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Show I Gambling Charges To Be Investigated Before Grand Jury at Chicago Many Prominent Men Called lo Testify Before Court on Wednesday; Recent Philadelphia-Chicago National League Contest "Fixed," According to Data I CHICAGO. Sept. 21 Grand Jury investigation of alleged gambling by baseball players In last year's world, series and in games between Chicago and Philadelphia National league club.s August 31 win start Wednesday with , a score of baseball ofticials. players and writers subpoenaed to testify Bubpoenaes were Issued tonight for the following persons to appear before the grand Jury; B B Johnson, president of the Am- rlcan league. John A Heydler, president of ie National league William t ivirt") Glcason. manager of the Chicago Americans. hnrles A. Comiskey, president ot the Chicago Americans William L. Veeck, president of, the Chicago Nationals-Jacob Nationals-Jacob ("Rube") Benton, pitcher for New York Giants. Berl K Collyei and Frank . Cline, fcotli of Chicago, sporting writers. Harvey Woodrulf, sports editors of Ibe 1 IlicagO Tribune Sam Hall, sports editor of the Chi-D Chi-D Herald and Examiner. I. E. Sanborn and Oscai Relchow, baseball writers for the Chicago Tribune Trib-une and the Chicago Dally News, respectively. re-spectively. si BFOENAES issl ED. Bubpoenaes for additional plajers probuoly will be Issued beiore- tic ln-testigation ln-testigation begins and it a. Keploglo, ilO is Working as prosecutor under j - t orders from Chief Justice C v. Mai Donald o:' the criminal court. He declured that Hal Chose, Lea Maget and Hi i n l Zlmmcrui ill, all former major league players, probably would b called. Charges or alleged gam-Lung gam-Lung which have been voiced against and Chase would enter Into the i investigation, he said. When aski i why Benton was the oni player called tnu.s i ,. Mr Replo-Iglc Replo-Iglc said he "believed Benton had In- C( rmation the grand Jury needed,' and that Benton would be asked to tell what a certain player asked him to do." The grand Jury will not be given any quantity ot evidence concerning I iseball polls, he said, but every attempt at-tempt would be made to get into the i al gambling the throwing of games by star players." Officials and writers subpoenaed who ure now in Chicago unanimously d approval of the subpoenaes and declareu they were ready to "go the limit In furnishing any lnsxnetlsl they possessed." Bar Johnson of the American league declared that the league's resources would oo at th jury's disposal and that ho believed ;hc Investigation would be of great benefit to baseball generally W llliam Veeck, president of the Chicago Chi-cago National league club, said; "It v. as Just what he had been hoping! for." President Comiskey of the American Ameri-can league club could not be reached' bul hs son, J. Louis c'omlBkey, trc-oa-.re: of the club, said the club would' cooperate "'to the limit " (.ami: alleged fixed It became known tonight that the committee of baseball writers appoint-1 ed to investigate charges that the Chicago-Philadelphia National league game referred to by the grand Jury had been "fixed," for Philadelphia to win had done little thus far. Sam Hail n fused to serve as chairman, saying (.ho could not spare th time. J Messages were sent tonight to Presl- n HeydUr und to Benton ordering them to come beforo the jury Wednesday. Wed-nesday. r The Philadelphia-Chicago game was won by Philadelphia. 3 to 0. after Manager Man-ager Mitchell had switc hed at the last minute from Hendrlx to Alexander In making the pitching assignment Just before the game President Veeck celved a number of telegrams and telephone tele-phone call teiiir g hm the game had I been "fixed." and that lurge sums of money wer0 being bet on Philadelphia in many cities. In a statement Veeck said the switch to Alexander was made so as to pro-sent pro-sent the strongest linc-up possible Alexander pitched (rood t,;iii but lost I primarily on errors by Herzog and Barber Charges that Hal Chase was implicated impli-cated In gamblinK were made several enr8 ago when he WSS B member of the Cincinnati team. Benton was it! I member of the Cincinnati club then.! Prosecutor Rcplogle said. The Amcrlcun league will ask con-i gress to enact a law at its next ses-1 slon. making betting on a baseball1 i m s penitentiary offense, Presldi I Johnson said tonight He said the league would ask that this law be made as severe as possible and worded sc as to eliminate all baseball pools Only In this way. he said, could gom-Mtng gom-Mtng be definitely eliminated from baseball. Mr. Johnson said the American It ague still was investigating charges of gambling In last year's world series se-ries and expected to make public the reault of its Investigation within u short time. 'Most cf m work this summer has been devoted to running down gambling gam-bling Charges' he added. |
