One damp-eyed notion about the basketball scandal was that the players who dumped games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds.
The fresh muck came to the surface when District Attorney Frank Hogan gathered in two more Long Island University stars, Nathan Miller and Lou Lipman. During the 1948-49 season, said Hogan,...
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