Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1920 — GAMBLERS TRY TO BRIBE DODGERS? [ARTICLE]

GAMBLERS TRY TO BRIBE DODGERS?

Brooklyn District Attorney to Probe Report of Plot to Fix World’s Series. "u leihe—..l ■ win inner sox bribers Three Gamblers and Two Moro Flayers Slated for Tnw Bille—Joe Jackson Fears Assassin ae Rosuit of Confession. Chicago, Sept 30. —Claude “Lefty" Williams, White Sox pitcher, went before the Cook county grand jury investigating baseball gambling and made a full confession concerning bls part in “throwing*’ the world series games last fall. He named “Sport” Sullivan, a Boston gambler, as one of the men who had bribed the White Sox players and said that he received 810,000. New York. Sept. 80.—District Attorney Lewis of Kings county* announced he would begin an investigation -of reports that a clique of gamblers were trying to bribe players of the Brooklyn team to lose games to their American league oppoi.ents lb the coming world series.