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Try Illini Near Another Title: 'U' at Purdue '-jest- i AT i. 'Fixes' Not Limited to New York, Claim re ft If I It was 7-5 and third place In '48, 10-2 for another crown in '49, 7-5 and third again last winter and now a current 91 record to throw at the Hoosiers tonight. So toss out those years when Phillip and his mates were in the service and the Illini boast a 66-19 total and a percentage of .777 since 1942. But the past means nothing tonight. And It's strictly on the merits of Harry Combes' 1951 version of the Whiz Kids that Illinois has been established a NEW YORK, N.

Y. LV) College basketball was rocked to its by the second big betting scandal in a month, and by disclosure that "fixes" are being Investigated on a nationwide scale. i After three members of City College of New York's national tournament champions and three other persons were taken Into custody yesterday on bribery charges, there were these swift developments: SKNATOK KEFAL'VEK, Tcnn.) said the senate rrime investigating committee has been probing this and similar fixes in other cities. "New York is not an isolated case," he said. I)R.

Hl'GH C. WILLETT, president of the National Collegiate Athletic association, said the matter is of "great concern" and will he taken up at a meeting of the NCAA council in Chicago March 1. NET IRISH, director of Madison Square Garden, called the situation "deplorable" and added: "Gambling isn't confined to the slight favorite in the showdown battle. The hungry Hoosiers are tough, as their 8-1 performance shows along with the fact they chomped the Illini 64-53 at Bloomington in January. But tonight Illinois has the home court and is primed to throw Don Sunderlage and three sophomores against Bill Garrett and Co.

In what should be firewagon basketball at its thrilling best. As for the Gophers they are 5-6 now, thanks to the Saturday romp at Ohio State, and are hoping Whiley Skoog, a 20-polnter In that victory, can show the way to another triumph at Purdue. The Gophers won over the Boilers (2-8) 78-55 at Williams arena last month, but need a repeat as an absolute must to achieve their first division goal. In the other league game tonight Michigan (2-7) entertains Ohio State (2-10) while a non-conference tilt has Michigan State at Notre Dame. Skoog's outburst- at Ohio raised him to ninth place in conference scoring on a 13.2 average, with Northwestern's Ray Ragelis still an easy pacesetter at 20.3.

The leaders: FC FT TP Ait Fay Ratflla. Northwestern li 72 SO 324 30 3 Don Sunderlaje. IlllnoU 10 56 S6 168 IS Ab Nlcholaa, Wisconsin 10 55 51 161 111 Carl McNulty, 10 59 37 15 5 Charlea Darling, 10 58 38 1 54 1 5.4 Frank Calalieek. Iowa 10 54 45 15.3 Bill Garrett. Indiana 41 42 13 7 Leo Vannerkyu.

Mlchlltari 9 44 34 122 13 5 Myer Skoog, Minnesota 11 63 20 146 13 2 Jim Clinton, Wisconsin 10 53 24 130 13.0 Garden or New York city." The three CCNY players caught in the web of the latest scandal are Ed Roman, Ed Warner and Al Roth, stars of the amazing team that swept to the National Invitation and NCAA championships last year for basketball's first and only "grand slam." District attorney Frank Hogan said they admitted accepting up to $1,500 each per game to fix three games played in the Garden. The games were with Missouri, Arizona and Boston, college, and CCNY lost all three. Arrested also were Harvey Connie) Schaff, a substitute on the New York university team; Edward Card, a Long Island university senior who played last year, and a jeweler, Salvator Tarto Sollazzo, described by the distrii attorney as a gambler Quist Sets Pace as Honeywells Win Puck Title Arnie Quist and his Minneapolis Honeywell team today held the state Class hockey championship and were looking forward to meeting the American Amateur league champion in the playdowns for the Minnesota title. Quist poured in four goals Sunday as the Honeywells defeated the Winona Bolands at White Bear Lake. It was the first loss in 10 starts for Winona, which defeated St.

Paul 6-4 in Saturday's semifinals. Honeywell beat West St. Paul 3-2 to gain the finals. NEW COACH of Ohio State's football team is Woody Hayes, who was named to the post Sunday. Hayes, who succeeds Wes Fesler, was named at a meeting of the Ohio State board of trustees yesterday at Columbus.

