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L -WEDNESDAY, MARCHWN3-58,agesbackrs!Lew, lastciding to 58,meremadeituckvced.half. Hitch.Ipiveyid mg,■point :o its■s.i dur-v one ipivey down »r the ansasRthe wor Edv 63 ! ber fiellt;i'PhiFi rt Gin andi coalt;I beadiaiseccTHREE MOREThree City College of New York basketball players were arrested in New York yesterday in connection with the fixing of three basketball gamesin Madison Square Garden in 1949 and 1950. They are. left to right, Herbert Cohen, who played last \ear and with this year’s team; and Norman Mager and Irwin Dambrot of last years “Cinderella team whilt;hwon both the NCAA and National Invitation championships. Dambrot wa-s captain of the 1949-50 squad.ALL‘GRAND SLAMght a year irrent lmost s ago d ln-aim mown 1952CHAMPIONS IN FIXCCNY'S Entire First Stringyearn the y ex-stringTeam Of 1950 InvolvedSoftball League WillMold Session TonightNEGRO FIVE PLANSIRON CURTAIN TOURwpre.‘RedSte1 com C a n ing T at t of I pal itonWh:TheSoftballfor thfWith Arrest Of Dambrot,Mager And Cohen(Bv The Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 28. — The fall from glory of the CCNY basketball team is complete.Eactly one year ago City CollegeHanover Community League will map plans 1951 campaign at a meeting to 1m* held this evening at 7:30 o’clock in the office of The Evening Sun, Carlisle street. Teams planning to participate in the league this summer have been asked to send representatives to the meeting.Bill Veeck Seeks PermissionTo Take Harlem Globetrotters To Russia Andallege | was acclaimed as the first “Grand erv.t 1 Slam’’ champion in history. ButSUB-SUBSTITUTESspot, e As-today all its first string players have been engulfed by the series of betting scandals.Trio Admits GuiltIrwin Dambrot, Norm Mager and Herb Cohen were the latest arrested by District Attorney Frank Hogan.After more than eight hours of questioning, Hogan announced last night that the trio had admitted shaving the point spread or trying to shave the point spread in three games in Madison Square Garden last season.Hogan said the games were against Southern Methodist on Dec, 8, 1949; own- i UCLA on Dec. 27, 1949 and Niagara last, on Feb. 16, 1950. oped I Last month Ed Roman, Ed War-ound i her. A1 Roth and Floyd Layne, all Bas- ! CCNY regulars this season, admit-j ted they had helped fix other games.Dambrot ‘Most Valuable’Dambrot, last year's CCNY cap-| tain, and Mager were particularly i outstanding in last season's NCAA j title game against Bradley. It was j Dambrot.’s pass to Mager, who scored ' in the last 30 seconds, that gave CCNY a 71-68 victory,Dambrot was picked as the most 1 came valuable player of the game and later, in a pre-season forecast for ! 1951 by CCNY Coach Nat Holman, received further praise, j Said Holman: We lost a great ; player and we can’t replace him. I mean Irwin Dambrot who is tops in my book.”New ‘Fixer’ Involved Both Dambrot and Mager were graduated last June, but Cohen, regarded as a substitute, played on this year’s team along with Roman, Warner, Roth and Layne The arrest of Dambrot, Mager and Cohen, each released in $1,000 bail, brought to seventeen the number of players from CCNY, Long Island, Manhatten and NYU involved in the I spreading scandal, A total of twenty Garden games now are listed as having been fixed either by ’•dumping or shaving the point spread j for the benefit of gamblers in the know,Hogan said the three worked with Roman and Roth in the SMU, UCLA and Niagara games and said an unidentified fixer agreed to pay Roth, Roman, Mager and Dambrot each $1,000 per game and $500 to Cohen.Hogan said the fixer, whose name is known to tiie authorities, but who has not previously been implicatedtried to have the players tlx some of the games in the NIT last year, but all refused.ationhomaonals!P)hool,TO FIGHT TONIGHTNearby CountriesAhenin S Sarihethecell*LiveinMillbiamarBarnes-Hunter Bout ReplacesSatterfield - Cestac Scrapclt;widlt; and Do a 1943 T1 witt the fieriropeforWhich Took Place Oflouis-Agramonte Frayi By The Associated Press)DETROIT, March 27 It’s a battleof the sub-substitutes when Mid-dleweights Roy Barnes and Chuck Hunter clash here tonight in a featured ten-round fight.The fight will be televised.