Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Find No Plot
to Fix Big Series

Continued from Psse Ono
true bill was voted last week, would
come to Chicago to reveal the "brains''
behind the gamblers plot which led 10
the bribing Of White Sox players to lose
the worlds series last year. Claude
Williams, who confessed to the grand
jury last week, named Sullivan as one
affair.
Reports said Sullivan, who Ia now in
New York, has declared the gamblers
are trying to make him the goat" and
that he. will tell everything he knows
about the gambling plot when he ap-
pears before the grand jury.
Happy Felsch, who was reported by
a local newspaper last week as having
$4,000 to help lose the series, today
denied the charge and said that he
would join ..Ruck" Weaver, Charley
Risberg and Fred McMulln in employ :
ing counsel to fight the case.
To Fight Crook" Charge
Weaver, McMullin and Risberg have
formed a rehabilitation combine. They
have engaged counsel and will fight
charges of throwing the last world 8
series made against them.
Are you going to go before the
grand jury and make a statement, as
the others have done?" Weaver was
asked.
He grinned. "No, not as those
other fools have DONE" he answered
II have been wrongfully accused, and
| intend to fight. I shall be in major
league baseball next year. II
not with the White Sox, then with
some other team.
They have nothing on me. am
glad to hire the best lawyer in Chi
cago to defend me, and I'm going to be
cleared. What can I confess? Look
at my record in the worlds series.
fielded 1000 and batted 1893. ThNt
doesn't look much as IL was fixed.
does, it? Even outside of the records
a man shouldn't be judged by his per
formance in any one game or any smail
series of games"
Here Risberg and McMullin entered
the conversation with declarations Of
innocence.
II made Jackson apologize for the
stories he spread about me-" said Ris
berg. II never Threatened him. I'm
no slugger, although I'm able to take
care of myself"
We're not guilty" interjected
Weaver. Because we're not guilty
we are keeping still, and preparing tt
fight the case in the courts. Our tongues
aren't wagging any until we get b
chance to go down before the state,
attorney and present our side of the
case"
League Games Fixed
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne, who
returned to Chicago yesterday from
New York, went straight to the grand
jury rooms Immediately upon his ar
rival at the Criminal Courts Building
After setting the seal of approval or
the findings of the grand jury the state,
attorney produced another sensation
'I have evidence that six, and DOS
sibly more, Of this years major league
games were fixed by gambling clique, y
the prosecutor said. 81 also have in
formation that the groundwork hat
been laid to fix the 1920 series by thi.
same gang Of gamblers.
II want this grand jury to under
ton and evidence. l shall present TO,
your consideration in very few day.
the evidence have procured while ab
sent from the city regarding the fxin,
of this years big league games.
The information l have received in
regard to the framing of this year,
worlds series has not crystallized IL.
self into evidence. have at work sew
eral Investigators In New York and
two other eastern cities running dowr
this information and expect to be abl,
to come before this body with suficien,
eidence to warrant the return of In
dictments against three of the bigges,
gamblers in the East.