The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-03
CHICAGO. TEAM
FIXED SERIES,
SAYS Rl!SBERG
Former Team Nerpset Rellf%
Details of Fralneup to Com
missioner lands

Chicago, Jan. 3-tP)-The BASEBALL
court Of Commissioner X. NJ. Lands,
former federal judge, is getting .
crowded docket with hearing Of
some more of the most famous play
ers in the game set for next Wednes-
day.
Invitations were out today for Ed
die Collins, Ray Schalk, Red Faber,
DOME Bush, Clarence Rowland, and
about 40 others, who were named in
an affidavit given the commissioner
SATURDAY. night by Charles A..
"Swede" Risberg. He told Lands that
the Chicago White Sox, with whom
he used to play short stop, fixed a
four-game series September and 3,
1917, SO that Detroit would lay down
in four games and give the Sox a
better chance for the pennant. Lam
dis then set Wednesday as the date
for further investigation. Some of
those Risberg named as contributing
$45 each toward present of about
81, 100 for the Detroit players, ad-
mittedl. raising the pool but gave a
different version Of its circum-
Everybody knew, said Memo Lei
bold, Sox outfielder at the time, that
the Chicago team geve Detroit that
money for beating Raston in three
games, September 10 and 20, 1917,
killing the Red Sex chances of win
ing the pennnnt from the White Sox.
The Detroit pitchers were not hired
to lay down for. Sox. he said.
Sehalk. Backs Leihold
Ray Schalk, the Sox new manager
for 1927, admitted he gave his $45
- ~ CO. all al
| Rowland, who managed the White
Sox that year and is now an Amer
lean League umpire, denied any
knowledge of the pool, and was the
| first to welcome the invitation Of
Lands to face Risberg and his
charges Wednesday morning.
Risberg's two-h0ur recital Satur-
day night,was confirmed by frequent
mods from George Buck" Weaver
who played third base for the So1
then. Weaver did not contribute his
$45,i Rising said, but gave OAcal
Witt, Detroit outfielder, hand bag
Weaver spoke up to verify this, and
added that he made it in the form Of
Christmas present.
The Boston version of the Detr0i,
present by the White Sox was. tn
basis Of a direct question by Landi.
| at the hearing Saturday night.
"When first came into baseball,
the commissioner said, Il heard tina
the Sox had raised a pool to pay tht
Detroit pitchers or players to bea
Boston. Was that the way of it,"
Risberg's Version
4 NO." said Risberg. Il never hear'
Of that. The money was collected b.
myself and Chick Gandil (Sox frs
baseman) and was for paying the De
troit players to slough those tw
! double-headers to us at Chicago Of
Labor Day and the Sunday before
! Rowland instigated the scheme. an
! he told me as we entered the dug on
: for the first game that everything
! was all fixed.
"During one Of the games Eddi
Dyer Detroit short. stop booted on
hit around and Eddie Collins said t
me that's terrible work out there
4 The commissioners hearing Satur
! day night, when Risberg arrived fror
: his dairy farm near Rochester, Mimi
was before dozen newspape rmen, al
:, Of whom were invited to assist tn
!. commissioner in developing the inter
: rogation.
At the outset, Lands asked Ris
i berg TO make IL pI0ln Lnat ne WAS X
! ceiving no money for his story es
| cept the expenses and "fair compen
= =. sation," promised by Lands, and Ris
. berg declared he was telling his stor
: only. to help clean up baseball. =
: Il have no grudge against anybod
" in baseball, )" he said.
Congress May Act
The Risberg charges add TO tn
determination of those members {
g congress who have been urging
v congressional investigation Of bas,
a ball as result of the accusation
n which named iris Speaker and 7
) Cobb. Representative Kelly I
n Pennsylvania has started to set up
d federal baseball commission of
+ members whose duty would be TO s.
e that the game avoided the necessit
4 of public washing Of dirty linen.
VA Senator. .Capper, Republican
c Kansas. said the Risherg charg'
IS "serve to emphasize the need +
e some .legislation which s'woued AtiI
It such matters within the scope Of fe
h erai prosecution in the future"
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