C.C. Reader
INTRAMURAL BOWLING
High Series
Tom Belk--586
Joe Bosik--573
Bruce Rambacher--565
High Game
Guys: Joe Bosik--215
Gals: Corrine Blouin--178
High Average
Guys: Bruce Rambacher--172
Gals: Colleen Pfleuger--147
In the Swing
By Yvonne Harhigh
A few years ago, tennis was the -
trend in recreational sports. Now,•yet
another racquet sport is in full swing--
racquetball
The equipment can be inexpensive,
with some racquets as low as eight or ten
dollars and balls around three. Another
good investment is protective eyewear
at around seven dollars.
While the equipment is inexpensive,
the problem most people have is finding
a place to play. Unfortunately, racquet
club memberships are inexpensive and
often, court time is hard to get.
Capitol Campus students are lucky to
have four courts open to them in the
Multi-Purpose Building. The courts are
available from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on
weekdays and 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on
weekends. Courts can be reserved by
calling 948-6266 or stopping at the
Athletic Office. Penn State ID must be
presented.
Solution
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INTRAMURAL SOFTBALL
The No Names are off to another
great season. After winning their divi
slob last year, they are off to a fast start
again. The first game was a 17-9 victory
over Mootsies. The 12-run first inning
was highlighted by two Jerry Joseph's
home runs.
The second game was a close one. It
lasted three innings, and the final was
44-10. Everyone in the lineup had two
hits and scored at least two runs.
The next game was won by forfeit.
The Quaaludes must have heard about
the previous game and decided not to
show. We're on our way.
WATCH OUT NIGHTRIDERS!!!
SPORTS TRIVIA
Before Beaver Stadium was built in
1960, the Nittany Lions played their
home games at Beaver Field from
1909-1959. Prior to this, where were the
home games played at University Park?
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TRIVIA ANSWER
The Lawn in front of Old Main
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA ANSWER
Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox,
who was retired on a foul pop to Yankee
third baseman Graig Nettles. The pitch
was thrown by ex-Pirate Goose Gossage.
Thursday, May 14, 1981
Campo Digest News .Service
In 1951, the world of college basketball was
blown apart by the revelation that 31 players
from 7 schools had been involved in point
shaving. Promising careers ended abrubtly
and the lives of some of the most famous
young athletes in the nation were tainted
forever.
The stigma of that scandal had not faded
completely a decade later when another bomb
shell exploded. The 1961 disclosures tied 37
players from 22 schools to , charges of fixing
games for gamblers.
Now, after the passage of 20 more years,
college basketball is on the precipice of
another nightmare plunge. So far, the
disclosures have been linked to just rhee
Boston College players, but it would be naive
to think that the matter begins and ends there.
The gamblers didn't chuck their profitable
pursuit and dedicate themselves to medicine
and social work after the 1951 disclosures.
They didn't go away after the 1%1 expose,
either. No, when things get hot, the gamblers
merely run for cover and surface as soon as
they're sure the coast is clear. It's highly
unlikely they reamined in hiding for 10 and 20
years at a time.
Which leads one to the conclusion that the
Boston College situation might be only the tip
of a very ugly iceberg.
A primary figure in the '6l scandal was
Jack Molinas, a former player at Columbia
University and Fort Wayne in the National
Basketball Association, who was found guilty
of bribing players to fix games from 1957
through 1960. Molinas was shot to death at
his Los Angeles home in 1975 after serving a
prison term.
The Boston College accusations came to
light as the result of an FBI probe in a $5.8
million Lugthansas robbery at New York's
Kennedy Airport, a crime which has left a trail
of dead bodies.
The people involved in fixing games ob
vious! aren't happy-go-lucky, Saturday night
gamblers. There is every indication that
organized crime pulls the strings and flunkies
end up taking the fall when, occassionally, a
fix is discovered.
The informer in the Lufthansas case is one
Henry Hill, who admits to being a part to the
Boston College case. In fact, in the Feb. 16
issue of "Sports Illustrated," Hill tells "How
I Put the Fix In."
Hill's eight-page copyrighted cover story
describes how he and his associates rigged nine
Boston College games in 1978-79.
Campus Digest News Service
The NCAA football-television committee is
planning on allowing two television networks
to transmit NCAA games starting in the fall of
1982.
That is when ABC-TV's present exclusive
four year contract expires.
Middletown tones 944-9991
WEDNESDAY- Campus League Nite
Ball drilling services, Bags,
Shoes and Accessories
Colleges in fix over athletics
NCAA plans to
expand tv coverage
A tragedy of the point shaving fiascoes is
the fact that youngsters who didn't fully grasp
what they were getting into are left holding the
bag. The gambling kingpins, well shielded by
underlings, remain free to destroy more lives.
Why so much sympathy for the kids? Just
this -- today's collegiate recruiting wars condi
tion youngsters to sell themselves to the
highest bidders. After being treated like pieces
of beef in a meet market, the kids are primed
for the gamblers.
Just for a second, put yourself in the posi
tion of a ghetto youngster with great basket
ball talent. Even before you're out of high
school, you are besieged by strangers inviting
you to visit campuses you might never have
heard of.
There are promises of money, cars, women
-- everything under the table, of course -- if
you agree to attend Alcatraz A and M. You're
18 years old and already you're a mercenar,
hired to play basketall, to keep the local arena
packed with fans.
Is it really such a big step from that position
to one in which you agree to shave points?
Remeber you're not being asked to cause your
team to lose, just hold down the score.
Louisville Coach Denny Crum, who played
for Joh Wood at UCLA, understands how
young basketball players are seduced by
gamblers: "A man gets inside a kid's trust
and that's all it takes. The temptation is there
and certainly the money is there."
Crum knows where the fixers are coming
from, too. "A gambler is looking for an
edge," said Crum. "If he can control the
game, he maeks a fortune ... the Las Vegas
casinos make an awful lot of money with less
of an edge than a guy who fixes a basketball
game.
The dilemma is in finding a means to pre
vent the fixers from succeeding. Should
schools counsel the kids about the dangers of
getting involved with gamblers or should they
keep the youngsters in a cage of sorts, in
sulated from the temptations?
"People don't learn to deal with crises
situations if they have been sheltered," said
Crum. "It's like telling a kid not to go out and
play in the street. You can keep him in the
house all the time and he won't play in the
street, but he won't know why he's not supos
ed to. Or, you can show him why he shouldn't
play in the street, explain to him the dangers
and he will then understand what the problem
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Another way would be for colleges to recruit
honestly instead of planting the seed that
cheating's all right, as long as you get away
with it.
Under the proposal, the number of games
being televised each football season would in
crease from 116 to 140.
The NCAA is also thinking about allowing
cable and pay-tv networks to broadcast live
games during prime -time.
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