 5-3BOSTON, Jan. 31—Cully Dahlstrom and Clint Smith got hot here last night and led the cellar-dwelling Chicago Black Hawks to a 5—3 victory over the Boston Bruins.Dahlstrom scored Chicago’s first goal in the opening period and had assistsHockeyWLTP WLTPMontreal 26 5 2 54 Boston .. 11 21 1 23Detroit .. 22 8 4 48 New York 7 19 7 21Toronto .. 17 14 2 36 Chicago .. 6 22 4 16on goals by Butch McDonald and Pete Horeck in the third chapter, while Smith rammed home two markers unassisted in the second period. Herb Cain tallied twice for the Bruins and Bill Thomas once.LeadingPLAYERTEAMGAPLachMontreal.. 154055RichardMontreal.. 361854BlakeMontreal.. 212950CowleyBoston193150HoweDetroit.. 142943BruneteauDetroit.. 201838DeMarcoNew York.. 162036CarrToronto.. 151934BodnarToronto.. 62834American Hockey LeagueWLTPSt. Louis 4. Buffalo 0 Cleveland 3, Hershey 2EASTERN DIVISION WLTP21 15 7 49 Providence 16 20 4 36 17 16 7 41WESTERN DIVISION WLTP 20 10 9 49 PittsburghBuffaloHersheyClevelandWLTP 16 19 6 38draw a crowd at Madison Square Garden doesn’t mean a thing to him unless he can get the Brown Bomber inside the ropes again.Arturo said he could make plenty of moolah in South America, but he had come to the States to fight Louis and maybe Bill Conn. (Although obviously he has Billy in mind merely as a warmup foe before the great show in which he will smash “Poor Joe” to the canvas.)“I could beat Joe Louis if I met him again,” Godoy said. “I moved too fast when I fought him before. My punches are harder and more accurate now.”He’s a very persistent fellow, this Arturo. Several writers couldn’t forget —as they thought ahead to the terrible fate of Joe Louis—how Godoy tried seven times to beat a guy named Roscoe Toles before finally accomplishing the feat down in Chile.accused of bribing the players, was held under $2,500 bail after arraignment at Brooklyn’s felony court on a bribery charge. His alleged associate, Henry Rosen, was held in $25,000 by the Manhattan felony court on charges of garment and fur thefts, investigajion of which led to the basketball disclosures. He will be arraigned later in a bribery charge in Brooklyn. \No charges were made against the five players—Capt. Bob Leder, Bernard Barnett, Jerry Green, Stanley Simon and Larry Pearlstein.Kingsmen to Play Out ScheduleThe players, who admitted accepting S1.000 for their part in a gambling coup which was designed to realize a killing for the bookies, wpre dropped from the Brooklyn College squad by Coach Maurice Raskin, who said the Kingsmen would play out all their scheduled games, except that with Akron, using freshman talent which enters the school this week.Two of the players involved, who were to receive an additional $2,000 after the game, said Stemmer and Rosen had approached them about throwing the St. Francis game scheduled for Madison Square Garden Feb. 10. Promoter Ned Irish said the St. Francis game would be played as a part of a double-header, with Notre Dame and NYU meeting in the feature contest. -The five players attended the Stemmer hearing in company of detectives and will be used as material witnesses, according to Assistant District Attorney Edward HefTernan.Barnett Denies ‘Whey Pick on Us?’ Quote One of the quintet—Barnett—wasreported in New York evening papers as having said, “Every college in the city is doing it. Why pick on us?” But Coach Raskin, attending a meeting called by Ned Irish in his Garden office, said Barnett denied having said it and that he knew of no other player in New Yorkwho had been approached by gamblersor was involved in a similar situation.New York’s mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia* arch foe of all gamblers, expressed his indignation that “chiseling punk's and procurers” had invaded collegiate sports and asked the public’s support in putting these “cheap tinhorns” behind the bars.Phog Allen, Kansas University basketball coach, who predicted last fall that college basketball would produce a “scandal that will stink to high heaven” unless gamblers were chased away from basketball games, said today that the blame for the entire business rests with college athletic officials “who have failed utterly to protect college athletics from the stigma of professional gambling.”Bill A lexanderQuits as TechGrid MentorBill headATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 31Alexander, for the past 25 years ______football coach at Georgia Institute of Technology, resigned today to take over a job as the school’s athletic director andthe newly createdpost of director of physical training.Bobby Dodd, former Tennessee star, who became Alexander’s assistant in 1931, was appointed headcoach and givenpermission b yschool authorities to select his own staff.Alexander’s full tenure on Tech’scoaching staff . , . ,extends 33 years. After being graduated in 1912 Alexander served as assistant coach until 1920, when he succeeded J. W. Heisman as chief mentor. He led his Yellowjackets to seven Southeastern Conference championships and into fivemajor bowl tilts. . .A recent rumor had the veteran pigskin professor due to retire because of illhealth.BILL ALEXANDERJay hawks SlapKansas S., 39-36LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 31— Kansas LJniversity moved into a first-place tie with Oklahoma in the Big Six Conference basketball race here last night by defeating Kansas State, 39—36. Kansas led at the half, 21—16, but Kansas State took the lead three times after intermission before the Jayhawkers pulled away in thefinal five'minutes.Charlie Moffett, Kansas forward, hitseven straight free throws in the first half and another in the second half to lead his team with 14 points. Right behind him was Dave Weatherby, Kansas State forward, with 13 points.Dick Wilkins RetainsHoop ScoringMarginNEW YORK, Jan. 31—Dick Wilkins, Oregon State’s scoring whiz, retained his leadership in the national individual collegiate basketball ^scoring race the past week by sinking 28 points in two games against Washington to boost his season's total to 373 points.DePaul’s big George Mikan sank 30 points in two games for a season total of 320, but though 53 points behind the leader Mikan has played only 15 games to Wilkins’ 31 and enjoys a much betterper-game average.Three other lads who are flicking the nets with consistency are Rice’s Bill Henry, with 295 points in 15 games; Rhode Island State’s Ernie Calverley, with 285 points in 13 games, and Bob Kurland of the Oklahoma Aggies, with 225Iowa Seahawks Sinki rraska ( (lint. 62—42Ex-llUni Star MissingCHAMPAIGN, 111.. Jan. 31—The War Department has notified Mrs. Maxine Riggs that her husband, Lt. Col. Thomas J Riggs, captain of the Illinois football team in 1940, has been missing in action since *Dec. 22. Riggs was serving with the Engineers.LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 31—Iowa Pre-Right’s basketeers defeated Nebraska, 62—42, here last night with Seahawk substitutes carrying most of the burden.The first-string Pre-Righters ran up a 20—5 margin in the first ten minutes and their substitutes came in to build a 33—11 lead at the half.Scandal Bared by AccidentBROQKLYN, Jan. 31—Discovery ofthe gambling scandal involving five Brooklyn College basketball players was the result of pure coincidence and not until after police had collared the players involved did they realize what a bombshell had landed in their laps.Henry Rosen, one of the two accused of bribery, was suspected by police of operating a Fagin racket iind receiving goods stolen for him by boys whom he sent daily into Manhattan’s fur and garment district.Rosen’s home saw Pearlstein and Barnett enter Monday and trailed them to Stemmer’s home when they emerged.When Pearlstein and Barnett were informed of the police department’s suspicions toward Rosen and asked why they had visited him the boys, fearing they would be implicated in the theft charges, unfolded to police the whole story about gambling, thus breaking the worst scandalever to strike college sports.Ruth Suggests W eiss
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