Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-29
NEW YORK TEAM IS OFFERED TO THE
 MANAGER OF S0X.
Owner of Yankees Pr0ffer Players to Chicago to Help
 Win American Flag
COMISkEY SUSPENDS
 SEVEN OF HIS STARS
Members of Team Confess to Throwing" Last Years Series to Cincinnati for Gamblers
 Bribes

New York, Sept. 2S.--A telegram offering to place the entire New fork American baseball team at the disposal of Charles A. Comiskey, who today suspended seven of his players indicted in connection with allaged fixing of games was sent tonight to the White Sox club owner by Jacob Ruppert and T. L. Huston, owners of the Yankee club.
 Chicago, Sept. 28.-Indictments were returned against eight baseball stars today 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 world series cham pionship to Cincinnati for money paid by gamblers.
 Seven Sox regulars and one form CT player and true bills voted against them by the Cook county grand jury and the seven were immediately sus- pended by MT. Comiskey. With his team only a half game behind the league leading Cleveland Indians the White Sox owner served notice on his seven stars that, if they were found guilty, he would drive them out of organized baseball for the re- mainder of their lives.
 Officials of Chief Justice Charles McDonald's court lifted the curtain on the grand jury proceedings suffi- ciently to show great hitter, Joe Jackson, declaring that he deliberate ly just tapped the ball, picture of one of the worlds most famous pit4 chers, Cicotte, in tears, and glimpses of alleged bribes of $5,0O0 or $1O,OOOl discovered under pillows, or on beds by famous athletes about to retire.
 McGraw on Hand.
 Around the court room was some of basebalPs greatest leaders, among them John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, awaiting q call to testify tomorrow, and John Heydler, president of the National league, who went before the grand jurors this afternoon.
 The exact nature of the information MT. 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, ac- cording to court attaches, that he took $1O,O0O bribe.
 Arnold "Chick" Gandil, former first baseman.
 "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, heavy hik- ting left fielder.
 Oscar Happy" Felsch, center field
 Charles "swede" Risberg, short- stop.
 Claude Williams, pitcher.
 George Buck" Weaver, third base- man.
 Fred McMullen, utility player. "Cicotte, according to court at- taches, told the grand jury he receive ed $10,000 from the gamblers, find- ing the money under his pillow when he returned to his hotel room on the night before the first game at Cin- cinnati. I refused to pitch a ball until got it. they quoted him as saying.
 | was promised $20,00O by Chick Gam dill, but never received but $5,000. Claude Williams, according to the witnesses got $10,O0O.
 I While the grand jurors voted their ltrue bills "the old Roman" seated in the midst of his crumbling empire at White Sex park issued the tele- gram suspending those involved, paid off Weaver, Cicotte and Jackson oH ,l the spot, and announced that checka il for pay due the others would be sent them at once. With his voice tremh- Il ling, Mr. Comiskey, who has owned ! the White Sox since the inception of i the American league, said this was I the first time scandal had ever touch- { ed his family" and that it distress- ed him too much to talk about it l Cicotte Asks to Talk. | The rush of players to bare their part in the affairs started today when Cicotte appeared at criminal court building and asked permission
 to testify. Cicotte wept, court at-
 taches said, and exclaimed in sn- lguish his sorrow for his two small
 children as he told how he did his
 utmost to lose rather than win ths
 1919 world series, after he ha3
 "found" $1O.O0O beneath his b4a
 room pillow, where it had been plaSo by professional gamblers. T He said he lobhed the haA to tS
 plate so slowly "you could rad III
 trade mark on it" in the lint mn
 at Cincinnati, when he vas lal
 out of the box after three md
 thirds innings. ~ sx q Last year,s votll ssfies FssS | N