July 3, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Craig being there's nothing like a college education. The hallowed
halls of IVY is the perfect cure for moss on
the brain. I had my own whisnight for shopping the
case or two of go particulating in an institution of
higher learning known across the land as blank Hurst. Q.
(00:24):
I've been summoned to the Dean's offer my looking chat
with syglasses that sat on the middle of his nose.
His name was Palmer, Jean Percival Palmer. My decision to
employ you is personal. As you may know, we UH
have a rather celebrated basketball team, and up said, I
(00:45):
can fill in the rest rated bat fotball team grown
too big for the old college gym. John big time
big arenas big gigs, big do big bets, players of bribes,
games of up et cetera, and so forth. I've considered
outlining basketball at Blankhurst. You what are the facts? There
(01:08):
are no sacks as such, only whispering the grave. Rumors
are seizing undercurrents in the school and in the public press.
Well spell out one specific rumor, then he will. It
is hinted that the contest that last week was Will
six who played against blank Hirt. You last week, Cton
(01:32):
College Staton College was the obviously inferior team, well obvious
by what measurements my record for the season. It had
won but two contests and lost fourteen pretty people, all right,
while Blankhurst you came into the contest with sixteen victories
(01:52):
and three defeats, making Blankert you the odds on favorite.
But blank Kirk you lost. Huh is well? How close
was it? Scored forty nine to forty three. There was
a sharp newspaper attack as to the contest. A sports
columnist and named Sovie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Say There writes a column called The.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Lowdown on Sports. He was almost a libeler team. What
he wrote, well, who is the captain of the team,
Chris Andsen, And who is the coach? Sandy big Low
to the Romas touch, coach Bigelow very much, perfect coach,
rarely true. It's usually one player that lasts up a team,
(02:36):
one susceptible stucker that gamblers can get to. However, once
the next game to Modern Night, Blanche has you play
Van Berston Cottage. Well, who's favorite to win? Van Burston
Contage has yet to win one major contest this season,
meaning if Van Berson wins tomorrow, there's really something rotten
(02:59):
in Blanker. The next ninth guy was a spectator along
with twenty thousand other basketball fans. The game was played
in the million dollar Baits Coliseum. Everybody invited, regardless of
pettyg nobody, Boss, just pay the admission, Tad, look over
(03:23):
your shoulder and see half the graduating classes. Singsing nineteen
thirty five to fifty five. College basketball was sure rubbing
elbows with riprass flank hurts a figure to be a
walkaway winner on its record, Only it wasn't. It was
trailing in the last quarter sixty seven through Van Bersen
(03:44):
seventy four, trailing with only minutes left on the big clock,
and then the final whistle blew. The catcalls and bulls
to be heard in Siam. Its flank hurted luck legitimately nobody,
but nobody believed it. I caught. The captain became Chris
(04:12):
Branch from under the showers, a gangling youngster who stood
six feet thick time red hair and a crew cut
and freckles like somebody had spotted his face with a russ.
The meadowy as him a towel. Huh sure, sure, hey, K,
you had to help with me. Huh, why do you
(04:33):
say that you're the secret agent? James Palmer wished down it. Well,
I see my fame and preceded me. Or whenever you're ready, Chris,
I've got some questions. I was just going to take long.
I've got a date, new chick. I can lose it.
It's one the other guys watch coom make it free,
and I'm holding you today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Come on, we can shit in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Captain Branson wasn't too candidate with us, so we lost
a few games. Why all the hallabalo blank Kerris lost
two in a row to push over his teams and
Ragged Edge beat Don tired. I saw tonight's game. I
made some mental reservations about it. You gonna set yourself
up as a basketball experts. I know the game, Chris.
I was a player, the youngster, the fan ever since
(05:21):
all right man to might go ahead? Where did you
find suspeches about tonight's game? For one thing, the money
riding on it? How would you know faces in the crowd?
Tony Chaplan, big Eastern bookmaker. Since Bardon, the notorious sixer
prize fights and horse racing, Bardon's been convicted for both
and then Johnny Minton when I admire Richie Stilke bos
(05:45):
of the Bulls, or you had a prize gallery of
fans in the coliseum tonight and was at the team's
faulton all right. I won't hold the gambling picture as
I read it against the team, But answer me this,
why did you replace yourself in the last quarter? Find
ankle had become the limit? Ankle looks fine to me now.
