Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-03
SOX
ARE BARRED BY
LANDS RULING
Baseball High Commissioner
Says Game Does Not Want
Jury-Freed Stars.
GUILTY IN FANS EYES

Judge K. n Lands, high commissioner
Of baseball. made this emphatcally clear
IN a statement issued today. He de
Jared that no players who associate with
a bunch Of crooked gamblers are want
ed In the national pastime
Lands issued q statement Of rules
covering the case in which he barred the
players from reinstatement.
Judge Lands said:
Regardless OF the verdict OF turies;
NO player who throws ball game; no
player who undertakes or promises 10
throw a ball game; no player who sits In
q conference with a bunch of crooked
players and gamblers, where the ways
and means Of throwing bali games are
planned and discussed snd does not
promptly tell his club about 1t, VIII ever
play professional baseball.
'.Of course / do not know that any
Of these former White Sex will apply for
Reinstatement, but II they do, those are
at least q feVs, Of the rules that viii te
: Just keep in mind that regardless Of
the verdict OF turies baseball is entirely
competent to protect itself against crooks
both inside and outside Of the game"
COMFY DOESN'T
WANT 'EM BACK.
Charles Comiskey. owner OF the White
sox, said he did not want any Of the
seven players who stood trial back on
his club even II the jury did acquit them
Of fraud. When the scandal was ex-
posed last year Comiskey said he was
done forever In a baseball way with the
accused stars, and today he said he had
not changed his opinion Of them.
There was no bitterness in the atd-
tude Of the 'old Roman" against his for
mer stars But his entire manner
h. Ind n
on the question and nothing would force
him to change It
They can't come back with the White
So1." Comiskey said. Eddie -Cicotts
confessed to me personally Of his part 10
the fixed series lie told Of receiving
money for throwing The games. He in
plicsted all OF those who wee indicted
with him. I do not feel that 1 can trust
them again"
Notwithstanding the Outcome Of the
trial. accused sox players are as odious
20 a clean, right-thinking public as the
crooks and thieves they dealt with was
the comment today Of Ban Johnson
president of the American League
Iandis' statement was believed de-
signed to cover the case OF all the BLACK
sox.9
buck Weaver, third baseman, has
always contended that he received no
money for the fixed series" but con-
LESSONS by some of the accused players
said Weaver sat in on the conferences
with gamblers.
AS result Of the rulings by lands
and Comiskey. the seven players are ex-
pected to 20 through with their plans TO
organize an outlaw club and make
transforming trip throughout the coua-
Eddie Cicotte already has been elected
captain q the BLACK SoxF' club and ar
rangements made for the trip.
A Jury In Superior Court last night said
that the BLACK SOx" committed no crime
in connection With the alleged conspiracy
70 throw" the 1919 worlds series 10 Gin
cinnati Players and gamblers accused
in the scandal that turned the baseball
world topsy-turvey' year, ago we're ex-
onersted-
JCRYMEN MUST
HAVE BEEN SLEEPY.
The verdict OF the jury that ended the
famous scandal trial came just before
midnight. The Jurors deliberated four
hours and bad just taken one ballot. II
was announced. The clerk Of the court
read. one by one, the names OF the de-
PENDANTS and the decision OF the jury
that they were innocent. Besides the
ball players. David Zelzer Of Des NOines,
Iowa, and Carl York OF st. Louis. alleged
gamblers and .'fxers" OF the series, were
exOnerated.
Demonstrations Of joy followed the
verdict The ball players pounded each
other on the back and fought TO shake
hands with the Jurors. A crowd OF 800
men that packed the courtroom stamped
and cheered, despite & the warning Of
Judge Hugo n Friend that no demon
stration would be permitted.
States Attorney Grove announced there
would be no further prosecution Of the
buck" Weaver so far Is the only
PLAYER 10 announce that he will fight TO
get back IN organized ball. Through bis
attorney. Weaver VIII present a petition
signed by thousands Of fans asking that
he be reinstatsd with the White SOx.
PLAYERS UNCERTAIN
OF FUTURE PLANS
Eddie Cicotte, who admits 81 years and
is probably about at the end OF mis- base
bali career. announced that he would re-
turnS 70 his home in Detroit, but did not
say what his plans were. Canon DE-
elared he expected to get hold OF some
good club and manage it indicating ne
did not expect to play again in the big
leagues. Williams said lie would ltlsy
semi professional ball and Joe Jackson
asserted he was through via organizer
bail. Felsch and Risberg express "a tneT
1ov az the outcome Of the trial, but did
not say what their plans for the future
were.
resulted chiefly from point IN Juage
Friends instructions. Judge Friend In
structed the Jury that in cases where con
spfracv to defraud the public and the
baseball owners is charged. it Is up TO
Tie S-safe to prove That cts were done oy
the players with specific intent TO de-
fraud. ,,s
Indictment Of the players and alleged
gamblers followed an Investigation that
begau Immediately after the 1918 world
series when rumors that the games had
not been decided ION the level became
currant The climax of the probe came
IN September, 1920, when a grand jury
was convened and after few days In
diotu7ents were returned.
Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson and Claude
williams made confessions before the
grand Jury, but later repudiated these
CONCESSIONS "BflT' Burns, a former
major league pitcher, and William Ma
harg, a sporting character OF Philadel-
phia. also, confessed, turned States evil
dence and were granted immunity.
The original indictments accused Abe
AtteIl former featherweight boxing
champion; Hal Chase once the prince Of
major league first basemen, and Fred
NcSIullin, utility infielder Of the White
Sox Attell and Chase defeated extradi-
tion proceedings in New York AMI All
fornia and MeAfulIin never was Gppre-
htnded.