Arizona republican., 1921-07-27
State Will Finish
 Case Against 1919 Game Fixers Today
fRepubIlcan A. E. Leaaed Mire1


 CHICAGO, July 26.AThe defense In the baseball trial will send at least Tour of the former Chicago White S0x players charged with conspirarv to throw the 1919 world series fo tbe witness stand to testify, 1t was an nounced tonight as the state entered the last half of the ninth inning in Its presentation of evidence.
 Chick Gandil. named by state wit nesses as an organizer of the alleged yl0O, 900 sellout; Buck Weaver, third baseman; Swede Risberq. shortstor rr <. and Happy Felsch center fielder. are tify. Fl fl ! v ss'
 Eddie Cicotte. Joe Jackson and Claude Williams, the three plaverr who confessed to the grand jury that they were paid to throw games. also may take the stand.
 The state may finish its case to- morrow. ~NS 7
 The defense announcement ca,,,. after the confessions of Cfcotfe, Will Hams and Jackson had been read to the jury today.
 Previously it had been understood that the defense would depend on try Ing to prove various details Of the testimony Of Bill Burns and other state witnesses false ,on statements from Chicago and Cincinnati players mat they saw nothing wrong with the 1919 world series and on the con- tention that even if there was con spiracy 1t never was carried out and II 1t was it was not illegal.
 Most of the White Sox team have been called as witnesses and today Dutch Reuther, now with Brook lyn but who pitched the first game Of the 1919 world series for Cincin- nati, was subpoenaed by the defense. Court adjourned this morning while the attorneys went over the grand jury confessions, eliminating all names except those of the men making them and few names Of men not implicated in the case but which had to be left in to preserve the continuity of the statements. Al the afternoon session they were read to the jury by a states attorney with court stenographers who orig lnally took them down checking the reading from their shorthand notes. The actual transcripts of the con- fessions varied but little from the frequently published records. Cicotte confirmed some of Bill Burns testimony, mentioning the meetings Burns said were held in New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, although mention of Burns or of oth- CT players said to have been present l 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 T pitched my best afterwards" he said. T didn't care what happened. They could have had my heart and soul If 1 could have gotten out of the | haf I "a trouble; I tried too hard and played l poorly as a result" Speaking of an- | other game, Cicotte said that while playing he wished some one would come out and shoot him."
 I T lay awake all one night thinking and wishing that there was some way I could go out and win that series l myself. he said T would gladly have given back the $10,o00 they paid me -. and with interest,",
 The confessions of Jackson and
 Williams told how they were given 1 5000 each after the fourth game, be- 1 ing promised s20,000 each. Both de- nied making intentional errors, but said they might have tried harder" Williams, in referring to the second
 game, which he pitched, said:
 T didn't have to make errors; l just walked some men and then some
 base hits came along and the game | was gone.'
 Tomorrow the state will announce | either that it has finished it's case
 or will put Bill Maharg of Philadel-
 phia on the stand to give testimony designed to corroborate the testimony 1 of Bill Burns.
 If Maharg does not go on tomor-
 row he and Joe Gedeon, former St.
 Louis player, will be used by the
 state in rebuttal testimony.N