New Britain herald., 1926-12-30
RLSBERG SAYS THAT HE
 CAN INTRICATE 20 MORE
Banned White Sox Claims There is Plenty of Crooked ness in Baseball-C Commissioner Landis Would Well come His Story - West Denies Placing Bets On Game For Speaker or Cobb-Former Player Gives Statement to the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago, Dec. 30 CP---A new base ball quiz may come out Of declara- tions of Charles "Swede" Risberg, former Chicago White Sox shortstop, that he "can give baseball's bosses information that will duplicate 20 big leaguers who never before have been mentioned in connection with crookedness.
 Risberg, banned from baseball as the result of the 1919 world series scandal, made his statement to the Chicago Tribune at his Minnesota dairy farm, and immediately drew from Baseball Commissioner Landis a declaration that he would welcome hearing Risberg's story.
 Most certainly he would be well come" the commissioner said after reading Risbergs accusations, but he declined to comment on the state ment, in which Risberg declared 'Lapdis and the big bosses of base ball don't want to know the facts"
 The Tribune said: Tt was kindly man who began to read the state ment and a burning nemesis who finished"
 Risherg told the newspaper there has been "plenty of crooked work going on in baseball" and con- tinued:
 If Commissioner Landis and the owners and managers haven't seen it, they're blind. Landis and the big bosses of baseball don't want to know the facts. This is a challenge to the commissioner. Let's see what he'll do about 1t"
 Meanwhile the Ty Cobb-Tris Speaker drama moved briskly along, and although lawyers have sealed for the present the lips of the two principals in the latest edition of the scandal of 1919,' from others came statements that complicated the plot
 One member of the cast. who spoke his prologue in the office of the commissioner before the curtain ever rose on the scandal" took the center of the state yesterday. That was Fred West. park attendant at Navin field, home of the Detroit Tigers, scenes of the "fiiXed' game. West is the man named in the testi- mony as having placed bets for Dutch Leonard, then a Tyger pitch CT. and Joe Wood. Cleveland smoke ball thrower.
 Vests public lines differed from the manuscript as constructed from Ieonard's charges and the tram script of testimony before the com missioner. West in his statement yesterday said that the money given him by Leonard and Wood to wager that Detroit would beat Cleveland was not bet on the ball game at all. The money, he said, was laid 'on the nose' of horse named Panaman, hot tip in the first race at the AqueduCt track on that day The horse breezed home in front. and that is how Leonard and Wood each happened to be wealthier by s1S0 the night of Sep tember 25, 1919.
 That, at least, is Vests latest ex- planation. Leonard, at Fresno, Cal if, said it sounded to him like a laugh" The West statement also failed to impress Speakers attor- ney, William II. Boyd, in Cleveland.
 T cannot reconcile Vests state ment with statements made to me that l know are truthful testimony V Boyd commented.
 The statement also conflicted with the transcript of testimony given before Commissioner Landis, who, interrogating West, put this question:
 Did you have anything to do with a bet made on the Cleveland Detroit game of September 25, ls19."
 To this West is reported to have answered:
 .'Yes sir. I placed the bets,'
 Another voice from the back ground was that of Bob Quinn, president of the Boston Red SoX, who spoke an aside" in which he said he would like 10 see Landis appoint a "clean sports ambassa- dor to bolster sport ethics among players Of both major leagues. The "am bassador' would mingle with the players frequently, keeping constantly before them their re- sponsibility Of keeping the game on . high plane.