(06:07):
It wasn't fan second stream player stubbing for you meant
money in the bank of the gambler. Chris, you're a
blank Hurst anchor man and it's pop Scora. Are you
accusing me of deliberately? I wouldn't accuse any boy of anything,
not until I have positive proof, absolute evidence. You've got
a big future ahead, and I'd hate to see it
(06:27):
wrecked by stigma or any window. I'm a cop, but
I worry about that. Thank you. There's some kind words, Okay,
go keep that hot day. Busy. Coach Sandy Biglow was
(06:48):
even less cooperative, let alone friendly, than his team captain.
I don't take kindly the private snoops annoying my players. Well,
don't complain to me Sean Palmer exputed these powers in
hiring you. I'm going before the board of trustees. Meanwhile,
let's draw. I deny every rumor. I've got a bunch
of fine kids, trader that die, every mother son of them.
(07:11):
I picked up this morning's paper away over them. A
columnist named Sophie Slater gets off a few remarks. Sophie Slater,
why the man's an irresponsible muck rake? They low down
on sports. Let me read you a few lines. Last
night's only brank Hurst, the Van versus One. I was
a betting combine wonder who coached bigelo'relio' bride in surprise
(07:33):
benching of star forward with Navsky. It's tyranny by any windows.
But I'm thick skin Craig. In twenty years of coaching,
I've developed a rhinotras hide. I'd say, no attention to columnists.
Oh why did you bench with Knovsky? He's a show off.
He's in the race for highest scoring honors in the
(07:53):
nice basketball and all he thought about was dwelling his total.
Oh so he was playing to his Berlin The stands
he'd thrown in from the Duke to see your hero
and action. You understand my benching him. Now, Yes, I do.
I want to ask you some blunt questions. Coach Vily,
you suspect any of your players are dumpings? Not still one.
(08:18):
So far as you know, has any player or players
suddenly taken out of processs look like as free spending clothes,
girls and vertibles? There has been absolutely nothing like that.
I don't have any other blunt questions. Yeah, hard one
to ask. You probably take a punch at me. Yeah,
(08:38):
I know the question. You and tam last team. Am
I crooked? Am I dumping games by cleverly mishandling my team?
Am I getting a payoff? Somewhere? I've heard it whispered?
Oh why you would hear at whispered? Wherever basketball is
played these days? Because one or two crooked teams have
been exposed the rest I must bear the brunt. We
(08:59):
have to pay for our union, then for the records
you denounced, the rumors around about you. You're attempting me
to throw that punch. Sunday in a college town, as
a day of cemetery, choiet I checked into the nearest
(09:21):
recreation lounge to joint with the annex to a hotel.
A Hotel Olympia I had a key to Room two
twenty two. The bartender. If drink freeze, you decide what
I want to be surprised. I was halfway through a
drink advertised as Campus Conniption ninety nine cents when a
gent came close enough to freeze on me. He looked
(09:44):
more of a stranger in town than me, beefyjowls, a
stickpin with a diamond size of a walnut, and yellow shoes.
His kisser was not unfamiliar. Hello, Craig. Place of face. Yes, yes,
I didn't know that circus was in town. The New
York joke's out of place here, so we're used smiling.
(10:05):
Now I gotta si to live in here in town
and visit him. Why, and we'll sit down. I'll tell
you why. Okay, I'm kingling with expectancy. Now you'll be
tingling all right when you see what I got for
you here for your old age. Well, what's inside the
brown rapid? A grand in twenties for me for you
(10:26):
for what? For nothing? And I got something else for you?
Let's see it. Yeah, here in my bas pocket for you, Craig,
my compliments, A railroad ticket, one way clear, the Times
Square we'll look at you with the buy. I knew
you were homesick. You're training an hour. Give my regards
(10:47):
to Broadway. Very sorry my life. You're gonna be foolish.
I am, The boys and me are making a buck.
What's it to you? Nothing at the job of the authority.
I'm here, I crack down on fixing and fix it,
stop the corruption of the basketball squad. And you're him
for nothing, quig, There's nothing to it, no fix, no
(11:08):
bribing players. You expect me to believe that This sounds
corny to say. I know, but we haven't been able
to reach a player. We try, but no dice. And
why I try so hard to ship me home? We're
running lucky. We don't want to jink O. The boys
lean up a pool one grand, get rid of you.
You don't want no evil. If you don't grab the
(11:30):
g you're a set. Put it back in your pocket. Smiling.