AP Wirephoto. SIXTH BUCK COACH IN 10 YEARS Over Ohio Job CHARLES JOHNSONS Hayes COLUMBUS, OHIO (UP) The air was cooling over this strife-torn Big Ten football "hot spot" today as Wayne (Woody) Hayes went briskly to work as Ohio State's new head football coach at $12,500 a year. The 38-year-old former Miami, Ohio, university coach, unanimously approved by the board of trustees Sunday night as OSU's sixth grid mentor in 10 years, immediately announced he would call a meeting with the team. "I am tickled to death about the whole thing and can't tions on campus demanding the ouster of athletic director Richard C. Larkins if he didn't agree to Brown's return; Rep.

Harold Oyster of Marietta introduced a resolution in the Ohio house of representatives demanding a financial investigation of the athletic department; a resolution was adopted in the same body calling for "live" television of Ohio State football games in defiance of a Big Ten video ban, and fans and the press discussed the pros and cons of the issue heatedly. While Brown's name never Laker Defeats Pass Last Year THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR 'el. 19, 1931 it SCANDAL or scandal, there is ample basketball fodder this week, of the legitimate western brand rather than the "fixed control" style of play used so extensively in the East. With an eye to the National Collegiate finals at Williams Arena March 27, this is the biggest week to date as the nation's teams work toward sectiona eliminations. Three top attractions, proving that it's still a game in the West, arc: Indiana (S-l at Illinois (9-H tonight, St.

Louis (91) vs. Bradley (7-3) at Peoria, Tuesday night, and Kansas State vs. Kansas at Manhattan, Saturday. The Illinois-Indiana winner will play the eastern representative in the first round of eliminations which will culminate in the NCAA windup here next month. The eastern representative, rightfully, will not be CCXY.

National "double" champion last year, so a new basketball king is certain. Columbia 17-0 and simon-pure) looks like the best eastern bet and is a cinch tie for the Ivy league crown. Oddly. Bradley irtually Is out of the Missouri Valley race so a brand new NCAA finalists' slate is probable. St.

Louis and Bradley have met twice before this year. Bradley won in the Sugar Bowl finals. Then the Btllikens staged a tremendous rally to win at home. St. Louis is in second place in its own league.

Its only defeat was by the Oklahoma Aggies, who pace the loop. A win for Kansas State over Kansas probably would mean the Big Seven title and an automatic bid to the NCAA play offs. Up to Sat- urday, Kansas State had' a jMiuci iccoia. Then it ran i acropper that spoiler, Oklahoma, which also ambushed 1 a homa A and once this year. But Oklahoma A and is with a perfect sailing record of eight straight conference wins and a probable NCAA playoff spot, whereas Kansas State now must fight for its spot.

Kentucky, No. 1 team of the country, clinched a playoff spot by whipping Tennessee Saturday and thereby assured itself the Southeastern title when Tulane surprised Vander-bilt. Brigham Young and Arizona are ready to step into Kentucky's class any day, by winning the Skyline and Border conferences. In the meantime, shed a tear for North Carolina State. It is so far ahead in the Southern conference, it's lonesome.

But it has to engage in one of those conference tournament play-downs, when anything can happen Fred Wilt con run that mile it Don Gehrmann isn't hexing him. Vnpressed, Will ran a 4:09.4 mile Saturday when Gehrmann's plane was grounded at Milwaukee. Gehrmann! be time is 4:07.5 ir THERE IS no question of tne North American ski jump record any more. A young Norwegian air force member training temporarily in this 30 aloncr COLLEGE basketball has been shocked again with another gambling scandal and in the same old spot Madison Square Garden in New York. This is the fourth "fix" or attempted "fix" uncovered since the end of the war.

The fact that the latest one happened to a team that was virtually unbeatable last year is strong evidence that school officials are lax. The City College team won the National Invitational and the NCAA last year. With practically the same team this season it lost three early starts against foes they were knocking off regularly less than a year ago. Some suspicion should have been aroused by the first unex-petted setback in December; if not then, certainly when the second upset was staged by the same team. College basketball probably will survive this disgrace just as it did three others, but it makes one wonder what gets into the minds of young athletes in these days that they'll sell themselves and their team out for a few dollars.

We still believe the strongest weapon against this situation is for the colleges themselves or the owners of big arenas like the Garden to offer bonuses to players who expose these fixers as soon as they lead them into the hands of the law. Demands for winners lay behind these affairs. This is particularly true in New York. A winning team means big crowds at the Garden. That means more profits for the schools and more money poured into recruiting and subsidizing.

