Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-22
STARS
FEEL SHAKY IN
FACE OF FACTS
Solid Front of Black SOx'
Broken al Trial-Each for
Himself Now.
PLAYERS MATCHED PLOT

CHICAGO, July 22.-The solid ranks
of the BLACK Sox" have Deen split and
each player started to fight a lone battle
for liberty today.
Every one for himself" is now the
code Of the seven former White SOx stars
charged with making a fake of the 1919
world series and selling the classic out
to the highest bidder.
The eight or ten attorneys 1or the de-
Tense, VINO at the beginning Of the trial
decided TO present a solid front, have
dissolved their agreement.
The rift came as the result or the tei-
timOny Of bill" Burns. confessed stake
holder and gamblers tool during the
world series.
Burns story Of the fake series in
eliminated some players and left others
untouched. Those who were NOT in
vOlved do not want to go down In the
event of q crash; therefore the dissolu-
Burns charged Eddie Cicotte and
'Chick" Gandil with engineering the plot
in New York 4 week or so before the Sc
Ties Onened in Cincinnati. Other defend
ants do not want TO get mixed up III
this dana ting bit of evidence.
The biz fight still looming for the
State is the battle for admission as evi-
dence the confessions Of Eddie Cicot.e'
Claude Williams and Joe Jackson before
the grand jury. is not known den
nitely just when this issue viii be IN
jected into the TRIAL
Attorneys for the State we're jubilant
today over thei- victory In having the
court uphold the testimony Of Burns
and permit him TO relate a conversation
he claimed to have had IN New York
prior to the 1919 series with Cicotte,
Chick Gandil and Ate Attell.
Burns furnished the biggest sensation
OF the trial by declaring that the ball
players and not the gamblers had pro
posed the selling out OF the series. he
testified that Gandil had voluntarily made
the offer TO sell the series for 100000.
Efforts of the defense to have this
testimony stricken out and TO shake the
stor- told by Burns were futile.
During Burns recital OF this confidence
and subsequent conferences the names OF
Jean Dubuc 4 former big league ball
player. and Fred TOney, now a pitcher
for the New York Giants. were men
toned by Burns as having been present at
one OF the conferences. Their connection
with the case was net disclosed
Bill Burns disclosed late Thursday that
he turned States evidence against the
"BIack Sox'' because they double-crossed
him during the fake 1919 series.
They promised me 10 lose the third
game. and they dOuble-crossed me and
won" said Burns.
I lost money on the game and was
not going 10 be the fall guy
Burns made the statement during
discrimination by Benedict Short, one
of the defense attorneys.
Are you taking malicious satisfaction
in seeing these players sent to the pen 2
i am getting even" said Burns.
'.Do you think you are even with
them :" asked the attorney
Not vet" smiled Burns.
Burns broke under the rapid-fir
questioning Of Attorney Michael Ahearns
another lawyer for the defense early
Thursday afternoon.
After a v1lley Of questions, Ahearn
Did you see the players the evening
after the fi-St gamer"
No" answered the witness.
Burns at this point evidently realized
he had been tripped up, and In spite
OF his usual florid complexion, REDEEMED
nOticeably.
Burns had testified previously that he
had conferred with players on the night
OF the first game In the Hotel Sinton
at Cincinnati and had stalled them on
on the $4,000 that had been promised
by the gamblers.
Defense attorneys grabbed at this one
slip of Burns and predicted something
doing along that line" later.
''Sure-thing' gamblers reaped
harvest by betting on the fake series, &C
cordfng to testimony in the trial today.
John o. Seys, secretary Of the Chicago
Cubs, was the first witness against the
seven former White SOX on trial for con-
spiracy to throw games.
Sevs stated he had known Louis Levi.
one Of the four alleged gamblers on trial.
for ten or fifteen years
81 first met Attel at the SintOn Hotel
in Cincinnati said Seys. 1T was the
day before the first game OF the 1913
world series.
I asked AttelI who he was betting on.
He told me Cincinnati. Louis Levi was
around with Attell the same day, but
don't recall whether / had any CONVEX
sation with the two together. Both were
betting on Cincinnati to win the first
game. the second game and the series.
A Mr. Hendricks was betting Atten that
Chicago would win. I held stakes on one
OF these bets"
Continuing, the witness said:
s.Attell bet 5000 TO $500 Cincinnati would
win Attell was taking all the White Sox
money he could get"
Q-When did you first meet Atten In
AT the Sox bali park. the day Of
the first Chicago game. I turned some
state money over to Attell He said he
wasn't going TO bet on Cincinnati that
dav. because it looked like Dick Kerr,
Sox pitcher. would win.
Q-How much stake did you turn over
TO Attell then?
About 5000.
Following Seys' testimony, attorneys
for the state and defense clashed over
the admission OF the confessions Of Eddie
Cicotte. Lefty Williams and Joe Jack
son as evidence. Court was recessed
while the lawyers entered the judges
chambers.