The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-29

they could do to lose It, but Dicky
Kerr, the pitcher, won It in spite of
jackson Is Afraid.
Jackson said he was not going to
get far from his protectors until the
affair was cleaned up.
lone of the players indicted threat
ened to kill me If I squawked," he
said. That's why I had the bailiffs
with me when I went to the grand
jury room. I am not under arrest yet
and I've an idea that old joe Jackson
is not going to Jail"
jackson was among the big league
baseball players who was censured for
running to the shipyards during the
war.
Federal investigation was expected
TO be started today to determine
whether the players who received the
bribe money included it IN their in
come tax returns.
The square" players of the White
Sox held a celebration at the apart
ment of Eddie Collins last night. The
party included Eddie and John Col
Inns. Ray SchaIk. Eddie Murphy, Lie
bold, Faber and Dick Kerr.
''For Wife and Kids"
"RIsberg, Gandil and McMullin were
at me for a week before the series
started" Eddie Cicotte told the grand
jury in his confession. They wanted
me to go crooked I needed the
money. I had the wife and kids. They
don't know this and don't know what
they will think.
az had bought a farm. There was
a four thousand dollar mortgage. 4
paid that off with crooked money.
THE eight of us-the eight under
indictment-got together in my room
three or four days before the series
started. GandiI was master of cere-
monies. We talked about throwing
the series and decided we could get
away with it. We agreed to do it.
Il was thinking of the wife and kids
and how I needed the money. I told
them I had TO have the cash in ad-
vance. I did not want any checks. I
did not want any promises. I wanted
the money in bills before I pitched a
ball.
Wanted His c. o. D.
1--WE all talked quite a while about
it. Yes, all of US decided to do our
Then Gandil and MeMullin took US all.
one by one, away from the others and
we talked turkey. They asked me my
price. I told them $4,000 paid in
advance.
ut was Gandil I was talking to. He
wanted to give me some money at the
time and the rest after the games
were played and lost.
Cash in advance. not c. o. D.. I
reminded him. If you can't trust me.
I can't trust you. Pay or I will play
ball.
We'll. the argument went on for
some days, but stood pat I wanted
that $4,000, and I got it.
Now I wish that I had not.
1.-The day before I went to Cincin-
natl, put it up to them squarely for
the last time there would be nothing
doing unless I had the money.
THAT night 1 found the money I'M
der my pillow. I had sold out 'Commy'
and the other boys to pay off a mort
gage on a farm and for the wife and
kids.
1.-THE first ball I pitched I wondered
what the wife and kiddies would say
II they ever found out was crook.
I pitched the best ball I knew how
after that first ball, but lost because
I was hit, not because I was throwing
the game
Abe AttelI Knows 'Inside."
New York, Sept. 29.-Threats to tell
some things about the Inside story
of the last worlds series that will
crack open the baseball world were
made here today by Abe Attell. former
featherweight champion, and men
toned as one of the "fixers" of the
last series.
Atteli claimed he is being made
New York gambler, who has main
tanned he refused to go in on the deal
with the gamblers who told him that
enough White Sox players could be
fixed" to throw the series to the Gin
cinnati Reds.
'Rothstein is withdrawing himself
at my expense he said. They are
all against me but I can fight back.
If they want me to talk, I'll talk, and
I'll tell a story that will crack open
the baseball world. III tell them
about the Astor deal.
That story that I offered 100000
to the White Sox is a lie.'
Rothstein could not be reached.
They Were DOubIecrossed.
Chicago, Sept. 29.-'T was supposed
to get $4,000 after the second game,
when we got back to Chicago; and 1
did not get this until after the fourth
game and he then said that the gam
blers had called it off and I figured
then that there was a doublecross
somewhere" Williams said ION the
second trip to Cincinnati Cicotte and
I had a conference: told him that we
were doublecrossed and that was 60
ing to win if there was any possible
chance. Cicotte said he was the same
way. Gandil informed me in Cincin-
natl that Bill Burns and Abe Attell
were fixing it so that we could get
$780, 900. making $50, 700 more. That
1 never received"
You had a meeting in Cincinnati
OF the ball players; where was that?"
THAT was in the hotel, in Chick
Gandirs room"
who was there %
I'VE never had q meeting. We just
went UP there; we Just dropped in one
at a time. There was Buck Weaver
Eddie Cicotte, Chick Gandil. Happy
Felsch and myself
was Weaver in Thereof
Yes. we asked Gandl when we
were going to get the 100000 that
Burns and AtteH were supposed to
give US. He said they are supposed to
give me after each game twenty or
thirty thousand dollars If they gave
him that. know nothing of it at all"
when did he say he would get
some money!"
He did not say; he did not make
a statement. I was supposed at first