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Show 'SIDE' ASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE Risberg to Free Himself of All Suspicion He Tells Fred Hauser That Swede" Rlsberp. former star shortstop of the Ogden team in the 'Colon -: -" l.itlon and later a st ir for the Vernon clnb of the Pacific "oast league, will declare his innocence be-! be-! fore the grand jury at Chicago when 'the trial convenes. Is tho opinion of Fred J Hauser, former big league DS )bal star, who was an Ogden visitor visi-tor today en routo to the east from San Pranolsoo Rlaberg is one of the eight baseball players under Indictment Indict-ment at Chicago charged with "throwing "throw-ing the 1919 world series to the Clu-i Clu-i Lnnatl Beds." Rlsberg is well known to Ogden fnn. Tho scandal which loomed prior to the staging of the world series of lH2n Involved IMdie "icotte. Swed. Bisberg, Joe Jackson, McMullin. Weaver, Wea-ver, Happy Felscb, Chic Gandll and Claude Williams. Several of the players play-ers confessed to their part of the bribe. It is said. "Rlsberg declares that he is innocent inno-cent of the Charges," said Hauser today, to-day, "in (set, the former Ogdenlts states thai he will be back in a unie before the season gets well underway. "Weaver, iiic third seeker for tin White Sox during the past season, also declares his innocence In the crime This, however, win all ie determined in the action of the grand Jury " |