anaheim-gazette 1951-02-21

Long Island Quits Athletics Following New York Basketball Bribery Scandal NEW YORK (P)—Long Island university, a casualty of basketball's biggest game scandal, has quit all intercollegiate sports. The Brooklyn school, which for many years had one of the nation's leading basketball teams, said last night that its action also includes the cancellation of this season's four maining games, including two scheduled for Madison Square Garden. LIU President T. W. Metcalfe acted a few hours after three LIU star players and former team captain were ed with taking $18,500 to seven big games, including final Invitation tournament test last year. Sickened, Unemployed Clair Bee Not Likely to Start Over Again BY MILTON GROSS (Editors' note: Long Island university last night withdrew from intercollegiate athletic competition because of the basketball scandal. The following column, written by a close friend of Clair Bee, LIU basketball coach for 20 years, has been made available to The Associated Press by the New York Post.) NEW YORK (P)—Maybe Clair Bee will coach somewhere and fidget through another season of basketball some time, but as of now you can write off the man who led LIU's basketball teams through 20 years. You can write him off as LIU did intercollegiate competition. I liked him as a man. I admired him as a coach. I would have liked to see him go on for another 20 years, but the last 48 hours tore out his insides and destroyed him first as a man when his players cheated and then as a coach when a university of 4500 students retired from competition because of three. He wept for his boys, and one "How are you feeling?" I asked. "I don't know," he answered vaguely. "I don't know. I haven't eaten." "Is Peggy (Mrs. Bee) with you? How is she taking it?" That's the toughest part of it. She's taking it hard." You thought of Bee, his pretty young wife and the great emotion that takes control of him when he talks of his two-year-old son, his only child, born when Clair was 48. I remembered the early morning hours after the Bowling Green game when White, Smith and Bigos, who could have made this LIU's best team, played for the fixer rather than their coach. Bee drove with me to Brooklyn after the game and on the way I told him I felt the game was fixed. We talked of Smith's blatantly porous defense, White falling to the floor at Brooklyn Grass. Adolph Bigos, LIU's a bounder. Ed Warner, star of CCNY tional champions. Ed Roman, leading CCNY er. Al Roth, CCNY playmaker. Harvey (Connie) Shaff, ing New York university so. Ed Gard, LIU team captain season. The district attorney's through 20 years. You can write him off as LIU did intercollegiate competition. I liked him as a man. I admired him as a coach. I would have liked to see him go on for another 20 years, but the last 48 hours tore out his insides and destroyed him first as a man when his players cheated and then as a coach when a university of 4500 students retired from competition because of three. He wept for his boys, and one of his assistants said to me, "Clair's done." To the very last moment before the district attorney revealed the awful truth, Bee maintained that never in his mind was there the slightest suspicion against any boy or any game. I feel I know Clair as well as any man in this town. I knew him before he came to LIU and have been close to him since. I have no right or reason to doubt the sincerity of his protestations. But, I do know that for part of this revolting season a torment in his breast was added to the bleeding ulcer in his stomach and a gall bladder aliment which made all he ate and drank turn bitter within him. Through most of yesterday, as he secluded himself in his room in the building LIU rents on Schermerhorn street for classes and a dormitory for its team, Bee was ordered to silence by the president and chairman of the board for whom he works. But if Clair had been free to talk I doubt that there could have been much he could have said that would have been coherent. I talked to him at 6:30 am, and he cut off our conversation with sobs and weeping. Two hours later it was the same. And again at 11 a.m. Only this time he did speak but his voice was weak and wandering. I remembered the early morning hours after the Bowling