New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-02
Giant Accused
OF Tossing l9l9
Flag to Reds
Cincinnati Business Man
Says He Was Co-Between
III Deal by Which 2 Cru
cial Games We're Bought
Gave Player $4,000
Declares Checks of $4,000
and $4,000 We're Passed
in Hotel Before Contest
specio, Dispatch TO The Tribune.

cinnati business man possesses infor
nation that $4,000 was paid to for
mer member of the New York National
League baseball team following two
games won by the Cincinnati Reds
from the New York Giants in Cincln-
natl September Is and Is, 1919, and
which clinched the National League
pennant for the Reds, was story
that became current in Cincinnati
baseball circles to-day.
This latest chapter in the story of
tho widening circle of professional
baseball crookedness, which casts a
cloud upon the championship won by
the Reds, is to be unfolded, it Is said
before the Cook County Grand Jury in
session in Chicago.
The Cincinnati business man in ques-
ton departed to-day for fishing trip
of few days at northern lake. but
before he left, it is said, announced
his willingness to tell what he knows
to the Chicago grand jury, before
which body, it is reported, he has been
subpmnaed to appear
Ready to Tell All
This Cincinnatian, it is said, has de-
termined to tell his story even though
1t involves friend in order to aid in
the general housekeeping Of profess
sional baseball and in the restoration
of the great American sport to it's de-
served place of confidence with the
public.
According to the story related in Gin
cinnati to-day. former New York
player is named by the Cincinnati bust
ness man as having received checks of
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively. fol-
lowing the two games won by the Reds
from the Giants on the last western
trip made by the New York team in
September, 1919.
The Cincinnatian, it is said, does not
profess to have knowledge that the
former player had any dealings with
other players.
The Cincinnati business man, it is
said, is prepared to give to the Chi
cago grand jury the name of Chi
cagoan, who, according to the story,
was told by the New York player to go
ahead and bet on the Reds to win the
two games.
This occurrence. followed later, it is
said, by the arrival of the 10000, is
alleged to have transpired in Gin
clnnati hotel during the presence of
the New York team in Cincinnati.
The fixer. according to the story,
visited the hotel where the Cincinnati
business man happened to be a guest.
from the business mans room, the
story goes, a long distance telephone
call was put in for certain man in
chicago, whose name the Cincinnatian
is said to remember, but whose iden-
t1ty remains mystery to him.
Inc Cinclnnatian, it is said, was re-
quested by the player in question to
talk to this Chicagoan This the Gin
clnnatian did, and. it is said, repeated
the message, which, in substance. was
that "everything was all right" and to
go ahead and bet on Cincinnati to win
the game the following day, which was
played on Monday, September Is.
$4,000 Check Arrives
After the game had been won by Gin
cinnatl, according to the story, there
arrived at the hotel from a mysterious
source a check for $4,000, signed with
the name of the person to whom The
Cincinnatian had conversed over the
telephone. The check, it Is said, was
made payable to the Cincinnati bust
ness man, with instructions to turn it
over to the player.
The Cincinnati man, it Is said, in
dorsed the check and complied with
instructions to give it to the Giant
player.
That evening, according to the
story, the same telephone conversa-
ton was repeated and the Chcagoan
was told again to bet on Cincinnati to
win the next day, the last of the two
game Series.
Later, it is said, a check for $4,000
arrived and the Cincinnati business
man Endorsed it and turned it over to
the New York player.
These checks, it is said, wero de-
posted in Cincinnati bank through
which they cleared.
Cincinnati fans who heard this story
to-day and who remember the games
of September Is and 16 with New York
last year were stunned by the implied
charges that huge sums were won By
persons in Chicago rs result Of in
formation supplied in Cincinnati before
the games that the quito ONE was fore
gone conclusion.
Reds Clinched Pennant
The Reds then were playing in cham
pionship style. These two victories
over New York were> all that were
needed to stop the Giants in the race