Morning begins early and it towns. I've been in bed
seven hours, eyes wide open. Hotel rooms have that effect
on me. I mean, flowered wallpaper has stay. Who you are?
(11:55):
Help Slater of the Herald Gazette, Good morning. It will
be in two hours nine at seven o'clock. Oh do
I hate cheerful early rites. Mister Craig. Should I see you?
Why something partner to your work on behalf of beans Palmer?
Oh in an hour, I say, well, since I'm now
doomed to stay awake at your hotel, and I'll join
(12:16):
you with the breakfast tation. Good love, Sophie Slater really
did have vital confidential information. Coffee is good now at
least three games were dumped by blank Hurst. You we'll
give me current grete troops. I got another kind of
(12:39):
proofer guess works real good. Slater ropy callous about the
reputations and foutures of a lot of young men. Oh,
I respect your sensitivity there. I hate to see any
young man stigmatize. But suppose my criminal information doesn't concern
any of the young men. Some of the players, No player,
just the coach Bigelow, Sandy Biglow. Yes, Now, if you listen, dude,
(13:04):
I'm a newspaper man. I have sources of information. I'll
get down the way. What information did you receive about
Sandy Bigeloan that he was seen consorted with gamblers in
an out of the way roadhouse called a blue Lantern
run by Gotti Daniels. I'll drive out and talk to Gotty.
Why don't you You'll find a very frank and cooperative
What else against Sandy Bigelow? I have information that Biglow
(13:26):
made a substantial cash deposit in his bank account the
Craig Moore Savings Bank. That's a bank in another county.
Mind you a fact significant in itself. Who could trip
you to the status of Bigelow's bank account. I am
going to be evasive about that. Craig somebody connected with
the bank, uh, an official or a teller. I'm not
(13:46):
answering that. Why are you giving me these tykes against
Sandy Bigelow to expedite your investigation, to hurry Bigelow in
the jail to accomplish that? Yes? Why I use the
strikes yourself for an exposition here? You're a newspaperman. I
tried to my paper refused to use it. I'll write
the story from the police plotter when you file arrest
(14:07):
charges against Biglow in the Craigmore Savings Franks seventy miles
trucks County line. I persuaded the bank manager to give
me a detailed memorandum on Bigelow's savings account. Persuading me
bank manager meant unraveling a lot of red taste, satisfying
(14:29):
bank policy and protocol. But I got what I was after.
My next stop was the Blue Lanterns. The owner, Gussie Daniels,
was the Amazon type who could lick her waiting men,
and probably did. From the looks of her patrons, her
answers were frank and cooperative.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
He was in here, all right, That Bigelow over in
that corner there, trying not to look conspicuous.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Bigelow was in here, frequenting with camera.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Nos to news, welcome to them over beer and prestels.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Can you identify a particular gamblers you saw Bigelow.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
With all at New York crowd had a state comp
name a few for me. One named Johnny Minton, m
mean looker, another named Richie.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Silk crazy thought my cheese makes some potato chips.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That one and a third with a funny name sounds
like Boungo or or something.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Pose of the bull Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
This had a bad stomach, never ate or drank anything
in here.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Pose of the Bulls served time last year fixing a
Midwest basketball game.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well he's right here up to his fixing picks, and
Bigelow's in with them.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
However, would you say Bigelow was in here?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, o's twice that I see them, and they're nice.
When I'm not here, that's Wednesday and Friday, when I'm
babysitting from a married daughter. Ay to May, that's my daughter.
I'm my grandmother.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh great, buy a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I see sure you can buttermilk.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Before making your cause for the labor the closet. I
had a truck with circumstances could be damning on their face.
It's urn true. I've been a cop too long. Let
you know that Bigelo tried explaining his meetings with known gamblers.
I have nothing to be ashamed of. I thought those
certain gentry out in order to warn them or them
(16:29):
of what to keep away from my boys. You see,
there's been anonymous phone calls. Who was Naski and Chris
Ransom open hints of offered bribes, and both with Naski
and Ransom reported the incidents to me. I told him
to say nothing. So you met with the gambler discreetly
to tell them all I had threatened them with police
action if he ever bothered my boys again. Well, you
(16:52):
believe me, Craig frank here, I'm not sure I do.
Why do you bank seventy miles away? And craiglin will habit.
