THURSDAY, July 26, 1951 THE BATTALION
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Sixth School Named in Bribery Aggies May Have
Scandal; ‘Double Cross’ Cited
New York, July 26—WP)—The ex
ploding college basketball scandal
engulfed its sixth school yester
day and turned up an amazing
story of a “double cross” among
gamblers involving a death threat
to one of them.
District Attorney Frank S. Ho
gan said three stars of the Uni
versity of Toledo’s crack team ad
mitted taking money to rig the
points in a game with Niagara
at Toledo last December.
Two Sets of Gamblers
He also said two sets of gamb
lers were involved in the fixing
of the Bradley-St. Joseph game in
Philadelphia early last year.
Asked whether more colleges
would be implicated in the gigantic
series of fixes which has involved
some of the outstanding players
and teams in the country in col
lege sport’s worst scandal, Hogan
said he would make no forecast.
Besides the three players from
Toledo, and six from Bradley, 19
players and former players from
four New York schools—CCNY,
Manhattan College, Long Island
University and New York Univer
sity—already have been named in
a series of fixes spreading over
more than 25 games, including
tournament contests.
Players Horn Bradley, including
all-America Gene (Squeaky) Mel-
choirre, have been named in con
nection with the rigging of points
on at least three games.
Players Tell Story
The district attorney said the
three Toledo players, William
Walker of Toledo, Robert McDon
ald of New York, and Carlo Muzi
of Akron, told the grand jury how
they kept their winning margin
to only three points in beating Nia
gara, 73-70, in Toledo on Dec.
14, 1950.
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the center of a tempest in a
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the Musicians’ Union threatened
to picket Ebbets Field unless an
all-union crew was hired to re
place the semi-pros at $100 a day.
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Dodgers, and strange happenings.
Sights and sounds never seen nor
heard anywhere else amaze and
intrigue visitors. Giant fans insist
that when the wind is right strange
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river, but that is indignantly de
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keeping with their music. Loud,
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The horns of plenty were filled
with noise, pumped into the ears
of the appreciative gatherings, and
a.t one time or another the sym-
phonists must have accidentally all
hit the same note simultaneously,
giving rise to the charge they were
musicians.
“Let the Brooklyn baseball
club hire and pay union men,”
a union official said, “and we
guarantee to give Ebbets Field a
band that can play lousier than
the Dodge sym-phony, if that’s
what they want.”
“We regard the Dodger sym
phony as a group of fans merely
expressing their joy at being alive
and being Dodger rooters,” Walter
O’Malley, president of the club, re
torted. “True, we let them in free,
but we don’t pay them. Their form
of expression is music—well, any
way, a noise from musical instru
ments.”
“We didn’t mean nothing,” Lou
Soriano, co-founder of the sym
phony 13 years ago, contributed
in a small, injured voice. “We did
n’t want to hart any union men. All
we’ve been doing is pep up Brook
lyn games. We don’t even get free
hot dogs.”
Three minutes before the game
was over, Hogan said Toledo led
by 17 points. The D. A. said that
Eli Kaye, who is under $50,000
bail in the alleged bribing of New
York players, sent $1,750 to Walk
er as a payoff.
Hogan said Walker gave $250
each to Muzi and McDonald and
kept the remainder. All three are
ex-seryicemen and McDonald is
president of the senior class.
Hogan, in stressing the coopera
tion of the three players, made it
clear that there are no charges
against them. There had been no
law against bribing amateur ath
letes in Ohio, but starting Aug.
22 it will be punishable by a
$10,000 fine or a prison sentence.
Traveled With Melchoirre
In relating the fantastic story
of the “double cross” in the Brau-
ley-St. Joseph’s game at Philadel
phia’s Convention Hall early in
1950, Hogan said one of the al
leged fixers traveled in the same
Pullman berth with Melchoirre.
He added that another, Kaye, in
vaded the Toledo field house to
pressure the players and “dangle
money before them.”
According to Hogan, Kaye and
the Englisis brothers, Nicholas
(Nick the Greek) and Tony, work
ed together to fix the Bradley
players.
Kaye told Nick Englisis, accord
ing to Hogan, that “these must be
a double-cross and we will have to
switch our bets. Thei'e is so much
money bet that the game will be
an investigation and we will all
be in trouble. So let’s switch and
teach the other guys a lesson.”
Instructed To Win Over Spread
Hogan said Kaye then instruct
ed the players to win over the
spread and after they agreed, Nick
again relayed this information to
book maker Jack West. West and
his associates protested they had
their bets down and couldn’t switch,
said Hogan, citing the story told by
the Englisis brothers.
Hogan said West and two asso
ciates then grabbed Tony Englisis
and brought him* to West’s apart
ment in Brooklyn.
“Tony thought he was going to
get killed,” said Hogan.
Tony telephoned Convention Hall,
had his brother paged, and told
him his life was threatened, said
Hogan.
Y ankees Hold Jinx
Continued From ’50
By Associated Press
If Cleveland wins the American
league pennant, they’ll never be-
live it in Yankee stadium.
