The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-01
COM|SKEY ASKED
PROBE LAST YEAR,
ATTORNEY SAYS


CHICAGO, Oct. 1.---Charles Comis-
key, owner of the Chicago White So3.
asked State Attorney Hoyne to in-
yestigate last years worlds series
Immediately after the conclusion OF
the games, Hoyne said today after
his return from New York.
H0yne's office conducted the in
Festigation for three or four days
and found enough eviaence to sats
.isfy him that the series was crook
ed, he said. Not enough evidence
was found, however, to prove the :Hct,
he added.
New evidence which may warrant
criminal prosecution of the baseball
players involved in the fixing of
the 1919 worlds series was expected
by the grand jury today.
The grand jury which has been
hearing the case will complete its
regular session, but Chief Justice
Mcdonald. who ordered the investi-
CATION, sai6 it would be retained as
special grand jury, devoting its
entire time to the baseball situation.
Judge Mcdonald said indictments and
prosecutions could be returned on the
evidence already submitted, but that
no detail would be overlooked in the
investigation.
The nature of the new evidence
which Hoyne says he obtained in New
York is not known. He would only
say he obtained the information
from two men who are neither base
ball men nor gamblers, and who have
not yet been mentioned in the in
quiry. He also asserted he had no
evidence to show that the coming
1920 worlds series had been fixed"
Reports said to emanate from
members of the White Sox team
credit Happy" Felsch with having
placed $4,000, accepted as a bribe
from the gamblers, as get at to
! on Cincinnati in the second game
of the series, thus accommodating $15,-
900.
1t is claimed he wired his wife in
Milwaukee to come to Chicago for
the first game here, and that when
she met him his greeting was to
toss the $4,000 on the table.
There are various accounts as to
what followed. The players said the
couple had a disagreement over the
affairs, but later made up. and Mrs.
FelsCh deposited the money in a
savings bank here. ~
The money was said to have been
withdrawn last Monday. Mrs. Felsch
is expected to be asked by the grand
jury what she knows of the trans
action.
Chick" Gandil former White Sox
first baseman, who was named by
Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson. Williams
and others as the man who headed
the conspiracy among the players
said yesterday in Lufkin. Tex, where
he is in a hospital following an Oper-
alton for appendicitis, that the stories
concerning him were untrue.
Il never threw a game In my life -
he said.
Buck" Herzog. second haseman ot
the Cubs, was recovering today from
three wounds inflicted by a man with
knife yesterday as he was lnav-
ing the ball park at Joliet. Ill, where
the Cubs played an exhibition game
HerZoG was in an automobile. and
man shouted, There goes the
crooked Chicago players" The man
jumped upon the running oNard OF
the car and slashed Herzog ON the
right hand and his left arm and leg
The wounds are not serious.
HerZog was charged by Ruhe Ben.
ton with having tried TO bribc him
To throw ball games, but WAS ex-
onerated OF the charges when Presi E
dent Ieydler Of the National ieague
appeared before the grand jury with
affidaVits declaring him innocent.