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Show WHITE SOX PLAYERS FACE jNDICTMENT ACCUSED MEN ADMIT THROWING WORLD SERIES OF 1919 AT BEHEST OF GAMBLERS. Owner Comiskey Suspends Seven of His Stars and Dashes Pennant Hopes, Announcing Players Will Be Driven From Game. Chicago. Indictments were returned on September 28 against eight members mem-bers of the Chicago American league baseball team who lost the world series to Cincinnati in 1919. Seven Sox regulars and one former player had true bills ; voted against them by the Cook county grand Jury and the seven wore immediately suspended sus-pended by owner Comiskey. With his team only half a game behind the league leading Cleveland Indians, -the White Sox owner served notice on his seven stars that If they were found guilty he would drive them out of organized or-ganized baseball for the rest of their lives. The players Indicted are Eddie Cl-cotte, Cl-cotte, star pitcher ; Arnold "Chick" Gandll, former first baseman ; "Shoeless "Shoe-less Joe" Jackson, heavy hitting left fielder; Oscar "Happy" Felsch, center fielder; Charles "Swede" Risberg, shortstop;- Claude Williams, pitcher; George "Buck" Weaver, third baseman; base-man; Fred McMullih, utility plaje,r. Cicotte, according to court attaches, told the grand jury he received $10,000 from the gamblers, finding the money under the pillow when he returned to his hotel room on the night before the first game at Cincinnati. "I refused to pitch a, ball until I got it," they quoted him as saying. Jackson, It was said, testified he was promised $20,000 by Chick Gandll, but received only $5000. Williams, according accord-ing to the witness, got $10,000. Confessions made by some of the players indicted indicate how the Sox threw last year's world's championship to Cincinnati for money paid by gamblers. gam-blers. According to reports of the testimony testi-mony of Eddie Cicotte before the grand jury, the White Sox players received the following amounts for their part In "throwing the world series": Eddie Ed-die Cicotte, pitcher, $10,000; Claude Williams, pitcher, $10,000; Joe Jackson, Jack-son, outfielder, $5000; Buck Weaver, third baseman, $5000; Happy Felsch, outfielder, $1000; Swede Risberg, shortstop, inf ielder, $2000 ; Chick Gan-dil, Gan-dil, first baseman, $20,000; Fred Mc-Mullin, Mc-Mullin, utility, $15,000. |