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Half the people in Chicago were jammed on the sidewalk in front of the People's Gas Building. Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles ("Swede") Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes...
...Town Talk, a journal of Alexandria, La., is to be believed, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg and Buck Weaver (who were ousted from organized baseball in (1919) have been earning an honest wage as members of the Bastrop, La., semiprofessional nine. "The team has been cleaning up in Morehouse Parish and has walloped almost every club it has met in north Louisiana and south Arkansas. . . . Members of the Alexandria club say that Jackson and Cicotte are still with the Bastrop team, but Risberg and Weaver have gone elsewhere. . . . Cicotte is playing under the name of Moore...