Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-04
BASE BALL TO PAY
S2O,0DOFOR PROBE
Players Hurry to Chicago to
Face RiSberg Before
Lands Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 4.-Many ac-
ceptances have been received by Com
missioner X. NJ. Landis for the seance
at 1872 South Michigan avenue to-
morrow when Charles A. (Swede)
Risberg will dangle before the for
mer White Sox teammates and mem
bers of the Detroit Tigers the base
ball skeletons of 10 years ago.
Poking up the dead embers of the
late weeks of the 1917 American
League season is expected to cost
organized base ball at least 100000.
Thirty eight men have been asked to
be present when Risberg materializes
before them the ghost of diamond
scandal. Some of the players and
former players will travel 1000 miles
to reach the commissioner office,
Two Scandals to Be Aired.
Commissioner Lands invitation to
the ball players to appear at his office
indicated that both the 1917 and 1919
scandal charges would be aired. 1.-THE
commissioner will conduct a hearing"
specting charges of irregularity in
connection with the Detroit-C Chicago
series, September, 1917 and 1919"
Ty Cobb, whose departure from
base ball at the end of last season
was shadowed by charges of partici-
pating in a fixed game, is one of
those who will face Risberg, although
he was given a clean bill by "Swede." !"
Tlis Speaker, who for a week past
has been comforting with Cobb and
attorneys planning to fight charges
involving the integrity of both Cobb
and himself, is not connected with
the new scandal charges.
The list of men summoned before
Lands includes five who have been
or are now managers of American
League Clubs. They are Eddie Col
Inns, former manager of the White
SoX; Ray Schalk, recently named as
Collins successor: Ty Cobb, who re-
tired from the management of the
Detroit Tigers last Fall; Clarence Row
land, the American League umpire.
who was in charge Of the White SoX
in 1917, and Donnie Bush, now man.
ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and
formerly manager of the Washington
Senators.
Burns Also to Be Present.
George Burns, chosen the most
valuable American League player of
1926" also has arranged to come here.
Among those who were members of
the White Sox or Tiger teams in 1917
and who up to today had not accepted
the commissioners invitation to ap-
pear when Risberg repeats his story
of the alleged "slOughed" series are
Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Buck
Weaver, Bill James, Oscar Stanage
and Chick Gandil.
Gandi and Weaver have indicated
their Endorsement of Risberg's state
ments, Gandil with the comment that
"Risberg didn't tell the half of it, and
Weaver by nodding assent while Ris-
berg was telling his story to the COM
missioner Saturday.
George Cunningham, who pitched in
two Of the four games Detroit lost to
Chicago Labor day week, 1917, said
in Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday that
he received $50 from Bill James. an
other Tiger pitcher, some time after
the Chicago-Detroit series, but he de-
MED knowledge of any ''frame-up."
Risberg has told the commissioner
that Bill James was the Tiger pitcher
who received a $1,100 pool, collected
Tie SOA eiio q pACoChL
to the Derroit players.
Players Dispute Risberg.
Risberg said the money was for
"sloughing" the Labor day week
series, but the story of other players
involved is that the money was paid
the Tigers for winning a series from
Boston two weeks later The Detroit
victory over Boston was a deciding
factor in assuring the 1917 American
League pennant for Chicago.
Oscar CHappy) Felsch, a member of
the White SoX team, who was banish-
ed following the expose of the 1919
world series. told Commissioner Ian
dis he would appear Wednesday and
testify, provided Lands would pay
him $1,000. This sum, Felsch con-
tends, is due him as his share of sec
ond place money won by the White
Sox in 1920 and withheld from him
when he was involved in the scandal
over the 1919 world series.
Lands refused to pay Felsch the
money. He was not paying out large
sums for testimony, he said. Because
of Felsch's friendship for Risberg,
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