El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-07
CrOOBedness In SOr-Red
Series KnO1Un Months Ago

Nothing to it." he said. laughing.
"We'u get 'em yet"
Those players knew the charges.
knew they were suspected. yet they
did not get mad
The teams moved to Chicago that
night
Bin Gleason Sc as honest q man as
breathes, and a fighting man He be-
IaVed that crooked work was going
on. Hs told his players 20 get out
there and play honestly or answer TO
him He threatened 70 choke or kill
some OF them he was fighting hard.
He spoiled the plans OF the gamblers
BY sending little Dick Kerr in 70
pitch. The rumors were still vicious.
The gamblers were plunglng on the
Reds Odds were offered, but when
Kerr was announced TO pitch the odds
were jumped 20 S % 5 on Chicago.
which looked bad Bill Burns. who
had been cleaning up on the first
two games bet his roll on the third
game and lost It.
Gamblers Used Rothstein's Name
II was then that the gamblers
seemed 10 need fresh capital They
were spreading the word almost open
~ that il was fixed and begging for
money 20 bet. 1t is probable that 10
was al that time that they tried 20
get money by using Arnold Roth
STEMS name
was Informed that night that in
the morning g meeting OF ball players
had been held IN a room at he Ia
sale hotel. that there were nine per
sons In the room-seVen ball players
and Abe Attell and one other Co
uiskey had At that time detectives
watching the players. I never was
able TO verify the report OF the meet
ing. I was told that at the meeting
Buck Weaver raVed and gWora and
declared he had nothing 20 do with
the losing Of the games and that he
would not touch the dirty money. 7
was also informed that Williams and
Cicotts refused TO 90 any further with
20 and that there was a stormy time
The gamblers were said 70 have in
sisted that the players 90 through
with the program
Br that time the White Sex
were 20 broken that there was no
hope Of raIlyinE them. Rain
spelled the next day and during
that day there was n desperate
effort 10 rally the White Sex. The
threats OF Gleason and Others Of
the honest ones nay have scared
the Sex. At any rate there was
no reason to throw the next game
no team on earth could have
beaten Euer, pitching ns he WAS
Williams went along wen Until
the sixth inning when he com
menced growing the bail and the
Reds hammered out four runs.
aided by siderable fielding b.
EeIuch and HisberE-
Then they moved 20 Cincinnati and
the White Sex won again with Kerr
pitching and they returned TO Chi
caEo.
The gamblers we're alarmed
I Charges OF double crossing were
hurled around. The Reds had broken
badly and IL seemed a game OF give
away.
fEd Gleason Desperate.
In the last game Gleason made his
7 final effort He first proposed TO take
out Of the game every man under
/ suspicion and send out a man Of make
/ shifts upon whose honesty he could
rely. He was told that the act would
make a farce Of the series He then
I declared himself. lie stated that II he
saw any evidences Of crookedness that
day he would use an iron" on the
guilty player, meaning gun the
[ Kid was desperate
Just before that game started ]
was standing back OF the press box
/ IN the upper tier when a gambler
came past, and we stopped and talked
Better get a bet on the Reds" he
said
You'll see the biggest first inning
I you ever saw in your life" he re-
marked and walked away.
1t vas Williams pitched about
seven balls and the game, as far as
results went. was over he vas taken