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Base-ball Scandal
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Three More Players Suspect
NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The "Evening
Sun's" Chicago correspondent says
that It is understood that the - G&and
Jury which is investigating the base-'
hall ball scandal snandal will in In all aii probability iWnhahniHr >-*,_-! indict
three players of another large
baseball organisation, namely, the
National League, for illicit dealings
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In connection with certain games.
(A message from New York published
in Friday's issue stated:—Sporting
Americans have been stunned by the
revelations that the 1919 world's baseball
series was fixed by Chicago players
so that the weaker Cincinnati team
won the championship. The Grand
Jury indicted eight Chicago players on
charges of conspiracy with gamblers
to throw away the games. Cieette, the
great pitcher, con'essed that he accepted
lO.COO dollars to lose the games.
He claims other players "took big
sums, and stated that a gambling ring
profited by two million dollars. The
exposure of crookedness in the greatest.
American sport classic has caused
a storm of indignation to sweep over
the country.)
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