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Show MORE BALL SCANDAL EVIDENCE GIVEN I HOYNE BRINGS j : IRE 'DOPE' TO CHICAGO JURY i I Wives of Players May Figure: in Question of Fixing Games STORY ABOUT HAPPY FELSCH IS RECITED Comiskey Became Suspicious Immediately After Last Series 'HIAGU. ct. 1. Sew evidence! which tua. v. irrajoi criminal ptosccu-i lion of the baseball players Involved, in i in, "filing" of the isr.' world's Buries was given the grand jtu'v tddai'i when state's Attornej UaUay Hovne' arrived from New Vork. August Herrmann, Herr-mann, president of the Cincinnati RedS, was expected to testify todav and Allied S Austrian, attornev lor the Whit'- Son. .uinoiiiii-.il that he be-, licved more players were ready to iel! what thfy know. Wives of several pjftyefs may be called before the grand jurv. Mrs. Claude WUllaniC st.ed that she knew some rumors were directed ut her, put ill nted thai sli had ever bet o:: a . iji. Jim-, or knew a nv t hing Of i e ti.liv," o the 11 : series. liepdrts said to emanate frotm mcrn-bers mcrn-bers ot the Whlt Sdx leawi credit "Happy" l-visch with having placed $5000, accepted as a bribe from the gamblers, as a bet un Cincinnati n thei second game of the scries. IVIFE WAS PKEVEIJ it n claimed be wired his wife In Milwaukee to come to Chic igq for the first game here and thai when tie met him his greeting was to lust, 516.0'J" in winnings on the table. There are various accounts as to what followed l he players said the couple had a disagreement over the affair, but later were reconciled. The money was said to have been withdraw n from a savings bank last Monday. -Mrs. I'YIseh Is expected t be asked by the grand jury what she knows of the transaction. Charles ''omiskey. owner of the Chicago Chi-cago White Sox, asked State's Attorney iHoyne to Investigate last year's world series immediately alter the conclusion conclu-sion of the Kami s. Ho.'. IK said todav after his return here from New Vork FINDS I A I ui l Hov ne's office conducted the Investigation Investi-gation for three or four days and round eiiou.Mi evidence to sillsi him : that the scries was crooked, he said. Not enough evidence was found, however, how-ever, lo prove the fact, he added. In his Statement Mr. Hovne s.ild: I have been in New Yolk and of course know nothing about the actual facta in the case 1 made no demand thai the Investigation be halted. 1 simply asked Ihv grand jury not to take any action until i had a chance in o over the evidence and Slice!, up on some evidence lhat 1 expect to gi I I did not attempt lo influence the action ac-tion of the grand Jurors. They, of course, are the final j Idges in the matter mat-ter simply asked them to allow me lime tO ne advised as to the fails which have developed ltamedlateb after the tVOrld'S Series Comiskey asked ask-ed me to Investigate and said that he would pay the expenses ot tin- Investigation Investi-gation and 1 told him we would be glad to help him and that if we obtained ob-tained ev idence We would prosecute. We worked for three or four days on the investlagtion and obtained enough evidence to sutlsfy us that the Series was crooked but we did not obtain Sufficient evidence to act." BRINGS I MUM l Mr Ho ne said that he had brought i evidence from New Vork relative toi the fixing of the series and that thei evidence had been obtained neither, from ball players or gamblers. August Herrmann president of the, Cincinnati team, and former chairman of Ihe national commission, appeared, at State's Attorm v rioyhe'a office tins morning with a portfolio of documents' and papers relative to the case ot Hal Ohase and Lee Magee. who were drl-l en from organized buseball last year, j Herrmann Itad been requested by Ihe I grand jury to bring the papers He said he had affidavits of Christy Mathewsoh, former manager of the Cincinnati team. "Greasy" N'eaie. outfielder, out-fielder, lohn McGraw and Pitchers Jim Ring ami Reagan. Mr. lloNlie Was called before Ihe grand Jury soon after making his statement. lie reiterated his position in lh' ease to the Jurors and the grand Jury recessed until two o'clock this afternoon. af-ternoon. .... |