Green game when White, Smith and Bigos, who could have made this LIU's best team, played for the fixer rather than their coach. Bee drove with me to Brooklyn after the game and on the way I told him I felt the game was fixed. We talked of Smith's blatantly porous defense, White falling to the floor as Bowling Green players dribbled by, Bigos' inexplicable inadequacy as he moved out of the game, back into it and out of it aagin. In my mind as we spoke was a glance Frank McGuire, St. John's coach, and I had exchanged during the game. I had sat between him and Buck Freeman, the Blackbird's freshman coach, charting the game. The glance had passed between us as Smith, in the backcourt alone on defense, delayed just long enough to allow a pass to be made to a Bowling Green player ahead of him for a basket. It appeared Smith could have prevented that basket. I turned to McGuire, who turned to me. "Frank," I said, "that smelled." McGuire didn't answer, but his eyes seemed to tell me he agreed with what I suspected. Later in the car I told Bee about my suspicions and asked him about his. He said he had none. He couldn't have. "This is my life," he said, "when I have suspicions I'm done as a coach, My life is done." NEW YORK (P)—Nancy Chaffee, the defending champion from Ventura, Calif., is gradually advancing in the women's singles of the national indoor tennis championships. Adolph Bigos, LIU's a bounder. Ed Warner, star of CCNY tional champions. Ed Roman, leading CCNY er. Al Roth, CCNY playmaker Harvey (Connie) Shaff, ing New York university so Ed Gard, LIU team captain season. The district attorney's said all eight received their from Salvatore T. Sollas Manhattan jewelry manufactur and ex-convict. Sollazzo remained in jail day after state Supreme Justice Samuel H. Hofstadter fused yesterday his latest for freedom on a habeas writ. He has been refused. During the hearing, So pretty wife, Jeanne, pulled a coat around her shoulder wept as the justice told her band: "I can hardly see a more spicable crime—the corrupt youth at the very fountainh Rumors still persisted that trict Attorney Frank S. isn't finished with the senses college basketball expose tha kept the sports world tense he first started questioning ers last Saturday night. Asked if he has two more ers in custody; Hogan said "There is no basis for rumor at this time." Another development y day was Gov. Thomas E. D demand that the maximum sentence in New York stay any one bribing or trying to an athlete be increased from 10 years. A bill to this effect w reproduced immediately in the publican-controlled legislature. RANCHERS! GROWERS! Here's a WEED KILLER OK'd by the Railroads Cox HYKIL weed-control is now being used by Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Union Pacific and other lines. This modern weed killer can also save you money. 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The arrested athletes are: Sherman White, 6-foot 7-inch IU forward who was leading the country in scoring and rated by any the best collegiate player day. Leroy Smith, LIU playmaker and set shot artist. Adolph Bigos, LIU's ace reounder. Ed Warner, star of CCNY's national champions. Ed Roman, leading CCNY scorer. Al Roth, CCNY playmaker. Harvey (Connie) Shaff, a leading New York university scorer. Ed Gard, LIU team captain lastason. The district attorney's office Anaheim to Play! Anaheim will play Grossment high school in the first round of the CIF playoffs on March 2. Moreover, the game will be played in PC Loma high school's gym. Those were the decisions coming out of a meeting this morning among athletic officials of both Newport and Anaheim high schools. AUHS Director of Athletics Dick Glover said this morning that the final decision had been left up to the players of both Sunset league teams and that they had voted in favor of playing the games despite the unfavorable location. The coin flip to determine opponents was held this morning, and Newport, winning, chose to face San Diego, San Diego league champ, in the first round. That naturally paired Anaheim and Grossmont. The schedule, as set forth by the CIF, now pits Anaheim in the first game at 7:30 with the San Diego-Newport game to follow at 9:05. BASKETBALL STANDINGS CITY LEAGUE W L Pet Rita 10 0 1,000 Bob Williams 