New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1926, Page 10

COBB AND SPEAKER ASSERT INNOCENCE Maintain Leonard Is Simply Secking Revenge Dec. tention of the bas tered today on a game, that between the Cleveland American league on which ch two of the to the ga lie o ball world seven-year-old Detroit te involving st players known g sm 1, ors trag today s cam Wrong the broke yesterday ments into m those nan back quickly with as consp! lenials of Cobb, Speake Ty Cobb and (Dutch) Leor for Detroit, Baseball Commis: In addition they declared had attempted to get I Jiving on a ranch in C them, and Commi in glving out Leo mony, mentioned that ball player repeatedly to present the charges at which Cobb and r could ba present. Finally the commission- er called upon Leonard in fornia home. Cobb Never Bet Cobb, wWho recen manager of the Ti cago that he had * on an American Le game,” and denied t any plan to ‘“‘throw” while Speaker, who li ed his managerial ber anc they onard, now lifornia, foner Lan s testl- th had at a hearing He § land after the close of the season, | asserted in Cleveland that he was *“innocent of any wrong charging that “Leonard deliberately falsified any statement he has made thet tmplicates me.” Commissfoner Landis, in making public 100 pages of testimony in the case, made no ruling because Cobb, Speaker, Leonard and Joe Wood, former Cleveland pitcher mentioned in the case, all were out of baseball, but said that a decision as to the attitude of organized baseball would be forthcoming if required by chang ed conditions Leonard's Testimony. Leonar testimony was that Cobb, Speaker, Wood, and himself met under the grandstand of Navin TField in Detroit, on September 24, 1919, and agreed that Detroit should win its game with; Cleveland the fol- lowing day, giving the Tigers a chance to finish third in the Ameri- ¢ pennant race. In ad- ard said, the four plan- outcome, with @ sum of mo and Wood won $130 Defroit won, as Cobb not put up their s money. The charges were supported by two letters, one from Wood and another from Cobb, both containing allusions to betting. Explains the W Cobb acknowledged he letter to Leonard, but 1o which it referred as wholly legiti mate and one of the sort frequently entered into by baseball players. The Georgia Peach, said that, Wh he refused to bet on games in his own league, it was a frequent cus- tom among players bets. “I have been in baseball twent two years, aid. "I have pla ed the game hard and 2nd clean as any man ever did. I thought of was to win, every year, every month, eve day, every hour. My conscience is clear. T will rn*' my case with the Ameriean fans.” Speaker called himself the “goat” of the game, declared he was not mentioned in the end added: “I know nothing of mny wagers being made in this con- test or of any The only thing they have against me is the word of a man who is behind this flare-up, Leonard. I have requested only he o when wker did repeatedly that Leonard he brought | in to face me but he has positively refused to come into a meeting.” Speaker's Statement. Maintaining that he had been told ©f a threat by Leonard to get him atter the latter had been waived out of the American League, Eald he hoped the former pitcher Wwould appear before lis and plear his name. “The testimony on file with the co | with the explanations given by both | fair, his Cali- | ' |impending storm and n dolng, | v but | called the bet | to make such | Leonard letters | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WE DNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926. Descriptions of the game appear- wall and decided to pull out.” [ ties beyond |ing in Detroit mewspapers at the Elmer Myers, who pitched for timb said that both teams edified the Cleveland—"I was sent out to win |sulte crowds by “good sportsmanship,” and that'’s what T tried to accom- | the that Cobb was the only player not plish. I know nothing of any bet- offered an opportunity to fatten his ting.” atting average, and that “Speaker, Dick Nalin, virtually presented with two of the requirements of our job was| In & to make reponts of unusual condi- | sald tions and I saw none.” | throt 0115 MILLS NOT 10 BE MOVED N[lW he didn’t know. “Maybe they paid|gi004 out in his memory except that | imidati TR i Liguidation Plans him for the letters if the “I p get them any oth ay.” - Navin de say 22 (M—Two hardy | li gland towns today | awaited with unconcealed anxiety Ithe news that would spell their in- | dustrial life or death. Ware, M and Greenville, N. vhich for years have boasted | textile mills of