The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-03
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Oct. e
The 1924 worlds series will go
on Notwithstanding that the
baseball world was shaken to
it's foundations today by de-
velopments growing out of the
attempt of Jimmy O'Connell,
New York outfielder, to bride
Heinie. Sand, Philadelphia
shortstop, in the game that de-
cided the National league pen
|nant race for the Giants, This
was the declaration tonight OF
Kennesaw Mountain Lands,
high commissioner of base
ball.
It was made after a hectic day dug
ing which fresh charges were flung by
O'Connell, who has been banished for
all time from the game together with
Cozy Dolan, Giant coach, accused OF in
stigating the bribery plot, and during
which prominent baseball officials, IN
Guiding President Ban Johnson of the
American league and President Barney
Dreyfus of the Pittsburg club, asserted
the series should be called off as a re-
suit of the scandal.
Furthermore, the commissioner lndi-
Gated he had no new evidence calcu-
lated to widen the scope of the attempt
ed bribery deal, a possibility brought to
the fore today by O'Connell's reiteration
that the Giants were all in it, and the
specific mention of three veterans,
George Kelly. Frank Frisch and Ross
Young.
Sees No Cloud
$50 far as / am concered no cloud
now hangs over any member of the
Giant team eligible to play IN the
SERIES" the commissioner declared.
"They will go into the world series with
the Senators on Saturday. :.
He waved aside as ridiculous re-
ports that the Giants would be dis-
barred as a team and Brooklyn the
runner-up, selected to represent the
National league in the series. Smashing
his fist on a table when pressed by
newspaper men to comment on the DAY s
Developments. the commissioner de-
clared
ut seems to me to be time for those
persons not clothed with responsibility
clear case of bribery; it proved abor-
tive, the guilty men have been punished
Why call off the series!
Pressed to make public the written
confession of 0'Connell and the testl-
mony of Dolan and others mentioned
in the case, the commissioner SAID he
would not do so unless and until he was
convinced such q course would serve
useful purpose.
Reiterates Charges
In New York, O'COnnell, former
S75. 600 beauty and center of the storm
that has shaken the game as nothing
else since the White SOx scandal OF
1919, reiterated the charges he had
made before Commissioner Lands I'M
plicating others of his teammates Pc
sides Dolan and asserting he was De-
ing made the goat
O'Connell not only insisted that
Dolan was the instigator of the scheme
of approaching Sand, but that Frank
Frisch, George Kelly and Ross Young,
veteran regulars. made it plain to him
that they were ''in'' the deal.
"They were all in it," O'COnnell said,
adding he was told that the Giants were
''alI going to chip in and make up the
purse of $780," which was the sum Of
fered Sand
Dolan answered O'Connelrs accusa-
tions with fiat denial that he had any
part in the scheme, insisting that he
knew of no reason why OConnell should
implicate him and asserting his belief
that he also was being made goat;
The veteran coach declared he wouldn't
cover up for anybody and that no one
could point to dishonest thing L ever
did, in baseball or out of it,
DOlan, however, was made the target
of a broadside by Mr.. Dreyfus, who
in statement at Pittsburg charged the
coach had tempered with pie" Traynor
star Pirate third baseman, year ago.
advising Traynor to hold up" Dreyfus
for a $4,000 salary this season.
Calling off of the worlds series would
mot be too far to go to get the right
results" Dreyfus declared, adding that
he had brought before Commissioners
Lands his charges against DOlan in
1929 and that both Dolan and John j.
McGraw, manager of the Giants, were
warned at the time to keep away from
other clubs"
Baseball men from all parts of the
country, gathering here for the worlds
series, were stunned by the sudden
development of scandal on the eve of
what promised to be one of baseballs
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