Show Former Bee Involved r CHICAGO B BOUGHT fOUR 1 1917 11 GAM GAMES ClAIMS Eddie Collins Clarence larence Rowland and Buck Weaver Implicated DEAL WITH DETROIT Collection Taken From Players to Pay Tigers to Lose Is the Allegation V CHI AGO Jan 1 The AP-The alleged al- al purchase of of ofa a game four serIes of 0 baseball games by the Chicago W White 11 i t e Sox from the Detroit Americans Amen Ameri- cans to help the Sox win the pennant pen pen- V nan nant of 1917 was described tonIght V to Commissioner V V Kenesaw M. M r. r Landis Lan Ian dis by bv Charles A. A V Swede Risberg S the Sox ox shortstop at that time t Th The White Sox V 1 ai e con 0 fl t d OSCAR B a f 1100 said which was given iven to the DetroIt team principally pally pitchers to 0 slough the series to tI-re tI Sox Sex The scheme to get the Detroit team to lay down in the series which began Labor day 1917 was first broached to him Risberg told I Landis by Clarence Rowland Ro then Sox manager and now an American Amen Ameri- can league umpire All the members ot of the the Sex Sox team contributed to the 1100 pool for tor Detroit Risberg said Including Eddie Eddie Ed- Ed die CollIns and Ray the now new Sox man ter for 1927 COLLINS SORRY Collins demurred Risberg said and declared he never would do such a thing again The money was collected and turned over to Detroit two weeks after the series was thrown Chick Gandil then Sox first baseman collected ted the money and turned it over oer to Bill James then a Detroit pitcher James is In the Pacific Coast league now Rowland told tim him Risberg said as the Sox players went Into the tho dugout at the start of the tho Continued on Page 4 SectIon 2 2 i I I I ES T CONQUERS CONQUERS EAST AG AGAIN IN IN ANNUAL CHARITY fOOTBALL FUU I CLASSI i Buck Weaver Conf Story J Told by y Risberg Ray Schalk and Eddie Collin Also Named amed 1 as Being Conne Connected ted with Fixed Series 0 e from Page I 1 Section 1 sloughed series that everything was as all fixed and once during the game Eddie Collins described a booted ball by EddIe Dyer Tiger shortstop as terrible George Buck Weaver Sox Sax third baseman at tire the time and fired from baseball at the same time as RIsberg for tor the 1919 worlds world's serIes was the only Sox player who did not contribute to the POOl for Detroit Risberg said eald Weaver sat In office t tonight listening to RIsberg's story nodding confirmation of his salient poInts and admitted that as his share of the contrIbution to Detroit De- De troit players h he gave Oscar V tt Detroit Infielder a handbag for Christmas was manager or of orthe the Salt Lake BeGS Bees In 1924 Weaver himself refused to cuss cuss cuss' the 1917 serIes but confirmation throughout of Risberg's Ris- Ris fliss bergs berg's story Near the close ot of the tha 1919 sea sea- eon RIsberg said the tho Sox players decided that they owed the Detroit team a return for the 1917 favor so so they sloughed two games to Detroit nt at the end of the 1919 season sea sea- son Fon to enable Detroit to win third place The Te Sox In 1919 as in 1917 won the pennant MEETS ROWLAND Late In September 1920 Risberg said he met Rowland on the street in Chicago and Rowland said For he sake dont let that 1917 business get out outI Not long after atter that Risberg said hemet emet some of the Detroit play play- Ers particularly Donlo Donie Bush and Hook Dauss In a saloon opposite site the White Sox ball park parle and Bush said to him that he hoped the 1917 affair never got out Risberg was sworn by LandIs asbe as ashe I he be started his statement before the commissioner and a dozer dozen newspaper newspaper men and he started by saying that he had no hope of get get- I ting anything out of It for tor self but only wanted to help clear clean L Lup up baseball As soon as the name ot of Rowland I Iwas was mentioned In Risberg's recital Landis sought to locate the forme fonner Sox manager but bist was was' tul ful Risberg saId he was compelled corn com to return home tonIght tc to 5 tend to his dairy farm near Roch ester ster but would return next I Wednesday morning to face tace those S 5 he be named In his story before th the S WANTS CLEAN GAME I 1 tried to get reInstated In baseball baseball base