The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-23

series came and I was selected to do
the pitching in the first game. The
Microbes won of by themselves N I
received h congratulations of both
Hart and Selee.
That's right, Taylor. said Hart to
me. Go after them We will show
at all. You'll a to pitch more than
your share, probably, but you will be
paid for that
Then he slapped me on the back
and told me l was all right. He also
said he would give me 500 for every
game in which We did not play as well
as extra money for winning. I went in
again after the other fellows had won
some games. 1 was feeling as well as
on the first day, but somehow I could
not keep those balls away from the
White Sox. They eemed to hit when
ever I threw, and we were beaten.
When I pitched again a couple of days
afterward and we were beaten again l
tried my hardest, and there is not a
ma who saw that game who would
say that 1 did not try. I did try with
all of my might. That night I was told
by Selee that Fart wanted to see me in
his Office. I went down on the morning
of October Is, the day on which the
final game was to be played. I went to
his Office OF the twelfth floor of the
Fisher building I saw that he was
mad-probably mad at me
HE accused me of dissipation n
gambling, and wound up by telling me
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crooked. I informed him that I would
never pitch another game for him. Sc
lee tried to persuade me to change my
mind, but On my repeated warnings
consented to let me go. I told him /
preferred to pitch for Cincinnati, but I
was traded off to St. Louis. 1 Ike
but finally consented to come to the To-
cal club.
During the major league war I had
many offers to jump, but on Harris
promise to duplicate any offer that was
made to me I stayed with him. CleVe-
land came the nearest to getting me.
Chance and I framed it up to stick to-
gether, and when I was approached at
the Southern Hotel I informed Lajoie
and Armou / would join them If they
would take Chance. They said they
had no place for him, and so 1 called on
After I had testified before the
commission Hermann asked me if /
knew a couple of Pittsburg people. l
replied that Barry McCormlck, n oali
player, had introduced me to a man OF
his name. He mentioned a fellow
named Dinneen, I believe, who is called
Slim. I saidaI was not acquainted with
the latter.
Latter I came home, Hermann
stated that I am not an honest ball
player and set my case for March, in
Chicago. I want a hearing before that
commission before l go to the law
courts for redress. I studied one of
Herrmann's questions to me and his
statement about me, and here is what
I have concluded:
"-Beckley belongs to the Pittsburg
Eagles. and every time he goes there a
special session is held in his honor. /
attended one with him the latter part
of last July. We drank and gambted
and did not get back to the hotel until
the next day at noon. Jake losL at
cards and SO did I, but I more thar
evened up in a crap game and left SS7
winner.
Slim the fellow Hermann refer
rede to, was introduced to me that
night and went down town with US.
We had a couple of hours sleep und
foolishly renewed drinking when we
up. We stopped in a saloon on
our way to the hotel. and slim" said:
pitch today" I told him I was not
in shape to pitch for any mans money
and hoped Nichols would not work me-.
Jake was as untitled to play as 1 was
and we lost, 5 to 2. They made seven
hits off me, but I was wild, giving I'VE
bases on balls and hitting a couple of
batsmen.
ct don't think I have lost over five
games in Pittsburg since I have beeft
in the National league. and It is absurd
to say that I eve sold a game there or
anywhere else.
Many roasts were handed to me
from the stands. and I heard that fell
low PSllInI YGileQ 10 me- y WO1lQGb you
are wild, you slop, you were run last
night!' All our players knew the con-
dition we were in and Nichols must
have been on, but he gave no reproof
to me.
myself in shape during the play
ing season., but at times have diss1-
patedI I have shot craps and played
poker. But that don't show that I am
a baseball crook, and I challenge any
one to prove that I ever made a dis
honest dollar on the diamond
"sComiskey and I never spoke before
we met in Cincinnati last week and I
never had any dealings with his agent.
Nor did I bet on that 1903 Chicago
series. AS I told Hermann, our bat
fers were unable to hit Comiskey's
in the closing games and they
made enough runs off us to Win we
tried to stop 'em, but failed
why did I not say anything about
the Pittsburg incident until Hermann
asked me queer questions and mace
charges against me2 Would
I not have been a fool to have given
ont the story that Beckley and I were
d~issipating? We were ashamed of it
and regretted it and were in hopes that
our w~rong-doing would never be known
to the public. I mention it in self-de-
Tense now and feel sure that Beckley,
SHAY and other members Of team
will substantiate my account of that
experience.
When we reached the hotel we
went to our room to get into u uni
forms. I took a big bundle of money
out of my pocket and threw it on the
Shay grabbed it and I took it
from him, telling him there was
$500 in the roll and named that sum as
xvinnings. Jake claimed to be $500
TO the good. As I dressed Shay got
bunch of money and gave me the
laugh when he found all the bills were
the 81 and 50 denomination, except
- x-ti1F. UnG a fan-SnOf I I
s1nnose it was told that I had q small
when I left Pittsburg n that
represented the amount paid me for
throwing a game. I never had a dollar