This is another argument to keep college sports on the campus. It will not eliminate efforts by the gamblers to get a sure dollar, but it will minimize the importance of the games and put By BILL CARI.SOV Mlnnnpulls Star Slalf rltrr Eddie Gottlieb knew it all the time. "This is a different league," said the Philadelphia Warriors coach back in November. "The Lakers will wind up with 25 defeats instead of 17." Gottlieb can put away his crystal ball. Today, as the Lakers scooted home from Svracuse, rankling li('kinK Sun'tov who inspired the scheme.

Sollazzo and Card were ac cused of offering: the bribes and the. three CCNY players were charged with accepting them. Schaff was accused of offering a bribe to James Brasco, an NYU teammate, promising Brasco he "could do himself some gopd" in the St. Francis game Jan. 30 at NYU.

Brasco rejected the offer, Hogan said. NYU won G9-5K. The six men were arraigned last night in a special Sunday night session of felony court. Chief magistrate John M. Mur-tagh held Sollazzo without bail.

He set bail for Warner, Roman and Roth at $15,000 and for Schaff at $10,000. Card was held without bail in protective custody. Hearings were scheduled for March 5. Conviction on the charges carries penalties of one to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000, or both. The City College plavers were picked up late Saturday night as they arrived at Pennsylvania station after beating Temple in Philadelphia 95-71.

Hogan described these events leading to the arrests: Sollazzo met Gard at a summer hotel in the mountains and entertained the former LIU player. At the start of the present season, the jeweler invited Gard to his home and suggested Gard contact other players with the idea of inducing them to fix games. Gard agreed. First he ap- nroached Roth, a former hieh school mate. Later he spoke to Roman and tne CCNY players cni.

lazzo's home in December. Sollazzo told the players they could make a lot of money and that he could cut them in on a sure thing. Roth and Roman asked time to think it over. "They were worried about Warner," Hogan said. "He was a key man and they were afraid if they failed lo feed him the ball Warner would get suspicious and go to the coach." Hogan continued: Roth and Roman received permission from Sollazzo to approach Warner, who agreed to the deal.

Each of the three CCNY players received $1,500 for the Missouri game Dec. 9 won by Missouri 54-37. For the Arizona game Dec. 2S, whbh Arizona won 41-38, each got $1,000. The agreement on the Boston college game, won by BC Jan.

11 63-59, was that Roth and Roman were to get $1,500 each and Warner, who had an injured ki.ee, $500. The gambler paid Roth $1,400 and welched completely on his Case Fix Continued on Page 33 ankle thinned down to the size of a chorus girl's, has left the hospital. In fact, he'll sit on the Laker bench Wednesday when Syracuse comes into the lion's den. He might even suit up. "Lion's den" is appropriate enough for the Auditorium, at that.

The Lakers have won 24 out of 26 here. But with their two lickings over the week-end, the Minneapolis road record By DICK GORDON Minneapolis Star bull Writer Minnesota, which hasn't won an undisputed basketball championship in 32 years, will continue its comeback bid for a first division spot at Purdue tonight. And at the same time Illinois will be trying to take advantage of Gopher help by winning its fourth championship since 1912 for a perfect climax to an decade of basketball. Because Minnesota handed Indiana its only Big Ten defeat of the year here 10 days ago, Illinois can all but wrap up the title by defeating the Hoosiers at Champaign tonight. When and if that happens, the Illini can then point with pride to recent accomplishments which have made their state the new capital of conference caging.

The Whiz Kids won clear-cut titles with a 13 2 mark in 1942 and a perfect 12-0 record In '43. Then Andy Phillip, Gene Vance and the rest left for three years in the armed forces. Returning in 1947, they just missed out on a third championship with an 8-4 second-place showing. was submitted t6 the trustees, who have the final say, the grid wizard from Massillon, Ohio, was believed to be the principal reason Hayes was not given the job a week ago today. The board met then, but said it could not decide the issue with only four of its seven members present.

Last night, with six members on hand, the trustees approved the tutor of last year's Mid-American conference champions after a one-hour and 26-minute session. isn't what It might be. Still, even with that revenge tussle at Syracuse last night, the Lakers are a happy six games ahead of Rochester in NBA Standings EASTERN DIVISION IV. L. Ptc.

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It seems you can't even win 'em on the road when you're out-scoring the opposition. Saturday the Lakers scored 37 field goals to Rochester's 30 and still lost. Last night they outscored Syracuse 31-30 from the field and lost by 11 points. Fouls? Oh yes, that makes a difference. Last night the Lakers were charged with 40 and Syracuse with 30.

