Show SERIES SCANDAL INJURES GAME Sox Owners O Offer er for Proof That Games Were Crooked By Jack V FV YORK Jan 12 Dame Dame Rumor N NEW J ht persists In pointing an accusing accusing In ing finger cr at the 1919 1119 worlds world's BC- BC sorita c- c rita rles Th The mon mongers era have it that there was something shady about the series and re recurrence recurrence re- re currence of the rumor despite a total lack of 0 evidence to support It Is certainly certain certain- ly doing the game Jame no good Most likely the ugly talk was waa started by some disgruntled gamblers who lost heavily on the White Sox The gambler as a rule doesn't give Il a tinkers tinker's rap for forthe forthe forthe the good name of 0 any sport and for tor this thu reason the major leagues ues should ft flee eec to It that no mere rumor be permitted to blacken the good name of ot the game r Charles Comiskey president of the White Sox offered for tor proof that there was crookedness in the series lie He Heran ran down every evers' lead he could get and when be he had finished ho he found himself no farther than he had been when his In Inquiry Inquiry inquiry In- In was started A number of 0 writers who have exploited exploited ex ex- the rumor and have kept It alive should be interrogated by the national commission If Jt they have proof that there was anything wrong with the se series se- se tics ries well well still has the I reward The writer has discredited the worlds world's series serle rumor from front its inception and would not have given It as Ss much as a aline aline aline line had it been permitted to die as a's it should have done But it is our belief that the situation calls for earnest consideration consideration consideration con con- by the club owners of oC the two big leagues ues and it will not be surprising if It it gets a thorough airing at the schedule schedule sched ached ule tile meetings In February There is no place in baseball for the betting ball bali player Any player caught betting on ball games Aames should be dropped and the magnates should see to it that he be kept off professional diamonds On several occasions major league players have become entangled with gamblers over gambling debts which they repudiated repudiated repudiated and every time such an oc occurrence occur occurrence occur occur- ur- ur rence com Gomes comes s' s to light there here is always alwa's some knocker who eagerly grasps the opportunity opportunity op op- to take a slam at the honesty of the game Suppression of 0 the gamblers gamblers gam sam biers has been a a. a weighty problem for major league owners Jor the last three or four years and there appears to be no noway noway noway way of stopping slopping them But suppression of 0 gambling in the r ranks of 0 the players can be stamped out if it exists |