WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN THE MICHIGAN DAILY P AGE SE.- T "W ON THE SPOT By GEORGE FLINT Daily Sports Editor Uncover New culle"e Cage Scandal IT'S A LONG distance, memory-wise, from these sultry July days to the icy confines of a Columbus football field. But in another month the Michigan Wolverines, in reality the champions of the West for 1951, will be once more cavorting about Ferry Field, footballs will be filling the air in all parts of the nation, and autumn madness once more will cloud the brains of small boys and alumni. * * * * FOR SOME PEOPLE, mostly coaches, football already is a time1w' proposition. Among those people are the commissioners of ten of the country's major conferences, who met last week in Colorado Springs and talked about cabbages and kings. The major subject of discussion was the advisability or no of the two-platoon system and spring training. The first part of the argumentative chestnut is of particular in- terest to Maize and Blue fans, since the system more or less evolved under the aegis of Michigan athletic director H. O. (Fritz) Crisler. Crisler's wonder team, the 1947 aggregation, used the system to perfection, with a defensive unit which combined weight and ag- gressiveness an offensive unit noted for precision timing and crisp blocking. * * * * BNOW THE COMMISSIONERS are wondering if this sort of thing is good for football. The argument most often posed against pla- toons is that a 'poor' or small college simply doesn't have the talent to spread around on various crews of specializers. The president of the American Football Coaches Association, Lloyd Jordan of Harvard, expressed dissatisfaction with the system at the meeting. He well might. Harvard, with an uncommon dearth of talent over the past few years, has been out in the cold against the other Ixy League powers, who seem to turn out muscle-men like Fords. * * * * TWO PLATOON or not to platoon? That is the slightly thorny problem, and we doubt if anything can be done about it unless the rulemakers once more change the substitution rule, which would make the game less plastic and probably work harm in the end. * * * * THE LOW PLANE to which American boxing has descended is amply illustrated by Cinderella story number 2866-the case of the an- cient gladiator. Although an occasional tear may be shed for Jersey Joe Walcott's six children, and although he personally may be the nicest guy in the world, nevertheless he is not a fighter worthy of the name of cham- pion. His jigging, feinting style is all right to amuse the kiddies, but against any of the better champs of the past twenty years-particular- ly against a young and strong Joe Louis-he would be made to look as amateurish, for all his years of ring experience. Walcott can punch-sometimes. But so can any fighter if he is given the opportunity Ezzard Charles presented the Camden warrior. Walcott's vaunted left hook gained about half its power from the bull-like leap which Charles utilized to present his chin before the swinging fist of Jersey Joe. Walcott may keep his crown against Charles in September. The tendency on decisions is to favor the champion. But even a sagging Joe Louis will take the new Cinderella if and when they meet for the third time. MICHIGAN ATHLETES will be in action not far afield this week as the National AAU outdoor swimming championships are held at the Brennan Pools in Detroit. Bumpy Jones, Don Hill, Bob Brenner, and several others of the Wolverine clan will be competing under the watchful eye of the veteran Matt Mann, coach of Michigan swimming teams for 26 years. Jones, fhe former Redford High School star, is calculated to make quite a splash. He has been on the AAU All-American team for the past two years in the distance races, and also strokes well in the med- ley and middle distance events.1 Melchiorre, Three Other Bradley Players Confess Admit Fixing Games in New York's Garden- 5th College Team Implicated in Disclosure ACTION HOT, HEAVY: I-M Tournaments Reach Semi-fina PEORIA, Ill.-WP)-The greatest' college sports scandal in history spread from the East to this mid- west basketball capital yesterday, snaring Bradley University's All- America ager Gene Melchiorre and three of his teammates. The popular Melchiorre a n 21 three other stars of the 1949-50 Bradley cage powerhouse confessed taking bribes totaling $5,500 from gamblers to hold down scores of two games. FOUR OTHER Bradley players, whose names were not made pub- lic, being questioned. Michael A. S h o r e, Peoria County state's attorney, made the shocking disclosure yester- day. He said players who had made oral statements to bribe-taking, in addition to Melchiorre, 23, the fiery "squeaky" of the hardcourts, were: Bill Mann, 24, of Chicago, cap- tain of last season's team and its greatest shotmaker. Charles "Bud" Grover, 22, Dundee, Ill., another regular. Aaron Preece, 24, Canton, Ill., w i t h Melchiorre the team's "spirit