I used to coach crag Moore College back in nineteen
fifty five years ago. I never canceled or transferred my
bank account, that's all. What's your balance there in a
my balance o'ka about twelve hundred dollars. I'd say, why
(17:15):
that's your bank book handy w No, it's fact I
don't have it at all. It's been missing for months,
miss laid or launch her. Hey suppose I told you
that your balance is more like a Wait, I have
a bank memorandum on it with this, Yeah, I have
a lot. You're up to six thousand dollars. Take a
(17:36):
lot of six bucks? Well, that's impossible. That's deposit made
periodically since the start of the basketball season. Why watch
your answer, Craig. Somebody's out to incriminate me, mirror me
a frame up. I haven't made a deposit might crag
more account in almost a year. You're not really asking
me to believe a trick was worked on anywhere. Say
(17:58):
your bank book was sole one. So the sneak deposits
could be made swelling your stavings accounts and a that
flip you showed me as actually sold. Yes, I am
asking you to believe exactly that. How's your assassination through
(18:20):
framely I poached poone a judgment on Coach Bigelow for
the time being, the priest old events justified my discretion.
Man the team captain Chris Rampson had again been contacted
by the gambling mob, and this time Bigelow brought his
boy to me. My name's Smiley. He smoked me in
Leary's drug store. How much does he offer you? Five
(18:42):
thousand dollars to be divided between myself and one other
player I could recruit, he suggested. I talked to with NASKI.
Which game does the mob wants? Dumped? The last one
on our schedule against Barnaby tech Oh Bigelow, Yes, Craig,
how does blank hurt you compare with Barnaby Techy. We've
(19:02):
beaten them for years running by margins of twenty points
tomorrow meaning blank Hurst. You should enter the game and
our John favorite I should say so. Yes, the mob
wants to bet Barnaby Tech heavy and make a final killing. Okay,
we'll accept the bribe. Accept Now you wait a minute,
(19:23):
mister Craig, to teach the mob a bitter lesson where
it hurts most in the pocket book. You will accept
the bribe. Ransom promised to jump the game along with
with Knapski and then play your full heads Tim Barnaby.
Tech from here that Tim bucktoo. The game against Barnaby
(19:48):
was played as schedule. Knotski and Chris Ransom played the
best ball of that or any other year. They scored
almost at will.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
At the final whistle, the score.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Was seventy six to thirty eight, favoring blank Hurst. I've
never seen a more shattered bunch than that gambling click.
They looked as if the specter of the bread Lion
haunted them. The blank Hirst team got a rising ovation
(20:28):
and in the officers of the Herald at that small
am a red Sophy Strader's column. Back to the less
was their reverse jumping and last night's Blankhurst Barnaby game.
Why the sudden life two was Knofski and rent? Was
it that certain elements required a better than twenty point
(20:49):
spread in order to cash in? I'm only us well, Slater,
I don't watch why they awful lie? Is it a lie? Malicious,
deliberate coward? I happen to know this time we've not
seen ransom deliberately cheated cheaters. Last night they took Frive money,
I might say, so agreed to jump so far as
(21:10):
the gamblers were concerned, but instead played the win. Why
are you so precious anxious to smear right? I've got
nothing to say. That answer is why have you been
plotting to destroy Coach Bigelow? Destroy him by frame up
big Loan. Big Low rates everything I can dish out
(21:30):
to him. That man's human. Then there's a personal motive
against Bigelow? What lay they're going on? Talk? Big Lower
is a paragon of virtue. Thinks to him top of
the god. He sees life as a blackboard maximum you're right,
a very good or very bad, no shadings in between.
If you're very good, he loves and adores you. If
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you're bad or weaker, just a fool, Big Low will
crucify you, no mercy, No quarter knows human understanding. Who
was so close to you? That's big old crucifide. My
son Bob, Bob played the Crabmore College once eight years
ago when Big Low coach there, Bob made a slipper.
(22:16):
Your son took a bride, Yeah, but he didn't go
through with his bargains. My son did not jump. But
Bigelow never took that into consideration, the fact that my
son wrestled with his conscience and won. Bigo didn't care
to hear. He drummed my son out of college basketball.
Your son was Bob Slater, Bob quinct. We changed our
(22:38):
ambis Slater. There is a meeting today and Dean Palmer's
up ing bigel Old the college trustees me. You be
there too, Slater. We get all the truth there. Start
in the open. There's a kind of castart for everybody.
(22:59):
When we're done, we let the police study the minutes
of our meeting decide what action they want to take.
