The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-01
,.;)YNE SAYS
re
t KNEW OF
CROOKEDNESS
ate Attorney Says Charles
c-omiskey Asked Him To
investigate 1919 Series Inn
ned.ately After Close.
] EVIDENCE ON 1920
(By Associated Press)

!. HICAGO, Oct. 1.-Charles Com.
ey, owner af the Chicago White
(, asked States Attorney Hoyne 10
|. estigate last years world series
mediately after the conclusion o.
games, Hoyne said today, after his
,, Urn from New York.
Ioyne's office conducted the inves-
, alton for three or four days and
nd enough evidence to satisfy him
I the series was crooked, he said
. enough evidence was found. how
|. r, to probe the facts, he added.
The grand jury which has been
ring the case will complete it's reg
n session today, but Chief justice
Donald, who ordered the investi-
ton, said it would be retained as a
1 ecial jury devoting it's entire time
the baseball situation.
j, Other Witnesses Called.
other witnesses who are to be call
: before the grand jury include DR..
ymond B. Prettyman, who has done
) tai work for the White Sox players,
Il Clyde Elliott. motion picture man,
10 accompanied Kid Gleason to st.
lis to make an investigation last
r at President Comiskeys request.
uck" Weaver, Sox third baseman
II Fred McMullin, utility man for
4. club, among those suspended by
niskey. are said to be ready to
ldfy.
wives of several of the players also
w be called to tell what they know
= le alleged fixing" Of the 1913
:, it was reported.
ports said to emanate from mem
of the White Sox team credit
tn, py" Felsch with having placed
cr }. accepted as a bribe from the
on 'ers, as bet at to l on Gin
fea in the second game of the
da, thus accommodating $4,000.
M; ck" Gandil, former White Sox
evr aseman. who was named by Ed
ras cote, Joe Jackson, Williams and
No. as the man who headed the
d piracy among the players, said
+, yesterday in Lufkin, Tex, where
VA in a hospital following an op,
t.tton for appendicitis. that the stor.
a. concerning him were untrue. Il
!. er threw a game in my life," he
& GandiI Denies Charges.
? II Lefty Williams said l was the
.o-between,' shall give him little
Fuble on my own hook, and make
IN prove his charge" Gandil said
Is soon as 1 can leave the hospital
/ m going straight to Chicago and
sa those fellows and make them ad-
! they lied. 1t won't be necessary
I send an officer for me-"
S,Buck" Herzog, second baseman OF
1 Chicago Cubs, was recovering to-
y from three wounds inflicted by a
II with knife yesterday as he
) leaving the ball park at Joliet
where the Cubs played an exhibi
/, game. Herzog was in an auto
a man shouted There goes the
t1ked Chica go ball players" The
IA jumped upon the running board
he car and slashed Herzog on the
rf1t hand and his left arm and leg
ie wounds are not serious.
s,erzog was charged by Rube Ben
IA with having tried to bribe him to
slrow" ball games, but was exonera t.
OI lu6 Gudl SSS Icll AASS
u of the National League appeared
\ e the grand jury with affidavits
ring him innocent.
Wv YORK, Oct 1.-District At
Z. Harry E. Lewis of Brooklyn
ted to complete today his ex
4 lions of Brooklyn National
L ,e base 3a'l players on reports
gamblers h;4i al preached some
s,m with proposals to throw" the
scuins worlds series.
, a .er three players had been ques
ed by Mr. Lewis yesterday he said
was convinced that they were on
Ae level" Those questioned were
~ Wheat, capt. Pitcher MamauS
James w. Taylor. catcher