guy" and its free throw artist. With the revelation, nationally- famous Bradley, always a top con- Coach Shocked PEORIA, Ill. - (W) - "All I can say is I'm truly sorry from the bottom of my heart," said Coach Forrest Anderson. "From what I can learn hurriedly there have been some rumors this past' year about a 'point spread' and not throwing of games. My players took it laughingly and went on to play and win. Then I learned after one of the games that the players had received some money, seemingly not knowing from where it came." back to the campus" and indicated meets like its own would help save basketball from further gambling scandals. Melchiorre and the three oth- ers seized were released "under technical custody" pending ac- tion of the Peoria grand jury. State's Attorney Shore said he was more interested in prosecut-. ing the fixers than the players. All four were graduated from Bradley in June and have since entered business ventures in Pe- oria. THESE FOUR were the nucleus of the team that won 28 and lost four games last season. The investigations started five days ago with the arrival in Chi- cago of Vincent O'Connor, New York assistant district attorney who aided in exposing the bas- ketball fixing there last season. Since some bribe money was said to have been passed in Chicago, Cook County State's Attorney John S. Boyle assigned Lt. James Oak- ley and Jack Doyle of the Chicago Police Department to go to Peoria and participate in the investiga- tions. Boyle was interested in de- termining if games played in Chi- cago, especially at the Chicago Stadium - scene of many "big time" college cage encounters - were involved in the fixes. LT. OAKLEY said yesterday that the payoffs to the Peoria players were made in New York, Philadelphia and Peoria. He said no gambling linkup with games in Chicago had been established yet. District Attorney Frank Hogan of New York, who announced the latest scandal simultaneously with officials in Peoria, said he was not satisfied all the players and schools involved had been uncovered. He said thatthe gamblers who made the payoff to the Peoria quartet were the same ones involved in the New York fixes last winter. Hogan subsequently announced that his men had picked up Eng lisis for questioning in the Brad- ley affair. Lt. Oakley said Preece, one of the questioned players, told inves- tigaotrs that various players dealt with various gamblers. Preece, he said, told of being approached by Klukof sky and said he had learned before one game that his team- mates had arranged with some other gamblers to limit their score. * . * PREECE SAID he told Klukof- sky of this arrangement and, after the game turned out as predicted, he was paid $300. He did not say which game he referred to. Oakley said Melchiorre, a war veteran whose popularity was un- surpassed in Peoria sports history, admitted receiving $4,000 for the fix of the Bradley-Oregon game and distributing it among members of the team. Lt. Oakley s a i d Melchiorre, Mann and Grover each had ad- mitted receiving $500 for controll- ing the score in Bradley's game against Washington State. By PANDRO S. BERMAN Intramural action was hot and heavy on all fronts as league action softball playoffs began and the all- campus golf tournament rounded the clubhouse turn during the past few days. The softball leagues began play- offs in the championship and con- solation brackets (for results, see page six), while one finalist en- gaged in the championship flight of the golf tourney. * * * BOB CATON, victor over Bill Crispin by default, will meet either f t f ar ri M brf se m wi So th inals this summer, as is Don Wiate. Other semi-finalists in he tournament should emerge rom this week's action. In handball, the semi-finalists e Sid Harmon and Hal Fitzpat- ck (upper bracket), and Bruce ays and Marvin Hole (lower acket). FITZPATRICK also gained the mis in badminton, where he eets Clark Balch. Frank Loh ill play the winner of the Frank cott - Tom McElmurry match for ze other semi-final match in the. attledore and shuttlecock derby. In horseshoes, Calvin Fleser eached the final bracket and will meet either Pete Kinyon or Bob Revis for the championship. Semi-finalists in paddleball are arry Driggers and John Brittl in Le upper bracket, Lowell Emerling nd Bruce Mays in the lower. FINAL ACTION in the faculty week and next week, with several golf tournament is slated for this second round matches yet to be played. One match in that tournament is of particular interest. It brings together Cliff Keen, the wrestling coach and a man who's been around the campus for a long time, and Bill Murphy. the likable young tennis coach. The pair are meeting on neutral ground in the battle of coaches, but the outcome should prove which of the two sports gives the long-time practicer a better foun- dation for other athletic activity. JJo Lnever or r± ioep riin in me ba final match of the summer session 9golf tournament. Hevel, with