The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
White Sox Money Reward,
Not Bride, Commissioner
Lands Rules.
TESTIMONY Is DISCUSSED
James Version important as
Charges Are Dropped.
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chicago
Detroit teams were summoned to ap.
pear.
"At this meeting Risberg reiterated
his charges, and was supported by
Chick Gandil
I'm opposition to the Risberg and
Gandil charges was the testimony of
Clarence Rowland, E. T. Collins, Ray
Schalk, Owen Bush, Tyrus Cobb,
George Dauss, Oscar Stanage,
Howard Ehmke, Ben Dyer, Urban
Faber, Richard Kerr, William Glea-
son, John Collins, Harry Leibold,
Harry Heilmann, Eddie Murphy.
Joseph Benz, Robert Beach, Bernard
Boland, Albert Reb) Russell, George
Harper, George Weaver, George Gun
ningham, Dave Danforth, Ted Jour-
dan, George Burns, William James,
Byrd Lynn, Roy Wilkinson, Robert
Hasbrook and Oscar Witt, that there
had been no 'sloughing' whatever by
either Detroit or Chicago and that
no money was contributed, paid or
received by anyone for sloughing'. :"
What Other Men Said
1.-THE Chicago players other than
Risberg and Gandil admitted the
raising of fund by Gandil and Ris-
berg from the Chicago players at
New York about Sept. %, 1917, but
stated this money was solicited by
Gandil and Risberg and contributed
by them (the Chicago players) to be
paid to Detroit pitchers in appreci-
beating Boston three games, Sept.
20 and 81, 1917, Boston being Chi
cago's clotest contender in the
American League pennant race of
1917.
eff the Gandil- Risberg version
be correct, it was an act of GRIM
inality. If the other version be
true, it was an act of improperly,
reprehensible and censurable, but
not corrupt"
Lands statement further says:
ITO some it may seem inexplicable
that Risberg and Gandil should i'm
plicate themselves in these alleged
corrupt practices. Obviously that
self-implication may have been con-
ceived upon the theory that they
have even implicated themselves, so
it must be true However, being al
ready upon the ineligible list, this
would not affect them and it might
blacken the lilly whites
"Of course, testimony by Gandil
and Risberg is evidence to that
extent against them, but there is
no evidence whatever supporting
the charge as involving any other
Chicago players.
James Appears Correct
"Gandil testified that the young
fellows and Gleason were not So
licited and that Weaver did not con-
tribute. Rowland, Murphy, Dan
forth and Hasbrook testify they were
not solicited and did not contribute.
This leaves nineteen contributors las
Stunning that Byrne, Cicotte, Felsch,
Jackson. Jenkins, McMullin, Will
liams and Wolfgang, none of whom
was here to testify, contributed. At
S45 each, this makes the fund $S55,
which is in line with James testi-
mony that Gandil turned over $3.50.
THE purpose of this fund is the
important question involved, wheth-
err it was a bride for 'sloughing' the
games to Chicago Sept. 2 and 8.
1917, or gift to Detroit pitchers
berg's and Gandips testimony on
this subject already has been set out.
Faber, John Collins, Edward CO
Inns, Leibold, Dauss, Stanage, James,
Benz, Boland, Russell, Mitchell,
Schalk Jourdan, Lynn and Hasbrook
state they were told it was to go to
Detroit pitchers for beating Boston
the three games of Sept. 10 and 20,
1917.
+ ITO establish that it was bride
money is the testimony of Risberg
and Gandil against that of all the
other players above mentioned.
obviously testimony takes this
charge out of the case.
GandiI-James Conversation
Nor is the Gandil account of his
fixing convers alton with James (de
MED by james, plausible. He says
James said to him:
You fellows go out there and
hustle and the boys. Detroit) won't
bear down. to which Gandil says he
REPLIED What do you mean?' and
that James answered: 4 will see
some of the fellows and they won't
bear down very hard -
'Gandil states that they then went
to their respective club houses and
ne 'hollered' to James, thirty or forty
or fifty feet away, L will see that
you get fixed up denied by james,,
and that that was the enI of the
talk between them. Thus, according
to Gandil, was arranged the slough
ing of four games for money.
And yet neither before nor after
all four games had gone to Chicago
was there. word from Gandil to
James or from James to Gandil,
about the bride money, or how much
it was to be, or when it would be
paid.
"The player (James) supposed, to
be fixed did not have enough i'll
terest in the subject to inquire how
much was in it for him or for the
others he was, to induce mot to
bear down very hard
James is alleged to have urged
Gandil to have the fellows Chicago
players) go out and hustle This to
the team that had won nine out of
it's last ten games; which had won
ten out of fifteen previous games
against Detroit that season.
Funds But No Discussion
1.-THE Chicago players salaries
were paid Aug. 81; they had funds
yet there was no discussion about
raising money to pay Detroit for the
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