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Show WHITE SOX PLAYERS FACE INDICTMENT BBS Hf ACCUSED MEN ADMIT THROWC'Q K WORLD 8ERIE8 OP 1919 AT BB BEHEST OP QAMDLERS. SIK Owner Comltkey Sutpendi Seven of Bit W His 8tara and Dashes Pennant Wk BJ Hopes, Announcing Players Will BIjRll Be Driven From Qame. HI Chicago. Indictments were returned Bf ' on September 28 against eight mem- tiers or the Chicago American league BBV baseball tnnut who lost the world series I1 to Cincinnati In 1011). flBBj Sovcn Sox regulars and one former BJBJ player hod true bills voted against Bj them by the Cook county grand Jury BHf and the seven were Immediately sus- Bf Iicudcd by owner Comlskey. With his n tenm on,y 'mlf a K"" behind the 9K lenguo lending Olovolund Indians, the BmJ White Sox owner served notice on his BBjl sovcn stars that If they were found IHH guilty bo would drive them out of or- m gttitlKCd baseball for the rest of their Bffifff lives. Dn The players Indicted are Kddle CI- jfifij cotto, stnr pitcher; Arnold "Chick" BKTl Oandll, former first basemuu; "Shoe- HBm less Joo" Jackson, heavy hitting left KlKjj fielder; Oscar "Happy" Felsch, center BBnl fielder; Charles "Swede" RIsberg, BHhI shortstop ; Claude Williams, pitcher; BSBtt Oeorgo "Buck" Weaver, third base- IBM man; Fred McMulllu, utility player. BBB Clcotte, according to court uttuches, BjfMj told the grand Jury bo received $10,(KMI Hul from tho gamblers, finding the money BBJH under the pillow when he returned to kWIefi 1,Ih ,l0t"' roum on tlu! 'Kbt before the UHlifll "rot Romo nt Cincinnati. "I refused WWM to pitch u ball until I got It," they HHS quoted lilm us saying. HJB1 Jackson, It was suld, testified be was BH promised $20,000 by Chick Oandll, hut mNH received only $5000. Williams, accord- BIB Ing to the witness, got $10,000. BBB Confessions made by some of tho HjBjI players I ml lot ed Indicate how the Sox K 19 throw lust year's world's championship In Bl to Cincinnati for money paid by gam- H' B' biers. Hf W According to reports of tho testl- B nt ninny of Kddlo Clcotto before the grand 2SJ m Jury, the White Sox pla,eis received B U (lie following amounts for their part Hj at In "throwing the world series": Ed- B dlo Clcotte, pitcher, $10,000; Claude J Williams, pitcher, $10,000; Joe Jack-K Jack-K mtt son, outfielder, $5000; lluck Weaver, BjJ Bt third baseman, $.5000; Happy Felsch, BI outrielder, $1000; Hwetlo Itlsberg, fl sltortstop, Inflelder, $2000; Chick Clan-J Clan-J Bf dlt, first tmsemun, $20,000; Fred Mc-UrSt Mc-UrSt Mulllu, utility, $10,000. |