(WMAR-TV Channel 2 at 10.)The tw'o are “filling in” on an International Boxing Club show that was to have matched Heavyweights Joe Louis and Omelio Agra-monte.But after Louis came down withthe flu. Matchmaker Nick Londesup with another headliner*Bv The Associated Press)WASHINGTON. March 28 Bill Veeck, never one to pay too much attention to international politics, has asked the Russian government for permission to take the famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball team on tour behind the Iron Curtain,State Department ApprovesThe former president of the Cleveland baseball club won approval from the U. S. State Departmentyesterday. jHe wants the Trotters to play basketball not only in Moscow but elsewhere in Russia. Romania and Czechoslovakia. jHe is also conferring with officials at the Yugoslav embassy about hav- | ing the Negro team perform before Marshal Tito.Would Meet Europe’s BestEuiup asketbteams in Western Europe were okay, but th* best teams were behind the Iron Curtain. We want to play the best Europe has to offer.”He talked the Idea over with Rena- j tor Homer E. Capehart *R -Ind.t, • ,.|lur Rep, George H. Bender *R -Ohio* I and Sidney R Yates «I -111.», They sent him to Assistant Secretary of, State Jack McFall and he okayed i the proiect.Embassies Are Cordial jThe State Department thought it was a good idea.” said the happy Mr. Veeck,He went to the Russian, CzechT.tiIt. w• «“We were told last year in Eutupe, Veeck said, “that the* basketball1,4Marv fell r»’f u N c\vThI Mill*tI(i!PirnMurekifnedthiahatgerbetween Light Heavies Bob Satterfield and Abel Cestac.Cestac suffered a cuteye in training and bowed out. Londes hurriedly _signed Harold Johnson of Philariel- j an d~ Yugoslav' embassies’ ’after that phia, as a replacement, Johnson and meived what he called “splen-hurt his hand. j did treatment.”The harried Londes then abandon- • Thev all seemed to be enthused e.l all hopes of a March 28 go fea- vmh the idea,” he said, turing Satterfield, and pushed This doesn’t mean that it’s cer-through the Hunter-Barnes deal.i La• IMyn , bred | In r*ri a ecu 2 aifl! tain the foreign offices back in Moscow. Prague, Bucharest and Belch-.*ndtheer-I . S. Basketball Coacheshonor l ate Sam BarnI grade are going to approve the idea. I But at least its a good start, thinks Veeck.r(Vrabylav,JavmdforackMINNEAPOLIS, March 28 lt;AP»-The late Sam Barry, former coach at the University of Southern Cali- j forma has been named as the out-Start Trip April 25asn’t talked with theHe hasn’t talked with the Romanians yet but he plans to, after heclears things with the Russians and the Czechs.The tour behind tite Iron Curtain, . , —f ,,,,, . .would be in addition to the 100-plusstanding basket,*11 man of 1951 by Rarm. tour t-0. promoter Abe Saper-the National Basketball Coaches As- gtt,m and Veeck have setup to takethe Trotters through South America, Europe and North Africa startingTheook-thea me Vyse ftedrimyA sick-*day5ur-ociation.The coaches selected Barry, who died of a heart attack last fall to April 25 receive the annual award set up by th Metropolitan Basketball Wi * f .igAssociation. The award is given an- | nCrSllCV DC8TS Drillnually to the person considered tohave made the greatest contributionto basketball over the years.Barry eoached at Kr.ox and theUniversity of Iowa before goini1 to U S C, He was a member of theupe312. abili in «i All lt;? farmpnllfv. uwesttor Next Series lest\V»Whit»y \n\ It ill k fM Mi t *HamHluHERSHEY. M1 RCommitteett'f Y14tlHoutKirirv i i tUfTf th\e4 ¥VHIbooK. on basnet bad and was a prune holies U: tween Pntsouignmover in the elimination of the i Ppringfield, the Hers hey B* sandarea? FT
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