Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-29
WORST SCANDAL IN
BASEBALL HISTORY
Eight "White Sox" Players In
dicted For Bribery In Worlds
Series-Cicotte Confesses
(By Associated Press)

sions by some of the seven Whit,
Sox players, who, with one forme
player, were indicted by the CRANE
jury yesterday in connection with th'
alleged throwing of the 1919 world
series, will be made in day OF two
according TO the clubs attorney. L
is reported that at least two of th'
seven players are anxious to supple
ment q confession-Eddie Cicotte ant
Joe Jackson.
The identity of the alleged go-be
tweens and gamblers who bribed tht
! White Sox players was revealed in {
confession to the grand jury today BY
Lefty" Williams, who joined CicOtte
and Jackson in making clean breast
of the 1919 worlds series frameup
He named "Chick" Gandel, a former
White Sox player, indicted yesterday
as the chief go-between on the team
and Brown and Sullivan, gamblers
either of New York or Boston, as
go-between for the gamblers. The
jury Immediately indicted Brown and
Sullivan.
Williams said he was supposed to
get $4,000 and Jackson the same
! but tlla the received only 1000, half
of which he gave to Jackson. He said
Gandel told him that Bill Burns, vet
crnn pitcher, and Abe Attel, former
| prizefghter, were fixing it for the
White Sox players to get 100000.
Chicago, Sept. 29-The Cook
county grand jury Tuesday voted
true bills against the following
ba ascball players in connection
with its investigation Of alleged
Throwing" Of worlds series
games last year:
Eddie Cicottc, Claud Williams,
Chick" Gandil, Happy Flcsch,
Charles Risbcrg, Joe Jackson
Buck Weaver, and Fred McMul-
lin.
All are members Of the Chicago
Americans. The eight players
are charged with conspiracy to
violate state law.
lust before the indictments
were announced witness was
ushered out Of disused rear door
Of the grand jury room. He was
reported to be Eddie Cicottc, the
White Sox star pitcher.
CiCotte, who was named Ill the
story Of the alleged gamblers plot
told at Philadelphia Monday night
by Billy Maharg, former prize
fighter, is said to have signed an
immunity waiver and then to
have gone before the grand Jury
and testified The sudden voting
of the true bills then followed.
Alfred S. Austrian, attorney for
the club, sent the following tele
gram to Risberg. McMullin, Jack
son, Felsch, Weaver, Williams
and Cicottc:
You and each of you are hereby
notified of your indefinite suspen-
sion as member Of the Chicago
American Baseball Club.
"YOur suspension is brought
about by information which has
Just come to me directly involving
you and each of you in the base
bail scandal, (now being investi
gated by the present grand jury
'of Cook county,, resulting from
tic worlds series of 1910
nf
wrong doing, you and each of yoit
will be reinstated; if you are gull
ty, you will be retired from Or
gaiized baseball for the rest Of
your lives, if l can accomplish it.
Until there is hnality to this
Investigation, il is due to the pub
lie that | take this action, even
though it costs Chicago the pen
nant. Charles A. Comiskey."
eve shall play out the schedule
if we have to get Cinnamon to re-
place the suspended players.
HAIRY Grabner. secretary Of the
White Sox, announced.
(icotte broke down and cried in
the grand jury room, one of the
jurors said, following the voting
Of the indictments. The juror
qloted as saying he wished he
were not mixed up i'll it."
Eddie Cicotte confessed that nc
engineered the deal by which the
White Sox lost last years worlds
series, an official Of the court an
nounced.
The details Of Cicotte's comics
sion follow closely the story told
in Philadelphia by Billy Maharg,
former prize fighter, it was stat
ed.
Cicotte told the grand jury, it
was announced, that he received
$4,000 for his part in losing the
series. He never saw the man