Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-12
Made That Charles
comiskey OF White Sox |.
Implicated In The Fixing
Of Games Between His
Team And The Detroit
Tigers; Navin OF Detroit
Pleads Ignorance OF Deal.

Milwaukee, Wis, May 12.-The
1919 world series scandal. which
wrecked the Chicago Am rican league
team and sent seven star baseball
players out of professional baseball,
today has been %reopened. Tomorrow
affidavit filed by Oscar C""Happy'D
Felsch. one of the banishcd players,
which requests Charles A. Comiskey.
and his son, Louis Comis-
Key, treasurer of the White o club.
beS summoned to answer questions
which would dig deeply into the, az
fairs of the American league club"
Felsch presented the affidavit in
his suit against the Comiskeys to re-
cover salary for 1920 with certain
bonuses and compensation for dam
ages sustained in an alleged conspir-
acy m~aliciously to prevent him re-
naming a major league baseball
player.
Suits similar to that filed by Felsch
are being planned by attorneys for
Buck" Weaver, "Swede", Risberg
n Eddie Cicotte, all members of the
White Sox in 1919 and now being
barred from organized baseball.
Most Of the questions asked b.
inquiry of 1919.
Milwaukee, May 12.-Fires were re-
kindled in the baseball scandal Of 1919
when Oscar Happy Felsch of Mil
waukee. one. of the eight White Sox
players banished as a result OF the
findings, yesterday filed an affidavit in
Milwaukee circuit court, a step in his
damage suit against the Chicago
White Sox to salary for part
of the ear 1920 and for recovery of
special bonus payments for the same
year. Felsch also will ask that he be
recompensated for damages sustained
in an alleged conspiracy to injure his
reputation and to prevent him from
remaining a professional baseball
player in the major leagues.
Court Commissioner Max w. Nohl
signed an order which will bring the
C~omiskeys to Milwaukee Saturday to
appear before Judge John J. Gregory,
in circuit court, and give reasons why
they should not produce the books n
records of the Chicago club. here in
order to determine the extent of the
damages, back salary and bonus for
the 1920 season. ', #
Attorney Raymond j. Cannon, who
started the action for Felsch in the
soon begin similar actions for "Buck"
Weaver, Eddie Cicotte ndr"Swede''
Risberg. other banished Sox players.
Felsch in his affidavit states that to
perfect h complaint in his original
suit he desires to examine the defend
ant on a Number of points in m
ton with the charges of alleged con-
spiracy, throwing" Of games and va
rious financial matters. The questions
prepared for submission to President
Con1lskey follow in part:
Was Agreement Made: X.
What agreement was made by
Charles Comiskey with the players Of,
the Chicago White Sox in the late
summe or fall of 1917, concerning
an attempt to have the Detroit base
ball club f~raudulently lose games to
the White Sox? @ .
WAS an agreement made between
said Charles Comiskey and certain
White Sox players that such players
should pay $50 each into u fund to
be paid to certain pitchers of the De-
troit American league baseball team
to induce the said pitchers to inten-
tionally, throw the games to the White
Sox?
ibid the defendant make an ex-
press agreement with all the mem
bers Of the Chicago white Sox in the
late summer Of 1917, whereby 1t
agreed to pay to each member Of the
baseball team $500 in lieu of, their
shares of world series receipts if the
American pennant should be Won
by the Chicago White Sox for thai
year?
Did They Help Detroit?
{. WAS an understanding had be-
tween. Charles Comiskey on behalf of
the defendant in the fall of 1919
with the players Of the Chicago White
Sox hat o games were to be do
liberately lost and thrown to the De-
troit American league team in con-
sideration of the services the Detroit
team had rendered to the White Sor
in 1917 in permitting itself to be de-
feated intentionally in eight out OF
nine games, and aiding the Chicago
White Sox in defeating h Boston
baseball team in the rae for the
American pennant?
What present players on the Chi
cago White Sox ;baseball team bet
large SUNG Of money that the Detroit
American league baseball team would
defeat the Chicago White Sox base
ball team four. straight games after
the Chicago White Sox beaseball team
had cunched the pennant in 1919? (
why was. It that after the Chicago
White Sox baseball team won the
pennant and the world series in 1917,
that the defendant without previous
motive or negotiations In the fall OF
1917, ordered a $500 cut in salary for
each member OF the Chicago baseball
kteam and why WAS IL. that in 1919,
after the Chicago White Sox team had
lost the world series to the Cincinnati
National league bascballSteam and
after the defendant had obtained full
knowledge that the world series for
the year 1919 had been f1xed. that the
ganes had been frauduiently thrown
land Intentionally lost to the Chicago
White Sox baseball team, the defend
ant nevertheless Voluntarily and with
out previous demand by the players.
traissd the salary of the plaintiff from
Is$3, 500 year to : 900 per year, and
tthe salaEy OF Joe tacksonsfrom $500
10 year to $4,000. and the salary OF
Lefty Williams from $2,2ss a year to
why Rawa1d offered?
s.For what purpose did Charley
EsConrtskey. Oh behalf .of the defendant
Ecorpofation. offer to pay 10000 for
1.-THE evidence concerning the fixing OF
games or the world seriss in 1919.
Notwithstanding the tact that he and
1.-The aid defendant WereHtn possession
l5of an tho facts concerning the fixinS
koG aid game6. and wefa S~4ndirectly
tpArticipAnts IN the: hxine of the aid
0anies 36fl said series7
what steps In the conspiracy and
for what purpose wa the denial by
Charles comiskey on bshalfsof the de-
PENDANT OF a hearthe TO the players 81
alleged to have been Involved in the
fxanS o. the games IN the 1919 World
ssFf6a.s and why was II that the sAid
Observation-Disclosures did sn0ts permit the