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...three players tried to throw three games last season. They succeeded twice for their gambler pals; the third time they failed, when Southern Methodist played so badly that City couldn't help winning. The fixers figured to pick up some more loot when C.C.N.Y. was entered in both the National Invitation and N.C.A.A. tournaments. But the three players finally balked, and C.C.N.Y. won both tournaments...
...some day to do Shakespeare. But Sidney's getting himself in jail as a swindler had almost been the end of Rosemary. "I never knew he was in an illegal business," she cried, with a revealing confession that seemed to explain all: "He told me he was a gambler...
Even James J. Carroll-a big-league gambler whose operation is so smooth that St. Louis newspapers long referred to him respectfully as a "betting commissioner" instead of a bookie-revealed that his blood pressure and pulse were higher than his bank account. By coincidence, all the heart cases happened to have been invited to testify before the Senate's crime investigator, Senator Estes Kefauver, during his stopover in St. Louis...
...Must Keep Going." Is there any way to keep this sort of thing from happening over & over again? The chief reforms advanced last week: to get games out of gambler-ridden Madison Square Garden and back to the campus, to eliminate the Catskill "borsch circuit," where some of the players were first approached, to persuade newspapers to stop printing betting odds (see PRESS), to pick a basketball czar ("like Judge Landis"), to double the penalties of the bribery law. One suggestion, from Doxie Moore, commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League, candidly seeks to make honesty more profitable than dishonesty...
...Roth, Ed Roman and All-America Ed Warner, said Hogan. They did their best for Gambler Sollazzo in three games in the Garden during December and January. C.C.N.Y., the heavy pre-game favorite each time, lost to Missouri (54-37), Arizona (41-38) and Boston College (63-59). Roth collected $4,650, Roman $3,250 and Warner (who was out with injuries for one game) $2,500. Ed Gard got commissions...