Show 0 R CE NO 0 OTHER winter season no ot otter ott oth er Hot Stove League of Sport has ever known as much discussion nor has seen as many headline about gambling and bribery as ns tt th the pre present ent winter Almost every cur cui curin cure curein in the book has been suggested with wit without without with with- out covering much ground For example George Preston Ma Mar Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall owner of the Washington Rc Redskins Red fled skins suggests that all ra racing entries t Fir odds and selections y should be transferred transferred trans trans- to the stock x r is market page away s from Crom the sporting page page and and that no odds or selections should be carried 4 on football baseball or basketball games Racing is legalized legal legal- Grantland betting Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall says but it Is a financial proposition n entirely not a sporting proposition It doesn't belong on a sporting page In my opinion none n nc no noone one connected with college sport I football or baseball i ia h ha in I Ia a guiding capacity should ever b be seen at a race track I cant can't see much cure In this I Racing has had no part in the scan scar I dais and bribery talk Involving other othe sports Cupid Black former Yale Yal football star has a much sounder suggestion suggestion- I can see no harm Black says in betting a hat or a reasonable amount with a friend on a football game Or a fight tight The trouble come comes when you start betting with book book- bookmakers bookmakers makers where a long array of ever even small bets can run Into millions o c of dollars which In turn can be usein use used in the wrong way I happen to love lov college football football every every variety c oo of football No Bets With kith Bookmakers Bookmaker Td Id like to see everyone who love loves football who believes it Is a grea Brea great game refuse to make a bet wits with any bookmaker or any other professional professional professional gambler No one Is going t tc to stop st p the betting on football or an any and other game But we can wreck th the the gambling professionals if we leave leav them out This would eliminate th the the big sums these bookmakers handle I There There is always somebody to be bet with apart from the professions professional gamblers This Is a sound suggestion There Ther will always be the cheaper sort o of humanity who will still place their bets with the bookies But the lis list can be cut down The stumbling block Is human buman nature nature na na- ture tune the selfishness of what a atop i a atop top philosopher has bas called the Uthe so so- so- so called human race All AU through the thc fading winter a large part of the thc headlines on sporting pages have hav been concerned with stopping th the gamblers If most of those who tee feel I Ithe they the have bave to bet on games will only bet among themselves and leave th the gamblers out there would be n no problems of bribery or crookedness This will be impossible to stop Ir in in racing since racing Is legalized gambling gambling gam gam- bling or legalized betting in 26 orare or 01 more are states But football baseball boxing and basketball still have their thrills apart from any betting an an- gle Those who happen to like or 01 orlove orlove love these games can solve the problem problem lem quickly along the lines suggested suggested suggest suggest ed above Majority 11 Are Honest There are more than a few kinks In sport since It Is conducted by human beings But Its general aver- aver averIge average age Ige In the way of honesty Is stillwell still stillwell stillwell well above politics labor unions or what I Is known as big business I r dont don't believe anyone will try to toN todis dispute dispute dis dis- this statement The Thc point is that the public at nt large demands a far Car higher honesty average from sport than it demands from politics or business or labor unions The public expects its sports to be completely clean not nearly clean Amateur bettors are not goIng going going go- go Ing to tl try to fix anything Only a afew afew few professional gamblers wilL But nut these few can wreck a sport if not suppressed in one on way or another The Thc suppressing part Isn't as simpie simple simple sim sim- pie as it sounds But nut at least a heavy curb can be developed After After After Aft Aft- er all the pubU publicity that has covered the sporting pages any athlete from now on who doesn't report an attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted bribe is either a completely dumb or a completely dishonest per per- son The terrific amount of money that has come Into sport was sure to set the chiselers and crooks to work Whatever happens the directing heads of every sport will have to redouble any past past efforts in the way of vigilance and guardianship j I Baseballs Baseball's Major or Shifts is I The two major shifts of the year In baseball belong to the games game's strongest offensive player r and the games game's best defensive player This I means Hank shift to the I Pirates and Joe Gordons Gordon's move from I II I the Yankees to the Cleveland Indi ans Even at at ai the age age- of 36 many years away in the s service Greenberg was lusty enough at bat to lead Ted WIL Wll Hams iams In home runs and runs nans batted II in n. n i |