The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
TO REACH ALL
THE GAMBLERS
By Donahey

been mentioned since the investigation
begun is not unlikely at any time 1t
! is regarded as probable also that otner
ball players will be drawn into the
grand jury net.
A report that the gamblers main
| tanned at least one man and IN some
cases two or three of every team IN
| the major leagues on their pay roll
| and in this manner sought virtually
| to control the sport will be given a
! thorough investigation.
The White Sox expect to give
practical demonstration of the value
of reserve strength to ball club in
the remaining games of the season
Ray Schalk, Birding and Clyde jon
naEd make ntg up the aapsr Sex SEX
Kerr, Ray wilkinson and Shorty
Hodge make up four pitchers.
| The infield with John Collins at
first base, Eddie Collins at second
and Harvey Mcclellan at short does
not look so bad. but the fans are
wondering who will replace Buck
Weaver. at third base. That is the
biggest hole to fill. For the outfeld
the sox have strunk. Liebold, Eddie
Murphy and Bib Falk. In pinch
Ted Jourdan could be sent back to
| first base and John Collins could re-
gregation that will carry the hopes
that White Sox fans refuse to forsake
| in the three remaining games of the
| 1920 schedule.
/
aster that has fallen upon the base
ball club he has given his life to
build up, Comiskey was greatly
| oaheered today by the offers of aid
his fellow baseball magnates and
| from thousands of fans who com
| mended his action in wrecklng his
ball club rather than win pennant
with players he believed dishonest.
One of these offers of aid came
from Col. Jacob Rupert and Col. T.
| L. Houston owners of the New York
| Yankees who tenlered the White Sox
| the use of any players on the Yankee
roster Harry Frazee of the Boston
Red Sox made similar tender of
aid. Rules of baseball forbid the
spirit in which they were made
| pleased Comiskey nightly.
| None of the players indicted by
| the Grand Jury are under arrest as
vet. Eddie Cicotte left for his home
| in Detroit last night.
| Joe Jackson remained in Chicago
| after making his confession. to the
Grand Jury but was closely guarded
vea1ed leker threatening him with
death if he did not tell of his part
| in the plot. Cicotte is said to fear
| federal prosecution because he failed
to include the $4,000 he got for
| throwing the games he pitched, in
his income tax return. Both Jack
son and Cicotte signed sinnn1 u nifty
. /
they will be given consi deration be-
| cause of the testimony they gave to
4 the grand jury and that both will
testify as witness for the state when
the cases come to trial
| Cicotte told his story to the grand
| jury with streaming eyes and hating
| tongue. He told how Risberg, Gandil
and McMul1en had preached the plan
to him and how because "he needed
1.-the money for his wife and kids, he
agreed to join in the alleged con-
spiracy. He told how the men met
in his room at the Warner hotel
here and discussed the plan and
agreed that they could "get away
with it."
/ cicotte said, "but we were double
crossed. Only three of us got any
money and none of us got as much
as had been agreed upon. I don't
know what became of the other $75,-
/ 900.
II think Gandil got it or else Abe
Attel1. Chick was supposed to slip
us our share of the bride. He told
gam blers.'
! Then sCicotte told how games were
thrown. He said:
Il was asked to groove balls over
the plate SO they could be hit and
, make wild throws if necessary. dis
obey Catcher Ray Sc1halk's signals
and boot batted balls if 1 had to in
order to let Cincinnati win. Some of
the others were instructed to fail to
hit, miss flies grounders or make
wild throws.S There was no general
2 plan, but we all knew what was ex-
, pected of us. All performed quite
trickily except Felsch who c1owned
( his misses of fly balls so ridiculously
as to scare US all.
Joe Jackson, in his confession, is
reported to have said:
when a Cincinnati player would
bat ball out in my territory I'd n1uff
: it if I could--that is, fail to catch it.
t But if it would look too much like
crooked work to do that I'd be slow
and make a throw to the infield that
would be too short. My work netted
the Cincinnati team several runs that
they never would have made i'll had
: been playing on the square
Cicotte's confession is said to have
named GandfI as the ringieader of thA