The tribal warhoop is only an
empty echo in the Yanks’ concrete
wigwam on the Harlem where
Cleveland has lost 13 straight ball
games since July 14, 1950.
Same Story Last Year
It was the same story last Sum
mer. After that shocking series in
Boston where the Indians blew 7-0
and 12-1 leads, Cleveland stagger
ed into the Yankee stadium to lose
four in a row. They came to town
two games out of first place and
finished up 51/2 behind in fourth
place. That was the fatal blow.
Failure to whip the Yanks in
New York has been almost as cost
ly this season. They’ve dropped
eight straight in ’51 with only
three to play.
Big John Mize was the villian
in the Indians’ current disaster.
His eighth-inning homer won the
opener Tuesday, 3-2, and his ninth
inning double punched home both
runs of yesterday’s 2-1 verdict over
tough luck Mike Garcia.
Because Chicago snapped its
five-game losing streak and whip
ped Boston at Fenway Park, 6-2,
the Yankees opened up a full game
lead on the Red Sox. Cleveland is
another game back and the White
Sox are Sy 2 off the pace.
Brooklyn Still Waltzing
In sharp contrast to this wild
struggle, the National remains a
Brooklyn waltz with the Dodgers,
6-2 winners over Chicago, now nine
full games in front of New York
which won a June 17 “suspended
game” from Pittsburgh, 7-6 in 10
innings but lost the regularly
scheduled contest, 5-4.
Garcia pitched a fine game
against the Yanks, holding a 1-0
lead over Eddie Lopat going to the
ninth. Then that man Mize did his
stuff.
Gil McDougald opened the Yan
kee ninth with a single. Garcia
mowed down Gene Woodling and
Joe DiMaggio. Yogi Berra kept
the game alive by singling Mc
Dougald to third.
Mize sliced a hump backed hit
into short left that Bob Kennedy
reached but couldn’t hold as the
ball slithered off his fingers. Be-
for he could retrieve it, McDou
gald and Berra scored the tying
and winning runs.
Holcombe Tames Boston
Ken Holcome, easy working Chi
cago righthandei’, tamed the Red
Sox right in Fenway Park with a
five hitter to pull the White Sox
out of their tailspin.
Don Lenhardt, the ex-Brownie,
smashed a three-run homer off Mel
Parnell in the sixth to nulify a 1-0
Boston lead. Parnell gave up
another run in the seventh and
Chicago got to Walt Masterson
and Harry Taylor for one each in
the last two innings to nail it
down.
Ned Garver won No. 13 for the
last-place St. Louis Browns who
have taken only 28 all season. The
talented righthander held Philadel
phia to seven hits for a 5-4 edge
in a night game at Shibe Park.
Washington hopped on Freddie
Hutchinson and three successors
for 14 hits and a 7-4 decision over
Detroit.
Preacher Roe, edging toward his
first 20-game year, won his 14th
by downing Chicago, 6-2. It was
the 12th complete game for the
Dodgers’ ace lefty.
Hodges Slaps No. 30
Gil Hodges, back on the home
run beam with his second in two
days after an 18-day slump, slug
ged Bob Rush for No. 30 in the
second inning. The blow put him
even with Babe Ruth’s record pace
for 91 games (including one Dod
ger tie).
The Giants lost ground in split
ting two decisions. They went 10
innings to finish out the “suspend
ed game” with Larry Jansen’s 13th
victory. It was tied 6-6 in June
when the game was called because
of the Pennsylvania Sunday Cur
few.
Robin Roberts racked up his sec
ond straight shutout for the Phil
lies, holding St. Louis to four sing
les for a 2-0 victory.
Cincinnati and Boston were not
scheduled.
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Difficulty Filling
Football Open Date
By ANDY ANDERSON
Battalion Sports Editor
Newest developments in the re-scheduling of a football
game to fill the gap left when the University of Nevada
dropped their athletic program lead this writer to believe a
major opponent is unavailable as was wished
| by most students as well as the athletic de-
1 partment.
Looking over a schedule of the major
j teams in the country in one of the sports
magazines yesterday, it was found that three
so-called major teams have open dates on
| Oct. 13 and might possibly be open to nego-
| tiations for a game on that date.
Those three teams are Brigham Young
of Provo, Utah; Utah State of Logan, Utah
and VMI, one of A&,M’s last years oppon
ents whom they defeated 52-0. We know
that Trinity University of San Antonio also has an open date
on Oct. 13 and might well get the game on the basis of their
Availability and nearness.
We do not know at this time whether any of the above
mentioned teams have been contacted or whether or not
they are under consideration.
A telephone strike is holding up negotiations with Ne
vada to clear up matters on the contract signed between
A&M and Nevada.
Information on Considered Teams
Anderson
Here is a little information
about the four teams we think
might be under consideration.
Utah State College, heretofore
“T” users, will be under the guid
ance of : a new coach who will in
troduce the single wing. The
Farmers will be guided by John
Roning who will have 18 letter-
men return from the club which
last season failed to win a confer
ence game.
