Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-27
STATE WILL FINISH IN
 BASEBALL TRIAL TODAY

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 Cincinnati, to the witness stand tc testify in their own be- half, it was ann ounced tonight as the state entered the last half of the ninth inning in it's presentation of evidence.
 Chick Gandll, named by state wit nesses as one of the organizers of the alleged one hunlred thousand dollar sell-out; Buck Weaver. third baseman Swede Risberg, shortstop; and Happy Felsch eel ter fielder, are the men, it was announced, positively would testi-
 Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson and Claude Williams, the three players who con- fessed to the grand jury last fall that they were paid to throw games, also may take the stand in their own defense.
 The state will finish It's case tomor- row.
 The defense announce ment came after the confession of Cicotte, Williams and Jackson had been read to the jury to- day.
 Previously, it had been understood that the defense would depend on trying to disprcve various details of the testimony of Bill Burns and other state witnesses on statements from Chicago and Cincin- nati players that they saw nothing wrong with the 1919 world series, and on the contention that even if .here was a con spiracy to throw games, it never was carried out and if it was it was not il- | legal.
 Most of the White Sox team have been called as witnesses and today Dutch h1Jr 1S-17n pitched the first game of the 1919 se- ries for Cincinnati, was subpoenaed by the defense. Court adjourned this morn 1 ing while the attorneys went over the grand jury confessions, editing them for i presentation at the afternoon session. 1 The actual transcripts of the confess i sions varied but little from the frequent 1 ly published reports of them 1 Cicotte confirmed some of the Bill Burns testimony, mentioning the meet l ings Burns said were held in New York, tCincinnati and Chicago, although men, tion of Burns himself or of other play CTS said to have been present was stricken out.
 The former pitcher told of hitting Rath, the first man up in the first game while trying to walk him. but said he played his best after that
 
 Cicotte, T didn't care what happened They could have had my heart and sou If I could have gotten out of the dea' l-I guess that was the trouble; I tried too hard and played poorly as a result | Speaking of another game Cicotte said that while playing he wished some one would come out and shoot him" The confessions of Jackson and of Williams told how they were given fvc thousand dollars each after the fourtl game, being promised twenty thousand dollars each. Both denied making in tentional errors but said they, "migh have tried harder"
 When court convenes tomorrow the state will announce either that ir na, finished It's case or will put Bill Mahar. of Philadelphia on the stand to givt testimony designed to corroborate tn, testimony of Bill Burns.
 The defense plans to move tomorrow that the cases against Carl Fork. Of St Louis, and Ben and Louis Levi, of Ko komo, Indiana, be dismissed on th 4 ground that insufficient evidence ha. ' been presented against them.