Show WEE SWEDE RISBERG READY TO FACE STARS INVOLVED IN BALL J ge Landis Lais W Will Stage j I Hearing of Players Payers Todal To Chick Gandil Departs From New Nevi Mexico t Give Baseball Departs Ruler His Version of I j Alleged Allege Cheating CHICAGO Jan 5 swede AP-swede Risberg came to Chicago today to baseball hang some year old linen on the line Une in Commissioner Landis' Landis office and more than thana a score or of the games game's greatest stars to deny that it was dirty While Risberg was digging into the basket hauling Into the light lightsome lightsome some ot of the rags or of 1917 Chick Gandil another of the Chicago White Sox players disinterred by baseball in the grand cleanup of 1920 was from New Mexico presumably bringing another another an- an other bundle ot of soiled linen for Landis to look at Risberg left his dairy farm to toI take a train at Rochester MInn I last night to be here early to face players of the Chicago and Detroit teams of 1917 in whIch year he charges the Detroit Tigers igers to sloughed a game four series help the Sox win the the American league pennant I could tell a lot of things I 1 heard about during the four years I was with the White Sox but mast of it was hearsay and I am not going to talk talI about anything that came to me second Last Saturday I told Commissioner Commissioner Commis- Commis Landis or of corruption from my own of the facts and I am going to slick to my When I said Clarence now an umpire but in 1917 u manager of the Sox ti plot to give Detroit players a atam ce tam sum of money I did 50 so I a cause Rowland was the ma wI talked to me about It no matt what he hc says now now ROWLAND TALKS I Rowland who was one first of those named by deny the charges believes th tb scores of the games exonerate hh lIe He said S No one seems to have gIven thought to the fact that Jf I In on any kind of a deal as n J berg declares I certainly have used about every good er I possessed It If the fixed and I had knowledge OUi oj I could vcr very easily have bl U. U my way through by working son ion ot of the second Rowland directed attention l the pitchers he used w hams lIams Russell Faber and t j-t 1 My mainstays mainstay he said of the of-the th r rand and we had a hard time wn ln at that Commissioner Landis today I b b. came judge jury prosecutor ar defense Banked alo abo him are such diamond Eddie Collins Ray Schalk Gem Burns Ty Cobb Harry Harrr j jand and many others of the thirty Ig who were requested to intent upon defending himie against the Implications of or receiving money for ball games With Gandil Buck Weave ar Oscar Happy Felsch all listed from baseball with in 1920 for alleged the 1919 series standing gl the background there was Imo mo than a possibility that new cb rge or elaboration of would heard in the offices at Sou Michigan avenue from which baz ll ball Is ruled THE CHARGES At the opening of the hearth however the allegations t I proved or disproved were That members of the White tl Sc team in September 1917 each cor 45 to an 1100 was given to members of th De Detroit troit team principally return for Detroit's sloughing tw Labor day week double headers I Ithe the Sox S. S That Rowland now on the Arnel Amei ican league umpire staff instigate the scheme to get the Tigers I Ilay lay down W That Eddie Collins Ray and several other present day star as well as several no longer baseball were involved Although Risberg last Sa interpolated his charges of bas ba crookedness with a Ty Cobb was guiltless Coi planned to appear today the possibility of a reopening of f U charges Involving him Tris and Smoky Toe Joe Wood In a game on which money was toha been wagered Cobb took the four games Risberg sloughEd and made at hit in each besides fielding p ly and stealing two bases ses I DETROIT Tan Jan 5 A AP-A re lutIon expressing confidence integrity of Ty obb and T T Speaker forme- forme managers of tO Detroit and Cleveland base teams was adopted unanimously the city council last night Citing CObbs CObb's two twenty 1 ye yeas as the idol of Detroit fans t tt resolution declared nothing J b been brought forth to prove coB COi and Speaker were involved fixing agreement as dU pitcher Dutch Leonard |