Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — CICOTTE ADMITS 'THROWN' GAMES [ARTICLE]

CICOTTE ADMITS 'THROWN' GAMES

■ V'".-i " ' < ‘ 1 STAR PITCHER BREAKS DOWN AND TELLS WHOLE SORDID STORY. d Indictments were voted against eight baseball stars Tuesday and confessions obtained from two of them when Charles Comiskey, owner of the oft-time champion Chicago White Sox smashed the pen-' nant chasing machine to clean up baseball. The confession tells hoW the Sox threw last year’s - world’s championship to the Cincinnati club. \ Seven Sox regulars and one former player comprise the players against whom true' bills were voted by the Cook county grand jury and (he seven were immediately suspended by Mr. Comiskey. With his team only one game behind the league leading Clevelands, the White Sox owner served’ notice on his several stars that if they were found guilty he would drive them out of organized baseball for the rest of their lives. Officials of Chief Justice Charles McDbnald’s court, desirous of giving the national game the publicity in its purging, lifted the curtain on the grand jury proceedings sufficiently to show a great hitter, Joe Jackson, declaring that he had deliberately just tapped the hall, a picture of one of the worlds famous > pitchers, Eddie" Cicotte,in tears and glimpses Jif alleged bribes of $5,000 .and SIO,OOO discovered under pillmvs, or on beds by famous athletes about to retire. ““ ' ‘ Those Indicted. Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher, who waives immunity- and confessed according to court attaches, that he took a SIO,OOO bribe. ' Arnold Gandil, former first basema“Shoeleßs” Joe Jackson, heavy hitting left fielder. Oscar “Hap” Felsch, center fielded ■ ' ,c ' ■ - ' i Charles “Swede” Risberg, short--BtClaude Williams, pitdier. George Weaver, third baseman. Fred McMullin, utility player. Cicotte, according to court Mtaches, told the grand jury he received SIO,OOO from the gamblers, finding the money under Ms pillow when he returned to his hotel room on the night before the first game at Cincinnati. „ “I refused to pitch a bail until I got the money, they quoted him 88 Jackson’, it was said, testified fee was promised $20,000 by Chick Gandil, but received only >5,000. Claude Williams, according •to the their true bills Mr. Comiskey, jeated in the midst of ,fh e crumionng empire out at -SjLJSng issued the telegram those involved, paid off Weaver, Cicotte and Jackson on the spot ana announced that checks for pay nue the others would he sent them at once. With his voice Mr. Comiskey, who has ownea we Sox since the inception or we American League, said this was we first time sfcandal Had his “family, , and that it distressed him tod much to talk about. Cicotte Bare* Plot. . The rush of players to bare their part in the affair, started today when Cicotte appeared at court -building and asked to testify. Cicotte wept, court at1919 world’s series after ne had “found” SIO,OOO beneath His piUow where it had been placed by pro‘«d g K'& the W 1 to the plate so slowly “yon c® ol * trade mark on it” m the first game at Cincinnati, when he was <»k® n out of the box after three and twothirds innings, had been played. Star Break* Down. A court official who was P^” 1 went on the stand told the jury, of .his part in the God* think of my children” he cried. Cicotte has two small I ch “i’ r v e n ‘ lived a thousand years in • the last year,” the court official did -Zing I regretted so mSS in my Me ” the wit*®* deliberate errors, I did not try , to win.” . . There will be two indictments returaed. them Srith the ation of a conmoney through the opreutiot| \_os. a confidence game. caZTwith it°a t p^nalt” t of Cl one to ten years’ imprisonment. Um

penalty for convictton on the second charge is five years’ imprisonment anTafine ofs£oofc How Boodle Was Distributed. According to reports of the testimony of Eddie Cicotte before the their part in “growing” the rerire: Clad ie w jr o™’ 0 ™’ ’ $lO 000“Buck” thtd Semin ss,’000; “Happy”’ Felsch, outfielder, $1,000; Charles Risberg, sKortetop, $2,000; “Chick” Gandil, first basenUn, $20,000 and Fred MteMullin, 1 16 - 000 - . '