Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-27
To
TAKE STAND IN
BASEBALL TRIAL
Gandi, Weaver. RiSberq and
FeISCh viii Testify; State
Expects to Finish Its Case
TODAY.
tBE The Associated rressN

Chicago, July 26.-The defense
in the baseball trial will send at
least four of the former Chicago
White sox players charged with
conspiracy to throw the 1919 world
series to the witness stand to testi-
fly, it was announced tonight as the
state entered the last half of the
ninth inning in its presentation of
evidence.
Chick Gandil, named by state
witnesses as an organizer of the al
legged 100000 sell-out; Buck
Weaver, third baseman; Swede
Risberg, shortstop, and Happy
Felsch, centerfielder, are the men
it was announced would testify.
May Call Three Others.
Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson and
Claude Williams, the three players
who confessed to the grand jury
that they were paid to throw
games, also may take the stand.
The state will finish its case to-
morrow.
The defense announcement came
after the confessions OF Cicotte,
Williams and Jackson had been
read to the jury today.
Previously, it had been under
stood that the defense would de-
pend on trying to prove various de-
tails of the testimony of Bill Burns
and other state witnesses false, on
statements from Chicago and Gin
cinnati players that they saw moth
ing wrong with the 1919 world
series, and on the contention that
even If there was conspiracy 1t
never was carried out and II 1t
was 1t was not Illegal.
Ruether is Subpoenaed.
Most of the White Sox team have
been called as witnesses and today
Dutch" Ruether, now with Brook
lyn, but who pitched the first game
Of the 1919 world series for Gin
cinnati, was subpoenaed by the de-
tense.
Court adjourned this morning
while the attorneys went over the
grand jury confessions, eliminat-
ing all names except those of the
men making them and few names
Of men not implicated in the case
but which had to be left in to pre-
serve the continuity of the state
ments.
At the afternoon session they
were read to the jury by states
attorney with court stenographers
who originally took them down, |
checking the reading from their
notes.
The actual transcripts Of the con-
LESSONS varied but little from the
frequently published reports.
Confirms Testimony.
Cicotte confirmed some of Bill
Burns testimony, mentioning the
meetings Burns said were held in
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago,
mention of Burns or of
other players said to have been
present was stricken out.
The former pitcher told of hit
ting Rath, the first man up in the
first game, while trying to walk
him, but said he played his best
after that.
~ pitched my best afterwards"
he said. "I did not care what
happened. They could have had
my heart and soul if / could have
gotten out Of the deal--I guess that
was the trouble; I tried too hard
and played poorly as a result"
Speaking of another game, CT
cote said that while playing he
wished some one would come out
and shoot him."
II lay awake all one night think
ing and wishing that there was
some way I could go out and win
that series myself" he said. Il
would gladly have given back the
$4,000 they paid me-and with
interests"
The confession of Jackson and |
Williams told how they were given
$1,000 each after the fourth game,
being promised 100000 each. Both |
denied making intentional errors,
but said they might have tried |
harder"
Williams, in referring to the sec
ond game, which he pitched, said:
II didn't have to make errors;
| Just walked some men and then |
some base hits came along and the
game was gone"
Tomorrow the state will an
nounce either Inat II has finished
its case of will put Bill Maharg, of
Philadelphia, on the stand to give
testimony designed to corroborate
the testimony of Bill Burns.
If Maharg does not go on tomor-
row he and Joe Gedeon, former st.
Louis player, will be used by the
state in rebuttal testimony.
The defense plans to move to-
that the cases against Carl
Fork, Of st. Louis, and Ben and
Louis Levi, of Kokomo, Ind, be
dismissed on the ground that in