The Washington herald., 1920-09-28
At Least Three Players on
Four Teams in Each Big
League Reported Under
Control Brooklyn De-
clared Slated to Lose
World Series to Cleve-
land.
CBy Universal seryice.D

Chicago, Sept 27.-when the
Cook County grand jury reconvenes
tomorrow it will resume it's inquiry
into the alleged baseball gambling
scandal which has come to be one OF
the most widespread and muriy
affairs ever aired in the world of
sport
During the four days that the
jury has been in recess, rumor upon
rumor and charge after charge has
come to the surface here and there.
These will be probed at once.
Among the most important
charges to be placed before the
jurors tomorrow will be one that in
dicates that the White Sox were
bEibed or bIackmailed to lose the
1920 American League champion
ship, so Cleveland could win and
play the world series with Brook
lyn. Brooklyn, it is rumored, has
been "fxedT to lose.
Four Teams Implicated.
The jurors will also probe the re-
port that at least three players on
four teams in each big league are
controlled by the gamblers. so that
the syndicate can slate games just
as they please.
1t was revealed today that the
mystery woman who has been sub
pOenaed to testify in connection
with the alleged 100000 bribe to
White Sox players in 1919 is Mrs.
Henrietta D. Kelly. She owns
apartment houses in which families
of ball players have lived and has
been an intimate friend of her
tenants.
Hugh Jennings, manager of the
Detroit Tigers, and August Gerry
Hermann, former chairman of the
National Commission and presiden,
of the Cincinnati club, were sub
pOenaed today to appear before the
jury.
Indictments in Prospect.
If the Sox win this years pen
nant, it was said today by a man
acquainted with the Sox manage
ment that seventeen of the players
will be rushed before the jurors for
questioning.
Several indictments on the strength
Of evidence which has already been
submitted are in prospect
The ~frame-up" story in connec-
tiUn with the 1920 world series has
been placed before the jury but not
in such a manner that it can be ac-
Cepted as legal evidence. 1t is the
story of one of the greatest and
most unusual blackmau schemes
ever devised
Sox players are said to have been
told by gamblers to lose, or the pen
atty would be exposure for their
part in the 1919 series
RumOrs Reached johnson.
Ban Johnson, president of the
American League, was one of the
first to say he had heard rumors of
the giant blackmail plot Charles
A CCmiskey, owner of the White
Sox, accused Johnson of trying to
break the morale of the White Sox
at the critical time by saying he
had heard such "a report.
Comiskey was quibbIinG over side
issues and that he talked like the
'vapOring" of a vindictive man, He
, added that it is time that all hands
in baseball should help the grand
jury at the bottom Of the scandal of
fixed games"
one witness. who is ready to an
pear before the inquisitors. has said
that the gamblers now control pIay-
ars in all the leading teams and
support them on a permanent paw
IOlI.
Fixed Months Ahead.
He charges that players have
been so cleverly fixed that arrange
nents for the outcome of the men,
nant race were made in the middle
II the summer. He charges that
he SON recent slump on their East
srn tour was a part of the pro-
gram.
Chicago fans are stiII confident
he SON players have been the vic
inns of a lot of ugly gossip and
hat they are innocent Of charges
and rumOrs against them They are
still betting they viii beat CIeye-
and out al the end of the season.
Ray Schalk, who has never been
mentioned in connection with the
candal, will go before the jury in
day or two. He will be pues-
iOned concerning reports that he
1as been crossed FIVE times by one
pitcher who is under a cloud.
Ban Johnson and John McGraw,
manager Of the Giants: John Heyd-
er, president of the National
league. and Barry Mccormick, UNI
0ire. will be witnesses Tuesday.