You'll come an swaiter, get it off your chest and
Craig being there's nothing like a college education. The hallowed
halls of IVY is the perfect cure for moss on
the brain. I had my own whisnight for shopping the
case or two of go particulating in an institution of
higher learning known across the land as blank Hurst. Q.
(00:24):
I've been summoned to the Dean's offer my looking chat
with syglasses that sat on the middle of his nose.
His name was Palmer, Jean Percival Palmer. My decision to
employ you is personal. As you may know, we UH
have a rather celebrated basketball team, and up said, I
(00:45):
can fill in the rest rated bat fotball team grown
too big for the old college gym. John big time
big arenas big gigs, big do big bets, players of bribes,
games of up et cetera, and so forth. I've considered
outlining basketball at Blankhurst. You what are the facts? There
(01:08):
are no sacks as such, only whispering the grave. Rumors
are seizing undercurrents in the school and in the public press.
Well spell out one specific rumor, then he will. It
is hinted that the contest that last week was Will
six who played against blank Hirt. You last week, Cton
(01:32):
College Staton College was the obviously inferior team, well obvious
by what measurements my record for the season. It had
won but two contests and lost fourteen pretty people, all right,
while Blankhurst you came into the contest with sixteen victories
(01:52):
and three defeats, making Blankert you the odds on favorite.
But blank Kirk you lost. Huh is well? How close
was it? Scored forty nine to forty three. There was
a sharp newspaper attack as to the contest. A sports
columnist and named Sovie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Say There writes a column called The.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Lowdown on Sports. He was almost a libeler team. What
he wrote, well, who is the captain of the team,
Chris Andsen, And who is the coach? Sandy big Low
to the Romas touch, coach Bigelow very much, perfect coach,
rarely true. It's usually one player that lasts up a team,
(02:36):
one susceptible stucker that gamblers can get to. However, once
the next game to Modern Night, Blanche has you play
Van Berston Cottage. Well, who's favorite to win? Van Burston
Contage has yet to win one major contest this season,
meaning if Van Berson wins tomorrow, there's really something rotten
(02:59):
in Blanker. The next ninth guy was a spectator along
with twenty thousand other basketball fans. The game was played
in the million dollar Baits Coliseum. Everybody invited, regardless of
pettyg nobody, Boss, just pay the admission, Tad, look over
(03:23):
your shoulder and see half the graduating classes. Singsing nineteen
thirty five to fifty five. College basketball was sure rubbing
elbows with riprass flank hurts a figure to be a
walkaway winner on its record, Only it wasn't. It was
trailing in the last quarter sixty seven through Van Bersen
(03:44):
seventy four, trailing with only minutes left on the big clock,
and then the final whistle blew. The catcalls and bulls
to be heard in Siam. Its flank hurted luck legitimately nobody,
but nobody believed it. I caught. The captain became Chris
(04:12):
Branch from under the showers, a gangling youngster who stood
six feet thick time red hair and a crew cut
and freckles like somebody had spotted his face with a russ.
The meadowy as him a towel. Huh sure, sure, hey, K,
you had to help with me. Huh, why do you
(04:33):
say that you're the secret agent? James Palmer wished down it. Well,
I see my fame and preceded me. Or whenever you're ready, Chris,
I've got some questions. I was just going to take long.
I've got a date, new chick. I can lose it.
It's one the other guys watch coom make it free,
and I'm holding you today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Come on, we can shit in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Captain Branson wasn't too candidate with us, so we lost
a few games. Why all the hallabalo blank Kerris lost
two in a row to push over his teams and
Ragged Edge beat Don tired. I saw tonight's game. I
made some mental reservations about it. You gonna set yourself
up as a basketball experts. I know the game, Chris.
I was a player, the youngster, the fan ever since
(05:21):
all right man to might go ahead? Where did you
find suspeches about tonight's game? For one thing, the money
riding on it? How would you know faces in the crowd?
Tony Chaplan, big Eastern bookmaker. Since Bardon, the notorious sixer
prize fights and horse racing, Bardon's been convicted for both
and then Johnny Minton when I admire Richie Stilke bos
(05:45):
of the Bulls, or you had a prize gallery of
fans in the coliseum tonight and was at the team's
faulton all right. I won't hold the gambling picture as
I read it against the team, But answer me this,
why did you replace yourself in the last quarter? Find
ankle had become the limit? Ankle looks fine to me now.
