Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-06

BY the Associated Press.
~ HICAGO, January 6.--Swedt
Risberg. Minnesota cowmar
and base bail outcaSt, sat IL
Commissioner Lands crowd
ed, stuffy Office yesterday anC
heard 26 of his former playmates give
him the lie
For hours he sat within arms reach
ofmeN who used to sit beside him or
the bench as members with him of the
1917-1920 White Sox, yet he heard ne
word of greeting. no Hello. Swede,
nor received any nod of recognition.
once he was called IA pig" More
than once he was denounced as a liar
But he stuck to his story.
For one hour he sat on the witness
stand. his gaze matching that of base
balls overload, and recited his story
of a four game base ball Series which
he said was bought and paid for e
insure an American League pennant
for Chicago.
For four hours he stood leaning
against a statue of Abraham Lincoln
waist deep in the muddy backwater
from the dam which 2f players quick.
~ constructed. Two accused players
spelled their dam with an n" so Wig
orous was their denial of the crook
euneSS ttlSDerE charged.
Risberg the Lone Wolf.
Through it all--the denials, the
stunning by former diamond pals
Risberg was the lone wolf against the
pack: impressive, stoical, determined.
They can call me Il liar" he said
after it was all over; after DOME Bush.
now manager of the Pittsburgh Pi.
rates. had jumped from his chair and
. challenged him to fight: after Eddie
Collins and the base ball hosts had
vigorously secuted his story. They
can attack me as an outcast of base
ball. but / know that l told the truth.
I'll stick to my story as long as they
want to hear me-"
Not even Buck Weaver, banished
from base ball with Risberg; Arnold.
Gandil and the rest, following the
expose of the thrown world series
OF 1919. gave Risberg's story sub.
sanitation.
Always Tried to Win.
II don, know anything about it,
Judge" said Weaver when Commits
sioner Lands asked him about the
1919 series which Risberg said was
sioughed to Detroit. II was always
in there to win
"edNeT Sdlu ne was not WITH MS
team when the Labor-day week, 1917.
series was played-the series Risberg
says was bought" for S1,1OO.
Gandil and Risberg asked me to
give $45 for the Detroit club
Weaver said. ''and I refused / told
them / would give no money"
Thirteen of those who told their
story to Commissioner Lands yester.
terday acknowledged either contribute
ing to or receiving part of the 81 900
which was raised among the White
Sox for the Tigers. A fourteenth had
knowledge of the pool, but had no
part in it. This fourteenth player was
Weaver.
Money Was a Reward.
While the thirteen players or former
players .Gncluding the present and
two former managers of the White
SoX) told to lands that a pool had
been raised, each said the money was
not in payment for the Tigers to LAY
down" but rather was a reward for
the threegame beating the Tigers
handed Boston, runners-up in the 1917
peffnant race.
Those who told Lands they con-
tributed TO, or had knowledge of the
pool, were Eddie Collins. Ray SchaIk.
Clarence Rowland. Red" Faber, John
Collins. Harry Leibold, Joe Benz,
''Reb" Russell, Jourdan and Buck
Weaver. Members of the Tiger team
of 1917. who said they got share
of the pool were George Dauss, Oscar
Stanage. Bernie Boland and George
Cunningham.
The Sox who contributed to the pool
said it was reward money to the De-
tFoit players for beating Boston.
Dauss and Cunningham each beat
Boston in the series mentioned, and
Stanage caught. Boland. however.
said he did not pitch in that series.
Got $50 of the Pool.
II got $50 of the Sox pool" said
Boland, but l didn't pitch any of
those Boston games. guess it was q
present for my roofing on the bench. -
poland, however, pitched one Of the
games which Risberg said were
sloughed. Boland denied any knowl.
edge of any sloughing. II was TAX.
ing. my regular beating at the Sox
park" he said. Il might not have
had much on the ball, but / was
trying"