The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-08-03
Declared fiis Former Play
ers Must Clear Them
selves To fiis Salts
factlOn.
LANDS EXPRESSES
SIMILAR OPINION
EOGE ACpUTTTED HAVE PROS
pEOHs Or BEING RESgrORED
no ORGANIZED BASE
HaII., JUDGE SAYS

immediate prospect OF being restored
70 organized baseball, according 70 81
statement issued today Dy Judge Ken.
esaw Mountain IHndis national base
fall commissioner
'Regardess OF thp vprdic of lu.
ries saiu the statement no player
4 thut throws s. bull game, no player
rhut entertHps proposals or promise
10 throv g pamt no player shut
sits IN $ conference with bunch
ut CROOKED players and gamblers
whore the WAYS and means OF rhrOw-
ine gImps IRE discussed and does not
promptly tell his cluh about i- viii
ever play PROFESSIONS baseball
"Of course 90 not know rhat
my OF rhese men viii apply for 70.
lnstacament Dut If thly 80 sht aboYp
srs 81 least few of me rules chat
would DC enforced
Just keer iu nina that regardless
Oi yhe verdict Of juries baseball IS
ertirely competent 10 protect itseI
sgainst crooks, both inside ana out.
side the game"
Charles a Comiskey owner o. ne
Chicago White SoN. declared today
that the verdict Freeing his Former
Tiayers o. conspiracy charges "a throw
Inc 1879 world SERIES did n0tc hsnee
ais stan5 snd Thai unu they cleared
jtemselveS" 10 his satisfaction hc
would have nothing 10 90 0ith them.
No, GuIls on fT>t Sanoi
The sever former Chicago White
4 Soy players ard two alleged gamblers
brought 10 trial ia The baseball scan
oAl case TODAY STOOD legally cleares
q. sny connection With the aNeced
conspiracy Tor the White SoN % throw
The 1913 worlds series g. Cincinpau.
. jury las, night having found them
ot guilty on the 0rst ballot
The verdict freeing BucS Weaver
Happy Felsch Chick Gandl Joe
Jackson. CLAUDE Williams. charles Ris-
h.re and Eddie Cicotte- the former
Tlaycrs-and Car Zork 81 St Louis
and David 1c,ser " Des Moires, was
Seiurued shortly after midnight smlds,
/. scene % wild cheering whisthns
and yelling nom SOC spectators Witch
would have sccwed more natural IN
iheh teachers OF baseball park than
in the dignificd court room OF Judge
Hugh Friend.
Judge Friends baiuffs vamlN tried
10 establish oplcr out ~ the uancdmo
MUM which broke loose despite the
judges previous request that no
d,monslratiou he given when the Nor.
aaa "a
ed and hats thrown In the air an the
spectators rushed to shake hands With
the ballplayers aud ns the players
rushed TO grasp the hands ct tho
Jurors. Judge Friend finally Joined
In by congrntulatinE the defendants
rnd telling the jury II had returned u
Just verdict While only nine NJ the
is persons indicted In the baseball In.
ycstigatlon were defendants when the
case ended. II " believed that the
baseball scandal has been forever
swept from the board su far nH tho
courts of Cook county are concerned
I'm Cook wan dismissed In return
for his evidence Tor the state. md
during the 9tral tho rasos " Leon
4hu b'N is'fl W hhh'NlNt l'N WV
dismissed Alfred Nuilln nnch"l
Brown of New York. ! I SULLIVAN
and Ben Franklin of ~ Louis slill
are under indictment but 10 was fe.
ported at the Hlntos attorneys office
that the cases would boz allowed -
lapse through The statute ~ llml's.
tionH
srs. ..t....,..... H.. tl. t.t..,...ttftffi
today had lltu sto cay N ihs csss
but the defense pointed 10 the Tact
that only one ballot ess taken ~ the
.Iry a. an absolute ylnJioation ~ The
defsndanta
The lury was not ready i0 return
g. verdict until te1 hours and 81
minutes after received 'he ssss. bot
most u hig me- Fas taken in sign
lnk II ths utts AU i1 men ned
70 asn ne sarfitts. ser-
arais " ng fststhsd for each
1sfsaGS
Weak tase
TS,a. .s.s expressed sufpfiss
ira, ne - beer allowed 70
araE through e.. fe NeeRs While fs
NaAi|E 70 N-tNNIlH t-F H' ."" ''ffa
u discussing the oase with reporters
every .afsr Declared that the ia
ssrae rsu.d have received the sn'e
verdict raj t ssnt the case "a the
gsrY vitaont presenting sny witnesses
or maklnx any closing srfuments
we tnnu4nt ire state had presented
a weak rase said one luror
&c depended entirely On BIZ Burns
and Burns tld not make a favorable
impression with tny ~ us We felt
from me time me state Finished lts
-v'denrp tha, W could not feturn any
xsriict other than not guilty and Ne
iced % privately wish there were
some way TO let the defense steor-
nsvs know uAat IL was unnecessary 10
~ further"
The Jurors refused ia say whsihcr
m raachins their verdict, they were N
o. opinion there was no attempt To
lhrow games IN she 1919 worlds series,
or whether Il was hased on the con.
nPnssun that the state had failed to
nuove ia chnrse that there was intent