Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-09-29

did his utmost to lose rather than
win the 1919 world series, after he
had found" $4,000 beneath his
bedroom pillow where it had been
placed by professional gamblers.
"In the first game at Cincinnati
I was Knocked out of the box" Ci-
cote told the jury, according to the
court official, Il wasn't putting a
thing on the ball. You could have
read the trademark on it when /
lobbed the bali up to the plate"
In the fourth game, played at
Chicago, which / also lost de-
liberately intercepted a throw
from the outfield to the plate
which might have cut off run.
muffed the ball on purpose. At
another time in the same game |
purposely made a wild throw. All
the runs scored against me were
due to my own deliberate errors.
l did not try to win"
Tell Stories In Detail.
Both Cicotte and Jackson were
closeted with the grand jury for a
considerable time today and later
court officials reported that they
told their stories in substantial de-
tail. AS they left the room they
were taken in custody by detectives
of the states attorneys office and
taken away. Their detention was
not in the nature of an arrest and
1t was announced that they would
be released later.
Cicotte, who earlier in the day
had vehemently denied any part in
the alleged plot, as described by
Maharg at Philadelphia, admitted
on the stand officials of the court
said, that the Philadelphian'
story was substantially correct.
The court official also quote d
Cicotte as saying that the players
had believed that "Chick" Gandi |
who, he said, was interested il
the dealings with the gamblers,
had double crossed" them and that
Maharg's story was the first init
nation they had that Attell had
held OUT on the 100000 which
had been promised them.
Records of Players.
The eight players named in the
true bills had been with the White
Sox for periods ranging from four
to nine years. Cicotte was pur-
chased from Boston in 1912 for
the waiver price. Joe Jackson
was bought from Cleveland in 1915
for n large sum in cash and some
players in trade. Felsch was pur-
chased from Milwaukee, of the
American Association, in 1914;
McMullin from Los Angeles in
1915; Risberg from Vernon. of the
Pacific Coast league in 1915; Will
liams from Salt Lake in 1916, and
Weaver from York. Pa, in 1911.
The purchase price of the eight
paid by Comiskey, represents a
tidy fortune.
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 game
played here August 81 by the Cubs
and Philadelphia Nationals was
fixed" and the inquiry into last
years world series came up only
as an incident 10 the other inquiry.
Penalty If Convicted.
Assistant States Attorney Hart
ley Replogle in charge of the case,
said tonight that indictments to be
drawn up tomorrow on today's
true bills may contain several
counts. The true bills themselves
specified but one alleged offense
conspiracy to commit an Illegal
act" The penalty provided upon
conviction on this count would be
one to five years in the peniten-
tiary, and a fine of not more than
$40, 900.
"This is just the beginning" Mr..
Replogle said tonight. I'VE will
have more indictments within a
few days and before we get
through we will have purged or
ganized baseball of everything that
is crooked and dishonest.
I'VE are going after the gamb-
lers now. There will be indict-
ments within a few days against
men in Philadelphia, Indianapolis,
st. Louis, Des Moines, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati and other cities. More
baseball players also will be in
dicted. We've got the goods on
these men and we are going the
limit"
Harry Grabner, secretary of the
White Sox, announced that the club
would play out the schedule to the
end IL it had to "employ China
men" to fill the vacancies in the
team