7 4 636 No. 6 4 2,571 Colleen 6 5 548 No. 7 5 500 Hatfield 4 6 400 Huntington Beach 5 6 250 Hornets 10 0 1,091 CHURCH LEAGUE W L Pet Grace Lutheran 8 2 800 Calvary Baptist 6 2 750 Cypress Nazarene 6 3 667 White Temple 4 5 444 St. Boniface 4 5 444 Zion Lutheran 4 6 400 Church of Christ 0 9 000 Games-Last Night Cypress Nazarene 46, Church of Christ 17, Box Score Cypress Nazarene Church of Christ 28 Ferreria F Schilling Jog Wright F Moist Jim Wright G Brunts Noe G Granen 11 Gedney G Owston halftime score: Cypress Nazarene 13. Church of Christ 7. COUNTY LEAGUE GAME Hornets Repeat As Loop Champs Breaking away from a 31-31 standoff at halftime, Fullerton jaysee belted Chaffley 62-56 to take its second straight Eastern League title last night at Ontario. The Eastern conference scoring record, set only last year by Santa Ana's Rolph Engen, was also bested last night by Santa Ana's Pete Smith as he racked 22 points, though the Dons fell 51-47 to Mt. San Antonio. Smith's total of 236 broke Engen's 225, but the mark still stands another chance of being smashed before the year is over. Orange Coast's Bob Yardley was only two points behind Smith. Braves Only Air NEW YORK (CP)-NCAA. basketball tourcided if it doesn't win St. Louis. The two teams canfortable leader, but th birthday Quick For Bill Klem, MIAMI BEACH (CP)—Joseph Klem, greatest uthem all, moves into year tomorrow but the dog of the diamond w doing much celebrating th day. The famed "Old Arbitthe National League, who ing voice echoed in ball y36 years, is betfast-su severe heart and kidney tion. Though the body is t worn, the voice that ch hearts of baseball fam more than three decades strong and demanding. Physically; Bill Klem is sick man. He has bee oxygen for the past four and is under 24-hour-a-c either by his wife or nurse. He is blind in NY Sports Ed Gave 'Fix Tip NEW YORK (UP)—A New York sports editor provided the tip that helped the district attorney break the latest basketball scandal. Frank S. Hogan, the district attorney, said the information came from Max Kase, sports editor of the New York Journal-American. "I have now permission to reveal that on Jan. 10 last, the Journal-American and its sporting editor, Max Kase, warned this office to keep a close watch on a certain player on the Long Island team," Hogan said. "Kase told us that this player would bear watching. As a result of this tip, the investigation of the district attorney, which was getting nowhere, received a directional steer which was most productive." Kase in a story in the Journal-American, wrote, "the joint effort dates back to Jan. 10 when I visited Hogan, in company with Lewis Burton of this sports department, and placed vital information before him. "Behind that visit is a tale of investigation, checks and double checks by members of the sports staff... Continuous, persistent rumors of point-spread fixes and outright dumps, prevalent for years, were more intense than ever after the 1950-51 basketball campaign began. Vigorous inquiry was begun among gamblers and basketball fans." The Eastern conference scoring record, set only last year by Santa Ana's Rolph Engen, was also bested last night by Santa Ana's Pete Smith as he racked 22 points, though the Dons fell 51-47 to Mt. San Antonio. Smith's total of 236 broke Engen's 225, but the mark still stands another chance of being smashed before the year is over. Orange Coast's Bob Yardley was only two points behind Smith last night, and thus can eclipse the new record with a 25-point performance against Mt. SAC this Friday night in the loop finale. Smith's mark is his final one as Santa Ana finished its season last night. All of the other Eastern League schools have one game remaining, but the Hornets have clinched the title, now standing two full games ahead of both Chaffey and San Bernardino, second-place co-holders. Fullerton Chaffey Thomas F Metcalf Book C Daylis Thompson C McIlroy Philips G Hammer Schwendinger 12 Halftime score: Fullerton 11; Chaffey 10; Scoring subs: Fullerton-Holloway 4; Chaffey-Fitzsimmons 1. Mt. SAC Santa Ana Argentina Ready For Pan-Am Games BUENOS AIRES (UP)—Argentina has set a dazzling stage for the first Pan American Olympic games starting Sunday. North Americans would have a difficult time believing stadiums could