The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-28
IMAHARG SAID ID
 HAVE BEEN TOLD } GAMES ''FIXED'
Comiskey Asks Former Boxer to Present Evidence Before Grand Jury Probing
 Baseball Scandal
By Associated Pross

CnlcagO, OepCemDer Zt.- President Charles Comiskey, of the Chicago American lea que club, tonight received word that Billy Maharg, for imer boxer and business part lner of Billy Burns, ex-major league pitcher, has told news paper men in Philadelphia that the White Sox players ap- preached him before the world series last year and told him it had been fixed" for Cincinnati to win.
 E President Comiskey immediately tele- graphed Marharg asking him to come here and present his evidence to the Cook county grand jury. Comiskey said he would give Maharg $1o000 if his charges were proven.
 '.Furthermore, I'll see that every player affected is barred from organized base ball forever
 The statement said Eddie Cicotte, who lost two games in the series. approached him, saying he could furnish sufficient
 
 players to throw the game.
 White Sox were offered s1O0,000 for throw ing the series, said Maharg, but received only $10,000, double crossing them. Ma harg's statement as received by Comis- key, virtually was as follows: ss.Last fall Cicotte approached Bill <Burns and myself in a hotel in New York He told us that he could supply enough players to assure the throwing of the game. We made the deal Abe Attell acting as the fixer' or 'go-be- tween.
 ..The- sox were double-crossed ana SC were many of the gamblers by Atteli, however and Burns and lost every cent we had by betting on Cincinnati to win the third game of the series which we thought also had been fixed. We cleaned up on the first two games.
 According to the story Clcotte toid us, eight. Spx players were in on the deal. TheySw the men whose names have been most prominently connected with the Chicago grand jury investiga- s tion.
 ..Thousands and thousands of dollars were made on the series but the men who engineered the deal were double crossed and got left out in the cold
 THREE GAMES THROWN"
 Philadelphia, September 27.-The first, second and third games of last years worlds series were thrown" to Cincinnati by eight members of the Chicago Americans. according to rev eIations said to have been made by Billy Maharg, former boxer and well known in local sporting circles
 Maharg's story as printed today in the Philadelphia North American, says that he and Bill Burns, former American League pitcher, were ,he first to be approached in the conspir- @.acy.
 r..sI received wire from Burns from New York the middle of last Sep tember inviting me Sto4 take hunting trip with him down on his ranch in New Mexico said Maharg. "We were to take Bill James, one of the White Sox pitchers, with us. James had nothing to do with subsequent events, but while we were there in the ~oom talking Cicotte came in and started to talk in low voice to Burns.
 '.T heard enough to know that he said that group of prominent players of the White SoX would be willing to throw the coming worlds series if syndicate of gamblers would give them ' s100000 on the morning of the first game.
 When Cicotte left Burns turned to me and repeated 'Cicottes conversa- ton, part of which I had heard Burns said do you know any gamblers wEo would be interested in this proposi- tion?'
 T said I would go to, Philadelphia and see what could do. Burns said he would go to Montreal to close an oil deal and that he would wire about the progress of the deal
 SAW GAMBLERS
 T then went to Philadelphia and saw some gamblers there. They told me that it vas too big proposition for them to handle and directed me to Arnold : Rothstein, a well-known and wealthy New York gambler. In the meantime Burns had returned to New York and went over again and joined him. We met Rothstein by appointment and put the proposition up to him. He declined to get into it. He said he did not think that such frame-up could be possible
 We left Rothstein and hung around New York for a while. I returned to Philadelphia. thinking that everything was off until I received the following telegram from Bill Burns. It read:
 4 Arnold R. has gone through with