So for the second straight night, the boys lost on free throws. They were smothered at half-time 51-29. And it's a tribute to the Lakers that they came back as they did. In the fourth quarter they cut that 22 point deficit to six points at 84-78. At that point, with George Mikan and Joe Hutton out on fouls, the Lakers just couldn't hold up any longer.

Bill Gabor, who hit 26 points, was the nastiest of the Nats all the way. starts. Now Minnesota, with Michigan Tech coming to Williams arena Friday and Saturday and North Dakota here March 2-3 to wind up the schedule, is a favorite to join Michigan as the midwest's representatives in the NCAA tournament to Colorado Springs next month. An Romnes, a player's player through all his long pro career, is finally making his Gopher coaching "investment" pay off. A gym meet with Michigan State and its talented Jack Stout was on the docket at Cooke hall this afternoon.

In track the indoor meet with Michigan Saturday was off as coach Jim Kelly prepared for tomorrow's departure for Buenos Aires where -he will head the United States team in the Pan-American games starting next Monday. less stress on victory. It's unfortunate that such a great game as basketball, with nil 'Tickled' wait to get started," the successor to Wes Fesler said. "I want to meet with the team Wednesday morning before going to Chicago, 111., to attend the annual winter meeting the Big Ten." The trustees climaxed a saga unheralded in this school's football history when it approved Hayes at a one-year contract over Paul Brown, coach of the Cleveland Browns and former Ohio State coach. During the two-month coach hunt, students paraded peti night, they were on their way to fulfilling his guess.

Already they were charged with MORE DEFEATS THAN THEY HAD ALL LAST SEASON. Last year it was 17. Today, it's already 18. And it could get to Gottlieb's 25 easily in the 14 games the Lakers have left to play. A hopeful note, however, is contained in the word that Vein Mikkelsen, his swollen Laker Box Score Syracuse (91) FG FT PF FTM TP Gabcr.

10 6 4 3 26 Ralkuvlci. 1 3 3 5 2 9 Scolarl. 3 4 2 2 10 Macknowskl. 2 0 2 0 4 Jorgrnsen. 2 6 5 I 10 Hannum.

3 0 5 1 6 Schayes. 6 9 5 6 21 Seymour, 0 2 0 0 2 Choliet. 112 3 3 Totals 30 31 30 IS 91 FT PF FTM TP 0 3 18 15 0 3 2 4 4 10 0 6 10 9 6 fi 25 3 4 0 13 2 5 12 14 2 9 0 3 1 10 MINNEAPOLIS FG Martin, 4 Jaros, I 1 Ferrln. I 4 Hutton, Mlkan. Pollard, 5 Harrison, 0 Shea, 4 Grant, 5 Total 31 Syracuse 21 MINNEAPOLIS 13 18 40 16 80 30 21 1991 16 23 2880 HAWKS CANT CATCH LAKERS The Minneapolis Lakers lost one challenger today.

Mathematically, Trl Cities (2233) no longer can catch the Lakers, even If the Black-hawks win all 13 remaining games while the Lakers lose all their 14 games. The Laker lead over Trl-Cities is now 14 i games. er; Edward L. of New York CCNY center, 21, New York more actual participants than any other sport, has to go through this same experience year after year because a few young' men haven't learned the one lesson they should get out of competitionplaying the game honestly and fairly at all times. Hayes Takes Big Chance OHIO State university has appointed Woody Hayes, a promising young coach, to carry on its football worries.

Why any one in the profession, especially a youngster on the way up, will take a chance on wrecking his career by moving onto the hot seat in Columbus is beyond explanation. The way football coaches are treated by certain Buckeye groups is a disgrace to sports and the educational institution itself. One coach after another has been driven out of Ohio State because of the efforts of apparently a minority group that doesn't know the simple ABC's of sportsmanship. School authorities must take some of the blame for the fireworks that developed over this appointment. They stalled around too long trying to find a successor for Wes Fesler.

