Show New w Y Quintets Return sto to Garden By y Ted Meier NEW V YORK March larch 27 I W College basketball will continue to be played in inn Madison ladison Square Garden That was decided Monday londay when the presidents of Manhattan l New York University and St. St Johns John's University announced itIs itis it itis is our firm conviction that college college college col col- lege basketball can be played in the Garden without our stu stu- players dent succumbing to corruption corruption corruption cor cor- as disclosed in the recent scandal The college heads in a joint statement declared that the tine idea that Madison l Square Garden is totally responsible for the present present present pres pres- ent status of intercollegiate basketball in metropolitan NewYork NewYork New NewYork York and that the college gymnasium gymnasium gymnasium gym gym- is a panacea for this evil is a mythIn mythIn mythIn myth In spite of the college gymnasium gymnasium gymnasium gym gym- in m spite even of education education education tion permeated with ethical cultural cultural cultural cul cul- tural and religious principles it itis itis itis is still possible to have corruption corruption corruption tion if the individual does not exercise courageously the powers of his own personality After Meeting The statement was issued after a meeting of Very Rev John A. A Flynn C. C CM I. president of St. St Johns John's Brother Bonaventure Thomas president of Manhattan 1 and James L. L Madden Madden Mad Mad- den acting chancellor at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York University with Brig Gen John Reed Kilpatrick president of the Garden and Bernard Gimbel Gimbel Gimbel Gim- Gim bel who represented the Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den board of directors Harry Wright president of City College of New York C C N NY Y was unable to attend but assured the group that C C N Y would play in the Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- I den next year if the board of oC higher education approves Long Island University was not represented having dropped the sport last month in the wake of the fixed games disclosures Fourteen players from C C N Y N NY Y U Manhattan i and Long Island have been involved inI inthe in inthe the widening betting scandal I The presidents announced they and the Garden board of directors directors directors tors would constitute a joint committee whose function shall be to determine top level policy with regard to safeguarding our intercollegiate contests in the Garden in the future from a repetition of the unfortunate situation of recent weeks Joint Committee An operational subcommittee is to be set up composed of the athletic directors faculty athletic athletic ath ath- ath- ath letic board chairmen and a representative representative representative rep rep- of the Garden The function of this operational operational opera opera- group will be to determine determine determine deter mine ticket prices ticket allotments allotments allotments allot allot- ments team accommodations radio and television rights schedule schedule schedule sched sched- ule arrangements and other appropriate appropriate appropriate ap ap- ap- ap promotional details The Time college presidents in their statement recognized that the I popularity of the game has hasI I grown to the point where it has attracted the time attention of organized organized organized or or- gambling just as other intercollegiate athletics have However the full return of the game to our respective campus campus campus cam cam- pus gymnasia would not relieve this condition one bit bit- The disI disclosures disclosures dis dis- I closures on Saturday before the Kefauver Committee in Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington by a Milwaukee l gambler indicate that games played by colleges over Q the country that do play in their campus g gymnasia I are subject to betting as much muchas i i as are arc games played in the Gar Gar- den With Vilh regard to safeguarding our student-players student from contamination contamination contamination con con- by gamblers it is our intention to exercise the strictest vigilance over the future participation of our students in j basketball competition compe compe- |