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CARLINVILLE. Ills, Jan. "a
Rivers Anderson, business manager
of the local football team, tonight de-
clared he had personally hired ana
paid Notre Dame university men 10
play for Carlinville egainst Taylor
vile last fall" while Lionel Noise,
coach, said, ITO his knowledge there
was not a Notre Dame man In the
CarIinville lineup" Both assertions
were made in statements to The As
soc'ated Press.
Mr.. Anderson cleared John Hohardt.
all l-American half back of the charges
of playing in the game and said sew
eral Notre Dame stars whom he had
expected to have in the lineup did not
appear, although he had been led to
believe they would come.
II handled the money for the team
and l personally hired and paid Notre
Dame men to play" he said. II am
not willing TO say how much they
were paid or who they were. We
thought we had arranged to have
the entire Notre Dame first team,
but several stars did not show up.
Mohardt did not play although nearly
everyone thought he was playing.
There were some regulars from the
Notre Dame team, but there also were
several substitutes"
Noise, star athlete at the Univer-
sity of the South, 190S09. did not
aplify his statement.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.--Indications to-
night were that guards Disch and
John Mohardt Notre Dame football
stars, said TO have played with Car
linville, Ills, in the professional game
last fall against Taylorville. Ills.
which resulted in disqualification OF
nine University of illinois athletes,
would be cleared Of any connection
with the collegiate football scandal
Developments today tended to show
Desch and Mohardt were innocent
victims of a case of false identity
which was the second instance Of
double crossing in the bitter rivalry
between the two towns over the same
on which Carlinville people bet ap-
proximately $4,000, it is said after
hiring ten college players for their
eleven, only to find Taylorville had
learned of the plan and procured
nine Illinois athletics for its team,
which won. 16 to 0. Both Desch,
member OF the former Olympic team
and Mohardt, an American halfback
last night issued denials that they
played and today presented evidence
to the Notre Dame authorities at
South Bend, Ind. that they were in
school that day. When the Carlin-
willie people who thought they had
hired the two players learned of this
they. frankly declared that un-
doubtedly they had been imposed on
by some persons using the names Of
Desch and Mohardt and that besides
being beaten at their own game OF
safe betting they had been the
dupes of ringers" they hired TO make
the betting safe. "
At South Bend. Desch and Mohardt
presented their evidence at an in
formal meeting of members Of the
college athletic committee and after
wards these members expressed the
opinion that the two were innocent
and merely victims of circumstances.
A formal meeting will be held to-
morrow.
The report spread through Carlin-
Vile previous to the game were that
ten Notre Dame men had been pro-
cured to play and that the game has
thus been clinched and the betting
made safe. ''Desch. Mohardt and
Chester Wynne," whom the towns
people had been informed were Notre
Dame stars, were to play, but Wynne
also denied participation in the game
and announced he can prove his as
sertions.
Knute Rockne. Notre Dame coach.
tonight told The Associated Press
that the authorities undoubtedly
would take drastic action if the in
vestigation showed Notre Dame men
played in the game.
eve do not want to go off half
cooked" he said. but we are bending
every effort toward a thorough inves-
tigation. believe Desch and Mo-
hardt are innocent but can readily
see how the Carlinville people might
have been deceived into believing
Desch and Mohardt were playing on
their team.
'If any Notre Dame man IS found