Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-08-17 | Page 8 | Salt Lake Fans Willing to Take ir Medicine, but McCarthy Must Not Stop with Rumler, but Take Action Against Essick and Vernon Team

Salt Lake Lale Fans Willing to Take Their Medicine But McCarthy Must Not Stop With Rumler but Take Action Against Essick and Vernon e non T Team earn I 5 C ALT LAKE AKE fans are willing t to take their medicine li like e game sports but President Pres iJ SALT ident William H. H McCarthy has S got to come clean now and make his hi sweeping investigation go its full bounds If he is going to make his actions in the Borton charges so broad as to include Bill Rumler Salt Lake fans are not going to feel that an injustice has been done unless he stops right there Let him go ahead and find Eddie Eddi Mulligan guilty but he must also 2150 include Bill Essick manager of the Vernon club and all other Vernon players named by Babe Borton as taking part in the alleged pennant bribery of last year When Borton first made his charges he named about twenty seven players of the Vernon Salt Lake Portland and Seattle clubs At that time President McCarthy branded Bortons Borton's statements as a pack of lies One by one Borton is beginning to prove that his statements are true truc and in order to make good with the Bee Bec fans the league president cannot stop by only punishing the thc Salt Lake players Borton charged that Manager Essick and all members of the Vernon team last year gathered together a pool pooi by donating each with which to buy players of other Coast league teams to help Vernon win the pennant Borton has been proving that his statements arc are not all a pack of lies He proved that Rumler received a draft of from him He also produced a statement from a bank cashier pro proving prong ng that Dale received from him last year He says that Eddie Mulligan was fixed He also claims that the Vernon team raised a pot of a player and that Bill Essick told him to go forth and bribe players on other Coast league clubs to help the Tigers win San Francisco suffered the loss of two pitchers who would most likely have twirled the Seals to the thc pennant or mighty close and didn't beef about it Salt Lake Lako fans are not going to protest but they want to see fairness in the matter I If Rumler goes and Eddie Mulligan is proven guilty then Salt Lake wants to see action taken against the Vernon club for Borton is proving one by one that his charges are true The investigation must not end with Vernon but must go to theother tho the other clubs named by Borton t i