New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
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" faite Sox Can
Not Come Back
Baseball Wants No One Who
Associates Wilh Crooks
aud Gamblers, Says Lam
dis; Verdict Is Universal
Six Plan to Go On Tour
Acquitted Players and Jurors
Who Freed Them Have
Party Until Daybrcal1

Ni'AoAN', aug. d. lneyll never
rlay in big league baseball again" was
the dictum that went out to-day from
the rulers Of baseball on the seven
White Sox who, with two other men.
were acquitted of conspiracy last night
by jury here after some of them had
confessed throwing tho 1919 world
/ series to Cincinnati.
1 The verdict OF the baseball mana.
1 gers, that the acquittal was anything
but an eXoneration and that thu play
/ crs involved were forever through with
baseball, was no less unanimous than
the vote Of the jurymen who carried
the seven on their shoulders after they
had decided they had committed no
crime
Judge K NJ Lands, the supreme
arbiter OF maj league baseball, was
as emphatic as any of the leaders.
"Regardless of the verdict If the
jury" he said, mo player who throws
ball game, no player who promises
or undertakes to throw bali game,
no player who sits in a conference with
bunch Of crooked players and gam
| blers where the ways and means Of
throwing games are planned and dis
cussed and does not promptly tell his
club about it. will ever play profns-
sional baseball. Baseball is entirely
competent to protect itself against thA
crooks both inside and outside The
game, regardless of the vcrdicts of
juries"
"Not With Me- Says Comiskey
"Thov can't play with the White
Sox,' was the laconic Shumbs- down
decree OF Charles A. Comiskey, owner
of the team which was wrecked by the
disclosures following the world series.
"Cicotte confessed to me-" the "Old
Roman" continued, that he and seven
other players conspired to throw the
world series of 1919. Until this con-
fession can be explained away not one
Of these men can play on the White
EOx team"
William ("Kid) Gleason, the fighting
manager of the White SoX, expressed
himself picturesquely at Boston, whore
the SoX opened series to-day. He
bitterly resented even the suggestion
that any Of the indicted men should
ever be allowed to play under him
again.
wish them we'll ?" exclaimed Glea-
son. with baseball expletives. "Not
much, I don't think they'll ever play
IN organized baseball again. ! know
they'll never play with any team
manage"
Pan" Johnson Disappointed
President Byron Bancroft Johnson
Of the American League, who was as
sailed vigorously during the TRIAL by
attorneys for the defense, was disar.
pointed at the acquittal.
The trial of the indicted players nnd
gamblers uncovered the greatest crime
it was possible to commit in baseball,
said he. The fact that the outfit was
freed by Cook County jury does not
alter the conditions one iota or mini
mize the magnitude of the otfense.
The players are as odious to clean
and iglit-thinking public as the crooks
and thieves they dealt with.
The energetic prosecution of the
state clearly indicates that crimes of
this character will not be permitted to
60 unchallengcd."
II am very much pleased that Judge
Lands will not permit the formct
White Sox to play again in professional
baseball" said Thomas j. Hickey, presl-
dent Of the American Association: Il
am greatly disappointed at the verdict"
Yankee Owner Emphatic
Colonel Rupert and Colonel Huston,
owners of the New York Yankees, an
nounced that these players must be
barred from the national game at all
hazards Their own confessions make
them impossible" the New York owners
said.
1t is possible that some or all Of the
! players will attempt by legal means to
be rcinstated, and some delicate legal
problems are involved if such acton
s taken. For the time being, however,
George "Buck" Weaver will continue to
take half the profits of drug store of
which he is part owner on the South
Side Of Chicago, and Eddie Cicotte, Joe
Jackson, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg,
Lefty Williams and Happy Felsch will
tour the country with enough others to
make up ball club. Weaver wishes to
play with the Cleveland world cham
pions or the New York Giants
1t was stated also that Weaver might
b}ing suit for payment of his salary
Which was stopped at the time of his
suspension when the scandal first be-
csme public.
An interesting little aftermath of the
White Sox trial came in little Italian
restaurant here early this morning
where the acquitted men were holding
q little after the-trial supper to cele-
brate. They discovered that the twelve
Jurors who had found them not guilty
few hours before were holding little
supper also. SO the doors between the
two rooms were thrown open and play-
ers and jurors mingled and fraternized.
Inc Jurors unanimously expressed
their hope Of seeing the PLAYERS again
IN action on the diamond. The partv
lasted until sunrise.