be so vast and food so lavish as available here. Some 2000 athletes from the Western Hemisphere are expected to compete in the warm, mid-summer weather. The customary last-minute Olympic frenzy and frazzled nerves have engulfed this city. For example, Uruguay won't compete for complex political reasons and yachting has been dropped because only Argentina and Chile had ships ready. However, 17 other spots are available. Though the body is too worn, the voice that chimes hearts of baseball fans more than three decades strong and demanding. Physically; Bill Klem is sick man. He has been oxygen for the past four and is under 24-hour-a-day either by his wife or nurse. He is blind in one eye. The other is dimmed by health and watching to close ones. In his heydey, those eyes catch the slightest infrared spot a fair or foul ball away. Klem has missed through the years he "newed one in my life." There will be little if any brating Bill's 77th year of his old friends will see grams, but visitors are likely five minutes and discouraging visiting as much as possible. It's not easy to be inside through an oxygen mask. Klem had little to say about a movement was afoot his name before the Hall of Fame committee light that glittered for a second showed such an would not be taken light at the aging umpire. No umpire ever has been to the Hall of Fame. Other Cage Art To Continue Playing Arena in Philadelphia Buffalo, Cleveland and Sacramento Coaches of Santa Clara formla and San Francisco expressed desire to continue in San Francisco's Cowboys Bob Feorick, Santa Clara and placed vital information before him. "Behind that visit is a tale of investigation, checks and double checks by members of the sports staff... Continuous, persistent rumors of point-spread fixes and outright dumps, prevalent for years, were more intense than ever after the 1950-51 basketball campaign began. Vigorous inquiry was begun among gamblers and basketball-wise operators. Inevitably, we turned up leads and tips. "The Journal-American has been probing into basketball fix tips and leads for several years. The sports department has developed its own patterns of procedure. We had faith in the pattern, even after repeatedly bumping into impenetrable stone walls in past years. Eventually the right lead turned up." 21 Cubs Heading West to Catalina CHICAGO UP — It was "all aboard" today for 21 Chicago Cub players who head west to pitch their baseball spring training camp on Catalina island. The first contingent was accompanied by Coach Spud Davis and Traveling Secretary Bob Lewis. Manager Frankie Frisch, who had just returned from a European baseball tour, will fly from his New Rochelle, N.Y., home and be on hand when the vanguard of Cubs arrives on the Island Friday. Johnny Vander Meer, veteran pitcher, yesterday became the 36th Cub to ink a 1951 contract. Only outfielder Bank Sauer and shortstop Roy Smalley are out of the fold. Outfielder Ron Northey has agreed to terms. Some 2000 athletes from the Western Hemisphere are expected to compete in the warm, mid-summer weather. The customary last-minute Olympic frenzy and frazzled nerves have engulfed this city. For example, Uruguay won't compete for complex political reasons and yachting has been dropped because only Argentina and Chile had ships ready. However, 17 other spots are assured, and when the big United States team arrives in two planes Friday night, the heat of enthusiasm is expected to match the temperature. The Pan American games are patterned after the world Olympics, even to an Olympic village, which is called "Villa Pan Amicana." The Argentine West Point, which is known as Cologio Militar De-La Nacion, will house male competitors. New Playground Slate Announced Because tomorrow and Friday will be official school holidays, the following revised playground schedule has been announced by the city recreation department: Thursday Franklin—10 a.m., to noon. Mann—10 a.m., to noon. High school—gymnasium 10 a.m., to 4 p.m.; pool 1 p.m., to 4 p.m. Friday Franklin—10 a.m., to noon. Mann—10 a.m., to noon. High school—gymnasium 10 a.m., to 4 p.m.; pool 1 p.m., to 4 p.m. Saturday High school—gymnasium 10 a.m., to 4 p.m.; pool 1 p.m., to 4 p.m. General Motors products are sold and serviced in more than 100 countries around