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Show LEE MAGEE TESTIFIES ! AGAINST NATIONALS CINCINNATI. O.. June S. Lee Magee, Ma-gee, on the witness stand in the United States district court late today. In his 'suit against the Chicago National ! league club, testified that he and Hal Chase, former first baseman for tne Cincinnati Nationals, hot on tho first game of a double-header which tho i Cincinnati club played with Boston on July 25, 1918. Magee said he and Chase had bet $500 on the Cincinnati team to win tho game. After the wager, Magee testified, he learned that tho monoy had boon secretly bot against tho Cincinnati team, and ho therefore refused to pay tho bot, stopping payment on tho check which he had given. |