the Otis com- s their largest industries, n whether the plants closed and the business f nsferred to the south. ncapt ¢ charze e 3 ! Directors of the corporation met Rgatis sterday presumably to di ies possible rescinding o n to abandon the two | ingland manufactories. No ormation wa le at the of the me: hut a state- was promis a thriving 00 persons of 00 are employed ompany, and Greenville, whose population of than 2,000 is sly dependent on the same in- | arned of the proposed .xu-{ | Wood and Cobb, proves doubt that there was no thought of wrong doing on the part of either man. And there is absolutely noth- ing to show that the ball game was | fixed.” Leonard, who during his baseball lcareer had served under both Cobb wd Speaker, refused to comment on he case at his ranch home near Fre sno, C: Were Letters Bought Leonard's two letters provide t of considerable Cobb sald that “Leons )00 for those two letters derstand, from American lea Asked about t! Frank J. Navin, president of the W triple Players Have Forgotten Nothing to distinguish the game from the ordinary run remem- ered by players who participated. 1 of the Indians could recall nothing about it, while others point- d to the box seore as evidence that their former manager was innocent. | Everyone raliied to the defense of | ‘\‘\M be m | ducti in oper: to- rd got $20, 1 to win, ¥s H“ nied tb Landi This ohservation was char X d.. by Dick Nallin, who “One of the requirements was to make out reports tions and 1 saw akes at this t ter when I 1 is ing his third | Cleveland over the ounced from New W from the have pation ma clusive evidence to prove was som partici is 1t there game the ter on- his thing wron, avail ng ed to community hom better t the Otis dickering to similar New Yo for a cloae ¢ post, 1 by the World. b3 existe to loosencss tha st previous th were ball n | Forced to Resign |1 That the impending part in the s, was hin | less al ar 1 from : 1 this. tion | JuStry, Cobb denie resignation was | (i G5t 0 o B | I at once brought to 1 the Otis committee to company and a | of stockholders | B the situation |§ ated when the man- | cd that, in line with ) textiles, the | better meet | on fits own | amed hich ¥ agen other hard 1l and decided to pull man land sport writers Speaker's resign 3t sals competition ment quoted o Speaker as eaying willing to retire from the game know n in order to protect another player, | \aeors beir YelT Hhis somtast or | suggested that the former manager |, ; R e Ehny might start in a law suit to clear dliimess the wona of | his name. chind this flare up, Leon- |, Likewise there was no surpr Detroit over the sport there being aware as early August that Leonard had made such allezations. Leonard went to De- troit at that time with photostatic copies of the correspondence with | Cobb, he was seck nent in major league b time. Leonar Leonard was released fn 1925 and Cobb in his testimony before Landis cked if it would have been reason- ble that he should gain his ill wi by getting waivers on him. lent Navin's expla Leonard was let o . pitching arm was bad, that was r»:vwm\dhln r the committee met here Mon ported it ha nuation of all land ope er, form: the company ions was feas- e 1s heard with general two towns. Yeste: directors met for a gener liscussion of the situation and it was believed that definite final ac- tion was taker | In addition to its mills at Ware Greenville, the Otis company s0 owns plants here, near Palme Mass, and in the south. It was posed to move th ority of lines now factured in the two places to the south and the remainder which were not d continued, to the plants in the cinity of Paimer. Decide To Remain Boston, Dec. ompany, operati mills in and Greenville, N. ., > propos- its textile and the liquid. England prope! The news w: = oicing in’ the it 1y the s last Hubert (Duteh) Leor troit pitcher—*T will not rm the commissioner’, wish to be non-com former deny or ment, ittal at Barnard, president of the While hoth Spea 1 the inception of denied their per- 1 the matter, nee to prove t the cha sonal partic is conclusiy ere was nothi ame in ¢ at his Cobb Was Detroit club—"C; bas the entire °UP Whatever statement move 2 pres removal of Cobb plants to the south the handwriting on the , tion of other New . Johnson, er Slugged Ball 1 While the controve T ball followers scanned of the game of aled that w! to 5, it was a hitting fest for hoth sides. Cobb got only one hit, while Speaker crashed out three ground | gainers in five times at bat. two of | them three baggers. 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