The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-08
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GANDIL BACKS
CHARGES MADE
BY TEAMM|ATE
Gives Details Of Alleged
Fixed Series-I.andis to
8 Give Decision Wednesday

Chicago, Jan. - P = Arnold
{Chickl Gandil, bronzed baseball
outlaw from the wide open spaces,
has exploded in the ranks Of organ
lied baseball the ammunition he has
kept dry for 10 years
Standin~ shoulder To shoulder with
bis pal Of baseball days, Swede Rs
Scrl, he Tired his charges OF diamond
dishonesty yesterday across the bat
lie ground at 1872 South Michigan
avenue from which Kenesaw Noun
tain Lands guides the destinics of
the big league.
Eyes blazing and with micn ag-
rressively defiant, Gandil sent his
shots straight at two dozen odd base
ball players, or former players, who
were jammed inside the smoke fog
ged suite of the commissioner.
Denials Are Emphatic
The men Gandil accused of CON
tributing or accepting money for the
throwing of four American League
games Chicago took from Detroit
September 2 and 3, l9l7-such names
as Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk, Clar-
ence Rowland, Red Faber, and George
DaussSeave Gandil the same return
vollcy Of emphatic denial that they
had poured upon Risberg two days
before.
Sitting as referee was the white
haired commissioner, $4,000 a year
custodian Of bascbalPs integrity.
The man who today contemplates the
Testimony Of more than 40 witnesses,
Lands snapped the hearing to sud
den close last night with this ~
word pronouncement:
"I'll dispose Of this matter We'd
nesday morning at 10 o'clock.
The Main Points
These things will Lands ponder:
b Detailed testimony by Risberg, for.
mer White SoX shortstop, and Chick
Gandil, former Sox first baseman
, tboth banished from baseball il
1920, following the 1919 world serie:
scandal,) that pool was collected
/. by the White Sox and handed to GER
tain Detroit pitchers for laying
down" in a fourgame series so tha
Chicago might win and tighten IT.
hold on first place in the American
=. League.
Denials Of contributing to any poo
; to be used for buying games, but ad
mission If contributing to IA pool t.
reward Detroit pitchers for goo
work against Boston in a later series
These denials came from every ma
accused by Risberg and Gandil VIII
testified.
The statement Of Bill James, Ii
ger pitcher in 1917, that he receive
$3.50 from Gandl and distributed
to certain Tiger batterymen as
token. of White Sox appreciation fo
their work in beating Boston.
Testimony by Risberg that tn
White Sox in 1919 "sloughed" a SCI
les to Detroit to aid the Tigers
their fight for third place, in til
lenguc standing.
COhb's Innocence Maintained
The hearings close found accusel
and accused unanimous on one thin
--Ty Cobb's innocence of ever HAY
ing taken part in crooked ba
game. Cobb had wired the .commi
sioner to ask everyone presel
"whether anybody knew if Cobb q
any of the Sox pool, and wheth'
anybody knew if Cobb ever played
crooked ball game" The chorust
tribute was prompt, with Risbei
and Gandil voicing their endors
mcnt of the Jewel of Georgia vii
the rest.
Risberg left for his dairy duti'
near Rochester. Mimi, shortly aft
the hearing ended. Gandil will +
main in Chicago two or three days.
Candil commented bitterly on OF
statement by Clarence Rowland, MAJ
ager of the White Sox in 1917. Ro,
land said he had permitted Gand
to leave the club in September, 191
for day to go to Philadelphia :"
Gandil could meet couple
friends"
Rowland lied" Gandil said.
never had any friends"