Evening star., 1925-01-11
NOTHING NEW DISCLOSED
In DETAILED TESTIMONY
Judge Lands Making Public of Record of O'Con-
nell-Dolan Examinations Is Believed to Mean
That Bribery Case Is Closed.
by the Associated Press.

HHlCAGO. January 10.-All the
secret testimony of the 1924
base ball scandal involving
members OF the New York Giants
was revealed to the public today by
Kenesaw Mountain Lands, base ball
! commissioner.
The document, comprising 10000
words OF questions and answers, in
cluding the confession of Jimmy
OConnell, banished Giant outhclder.
contained nothing that had not al
ready been made public regarding
the attempted $500 bribe of Hiene
Sand, shortstop of the Philadelphia
Nationals, by O'Connell and Cozy
Dolan. expelled coach of the Giants.
Sand was asked not to bear down
too hard in a game with Philadel-
phia which won the National League
championship for the Giants. The
Stenographic report of the examina-
tion of players involved was with
held by Commissioner Lands for
three months while his investigation
was continued, but apparently he
| learned no more about the alleged
bribe than at the time of the investi-
cation last Fall just before the world
series.
Denied Probe Is Ended.
Commissioner Lands said he gave
out the record at this time because of
the insistence of sports writers for
complete details and to set at rest the
reports that he was holding back i'm
protant evidence. He declared, how
ever, that the publication of the rec
ords did not indicate that his inves-
tigation has been completed.
lands action in barring O'Connell
and Dolan and exonerating Frank
Frisch, Ross Young and George Kelly,
involved by O'ConnelTs confession.
was fully explained OConnell was
placed on the ineligible list because of
his confession: Dolan because of his
famous Il don't remember: can't re-
call" and II don't know" answers,
and his generally evasive attitude.
Young, Frisch and Kelly were ex-
onerated because their denials were
straightforward and in several in
stances Indignantly given. Lands
commented upon their general atti-
tude of innocence. He declared that
Dolan's evasiveness virtu ly
I.
DoIan,s Evasiveness Factor.
While the record shows Lands
telling O'Connell that his confession
and its substantiation by Sand were
sufficient to remove him from organ
ICED base ball. nothing discriminating
was disclosed against Dolan except
OConnell's story The record shows
that Landis told Dolan the principal
thing against him was his evaSive
attitude in claiming he could not re-
member the Matching of the plot as
described by O'Connell On the other
hand, Frisch, Young and Kelly, in
volved by O'Connelrs confession, Wig
| orously denied any knowledge what
ever of the plot and insisted O'Con-
nell had not mentioned any such
thing to them.
O'Connell in the record accuses the
commi ssioner of making a liar" out
of him because Frisch, Young and
Kelly were exonerated, despite O'Con-
nelTs claims. The commissioner re-
piled that these three were straight
forward in their stories and he be-
lieved them.
Only Mention of Officials.
Frischs story was that he sat be-
side Manager McGraw of the Giants
during the game when the bribe offer
was presumed to have been made,
and hence knew nothing about 1t.
Kelly told the commissioner that
James Tferney, secretary of the
Giants, had notified him to come
there for examinations. These two
cases were the only mention of any
base ball officials in the entire in
quiry.
The record shows that Iandis and
Dolan engaged in q heated argument
during which the commissioner want
ed to know If Dolan was seeking a
fight. Landis told the Giants coach
that although he was an old man he
could put up some sort of defense
if he wanted to try it."
Judge, I didn't come down here
looking for a fight" Dolan quickly
assured the commissioner.