The Washington herald., 1911-06-20
Amateur Committee
4 RepieWS Accusations
Players Are Put on the Witness Stand BY Inpes-
tigators-Chairman Refuses to Make State
n1ent-FinaI Report Saturday.
By G. w. SWAN.


the hearing Of the charges regarding the
paying of players held in the law Office
of President Copp, of the Olympia
League. last night
After the meeting, President Beach, of
the District League, speaking for Col.
]. William De Grange, chairman, stated
that as the committee was conducting the
investigation and would report to the
commission Saturday night, he did not
care TO give out anything for publics-
tion. Notwithstanding this, pretty fair
idea of what occurred at the investiga-
tion was learned from other sources.
When George E Cornell, manager of
the Cornell Tigers, was called into the
court, as the office was known to the
men summoned to appear before the
committee, he was told that there was
no charge against him, and that was all
there was TO the Mcdonnell case.
Dutch Stuckert was the next wit
ness to go before the examining board,
and after the charges were read to him
Stuckert came out into the open. Again
Dutch" was called on the Goals, and
after a nice little talk with the commit
tee. in which he told them that he was
not employed by the Willard Hotel and
that he had never been offered posi-
ticn or money in any way, he returned
outside to the others waiting to be
catechlzed by the board.
The committee asked Stuckert If the
position that Phipps is now holding at
the hotel did not influence him somewhat
in asking for his release from the st.
Martins team. Dutch told them that
he was a member of the Willard team
when he asked for his release, and that
he wanted to play with the Sewage
Pumping Station team, of the Capital
City League, and that the question of
playing with Willard did not have any
thing to do with his asking for his re-
lease from the Independence League
club. LAS far as Phipps is concerned,
he can take care of his own battles"
Manager Meyers, of the Willard outfit,
was also called before the committee, as
was Manager Wilson, of the Havenner
team. Former Manager Black, of the
Bakers, was not allowed to testify before
the board.
Gill Cassidy, former St Martins play
er, who is charged with having told
bystander that he wanted his release so
that he could play with the Havenner
team, as the Bakers had offered him 81
p
twhen the charge was read to him the
'bystander who Cassidy is said to have
made the remark to, had left.
While the committee heard the evidence
from $50 until II, there is little Likelihood |
of anything coming out of the matter, as
there seems to be no real proof Of the
accusations. Manager Wilkinson may be
On the right track in his charges; in fact,
there is no doubt that somebody did
tell him the stories, but ii is another
thing to get the men to testify before the
committee and substantiate his charges.
After the committee had ajourned to
make report at the meeting of the
Amateur Commission next Saturday, an
informal conference between President
Beach. of the District League; Presi-
dent Graf, of the Commercial circuit;
President DeGrange, of the Sunday
School League: Manager Wilson, of the
Havenner team; Al stern, and the
writer, was held in tree box outside
of the jury room and quite few in
teresting matters came up in the con-
versation.
President Graf stated that he thought
that the shoe was on the other foot
and that those present c0uld make any
thing out of the statement that they
desired He also stated that should
She Capital City League leave the
amateur commission and play outlaw
Dali, the COIlHeTCldl LedB u6 hOulu IOl-
low. Manager Cornell and his attor-
ney, James A. O'Shea, were at the in
vestigation, but the Tiger leader was
told that there was no charge against
him, 1t is understood.
There is little doubt in the minds |
'of those at the informal talkfest last |
night that players were being paid, but |
it is the same old story, prove 1t.
President Beach stated, and as the |
president of the District League he is the |
man who knows the inside working of |
that circuit that the District League is |
here TO stay, Notwithstanding the many |
reports to the contrary.
To use the words of the hustling presi- |
dent of the Commercial League, Charles |
Graf, deliver me from a professional
square man."
The Capital City League has started on
its career as a six-cIub circuit and from
now on the fur will fly. The standing of
the Sewage Pumping Station and Cornell |
teams remains the same, while the other |
four mines will take a percentage of 500.