the world. Players Still Ove 'Bribe Money' NEW YORK UP — More $20,000 recovered by police five of the eight local baselines involved in the gas scandal still belongs to youths. The players led police various caches in safe boxes, coat linings and buried boxes. Officials say all but dollars of the money are funds received from gambling. MAILING LIST Complete Coverage FULLERTON — ANAH GARDEN GROVE Call Fullerton 8715-R or Gazette Box 151M Braves Top St. Louis, Only Aid Aggie Lead NEW YORK (UP) — Still fighting hard to win a bid to the NCAA basketball tournament, Bradley has just about decided if it doesn't win the Missouri Valley title neither will St. Louis. The two teams can't whip Oklahoma A & M, the comfortable leader, but they can knock one another out of competition. Birthday Quiet For Bill Klem, 77 MIAMI BEACH (UP) — William Joseph Klem, greatest umpire of them all, moves into his 77th year tomorrow but the old bulldog of the diamond won't be doing much celebrating this birthday. The famed "Old Arbitrator" of the National League, whose booming voice echoed in ball parks for 36 years, is befast—suffering a severe heart and kidney condition. Though the body is tired and worn, the voice that chilled the hearts of baseball famous for more than three decades still is strong and demanding. Physically, Bill Klem is a very sick man. He has been using oxygen for the past four months and is under 24-hour-a-day care, either by his wife or a male nurse. He is blind in one eye. Bradley walloped St. Louis, 97-85, last night to avenge an earlier defeat and pull a little closer to the Billikens in second place. But not to the Aggies, for A & M also won last night, 61-52, over Houston. Here is the standing in the fastest league in the country: W L Oklahoma A & M.....9 0 St. Louis.....9 2 Bradley.....8 3 A & M, No. 2 nationally in this week's Associated Press poll, has five games standing in the way of an automatic bid to the NCAA tourney, including one each with St. Louis and Bradley. St. Louis, No. 6, and Bradley, No. 7, each have three games left in an uphill struggle to overtake A & M. St. John's of Brooklyn (20-3), an NIT certainty, defeated New York university, 61-52, in Madison Square Garden. LaSalle (20-5) came from behind to down Man... Though the body is tired and worn, the voice that chilled the hearts of baseball famous for more than three decades still is strong and demanding. Physically, Bill Klem is a very sick man. He has been using oxygen for the past four months and is under 24-hour-a-day care, either by his wife or a male nurse. He is blind in one eye. The other is dimmed by time, ill health and watching too many close ones. In his heydey, those eyes could catch the slightest infraction or spot a fair or foul ball 300 feet away. Klem has maintained through the years he "never missed one in my life." There will be little if any celebrating Bill's 77th year. Many of his old friends will send telegrams, but visitors are limited to five minutes and discouraged from visiting as much as possible. It's not easy to be interviewed through an oxygen mask and Klem had little to say when told a movement was afoot to bring his name before the baseball Hall of Fame committee. But the light that glittered for a fleeting second showed such an honor would not be taken lightly by the aging umpire. No umpire ever has been named to the Hall of Fame. Other Cage Arenas To Continue Play NEW YORK (P)—For the most part, policy of the big basketball arenas across the country will not be affected by the latest series of setting scandals. The future of the sport in Boston Garden appears uncertain. Walter A. Brown, president of the Garden, said, "I don't know what I'm going to do or what I should do. I'm heartsick and disouraged." However, those connected with playing arenas in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland and San Francisco, expressed different views. Coaches of Santa Clara, California and San Francisco have expressed desire to continue playing in San Francisco's Cow Palace. Bob Feerick, Santa Clara coach, said: SERVICE! FACTORY-TRAINED MECHANICS SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT FACTORY-ENGINEERED PARTS Our mechanics are Pontiac mechanics. 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