Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01
Buck Herzog Slightly In
jured When he Resents
Spectators Remark
FELLS QUESTIONER
Unless Weaver Tells What He
knows About Worlds Series Frame
up Grand Jury Will Smoke Him Out

Chicago, Oct. 1.-Charles L. Buck
| Herzog, Cub infieIder, against wnom
charges Of crookednesS in baseball
were made by Rube Benton before
the Cook county grand jury, was stab
| bed three times today at Joliet just
after the Cubs had finished playing
an exhibition game there. He was not
badly injured.
Wien the game wasjfiniShed Her
zcg left the grounds and entered an
I,au,omcbile waiting outside to haul
the players back TO the hotel where
they had dressed. One man from the
crowd gathered about the gate climb
ed upon the running board of the car,
stuck his mead inside and said:
you're one of those crooked Chi
cago baIlpIayers. When are you going
to confess?'
Herzog leaped out of the car,
knocked the man down and grappled
with him in the dirt. both rolling into
Il ditch by the roadside. The report
was that HerZog gave the fellow a
thorough licking. but one of the mans
friends pulled knife and went into
Tie fight. slashing Hcrzog. first
across the palm of his left hard as
Buck threw up his hand to ward off
the blow. Another slash from Her
zog'S assalans cut slight cash
across his knuckle. and third swing
by the man with the knife cut through
Bucks stocking into the calf of his
leg.
BY this time Herzcc had rega;ncd
his feet. leaving his first assailant iN,
the ditch and. regardless Of the sec
ond man having knife. Herzog
started after him. The fellow ran in
to the crowd and escaped.
No arrests were made in the affair
but the names OF the men are known
to the Cub officials. who made hasty
investigation. At the Hotel Sherman
last night Herzog was found not much
,tamagc;A but with his left hand
handagcd.
Herzcg is a Baltimorcan and has
been in professional baseball for
years. playing on several pcnnant
winners and starring in worlds series.
He formerly managed the Cincinnati;
Feds.
IF George Buck Weaver. suspend
ed White Sox third baseman. does
not voluntarily appear before Chief
Justice Mcdonald, of the Criminal
Court. to tell Of his alleged conue"-
ton with the conspiracy to- throw"
the last worlds series, as did several
Of his teammates. an effort will he
made to "smuke him out" when the
grand jury resumes its investigation
tt9nnttbws afteroon.
At that time Weaver's dentist. Dr.
Raymond B. Prettyman. Of Chicago.
vii he summoned before the jury to
tel what Bucks" mother-in Mrs
Emma Cook, is said to have told him
concerning the delivery of a mysteri-
Gus packare. rumcred 10 have con
taincd money, by Fred MrMullin,. an
other Sox player against whom true
BIZ was voted
Besides Dir. Prettyman, August
Hermann. president Of the Cincin-
natl Reds. which team won the 1919
diamond classic from the SoX. and
Clyde ElFCtt. head Of the Greater
Stars Production Company, an init
mate of the Chicago players, are ex-
rc"tcd TO testify today.
The investigation, wbirh States At
torney Hoyne ordered halted from
New York. on The ground that the
true bills voted against the eight play
ers would not stand legally, viii
proceed without Interruption ac-
cor,f:ng to Judge Mcdonald. until the
scandal affecting the great national
game is cleaned up" Iioyre was ex-
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