(06:07):
It wasn't fan second stream player stubbing for you meant
money in the bank of the gambler. Chris, you're a
blank Hurst anchor man and it's pop Scora. Are you
accusing me of deliberately? I wouldn't accuse any boy of anything,
not until I have positive proof, absolute evidence. You've got
a big future ahead, and I'd hate to see it
(06:27):
wrecked by stigma or any window. I'm a cop, but
I worry about that. Thank you. There's some kind words, Okay,
go keep that hot day. Busy. Coach Sandy Biglow was
(06:48):
even less cooperative, let alone friendly, than his team captain.
I don't take kindly the private snoops annoying my players. Well,
don't complain to me Sean Palmer exputed these powers in
hiring you. I'm going before the board of trustees. Meanwhile,
let's draw. I deny every rumor. I've got a bunch
of fine kids, trader that die, every mother son of them.
(07:11):
I picked up this morning's paper away over them. A
columnist named Sophie Slater gets off a few remarks. Sophie Slater,
why the man's an irresponsible muck rake? They low down
on sports. Let me read you a few lines. Last
night's only brank Hurst, the Van versus One. I was
a betting combine wonder who coached bigelo'relio' bride in surprise
(07:33):
benching of star forward with Navsky. It's tyranny by any windows.
But I'm thick skin Craig. In twenty years of coaching,
I've developed a rhinotras hide. I'd say, no attention to columnists.
Oh why did you bench with Knovsky? He's a show off.
He's in the race for highest scoring honors in the
(07:53):
nice basketball and all he thought about was dwelling his total.
Oh so he was playing to his Berlin The stands
he'd thrown in from the Duke to see your hero
and action. You understand my benching him. Now, Yes, I do.
I want to ask you some blunt questions. Coach Vily,
you suspect any of your players are dumpings? Not still one.
(08:18):
So far as you know, has any player or players
suddenly taken out of processs look like as free spending clothes,
girls and vertibles? There has been absolutely nothing like that.
I don't have any other blunt questions. Yeah, hard one
to ask. You probably take a punch at me. Yeah,
(08:38):
I know the question. You and tam last team. Am
I crooked? Am I dumping games by cleverly mishandling my team?
Am I getting a payoff? Somewhere? I've heard it whispered?
Oh why you would hear at whispered? Wherever basketball is
played these days? Because one or two crooked teams have
been exposed the rest I must bear the brunt. We
(08:59):
have to pay for our union, then for the records
you denounced, the rumors around about you. You're attempting me
to throw that punch. Sunday in a college town, as
a day of cemetery, choiet I checked into the nearest
(09:21):
recreation lounge to joint with the annex to a hotel.
A Hotel Olympia I had a key to Room two
twenty two. The bartender. If drink freeze, you decide what
I want to be surprised. I was halfway through a
drink advertised as Campus Conniption ninety nine cents when a
gent came close enough to freeze on me. He looked
(09:44):
more of a stranger in town than me, beefyjowls, a
stickpin with a diamond size of a walnut, and yellow shoes.
His kisser was not unfamiliar. Hello, Craig. Place of face. Yes, yes,
I didn't know that circus was in town. The New
York joke's out of place here, so we're used smiling.
(10:05):
Now I gotta si to live in here in town
and visit him. Why, and we'll sit down. I'll tell
you why. Okay, I'm kingling with expectancy. Now you'll be
tingling all right when you see what I got for
you here for your old age. Well, what's inside the
brown rapid? A grand in twenties for me for you
(10:26):
for what? For nothing? And I got something else for you?
Let's see it. Yeah, here in my bas pocket for you, Craig,
my compliments, A railroad ticket, one way clear, the Times
Square we'll look at you with the buy. I knew
you were homesick. You're training an hour. Give my regards
(10:47):
to Broadway. Very sorry my life. You're gonna be foolish.
I am, The boys and me are making a buck.
What's it to you? Nothing at the job of the authority.
I'm here, I crack down on fixing and fix it,
stop the corruption of the basketball squad. And you're him
for nothing, quig, There's nothing to it, no fix, no
(11:08):
bribing players. You expect me to believe that This sounds
corny to say. I know, but we haven't been able
to reach a player. We try, but no dice. And
why I try so hard to ship me home? We're
running lucky. We don't want to jink O. The boys
lean up a pool one grand, get rid of you.
You don't want no evil. If you don't grab the
(11:30):
g you're a set. Put it back in your pocket. Smiling.
