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] didn't get this until the fourth game
and he then said the gamblers hae
been called off and / figured Their
there was q double cross someplace.'
'On the second trip TO Cincinnati
Cicorte and had conference. tolt
him we were double crossed and was
going out to win if there was any
chance Cicotte said he felt the same
way" said Williams.
',GandiH told nae N Cincinnati thai
Bill Burns and Abe Atten Were fixing
it so we would get 100000. l neVei
got it
Eve had q meeting in Gandills
room at Cincinnati We just dropped
in one at time. They were Bucs
Weaver, Eddie Cicotte, Chick Gandill
Happy Felsch and mystelf there.
I'VE asked Gsandill when We were
going to get the 100000 that Burns
and Attell were supposed to give us
He said: They are supposed to give
$4,000 or $4,000 after each game
If they gave it to him know nothing
about it. .s.
1
the fourth game and then l got $lo,
600 / kept $4,000 and the other was
for Joe Jackson
Il was supposed to get $4,000 and
Jackson was to get $4,000. ALI we
got was $4,000. l gave Jackson MS
money.
ST never even talked to GandiI from
that day to this. / never talked to
nf
players ever talked about it either l
don't know how much Weaver got or
Felsch. | don't even know If they got
any money.
chat is all 1 know. went to Gan.
dis room and there was the money
in two envelopes Gandn said there's
your dough- l picked it up and took
a taxicab to my hotel and threw q
half of it on the bed in Jackson's room.
This was in Chicago after the fourth
game"
Williams said that in the original
agreement the Sox were to lose the
first two games in Cincinnati and
that he did not know whether the third
game. which Kerr pitched and won,
had been fixed.
Uehy 1dUlOISTS 10 ram.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Sept. %
Professional gamblers, whether their
specially is betting on ball games,
horse races or faro. will be denied
admfttance to the Des Moines ball
park of the Western league next
season, E. L. Keyser. secretary OF
the club announced today. The scan
dial unearthed by the Cook county
grand Jury investigating baseball
games, prompted keyser to make
this decision, he said.
Keyser also stated he would intro
duce a resolution calling upon other
Western league clubs to take similar
action at the league meeting to be
held this winter.
Abe AtteH Threatens.
NEW YORK, Sept 2s.-Threats to
tell some things about the inside
story rof the last worlds series that
VIII crack open the baseball world, :"
were made hero today by Abe Attell.
former featherweight champion, and
mentioned as one of the sfxers" Of
the last series.
AtteT claimed that he Is being
made the goat of Arnold Rothstein
wealthy New York gambler who has
maintained that 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 Cincinnati Reds.
"Rothstem is embarrassing himself
at my expense" he said
'"They are all against me, but I can
fight back If they want me to talk
TIL talk and III tell story that will
crack open the baseball world. I'll
tell 'em about the Astor deal.
THAT story that ! offered 100000
10 the White Sox is a lie."
Rothstein could not be reached.
Another Investigation.
NEW YORK, Sept 29.-District
Attorney Harry E. Lewis announced
today he will start an immediate in
vestgation into reports that a gam
bling clique plans to attempt to bride
players on the Brooklyn team of the
National league to lose the world 8
series
Lewis said that following rumors
published in a New York paper of
such an attempt, he wired District
Attorney Hoyne in Chicago and also
got in touch with officials of the
Brooklyn club. The latter assured
him that the entire team would ap-