The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-04
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1y InteFuatlohaI News service
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-The van
guard of baseball players and
managers, active and retired,
whose names appear on Swede
Risberg's "who's who in
crooked baseball, were in
Chicago today, prepared to
face the man who accuses
them, in the office of Com
missioner Lands here tomor-
row morning. The meeting is
scheduled for 10 O'Clock.
Thirty-eight men, whose names
have been by-words in baseball for
years, have been summoned by
Lands. More than half of them
are already in the city or en- route
here, according to word from the
commissioners office. The men
summoned include players, mana
gers and one umpire.
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One OF the SO will be Charles
aSWede" Rlsberg, former member
Of the Chicago White Sox. who
was banfshed from organized
baseball for alleged dishonesty
during the world series Of 1919.
The other 81 will be men named
by Risberg In his sensational
charges that the Chicago White
SOx bought" q four-game series
from the Detroit Tigers during the
latter part of the 1917 season.
Commissioner Lands will call
upon the accused players to answer
Risberg's charges.
II they say what most Of them
already have been quoted as saying
In dispatches from over the coun-
try. it will be a rough session for
the, plaintiff.
The hearing will be open to the
press. and any of the public that
can squeeze its way into the mar.
row chambers Of Commissioner
Lands. s.
Ban Johnson. president of the
American League. who consistently
refused to talk following the ex.
plosion of the Cobb-Speaker bomb.
was at the end OF his endurance
today and Just had to. say some
thing. His pent.up feeling over.
flowed with this opening remark:
"RisberR ought to be in Joliet
Penitentiary. with all the rest
Of the Black Sox."
Johnson declared the Chicago.
Detroit charges made by Risberg
were investigated by Lands shortly
after the commissioner assumed
office in 1920. He said Lands gave
the players named a clean bill of
health
The players summoned to appear
before Commissioner Lands tomor.
row morning include the following:
Hughey Jennings, Eddie Collins,
Ty Cobb, Buck Weaver, Ed Cicotte,
Oscar Felsch, Joe Jackson, Chick
Gandil, Ray Schalk, John Collins,
A. 2. "Reb" Russell. Mellon Wolf.
gang, Joe Benz, Harry "Nemo" Lie.
bold, Byrd Lynn, Kid Gleason, Ed
Walsh, Grover Loudermilk, George
Burns, Harry Coveleskie, George.
/, Dauss, Howard Ehmke, Frank
Fuller. George Harper, Harry He'll.
mann, Robert ". Jones, Oscar stan
age, Ernest Allen, Dave Danforth.
Bob Veach, Benjamin f. Dyer, Leo
Jourdan, Dick Kerr, Eddie Murphy,
James Scott, r. H. Wilkinson and
William H. James.
Although Ty Cobb was not
mentioned in Risberg's now IA.
nous who's who" the Georgia
cracker has wired Commissioner
Lands that he VIII. be present
at the hearing.
There was considerable specula.
ton today as to what part Cobb,
will take in the proceedings. Many
believe he will take this opportunity
to lay before the commissioner the
story he told an International News
Service correspondent in Detroit
yesterday epncerninE a new scandal.
This story. charged that he st.
Louis Browns '''threW| a game to
Detroit IN 1928.
Commissioners lands still refused
70 comment today on any phase OF
the involved scandal situation. p
MOVIES WON HIM
CONWAY TearlA, n,o,,i. star a., on.