base- ball once nce saId RIsberg who was va I placed among tire Black Sox Ii In I 1920 1920 but It Is too late now In Im 1 muscle bound and too old but I hae a little boy and Im I'm willing t aU all I can In clean cleaning ng up uj baS baseball ball for the sake of the game S when he will be old enough t to play He told the commissioner he felt fel t at receiving no reply tc to his letter after atter the 1919 worlds world S serIes scandal broke in which hi he 5 sought reinstatement Landis Landi 5 looked In his tIle file and brought forth forti 7 aletter undelivered because Ills i berg had moved from ChIcago without forwarding address am and I Inviting to come In am and I talk things over The resentment t faded In Risberg's face when h he e saw this letter which never neve r reached him Near the close of the season said two weeks week 5 after we won those two doubleheaders double headers from Detroit the won word was passed around among the So Sox r I players that each should contribute e 45 for tor the Delro t players I i FABER WROTE CHECK Red Faber wrote a check f for r the shares of four or five of the players and Collins Schalk and te others other gave theirs It was collected In the at New York The next day was an oft off day with no game so I Rowland gave permission to Gan- Gan and me to go to Philadelphia with the money for the Detroit team We Ve found Bill James playing I cards with Bush Dauss and some others and called James out out- Into the hail ball and handed him the money about 1100 I James said he would fix up up the boys meaning Howard Ehmke and the ilie others I Gandil cashed Fabers Faber's check so i that what we gave James was all all' in currency t Landis asked Risberg It if he had I ev ever r heard the story that the Bos- Bos pitchers and others had raised a a pool to give to another team to them to do their best to from the White Sox When I first came into baseball base base- ball said sald that was the version erslon I heard of the story you are telling us now Risberg said he had never heard ot of any instance Of a team bribing another team to play harder against a a. third team toom becaUse or of a a. E. E close pennant race CommissIoner Landis asked i Ills Ills- berg Id like to know the names orsome or of the players YOU talked I e J. J with In 1917 about that Detroit y L. L series I et Donie Bush Dush Risberg said ana Hook Dauss and some seine of the i I V other other Detroit players across the I et from the Sox Sex ball itt Park In iii saloon just after the 9 1919 1 broke and Bush said to me Well I 1 guess the 1917 stuff will wUl be pop pop- soonA soon A j How was the 1917 1017 series sloughed Landis asked I figured the pitchers didn't put 1 much on the ball balI Risberg replied Ground balls were The I pitchers as I recall were Ehmke BIll Bilt Jam James s. s Boland Dauss and Cun- Cun How much money Landis asked did you give the Detroit team and how was It raised GAVE 45 We all gave 45 apiece I dont don't recall who suggested this amount but Gandil and I collected the money Red Faber wrote out a a. 2 I c heck check to cover the sharps of several sev- sev e ral eral players Eddie Co Collins liS Ray Hay S chalk Schalk and Rowland Roland and the others a aU ll gave theirs We We- asked Rowland for f or permission to go to p hia on an off ott da day and give theoney the m money oney to the Detroit players and andI I was with Gandil when he gave ito It t to o Bill James I C It was mostly most most- l ly y for lor the the When hen we de- de e- e c to slough those thos two games to Detroit D In 1919 there was no money r raised or paid to anybody that I k knew new anything about I think sloughing those two g games ames to Detroit In 1919 ga gave gathe the I T Tigers igers third place How do yoU slough a ball game Landis asked Im a rookie e In n such matters a and nd I dont don't see how you rou could do It We Ve plaYed out of position Ills Ills- b berg erg explained I did and I saw t that hat Gandil dId Uld and Jackson and Felsch F also were playing out ot of po- po po s would not be led Into discussIon dis- dis c or review of the 1919 worlds world s series eries scandal except to declare his I Innocence i DENIES GUILT I took no bribe said and