New Britain herald., 1927-01-05
RLSBERG BRINGS CHARGES
 AGAINST PLAYERS TODAY
Chick Landil Bound for Chicago Probably With More Soiled Linen-Landis Today Becomes Judge Jury, Prosecutor and Defense Attorney-Big Array of Baseball Stars Summoned to Conference Other Black Sox Players on Way to Attend Hearing.

Chicago. Jan. R-Swede Ris- berg came to Chicago today to hang some 10-year-old baseball linen on the line in Commissioner Landis' of- flee and defy more than a score of the games greatest stars to deny that it was dirty.
 While Risberg was digging into the basket. hauling into the light some of the rags of 1917, Chick Gandil, another of the Chicago White SoX players disinherited by baseball in the grand cleanup of 1920, was Chicago bound from New Mexico. presumably bringing an- other bundle of soiled linen for Landis to look at.
 Risberg left his dairy farm at Rochester, Minn. last night to como here to face players of the Chicago and Detroit teams of 1917, in which year, he charges, the Detroit Tigers "sloughed" a four game series to help the Sox win the American League pennant.
 Before his departure, from Rochester. Rlsberg said:
 Heard Great Deal.
 T could tell lot of things I heard about during the four years I was with the White Sox. but most of it was hearsay, and I am not go- ing to talk about anything that came to me second-ha
 Last Saturday I told Commits sioner Landis of corruption from my own knowledge of the facts, and I am going to stick to my story. When l said Clarence Rowland (now an umpire, but in 1917 the manager of the Sox) instigated the plot to give Detroit players a certain sum of money, ] did 50 because Rowland was the man who talked to me about it, no matter what he says now"
 Rowland, who was one of the first of those named by Risberg 10 deny charges, believes the box scores of the games exonerate him.
 No one seems to have given a thought to the fact that If l was in on any kind of deal as Risberg declares. certainly would not have used about every good pitcher pos- sessed," said Rowland. "It the games were fixed, and I had knoll edge of 1t, I could very easily have bluffed my way through by working some of the second-raters."
 Rowland directed attention to tho pitchers he used-Cicotte, Williams, Russell, Faber and Danforth. "My mainstays." he said of them, "and we had g hard time winning, at that"
 Landis In Charge.
 Commissioner Landis today be- came judge, jury. prosecutor and de- fense attorney. Banked about him are such diamond figures as Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk, George Burns, Ty Cobb. Harry Heilmann and many others of the 3S who were requested to attend, each intent upon defend- ing himself against the implications of giving or receiving money for throwing" ball games. .
 With Gandil, Buck Weaver and Oscar (Happy) Felsch. all black listed from baseball with Risberg in 1920 for alleged crookedness in the 1919 world series standing in the background, there was more than a possibility that new charges, or elaboration of Risberg's, would be heard in the offices from which baseball is ruled.
 Charges Made.
 At the opening of the hearing, however the allegations to be prov ed or disproved were:
 That members of the White Sox team in September. 1917 each con- tributed s45 to an SLIGO pool which was given to members of the Detroit (Continued on the following page)