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Twice before, the sham and shame of commercialized college athletics had been lambasted by Manhattan General Sessions Judge Saul Streit. Last week the judge was indignant once again. Before the court were three basketball players of Kentucky University's "fabulous five," young men who had proudly worn the U.S. Olympic emblem in the 1948 games. The three had pleaded guilty to "fixing" a game for gamblers...
...CLARENCE STREIT Washington...
Feinberg will be sentenced by Judge Saul Streit, who recently issued a bitter denunciation of the present condition of sports...
President Owen not only accompanied the team on almost every trip, said angry Judge Streit, but also allowed the local Boosters Club to subsidize players. One of the players, William Mann, said that he had received at least $300 from the club; another, All-American Eugene Melchiorre, told how club representatives would pass out $10 to $15 to players whenever the team went on a trip. The club recruited players, paid their tuitions, and lent them money. To all this Owen acquiesced, thus giving "official university sanction to [the players'] moral debasement...
Owen's whole attitude, according to Judge Streit, seemed to be that basketball was more important" than anything else. Once, he even advised a player not to honor an out-of-state subpoena to appear as a witness at a murder trial, because of a conflicting basketball schedule. Said Streit: "The inference here is clear that the president of the university impressed the athlete that it was more important to play basketball that day than to serve the administration of justice in a murder case. Such an impact on the athlete's moral fiber may prove irreparable...