The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-30
ARGUMENTS
 IN BASEBALL TRIAL
 BEGUN AT CHICAGO
Defense Wins Battle of Strat- egy In Keeping FeIch'S Statements Out of
 the Records
Rr Associnted Press

Chicago, July 2g.-Finsl argu- ments in the baseball trial were be- gun today, with the state directing a two hour attack on the defendants in which the indicted White Sox players were pictured as traitors, who for slOo,OOo of dirty money sold their souls, betrayed their comrades and the public and conspired to make the one truly American sport-base- ball-s confidence game"
 Edward Prindiville directed the prosecutions first fire in the final fense had won a battle of strategy from the state by keeping out of the record a statement Happy Felch former Sox centerfielder, is alleged to have made to a newspaper re- porter that he was paid s5,O00 to throw games
 Mir. Prindiville expects to finish his argument in special session of court tomorrow The defense pleGs will take up Monday and possibly man closing for the state late Tues day The case is expected to be in the jurys hands late Tuesday or early Wednesday,
 MT. Prindiville directed his works mainly against Cicotte, Joe Jackson Claude Williams and David Zelcer the latter identified by two state z witnesses as a man who under the name of Bennett, held organized the conspiracy.
 Similarity of Stories
 x<f laA ol Irc A, n conspiracy as related by Bill Burns who turned states evidence, MT Prindivlle called the jury's attention to the similarity of Burns story and the confessions of Eddie Cicotte. tie was particularly bitter in speaking of Cicotte.
 This man, by his own confession, sat in his room at the Warner hotel here and arranged to receive s10,00o for the dirty work he planned" satd Mir. Prindivlle. Then, Judas like, he went downstairs to hobnob with his innocent teammates and, in his own words to alay the suspicious of the men he had just betrayed.
 He said he'd throw the ball over the fence, if necessary, to lose the first game He confessed to Judge Charles A. Macdonald, and then he went to the jury and confessed. And what happened in the first game Cicotte, the American leagues great est pitcher, hurling with a heavy heart-by his own confession-and a pocket made heavy by $10.000, was beaten, to 1.
 Asks Limit Penalty
 Prindiville declared the evidence proved Chick Gandil one of the cof- spiracy leaders, and that Williams l --- Al I1 al r guilt. What can you gentlemen do. but go the limit in punishing them ?' he said.
 And this man Zelcer." he shouted. He has tried to prove an alibi, to prove he is not the man Bennett who helped Abe Attell run this deal.
 Yet we prove that Abe Atttell had thousands of dollars under the mat tresses in his room at the Cincinnati hotel; we prove there were suitcases of money there. and that he took s1o. 900 of this money against Ben nett's wishes and gave 1t to Burns for the players. and Burns gave it to Williams and Jackson
 And Zelcer in first saying he knew Attell slightly. finally admits that Attel roomed with him at Cin- cinnati during the series, and that he registered Attell himself. He then admits that he has known At tell for years-and yet he did not know of this conspiracy or of the $10,000 transaction In his own room.
 Burns may be squealer. But is he any worse than these defendants? Three of them squealed? His story is as good as theirs-better. he with stood two days of gruelling cross Questioning without changing sin gle main fact.
 These men did what Abe Attell told them. Abe said lose the first two They did Able said, win the third They did"
 Tomorrow MT. Pindiville will go intn the legal asnects of the ca sa