They have been a little too conscious of outside pressure. Moreover, Hayes has been given only a one-year contract. Nothing smart about that. The school has played right into the hands of its critics for its action has left the impression that Hayes will be on the chopping block if not a winner in his first season. Once the Buckeyes agreed on him they should have given him a long time pact as a warning to every one that Ohio State officials would back him indefinitely win or lose.

a This Is for Title THE showdown on the Big Ten basketball championship for 1951 is at hand tonight at Champaign, 111. Indiana, upset only by Minnesota, faces Illinois, defeated only by the Hoosiers. Tonight's winner is almost certain to go on to the title. Indiana, playing to the limit of its ability, is probably the No. 1 fast break quint in the collegiate ranks today.

It will give away some advantage in height tonight, but some think the Hoosiers can do it and still be returned victorious. Minnesota engages Purdue tonight in a duel that could mean much as far as its final position in the standings is concerned. The Gophers have won five and lost six in league play. They have the Boilermakers and Northwestern to play away from home and Michigan State here. If they win tonight they're almost certain to finish with a .500 record, which could get them into first division for the entire season.

The Gophers apparently were at their top form in routing an inspired and determined Ohio State team Saturday, but the Boilermakers have been coming fast of late and look like a very rugged foe. Warner, 21, star City College forward; Edward Roman, 20, and Harvey (Connie) Schaff, university player. AP AWAITING BOOKING at the police station on bribery charges in connection with the "fixing" of basketball games are these college players. Left to right are: Edward Gard, 23, former Long Island university play Saints Confident of Second Place Uphill Win Like Romnes Regime This Isn't Solution Despite the schedule that calls for St. Paul to nlnv pitrht nf itc games on the road CQach Clint Smith today was confident his Saints would finish in second place, the chief bone of contention in the U.

S. Hockey league with Omaha all but a mathematical cinch for first. A 2-1 overtime victory over Tulsa before 4,381 fans at the St. Paul auditorium Sunday afternoon did much to bolster Smitty's confidence. By winning this key game the Saints went three points ahead of the Oilers who likewise have 11 games to go.

"That was the one we needed," said Smith. "We'll make it now. I'm not worried by. those road games." Yesterday St Paul had one of its toughest tasks of the season before squeezing past a crippled Tulsa team. The Oilers went into the game without scoring ace Doc Haldor- sen, injured a week ago, and another star, Dick Butler, hurt in Kansas City Saturday night.

Then after two minutes of play they lost defenseman Sheldon Bloomer who was given a match penalty for what the referee construed as a "deliberate attempt to injure" in a scuffle with Gus Schwartz. Forced to play with 12 men, the Oilers put up a rugged defense and when Moe Young capitalized a break in the second period it looked like the game But late in the third period Freddy Brown tied the count by sinking the rebound from a sensational solo by John Mariucci and at 3:07 of the overtime Schwartz caged winning goal. In other games last night Den ver beat Omaha 5-4 and Kansas City climbed out of the cellar by downing Milwaukee 7-4. The hockey game Minnesota won Saturday night was similar to almost the entire career of Doc Romnes at Minnesota uphill. The Gopher mentor has' had nothing but hard luck, raids on his best state material, injuries over the reins here for the 1947-48 season.

And things seemed blacker than ever midway this winter when five overtime defeats left Minnesota with a disastrous 311 record. But neither Romnes, nor his charges, gave up. And the 5-4 overtime conquest of Colorado college's NCAA champions was just the culmination of a tremendous comeback effort. The Gophers tied it up with 44 seconds left in regulation play and won in a minute of overtime for a sweep of the Colorado series and their seventh triumph in the last eight country took care of that yesterday at the Steamboat Springs, Colo, winter carnival. Otto Berge of Walla Walla, won the Pacific Northwest Ski association's combined championships at Seattle.

Katy Rudolph of Sun Valley, paced the women. The five top men and thre etop women qualify for the Olympic trials Frank Shields created havoc in the National indoor tennis championships in New York yesterday by dumping two seeded players. He is the only interloper in the eights. All the rest are seeded it QUOTE, UNQUOTE: What a day for a basketball fix. And they tall college football "the monter that will devour itself" BERNIE SWANSON.

I ir IF FLORIDA horse racing officials think they can slow up the activities of the bookies by holding up announcements of results until 20 minutes after each event, they have another guess coming. Eeven if outside telephones were cut off, the smart boys would find some way to get the information through to their clients. What happens to the gamblers isn't half as important as the racing men's efforts to set up their own censorship of press and radio. The public Is entitled to information as soon as any sports event is completed and any attempt to delay it should be fought to the highest court in the land. Horse men and government officials are admitting that they can't combat the bookies who operate all over the country, some dishonestly.

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