Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 1 | Huge Profits from Baseball Pools Probed

; IIS raopoBED Grand Jury Investigation of Scandal to Take New Turn CHICAGO, Oct 22 (.Srand jury Investigation In-vestigation of baseball gambling took a new turn today when the Cook county jurors began an inquiry Into I baseball pools Eleven indictments against base ball players and gamblfer also were to be voted today. It vv is reported at the criminal court building, build-ing, ElTht were to be against U'hilo Sox players, named In the true Mi's returned re-turned last month. The other three vero understood to Involve a former prize fighter, and two former baseball base-ball players, one of whom w is a member mem-ber of the New York Giant m-I the other at one time was a White Sox player. BASKfi M.I. POOl H Roy ClOSSman, a street car employe, has been called to tell about baseball pools. ClOSSman is reported to have won the 110,000 capital prize in a baseball base-ball pool, hut asserts (hat the pool operators refused to pay him and proposed pro-posed he compromise his claim fori $".0o Several suburban pollics chiefs were summoned. Ml .l PROFITS, Th states attorney's office an-1 nounced that investigation of one pool has disclosed that 1 34,300 coniblna-I tlons wen- laid during the past sea-son sea-son for $1 each. Only $2$ .",00 In I prizes were paid and aft t all expenses were met, the gamblers had a profit of $104,000. Han Johnson, president of the Amer-j Icaln league, who returned from St Louis, where he went In an effort to obtain additional witnesses to tell ol gambling was expected to bo another 1 witness. One of thr witnesses Mr. Johnson 1 sought. Joseph I'osch. 'a reported to 1 have moved to California.