Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-30
SchGLk Denies He
Intinldted Scandal
in Worlds Series
Catcher Asserts Someone Has
Wrong Dope in Mention
ing His Name.

CHICAGO. Jan. 30-A certain sport
ing publication here in Chicago has at
tempted to involve one of the squares
aud hardest working ball players who
ever wore a spike shoe-Rly Schalk-
In the worlds series gambling story by
stating that he has given out the infor-
nation that seven players now on the
roster of the Chicago White Sox would
not be with that club next seasOn-tnu-
mating that they are to be released In
some way for their connection with the
alleged gambling report that has been in
circulation since the Cincinnati Reds be.
came worlds champions.
When the yarn first came out Schalk
refralned from making a statement "a
any kind, because he considered the
source from winch it came. He was lit
orally pulling at the leash to reply hut
on the advice of friends and baseball
men did not do so, as it was believed
ne would be. suspecting the integrity
of his mates If he did condescend to Ike
heed of unreliable news of that Bind.
This he had no desire to do. as he has
and always has had implicit confidence
IN the men with whom he associated
Besides, there was determination on his
part not TO become involved in a contrC-
yersy or malicious report which ne knew
lad no foundation and came only from
men who possibly bet their last dollar
OG the White Cox. lost and were not
tlemen.
UNAWARE or
NEW RUMOR STARTED.
Ray also ignored the Chicago publica-
ton because he realized that It was read
by only a few, but when n baseball in
stitution such as the Sporting News is.
because Of its wonderful resources and
the ground 1t covers, takes him to task
because of the story credited 10 him II
hurts him. He realizes it will be read by
nearly every baseball player and fan fin
the country and that he Will be called
scamp for having said such a thing and
that the members Of his own team will
look upon him with Scorn and contempt.
1t hurt him because be is not guilty,
has no conception of how the yarn
started or why he was picked out as
having originated it.
Il presume said Schalk they picked
on me because / am the only member of
the White SoX wintering in Chicago. If
| were elsewhere ! probably would never
have been mentioned in any way The
first yarn that came out attempting to
involve me in the gambling scandal ig-
nored, because / did not consider it
worth while. | played in that worlds
series and played to the best of my abil-
ity. | feel that every man on our club
did the same, and there was not a sin
gle moment of all the games in which we
all did not try. How any one can say
differently, If he saw the series, is mys-
terry to me.
Laying the story on me that seven
members of the White Sox team would
not be present when the 1920 season opens
is a crime. A certain well known base
ball writer first used the story in a morn
ing paper. Later 1 was charged with
having fathered the idea. That is all
wrong. What | have to say is that 1t is
not true that I said seven members of
the White SoX team will be found miss
ing when the 1920 season opens. Nor did
| say that any member of the White Sox
team will be found missing at that time
I agree with the Sporting News that If
1 had said seven members of the Sox
team would be found missing it certain
lly would have been up to me to give
their names"
Schalk caught every game of the
worlds series and he never worked hard
er in his life in an effort to put the
White Sox over. If there had been any
thing wrong going on. II is a certainty
he would have detected it, as he is too
smart a catcher to let any crookcdness
escape him.
NO FIGHT IN
THE CLUBHOUSE.
Besides, Eddie Collins, also one of the
brightest and cleverest players in the
American league, was on line with the
plate and could easily see If anything
out Of the ordinary was taking place.
He saw nothing and said nothing despite
the fact 1t has been reported there was
in which Schalk. Collins, Williams and
Felsch. were said to have mixed This,
also, has been empha tically denied, show
ing that all the rumors circulated were
turned out by men who lost on the White
SoX and who have been doing everything
within their power to disgrace the Amer
lean league champions.
President Comiskey is tired of 1t all.
He has spent considera BILE money to date
investigating the alleged gambling scan
dal and has not found a thing that gives
him even thought that a single member
of his club was dishonest. Recently he
had two men come from st. Louis to tell
him what they knew and what they
heard. According to Comiskey, they
knew absolutely nothing upon which a
ease could be based, and told him moth
ing he had not already heard. If there
was any crookedness connected with the
worlds series the owner Of the White
Sox would like to know 1t first OF all. as
he is determined to keep the game clean
and honest