I 1 did not lay down In that s series eries I Iva va was not guilty hut but I an am t too oo old now for reinstatement tco to tc d do o me any good Milking Inking the coWs h has as made me One of the newspaper men asked Risberg whether he thought that C Cobb obb and Speaker got any money or o r were vere implicated In throwing tall bat I Iames g games ames In the Detroit Cleveland se series se- se r ries ica of 1919 recently asserted by Hubert Dutch Leonard Cobb and Speaker said are are baseball Idols I dont don't think they hey t got any money or threw nn any b ball all games and I think they ar are 3 s till sUlI tIle greatest ball bail players th thame the g game ame ever saw Risberg was then Invited hy by th the c commissioner to explain further hIs dissatisfaction with his dismissal from f rom baseball In 1920 on account o of f the 1919 worlds world's series scandal I 1 donUt dont see yet judge RIsberg said why I didn't get my share of I ItHe tHe Sox Sex second place money In We Ve had won second place before the scandal broke near the close of the 1920 season and I still feel that I Iam Iam am entitled to my nare gaare or of that second place purse the only thing about the 1920 deal de that still sUJI stills i Is s wrong with me I cou d very rell use that money now LandIs explained that the 1920 second place money had he been n paid to the Sox players who were exonerated exon- exon exonerated a year ago and the shares of the Black Sox Sex went to those who were not implicated d. d Risberg will return to Chicago to face the men he mentioned In his story and the commissioner fixed the time for another hearing at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning Rowland was loc ted tonight at Milwaukee and denIed implications I In n the game fixing described by RIsberg r 1 know ot of that deal Rowland said rind nd If RIsberg says I i had anything to do with framing games he lies Risberg was compelled to return to his dairy farm near Rochester Minn tonight but promised the commIssioner to return and face the themen men he named next Wednesday Im not squawkIng to get even with anybody dy RIsberg said after he had made hIs sworn statement to Landis Im not sore at any ball bail players I heard that the bosses boss boss- es of t baseball wanted to clean up the game and I told my piece to help them Every wore of what I told Landis Is the truth and Ill IU face any ot of the fellows accused That goes for Row Row- land They pushed Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker out on a piker bet I think its ts i only fair that the white illies ill ill- lIlies lIlies' lI- lI lies lies' l ies get the same treatment INDIANAPOLIS md Ind J Jan nl 1 AP Al' APHes Allies lies Hes a liar was Donie Bushs Bush's f t comment to tonight on charges made by Charles Charles Charles' Swede Risberg before lefore Commissioner Kenesaw Id r. r LandIs that the Detroit Chicago series late in the 1917 baseball season was fixed for tor Chicago to win Bush was a of the Detroit De- De troit team at the time He recently recent recent- ly l v was appointed manager or the Pittsburg National league team after after af- af ter having piloted the Indianapolis American association three seasons His home Is here I dont don't know one thing wrong with that series Bush said The only thIng I know Is that three of our pitchers were paid apiece by Chicago Chicago- players for WinnIng Win Win- fling nIng games against B ton They were paid for wInning not losing Landis knows about that Bush said that George Dauss veteran Tiger hurler was one of the three pitchers After mentioning Dauss' Dauss name Bush said Dauss was not Involved In Risberg's charges concerning th 1917 games because according to Bushs Bush's recollection Dauss did not play In any ot of th them m. m PHILADELPHIA Jan 1 APHugh AP- AP Hugh Jennings manager of the Detroit Tigers the year Swede Risberg alleges that four games were lost to the Chicago White Sox by Detroit through purchase denied tonight th tha th there thre re was any truth In the story Jennings was reached by telephone at bis home In Scranton PIl Pa where he Is regaining regaining re- re gaining hL h health after atter months of fighting against tuberculosis |