The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-29
SPORTING
CICOTTE ADMITS
A $4,000 BRIDE
Series-Six Other Players Indicted
More TO Follow.

CHICAGO, Sept. 29.-Indictments
were voted against eight baseball stars
yesterday and confessions obtained from
two of them. when the old Roman
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the oft
time champion Chicago White Sox
smashed his pennant-chasing machine to
clean up baseball The confessions told
how the Sox threw last years worlds
II championship to Cincinnati for money
II PAID by gamblers.
i Seven Sox regulars and one former
PLAYER comprise the players against
! whom true bills were voted Dy the Cook
county grand jury and the seven were
Immediately suspended by Mr.. Comiskey.
I With his team only one game behind
/ the leagUe-leadmg Cleveland Indians, the
! White Sox owner served notice on his
seven stars that, if they were found gull
! ty, be would drive them out OF organized
! baseball for the rest of their lives.
The exact nature of the information
Mr. Comiskey put before the grand jury
was not disclosed. The men whom the
jury involved as result OF testimony
uncovered by their owner were:
Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher, who waived
immunity and confessed, according to
court attaches, that he took a $4,000
bride.
Arnold Gandil, former first baseman
'Shoeless joe jackson, heavy hitting
left fielder.
Oscar Hap" Felscb, center fielder.
Charles ''Swede' Bisberg, shortstop.
Claude Williams, pitcher.
George Buck" Weaver, third base
man.
Fred McNIullin. utility player.
Cicotte, according TO court attaches,
told the grand Jury he received $4,000
from the gamblers, finding the money
under his pillow when he returned to his
hotel room on the night before the first
game at Cincinnati.
I refused to pitch ball until I got
it, they quoted him as saying:
Jackson, it was said testified he was
promised $4,000 by Chick Gandil, but
received only $1,000. Claude Williams
according TO the witnesses, got Sl9GO0.
Cicotte said he lobbed the ball 10 the
plate so slowly you could read the trade
mark on it in the first game at Gin
cinnati when he was taken out of the
box after three and two-thirds innings
had been played
He never saw the man who paid the
money, NE said. He was told he would
find the $4,000 under his pillow III his
hotel room on the night before the first
game at Cincinnati, and when he re-
turned to his room the money was there.
Joe Jackson received $1,000. Like II
cote, he found the money IN his bed
when he returned to ms room on the
night be 'orc the first game.
The investigation by the grand Jury
will continue until all phases of baseball
gambling have been barred, it was said by
officials. The investigation started two
weeks ago following reports that a game
played here August 81 by the Cubs and
the Philadelphia Nationals was liked.
and the inquiry into last years world
series came up only as an incident to the
Assistant states Attorney Hartley Rip
logic. in charge Of the case, said last
1This is lust the beginning We viii
have more indictments within a few days
and before we get through We will have
purged organized baseball of everything
chat is crooked and dishonest.
I'VE are going after the gamblers now.
There will be indictments within few
DAYS against men in n Phi liddos pit tn
LWIgh Cincinnati and other cities More
',ass@@haH PLAYERS also viii be indicted,
We've got the goods on these men and
we are going the limit