a qualifying round score of 76, ranks r as favorite in the tourney. Other leagues were also active, TAKES CUB REINS-Phil Cav- as Sigma Chi trounced Sigma aretta, who has been playing Phi, 35-20, to take undisputed Be ball or coaching in the Windy possession of first place in the th City for many years, took over basketball race. The Sigma Chis ar as the Chicago Cub manager now have a record of six wins from Frank Frisch last week. and no losses for the season, while Sigma Phi has five wins and the lone defeat. Gauchos W on't Other season's records in the league: Hardrocks, 4 and 1; UP- er's, 3 and 3; Fletcher Hall, 2 and Defend in Polo 2; Air Force, 2 and 3; Phi Sigma Kappa, 0 and 6; Unknowns, 0 and 6. BUENOS AIRES - (AP)-Argen- FOR SIGMA C1I, Paul Fancher tina, holder of the Americas Cup was the individual star in yester- because of its Western Hemisphere day's decisive contest with the polo supremacy, cabled the U. S. challenging Sigma Phi five. Fan- polo association it would be un- cher scored almost half his team's able to defend the trophy this year. points (he collected 16 in all) to Enrique Alberdi, President of the 'lead the State Street aggregation Argentine Polo Association, gave to victory. no reason for the decision in mak- In tennis, Marty Decker, a fi- ing the announcement. nalist last year, is in the semi- Read and Use Daily Classifieds IL I k A02 BAR'GAIII DAYS SPECIAL WEDNESDAY THURSDAY SPORTS TRAIL: Murphy Rates Title Shot Despite Matthews Loss By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK-t')-Maybe Harry Matthews made a slig~t error in allowing himself to whip Irish Bob Murphy. If he hadn't been so careless he might be fighting for the light heavyweight championship next month, instead of Murphy. That seems to be the way it works. The boys seem to back right into championship bouts. The question isn't so much of whom did you beat, but who beat you. JERSEY JOE Walcott, our new heavyweight champion, presented a fine list of credentials when he was considered for a bout with Ezzard Charles. Hadn't Jersey Joe lost twice to Joe Louis, twice to Charles, and once to a game but blundering fellow named R e x Layne? With such impressive referen- ces how could old Jersey Joe be refused another chance to win the rating of the best fist fighter in the world? Murphy, with the recent blotch on his record put there by Mat- thews, naturally doesn't have the qualifications of a Walcott in be- ing rated the man most likely to succeed Joey Maxim as light heavy champion, but that one defeat was so impressive it probably was the equivalent of four or five lesser defeats. * * * SERIOUSLY, SOMETHING is wrong with the fight game when Murphy, on the strength of a vic- tory, over Joe Rindone, a slightly enlarged middle - weight whom Irish Bob outweighed some 11 pounds, is considered the man en- titled to a shot at the title ahead of the man who whipped him con- vincingly. Murphy is a nice kid, if you can call a 29-year-old man a kid. But with all due credit -to him and his abilities, you just can't forget that Matthews fight. MURPHY'S impressive list of knockouts was climaxed by his kayo of Jake LaMotta. It is the general idea now that he didn't beat much when he beat LaMotta. But LaMotta still had a name. The title fight was his, contingent of his defeating the 164-pound Rindone to whom Irish Bob had lost on a foul. There was no stipulation that he should meet Matthews again and erase that blot on his record. Anyway, we have an idea that Murphy will be the next light- heivyweight champion, as Maxim seems about due to be taken by the first fairly good man in his class who comes along. Jack Hurley, Matthews' master mind, will probably go into a hud- dle with his Seattle protege to try to discover what can be done about the situation. l 1 r i tender for basketball honors in the U. S., was dragged into the scandal centering around games in New York-area players from four col- leges and five gamblers. * * * THE CITY COLLEGE of New York team, one of those riddled by the New York disclosures, and Bradley were finalists in the NCAA and National Invitational Tournaments ending the 1949-50 season. Bradley lost both times. The three other New York col- leges involved were New York University, Long Island Univer- sity, and Manhattan College. So far thirteen of the New York players have pleaded guilty to charges of accepting bribes from gamblers, notably Salvatore Solaz- zo, 46, a jeweler named as kingpin of the fix schemes. Sollazo has pleaded guilty to bribery and con- spiracy charges. THE FOUR Bradley stars said gamblers who paid them off for manipulating point totals of two Bradley games in Peoria were Nick "the Greek" Englisis and Eli Kluk- ofsky, alias "Kaye." The games w e r e between Bradley and Oregon State, Dec. 5, 1950, which Bradley won 77- 74, and the Bradley-Washington State game Dec. 21, 1949, which Bradley won 67-59. 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