Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-02
.BASEbALL.BRIBE
SCANDAL PROBE
WILL CONTINUE
No Evidence Of Plot to Fix
This Years World Series,
Says Lewis.

Chicago, Oct. 2.-Judge Charles Nc
Donald today issued an order extend
ing the period of the September grand
jury indefinitely to permit continu-
alton of its investigation of the base
ball scandal. ,t,
The grand jurors will meet again
Tuesday to hear testimony of John
McGraw, Fred Toney and Benny
Kauff in connection with the allega-
tions that Hal Chase, Lee Magee and
Heinie Zimmerman were dropped
from baseball last year because of
gambling.
Interest today hinged on reports
from New York that John Sport
Sullivan of Boston against whom a
true bill was voted last week, would
come to Chicago to reveal the
brains behind gamblers plot
which led to the bribing of White SoS
players to lose the worlds series last
year. Claude Williams, who confessed
to the grand jury last week. named
Sullivan as one of the go-betweenl
who planned the affair.
Reports from New, York say Sulli-
van, who is now there, has declared
j the gamblers are trying to make him
''the goat" and that he will tell every
| thing he knows about the gambling
plot when he appears before the
grand jury
Happy" Felsch, who was reported
by local newspaper last week as
having made a statement that he re.
ceived $4,000 to help lose the series
today denied the charge and said thai
he would join Buck Weaver and
Charlie Risberg in employing counse
to fight the case.
/ ~ No CrOOEcdness Found.
New York, Oct. 2.-District Attor
ney Lewis Of Kings county today is
sued a statement in which he de-
clared investigation by his Office hat
failed to disclose any plan to ''fix" the
| 1920 worlds series.
closed a single suspicion that there
has been any attempt to FIX the com
ing SERIES" said Mr.. Lewis in hi
statement generating all members O
the Brooklyn Nationals, a competito
in the series.
New York. Oct. 2.-Abe Attell
former featherweight champion
whose name has been connected will
rumors that the 1919 worlds serie
was fixed" by a. syndicate of gamb
lers. will be forcibly brought to tn,
Office of District Attorney Swami o
New York, for questioning, if he cal
be found by detectives who ar
searching for him.
4 District Attorney Swami, in an
nouncing. this today, said he intend
ed to prosecute any persons her
gswho~4 ~4pFefited. Through "any .Srooke,
gambling scheme connected with tn
last Worlds Series.'
There is special law under whicl
he can proceed, he declared. and ii
addition, he thought the crime woul
come under the grand larcen
statute. Sinister gambling after tn
games had been fixed" would con
istitute grand larceny by trick an
device" he said.
ABE Attell has been openly boast
ling that he knows the syndicate o
gamblers who put across the dishon
lest deal with certain White sSox play
}ers,a understand" said the distric
lattorney. HE said he knew the tim
and the place where the dishones
ideal took place.
II feel that the time for him
come forward and tell all he knows
now, and the place is the district at
torney's Office. I have three proces
servers looking for him-virtuall
securing the city for him. We wan
. him to come here and tell US who wa
in the syndicate that made the dis
honest bargain"