Their outstanding players are
LaVell Edwards, an all-conference
center in the Skyline conference,
DeVan Robbins, Daily Nord and
Joe Cipola ends; Rodney Coster
and Ed LaClair, tackles; Anmed
Romeieh, Jim Counes, Marv Sor
enson and Dale Jasper guards;
Danney Russell and Bill Boare,
quarterbacks; Barry Flenniken,
Pleasie Moore, Dale Leatham and
Bud Paul, halfbacks; and Jim Gar
rett and Tod Carline, fullbacks.
The Farmers have a bright pros
pect in Earl Lindley, a six-foot-
two inch lad, weighing 190 pounds
and an all-around athlete.
Like A&M, the Farmers have
a large ROTC program and ser
vice calls should not hurt too much.
The front line club is a good one
and it has taken to Roning’s style
of play but the team lacks depth.
They are ranked in preseason as
the eighth team in an eight-team
league.
BY Looks for Brightest Post-War Year
Brigham Young, another of the is shaping up to top its best in pre
teams in the Skyline League, looks vious history. They have five of
for 1951 to be brighter than at any the glue-fingerdest terminals in
time since the “middle war years” the conference, he said,
according to Head Coach “Chick” Deep in backfield material, the
Atkinson. Cougars will feel the loss of
He says the line definitely is “Brainy Benny” Mortenson, last
the strongest in many a year. It year’s first-string signal caller,
is entirely possible to build a 200- They think they will have capable
pourid average line, which can move , , j,. ,,
fast as well as throw its weight reserves to fl11 the blU and field
aroutid. a top flight backfield, capable of
The end situation, Atkinson says, handling all chores.
VMI Plays Weak Conference Slate
VMI, according to pre-season
dopesters, shapes up as a potential
threat to cop the Southern Confer
ence bunting because of a weak
conference schedule.
Coach Tom Nugent has his first-
string line back from 1950; a team
which gave some of the first-divi
sion teams a scare. They lost Joe
Stump, a hard-driving fullback
who ,was their main threat in the
backfield last year.
Offensively, the JCeydets have
drive. Bill Brehany and Curly
Powell, ineligible last year, may
be backfield starters. Tommy
Birge, George Chumbley, Chuck
Dininger, A1 Marchand, Chippy
Woods and Paul Hudson are letter-
men backs. Capt. Weir Goodwin,
200-pound pivotman, anchors the
forward wall.
Former Aggie Line Coach W. N.
“Bill” James directs the forces
of Trinity University who hopes
to move to new building in San-
tone this Fall. He has a former
Aggie for an assistant that many
football fans of this area will re
member as a fine guard—Herb
Turley, a ’47 graduate.
Trinity will have 19 lettermen
returning including fine backs,
Dalton Klaus, Claude Schott and
J. R. Nail. They are looking for
fine things from Francis Meyer,
Campbell Hardin, Sam Sanchez and
Don Hood in line play.
As was said earlier in this ar
ticle, these teams are the ones we
think have a possibility of filling
the open date but with the sea
son so near, it would not be un
likely that the Aggies would be
unable to schedule an opponent.
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B Sqdn. Takes 2-Game
Lead in Freshman Loop
By TOM ROUNTREE
Battalion Sports Staff
B Sqdn. now has a two game lead
in freshman softball after defeat
ing D Co. yesterday afternoon 7-5.
The Flyboys were never in any
serious trouble as they picked up
six runs in the first inning and held
the lead throughout the game.,
First Inning Failure
The only time that the Doggies
came close to closing the gap
was in the first inning when they
pushed two runs across the plate
and had the bases loaded when
Deans popped up to catcher to rack
up the third out and retire the
side.
Two runs in the first, two more
in the third and one in the fourth
was the way D Co. scoring ran. B
Sqdn.’s only other run in the game
came in the fourth with Austin
working his way around the bases
for the tally.
Credit for the win went to Gon
zales and defeat was charged
against Pitzerd.
Dorm 16 bowed to Dorm 15 in
a civilian softball game yesterday
9-8. The game was a pitcher’s con
test with neither one quite at his
best.
Dorm 15 was first at bats and
chalked up two runs in the first
without a man getting a hit. Five
men in a row walked to force the
runs in. W. L. McReynolds, Dorm
16 pitcher, got credit for two
RWI’s (runs walked in).
Score Three Times
In the Dorm 16 portion of the
inning, three runs crossed the
plate. Dick Lenzen laid a bunt
down and Dolph Moten, 15 catcher,
threw a wild peg to first and al
lowed Lenzen to pull up safe. Bill
Gross came in from second on the
wild throw and again Moten threw
the ball away allowing Gross to
score. Dick Harris got credit for
an RBI when he hit a two bagger
and drove Lenzen on in. Another
RBI went to Jerry Chapman when
he drove Harris in with a single.
Dorm 15 scored five more runs
in the third with three hits and
three walks. Cody Milligan hit a
homer but didn’t knock anyone in
as he was lead off batter in the
third. Three walks in a row follow
ed by a two base hit by Lynn Hil
ler gave the 15 men three more
runs. A1 Sexton’s double knocked
Hiller on in home to give them
their final run for the inning.
Catcher Moten was tried again
in the third inning and again was
found wanting as he threw the
ball over second base’s head when
Lenzen tried to steal and while
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