Show OTHER OMER winter season no oth er hot stove league of sport has ever known as much discussion nor has seen as many headlines about gambling and bribery as the present winter almost every cure in the book has been suggested without covering much ground for example george preston marshall marhall s owner of the washington red skins suggests that all racing entries odds and selections should bo be transferred to the stock market page away from the sporting page and that no odds adds or selections should be carried on n foothill football baseball V or basketball games racing Is legal grantland rice iced betting marshall says but it Is a financial proposition entirely not a sporting proposition it does rit belong on a sporting page in my opinion OP inton no one connected with college sport professional football or baseball in a guiding capacity should ever be seen at a race track 1 I cant see much cure in this eacino has had no part in the scandals and bribery talk involving other sports cupid black former yale football star has a much sounder suggestion 1 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 the trouble comes when you start betting with boo book makers where a long ong array of even small bets bet can run into millions of dollars which in turn can be used in the wrong way I 1 happen to love college football every variety of football no bets with bookmakers Book makers id like to see everyone who loves football who believes it Is a great game refuse to make a bet with any bookmaker or any other professional gambler no one is going to stop the betting on football or any other 1 her game but we can wreck the gambling ambling g professionals if we leave the them m out T this is would eliminate the big bg sums th these he bookmakers book makers it handle there the re is baw always ays somebody to t bet b t with apart from the professional gamblers this Is a sound suggestion there will always be the cheaper sort of humanity who will still place their bets with the bookies but the list can be cut down the stumbling block Is human nature the selfishness of what a top philosopher has called the so called human race all ali through the fading winter a large part of the headlines on sporting pages have been conc concerned emed with stopping the gamblers it if most of those who feet feel they have to bet on games will only bet among themselves and leave the gamblers out there would w be no problems of bribery or crookedness this will be impossible to stop in racing slice since racing Is legalized gam bling or legalized leg albed betting be eting in 26 or more e states but football baseball to boxing 0 g and basketball still h have ave their thrills Is apart from any betting angle those who happen to like or love these games can solve the problem quickly along the lines suggested above majority are honest there are more than a few kinks in sport since it Is conducted by human beings but its general average in the way of honesty I 1 Is 9 still well above politics labor unions or what Is known as big business 1 I dont believe anyone will try to dispute this Us statement the point Is that the he public at large demands a far higher honesty average from sport than it demands from politics or business or labor unions the public expects its sports to be completely clean riot not nearly clean amateur bettors bettorf are not going to try to fl fix anything an thing only a few professional gamblers will but these few can wreck a sport it if not suppressed in one way or another the suppressing part as simple simpie as it sounds but at least a heavy curb can be developed after all the publicity that has covered the sporting pages any athlete from now on who report an attempted bribe Is either a completely dumb or a completely dishonest 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 tee directing heads of every sport will have to redouble any past efforts in the way of vigilance and guardianship guarda anshie baseballs major shifts the two major shifts of the year in baseball belong to the games strongest offensive player and the games best defensive player this means hank greenbergh Green bergs shift to the pirates and joe gordons move from the yankees to the cleveland indians even at the age of 38 36 many years away in the service greenberg was lusty enough at bat to lead ted williams in home it me runs rung and runs batted tn |