Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-02
I TRIBUNAL MAY
BE APPOINTED
FOR BASEBALL
Magnates Finally See Light
and Propose a Real Govern
ing Body.
SCANDAL PROBE STILL ON

CHICAGO. Oct. Establishment OF
a high tribunal of baseball that would
take control Of the game from the hands
Of magnates and managers ana place II
in hands OF men who would De censia-
cred as direct representatives. OF the
public is being urged today as the most
feasible plan of keeping spotless the
national game, which is now in the
process of being cleaned mp. -Four of
the leading ball clubs OF me MAJOR
A. d. Lasker a stakeholder in the chi
cago Cubs, is credited with having
originated.
Already the names Of some Of the Ma
TONS famous men have been brought 20
the front as possible members of this
.sguper-court" of baseball. Among them
are william Howard Taft, former Presi-
dent: Gen. John J. Pershing, General
Leonard Wood, William McAdooI Sena-
ator Hiram Johnson and Judge K. ~.
Bands.
WOULD HAVE
NULL POWER
The proposed plan would establish
s .ihunaI of three members, whose au-
orfty over all baseball matters would
b& absolute These three would be PAID
saAr& higher than any received Dy
men NAw in organized baseball. Tney
would thave unbelievable authority
over presidents of all leagues, club own
ers. players and every other person. act
or thing connected with the national
game.
The four major league clubs that have
approved the plan are the New 1orK
Giants. the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Chi
cago Cubsl and the Chicago White Sox.
Iasker is actively engaged in an Of
fort to obtAin approval of the plan from
other baseball magnates. He VIII ask
the minor leagues to come IN also when
the national association hoIos lts amman
meeting att Kansas City.
While the baseball world is revolving
this latest fscheme in its mind tempo
rary Iull Has arrived in the grand jury
proceedings that have kept the fans and
the payers. excited during the last wees is
The Jury here proposes to call no wit
nesses today, but win resume Its active
inquiry on Monday.
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne, who
plunged actively into an inquiry upon
Ills return from New York yesterday,
has made, the startling charge that at
least six games in the-maJor leagues
were fixed during the 1920 season
Evidence which he uncovered IN New
York. Hoyne said, caused him to make
the charge.
HAS EVIDENCE
OF "FIXED" GAMES
81 have evidence that several OF the
1920 games, were fixed and ! have In
formation that the forthcoming series
was to be fixed " Hoyne said. Ny nile
in New York / gathered together iooss
threads of q 1920 scandal which wouid
far surpass that OF kst yeaE- l can nos
say at this time what the result OF my
inyestt xation viii be, but l will venture
the assertion that there is bigger scan
dal coming in the baseball world.
Garry" Hermann, president OF the
Cincinnati Reds, who Eas the cnleI
witness before the grand jury yesterday,
was questioned cohcel ming reports tha'
a $50, 0OO fund had been raised by gam
bIers to bribe the{ New York Giants TO
CLAW down" so that Cincinnati could win
the pennant last year. Hermann y
said to have denied any knowledge OF
the plot
GAMBLER SAYS "
HE'LL TELL FACTS
Reports received todky BY court and
States attorney official said that JOlh
]. (Sport) Sullivan, mentioned N me
testimony presented 70 the g-and july d
investigating the fixing" OF the 1913
x.ori,i1s series. asserted there really was
a "big master mind" behind the deai
which involved payment u money 20
White Sox players to throw the games,
within the next forty eight hours
will be on my Wy to Chicago ana Wheh
I get there / viii tell the garnd jury
or any other officials the whole INSIDE
story Of the frameup," Sullivan IS quo
sullivan. who says be handled several
hundred thousand dollars in bets on
the last worlds series, is expected 10
arrive Tuesday.
..'Thev nave made me the goat and | M
not going to stand for It, he added;
II know the whole history OF the de i
from beginning to end. l know the pig
man whose money it WIS that paid on
the White Sox players-and- l N going TO
name him."