Morning begins early and it towns. I've been in bed
seven hours, eyes wide open. Hotel rooms have that effect
on me. I mean, flowered wallpaper has stay. Who you are?
(11:55):
Help Slater of the Herald Gazette, Good morning. It will
be in two hours nine at seven o'clock. Oh do
I hate cheerful early rites. Mister Craig. Should I see you?
Why something partner to your work on behalf of beans Palmer?
Oh in an hour, I say, well, since I'm now
doomed to stay awake at your hotel, and I'll join
(12:16):
you with the breakfast tation. Good love, Sophie Slater really
did have vital confidential information. Coffee is good now at
least three games were dumped by blank Hurst. You we'll
give me current grete troops. I got another kind of
(12:39):
proofer guess works real good. Slater ropy callous about the
reputations and foutures of a lot of young men. Oh,
I respect your sensitivity there. I hate to see any
young man stigmatize. But suppose my criminal information doesn't concern
any of the young men. Some of the players, No player,
just the coach Bigelow, Sandy Biglow. Yes, Now, if you listen, dude,
(13:04):
I'm a newspaper man. I have sources of information. I'll
get down the way. What information did you receive about
Sandy Bigeloan that he was seen consorted with gamblers in
an out of the way roadhouse called a blue Lantern
run by Gotti Daniels. I'll drive out and talk to Gotty.
Why don't you You'll find a very frank and cooperative
What else against Sandy Bigelow? I have information that Biglow
(13:26):
made a substantial cash deposit in his bank account the
Craig Moore Savings Bank. That's a bank in another county.
Mind you a fact significant in itself. Who could trip
you to the status of Bigelow's bank account. I am
going to be evasive about that. Craig somebody connected with
the bank, uh, an official or a teller. I'm not
(13:46):
answering that. Why are you giving me these tykes against
Sandy Bigelow to expedite your investigation, to hurry Bigelow in
the jail to accomplish that? Yes? Why I use the
strikes yourself for an exposition here? You're a newspaperman. I
tried to my paper refused to use it. I'll write
the story from the police plotter when you file arrest
(14:07):
charges against Biglow in the Craigmore Savings Franks seventy miles
trucks County line. I persuaded the bank manager to give
me a detailed memorandum on Bigelow's savings account. Persuading me
bank manager meant unraveling a lot of red taste, satisfying
(14:29):
bank policy and protocol. But I got what I was after.
My next stop was the Blue Lanterns. The owner, Gussie Daniels,
was the Amazon type who could lick her waiting men,
and probably did. From the looks of her patrons, her
answers were frank and cooperative.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
He was in here, all right, That Bigelow over in
that corner there, trying not to look conspicuous.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Bigelow was in here, frequenting with camera.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Nos to news, welcome to them over beer and prestels.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Can you identify a particular gamblers you saw Bigelow.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
With all at New York crowd had a state comp
name a few for me. One named Johnny Minton, m
mean looker, another named Richie.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Silk crazy thought my cheese makes some potato chips.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That one and a third with a funny name sounds
like Boungo or or something.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Pose of the bull Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
This had a bad stomach, never ate or drank anything
in here.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Pose of the Bulls served time last year fixing a
Midwest basketball game.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well he's right here up to his fixing picks, and
Bigelow's in with them.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
However, would you say Bigelow was in here?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, o's twice that I see them, and they're nice.
When I'm not here, that's Wednesday and Friday, when I'm
babysitting from a married daughter. Ay to May, that's my daughter.
I'm my grandmother.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh great, buy a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I see sure you can buttermilk.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Before making your cause for the labor the closet. I
had a truck with circumstances could be damning on their face.
It's urn true. I've been a cop too long. Let
you know that Bigelo tried explaining his meetings with known gamblers.
I have nothing to be ashamed of. I thought those
certain gentry out in order to warn them or them
(16:29):
of what to keep away from my boys. You see,
there's been anonymous phone calls. Who was Naski and Chris
Ransom open hints of offered bribes, and both with Naski
and Ransom reported the incidents to me. I told him
to say nothing. So you met with the gambler discreetly
to tell them all I had threatened them with police
action if he ever bothered my boys again. Well, you
(16:52):
believe me, Craig frank here, I'm not sure I do.
Why do you bank seventy miles away? And craiglin will habit.
