Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 4 | Cobb, Speaker Move on Capital to Battle Scandal Charges

COBB SPEAKER MOVE OVE ON CAPITAL TO BATTLE CHARGES 5 Sa Se 1 au and ss C Ciu f Pr ide ts Rap Leon rd Ak Ask That Dutch Be Barred From All P Parks ks' ks Coa Coast t Silent two SPORTS FITS CHICAGO Dec Dee 27 AP Ty AP-Ty Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker moved or Washington today presumably bly to look over the bats in the federal dugout dug out hopeful of finding one with which to knock out of the p park rk thc charges thrown at them by Dutch Leonard former American pitcher II s Neither S 'S Speaker ra er nOI nor the flue attn att- att aft I n n net net- f who accompanied him hint v. voul offer nn nov am explanation of or their tnt fo to the capital capita hut but the fact thi th and Cobb t planned to be It ii Washington at the same Sante time TO- TO regarded as Cobb Cobh who left h his Au Augusta Ga home homp with the lie din of enthusiast avowals of faith of nf h in n his hi Integrity s still echoing wa- wa equally ual lv reticent Cobb however r ha bai I hl indicated that he ot 1 h b until 11 he lit ins hns been lr l f rf Leonards Leonard's charges mac ma madIC mad mad- U Pc IC c list 1st w vt bv by Com i Lan ls thet he had talc talc-n 1 niu ch he t a II gane g was w-as s 's fixed Sept her ber 2 2 1910 1919 i OPPOSE PITCHER Two pr se sethe enl the two star t t r outfielders lder line Jo Ur for the th first in their mam mams j v s in ba ball against the sarn sain a former a teammate oJ of I both One is II th that t thug l department may be n rt to ln- ln p tE wit the possIbility th th J I the blackmailing b charges es may b ty bj i I in connection with the th correspondence which f fornis t hash basis of oC the allegations allegations- again hI C.-hI anti and Sp Speaker Two other chapters chapter one In sy syn 1111 pa pathy thy with Cobb mid and Speaker t hostile were written yes yes- e I oJ I Tn In San Sa co n tI letter signed b bt CI- CI i C s q H. H j Strub nn aa H. H McCarthy f o of the then Ran n Francs i and MI 1 on eon club clubs ft lie a-lie keg Harr A. A Williams president id nt 91 the Coast IE league to h be 1 Leonard fore foreve- till all ll par parn n Cr the Jurisdiction of of tb t lea flip I A Am n man n t tl thi let lete e saM v w l for fOl fliP e vp- vp I the et 1 jh derce of or an nn a alleged I ai a scud and nd then for fn o a r rone one ne consider lion tion ni a-ni admitted fo fn 0 rp reu i s t sells sells' it to damn th Lii rep 1 of men without p p. vius i is not fit to be t the associate 0 det men i t. Info of the 1 III I ter said he would t- t no art artl R in t rd hn nerd from Commissioner joner T I a I h of tl ti tue evidence evidence- M DEFEND LANDIS Williams Yil II salt said that Tend Tendis dl dlf d 41 f the only tiling he lie could do I th the I as the would have beron knows know fro fret other sources Tn In Ch capo rIe A r om owner of the ChieM Chice White Pov Por o al also o camp to tire We d df do fee foe r or of r the f Comisk Comis v. v chief hief sufferer frn the worM world series s of 1910 his indorsement of ot Land with criticism of or President EJ lit John Johnon Johnen on of bCe n Amica Ie lea q and President Frank Fral Navin of oC tl th Detroit Tigers These two m nut Comiske sn said Id should have ve mif public the facts as soon as th th learned learn of them I so o that the pl p pers ers if Ir guilty could have hae been ls d f f fi f Replying to The Old Rom Roman Navin said s was taff 1 log iner through h his hat list As s As soon as Me I T l arned of oC the tb-t tb statements a attributed 1 TO Leon Leonard r Nan Na said T fIr reported the lie matte to Johnson who in turn reported to Landis I 1