Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1920 — 13 BALL INDICTMENTS [ARTICLE]

13 BALL INDICTMENTS

Players and Gambiers Are Named in Double Counts. Eight Whit* Box Player* Ar* Included —Charge* Hing* on th* 1919 World’s B*rl*s. Chicago, Nov. L—Two Indictments .each against 18 players, eight of whom were members of this year’* White Sox club, were returned before Chief Justice Charles McDonald *f the criminal court, by the special grand jury that ba* probed big league corruption charges. Double Indictments were also returned. L The White Sox players named are Edward Cicotte, Claude Williams, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Arnold Gandll, George “Buck” Weaver, Oscar Felsch and Charles Risberg. z “Bill” Burns, former player with the Detroit Tigers; Hal Chase, onetime member Gt the New York Giants in the National league; Joseph J. I (Sport) Sullivan, Boston plunger; Rachel Brown, said to be a gambler, and Abe Atteli, former featherweight champion, were also indicted. The two charges under which the indictments returned are operating a confidence game and entering into a conspiracy to defraud. Bonds of each of the defendants were fixed at 810,000. The charges hinge principally on the alleged “throwing” of the 1919 world’s series with the Cincinnati club.