Show FAIR OR FOUL t By Lawton Carver NEW V YORK March 1 29 INS INS INS- Basketball as she is played today really caught up with itself for keeps when latest arrests brought into the clutches of the law New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City Colleges College's entire national national na- na ional championship team of last year Three were arrested when the fixing scandal first broke then one more was added and the roundup was c com completed o m p pIe 1 c t e d late Tuesday with the arrest of three more making it seven from the theone theone theone one school and a total of 16 plus 16 plus a material witness witness all all told involved involved in in- in the mess City College as you may recall won von both the National Invitation and ind the N C A A tournaments last season to be dubbed the Cinderella Cinderella Cinderella Cinder Cinder- ella Kids They came from nowhere nowhere no- no where to win the big double The Tile C Cinderella Kids were underdogs in n both tournaments and barely got in at all Turned Square I Evidence in the situation seems to o indicate that they were very good all the time but after mon- mon keying around all season turned square for the big event and played their real game According to the D. D A. A some of the players were approached to do some skulduggery in the tournament games but they turned it down There is a moral here somewhere if you OU can find it it In any case some of our best people now are doing business with the D. D As A.'s office and the Kefauver committee Over-All Over Czar Perhaps the time has come when sports should get either an over-all over czar or such a sport as basketball should get one of its own As in ba baseball the commissioner com I missioner should be empowered t to start tart at the top to prevent mis mis- I deeds before they seep down into the ranks of the players Officials now Holy finally admit that there has been too much emphasis among colleges on the moneymaking money phases of athletics athletics ath ath- and if that be so the place for a commissioner to start would be right at the top The baseball commissioner for instance wields his stick against the club owners as much as any any- body Meting out lumps to the big shots of baseball kept Judge Landis in office because they tiley feared him and got Happy Chandler fired because he never did quite get the owners well in hand Little LiHle Different Boxing commissioners are a little different They usually level their ire at fighters if at anybody at all and quite obviously obviously ob prefer to let nature take its course Racing commissions do a fair to middling job in the administration administration administration adminis adminis- of racing but would be helpless without the aid of the Thoroughbred R Racing a c i n g headed by Spencer Drayton The racing interests finally found out that one over all protective protective protective pro pro- measure was needed and came up with the T R A. A Need Head Pro football has a commission commission- er The Big Ten and other intercollegiate intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- I collegiate conferences likewise have a ruling head of one sort sorl or another but these latter do donot donot donot not quite fill the bill in supervising supervising supervising super super- intercollegiate sports as a whole Allen of Kansas and several several several sev sev- eral other coaches have urged a a i commissioner for college basketball basketball basket basket- ball baIl and the trend of thinking basket I seems to be in that general direction di di- A commissioner should help even though now it does appear to be a little late for same |