Show Risberg erg Is Target of Ace Accused Baseball Players Former Forme Ogden Player Still Holds to Story Gandil Expected to Join Former Mate In Chicago James Is En Route Jan By 6 6 By The Associated As- As CHICAGO Swede Press Press Swed Ills Ris- Risberg RIs berg Minnesota cowman and baseball outcast sat sot In Com mis- mis Ioner abner Landis crowded stuffy of- of office ot fice yesterday and heard It 26 of hi his former playmates playmate give five him the thelie thelie th lie For hours ho sat within arms ms reach of o men who used to sit alt be- be beside be beside side him on the bench as mem mem- members mern- mern members bers bera with him of the tho 1920 1917 1917 White Sox yet et ho heard beard no word of greeting no hello Swede nor received any nod of ot recognition recognition tion Once he was called a pIg More than once ho he was denounced as s a liar But he lie stuck to his story For one hour he sat on the wit wit- witness wit witness ness fleas stand his bis gaze case matching snatching that or of baseballs baseball's overlord and recited recited ed his story of ot a game four base base- baseball ball baIt series which he h said was bought and paid tor for to Insure an American league pennant tor for Chicago Chi Chi- Chlo cage cago o For four Cour hours ho 0 stood lean lean- leanIng lean lean-Int log Ing against a 8 statue of ot Abraham Lincoln waist deep In the muddy backwater from the dam darn which 26 players quickly constructed Two accused players spelled thel their I dam with an n so vigorous were sere their denials of the tho crooked crooked- crookedness crookedness ness MSS Risberg charged IS LONE WOLF Through it the all all the denials the tho shunning l by y former diamond pals was the lon loci wolf against the tho pack The They can call me a liar lie he heI I said after it was all over after aCter Donle Donie Bush flush now mana manager er of ot the burs Pirates had jumped from his chair and challenged ed him to tight fight after acter Eddie Colllns Collins ao and l the baseball hosts had vigorously Is his stor story They can at- at attack at attack tack me me as an outcast of oC o baseball but I know that I told the truth Ill I'll stick to my story as long as they want to hear me mo Not even Buck Weaver banish banish- banished banished banished ed from baseball with Risberg Arnold and Gandil and the rest following the tho expose ot of the thrown world series of ot 1919 I Gave ergs erg's story story substantiation lion tion about aboul I 1 dont don't know anything I It it judge said Weaver when Landis asked him about aboul the 1919 series which His His- Ills ber berg said was sloughed slouched to Detroit I was always as In there to win sIn In Weaver said he lie was waD as not with his team when the th Labor day week 1317 1917 series ries was played played- played the series says was as bought for Cor SHOO 11 00 Gandil and RIsberg asked mo me moto meto meto to rive give 4 45 45 5 for the tho Detroit club Weaver eaver said and I refused I 1 told them I would give no mone money Thirteen of ot those who told their story to the tho yester yester- yesterday day dllY aCknowledged either cither contrib contrib- contributing contributing to or receiving part of ot the 11 1100 00 which was raised the th White Whit Sox Sex tor for the Tigers A fourteenth had knowledge of ot the pool but had no part In it It This fourteenth player layer was Weaver nEW fiD Y P PAYMENT EXT While the thirteen players or former players Including the present and two former managers ers ot of the White Sox told Landis that thata a pool bad had been raised each said the money was not In payment for forthe forthe the Tigers to lay icy down l but ut rather was wa-s a 8 reward for tor to the tho three game Jame beating the Timers Tigers handed Boston up runner-up In the 1917 pennant race Those who told Landis they con con- contributed contributed con contributed to or had knowledGe or of orthe the pool were Eddie Collins Colllns Ray flay Schalle Schalk Clarence Clarenc Rowland ned fled Faber aber John Collins Harry LIe Lle- LIebold Lie bold bold Joe Jo Denz flenz Reb Itch Russell Jourdan and Buck Weaver eaver Mem Mem- Members Members bers hers of the Tiger TIcer team of 1917 who said they got cot a share shar of the pool were George Georfe Dauss Daus Oscar I Stanage Bernie Boland Doland and andI I George Cunningham The Th Sox 1 who contributed to the pool said aId It was reward money to the tho De- De DeI troll De-troll I players for tor heating beating Boston Dauss and Cunningham each beat Boston In irs the th series aeries mentioned and ond Stanage caught Boland however said he did not pitch in III lathat that series I got cot ISO 50 SO of ot the Sox pool said Boland but I didn't pitch any of those thos Boston games eames I Iguess Iguess guess It tt was a present for tor my rooting on the bench Boland ho however hoever ever pitched one of the games which said were sloughed slouched Boland denied any knowledge of ot any sloughing I Iwas was taking my ny regular beating at atthe atthe atthe the Sox ox park he said I I might not have had much on the ball but I was trying hard Bill James payoff pay oft off man for tor forthe orthe the tho Tigers In the tho distribution of the Sox Sex pool Is on hi his way here from Los Ioa Angeles to add his tes testimony to the th grist James then thena a 0 Tiger pitcher Is the tho th man Ris- Ris Risberg RIsberg RIs berg said received the th Sox pool to urse to the tho Tigers Chick Candll quoted as saying that didn't tell the halt half haltof of it It tt also Is Chicago bound pro pre presumably pre presumably to back up and possibly elaborate story |