Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witnesses. Landis listened to Cox's ready denial, but went on with his investigation. Harris' friends joyfully cooperated; some hinted that the bets were not all small and not all on the Phillies. One tried to woo from Cox's secretary a little black book of her boss's betting records...
...York Daily News sportswriter Dick McCann volunteered to Landis his knowledge of Cox's gambling, most of which he got from Harris himself...
Early last month Cox confessed. He said he had made 15 to 20 bets, $25 to $100 apiece. All were before mid-May - when, so he said, he first learned of the rule prohibiting such wagers. When Landis demanded a fuller accounting of such goings-on Bill Cox 1) refused, 2) sold his Phillies' stock to a Du Pont vice president...
Despite the Phillies' best season in ten years, with attendance double 1942's, the record showed many errors for Bill Cox...
Bucky had stumbled on Cox's secretary phoning a bookie; she volunteered the explanation that her boss was making almost daily bets. A week after Harris was sacked, his friends were telling Landis all they knew about the gambling...