I used to coach crag Moore College back in nineteen
fifty five years ago. I never canceled or transferred my
bank account, that's all. What's your balance there in a
my balance o'ka about twelve hundred dollars. I'd say, why
(17:15):
that's your bank book handy w No, it's fact I
don't have it at all. It's been missing for months,
miss laid or launch her. Hey suppose I told you
that your balance is more like a Wait, I have
a bank memorandum on it with this, Yeah, I have
a lot. You're up to six thousand dollars. Take a
(17:36):
lot of six bucks? Well, that's impossible. That's deposit made
periodically since the start of the basketball season. Why watch
your answer, Craig. Somebody's out to incriminate me, mirror me
a frame up. I haven't made a deposit might crag
more account in almost a year. You're not really asking
me to believe a trick was worked on anywhere. Say
(17:58):
your bank book was sole one. So the sneak deposits
could be made swelling your stavings accounts and a that
flip you showed me as actually sold. Yes, I am
asking you to believe exactly that. How's your assassination through
(18:20):
framely I poached poone a judgment on Coach Bigelow for
the time being, the priest old events justified my discretion.
Man the team captain Chris Rampson had again been contacted
by the gambling mob, and this time Bigelow brought his
boy to me. My name's Smiley. He smoked me in
Leary's drug store. How much does he offer you? Five
(18:42):
thousand dollars to be divided between myself and one other
player I could recruit, he suggested. I talked to with NASKI.
Which game does the mob wants? Dumped? The last one
on our schedule against Barnaby tech Oh Bigelow, Yes, Craig,
how does blank hurt you compare with Barnaby Techy. We've
(19:02):
beaten them for years running by margins of twenty points
tomorrow meaning blank Hurst. You should enter the game and
our John favorite I should say so. Yes, the mob
wants to bet Barnaby Tech heavy and make a final killing. Okay,
we'll accept the bribe. Accept Now you wait a minute,
(19:23):
mister Craig, to teach the mob a bitter lesson where
it hurts most in the pocket book. You will accept
the bribe. Ransom promised to jump the game along with
with Knapski and then play your full heads Tim Barnaby.
Tech from here that Tim bucktoo. The game against Barnaby
(19:48):
was played as schedule. Knotski and Chris Ransom played the
best ball of that or any other year. They scored
almost at will.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
At the final whistle, the score.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Was seventy six to thirty eight, favoring blank Hurst. I've
never seen a more shattered bunch than that gambling click.
They looked as if the specter of the bread Lion
haunted them. The blank Hirst team got a rising ovation
(20:28):
and in the officers of the Herald at that small
am a red Sophy Strader's column. Back to the less
was their reverse jumping and last night's Blankhurst Barnaby game.
Why the sudden life two was Knofski and rent? Was
it that certain elements required a better than twenty point
(20:49):
spread in order to cash in? I'm only us well, Slater,
I don't watch why they awful lie? Is it a lie? Malicious,
deliberate coward? I happen to know this time we've not
seen ransom deliberately cheated cheaters. Last night they took Frive money,
I might say, so agreed to jump so far as
(21:10):
the gamblers were concerned, but instead played the win. Why
are you so precious anxious to smear right? I've got
nothing to say. That answer is why have you been
plotting to destroy Coach Bigelow? Destroy him by frame up
big Loan. Big Low rates everything I can dish out
(21:30):
to him. That man's human. Then there's a personal motive
against Bigelow? What lay they're going on? Talk? Big Lower
is a paragon of virtue. Thinks to him top of
the god. He sees life as a blackboard maximum you're right,
a very good or very bad, no shadings in between.
If you're very good, he loves and adores you. If
(21:53):
you're bad or weaker, just a fool, Big Low will
crucify you, no mercy, No quarter knows human understanding. Who
was so close to you? That's big old crucifide. My
son Bob, Bob played the Crabmore College once eight years
ago when Big Low coach there, Bob made a slipper.
(22:16):
Your son took a bride, Yeah, but he didn't go
through with his bargains. My son did not jump. But
Bigelow never took that into consideration, the fact that my
son wrestled with his conscience and won. Bigo didn't care
to hear. He drummed my son out of college basketball.
Your son was Bob Slater, Bob quinct. We changed our
(22:38):
ambis Slater. There is a meeting today and Dean Palmer's
up ing bigel Old the college trustees me. You be
there too, Slater. We get all the truth there. Start
in the open. There's a kind of castart for everybody.
(22:59):
When we're done, we let the police study the minutes
of our meeting decide what action they want to take.
You'll come an swaiter, get it off your chest and
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