More Muck

Less than 24 hours after three New York colleges (St. John's, Manhattan and N.Y.U.) announced that they would play basketball next season at the same old Madison Square Garden stand, the ugly story of the basketball scandals flared up again. Three more players, all from the City College of New York's 1950 "Cinderella Team," were arrested for fixing games last season. The three: Norman Mager, now a professional with the Baltimore Bullets; Herb Cohen, a C.C.N.Y. junior; and Irwin Dambrot, co-captain of the 1950 team.

The three players tried to throw three games last season. They succeeded twice for their gambler pals; the third time they failed, when Southern Methodist played so badly that City couldn't help winning. The fixers figured to pick up some more loot when C.C.N.Y. was entered in both the National Invitation and N.C.A.A. tournaments. But the three players finally balked, and C.C.N.Y. won both tournaments.

With the latest arrests, C.C.N.Y.'s whole first-string Cinderella team had been accused of throwing games for the gamblers. Summing up the investigations to date, the Manhattan press had taken to publishing a sardonic new kind of box score: total players under arrest (from C.C.N.Y., N.Y.U., L.I.U. and Manhattan): 16. Held as a material witness: 1. Total amount of bribes: $58,000. Number of Garden games fixed: 20.

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