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’ “Bot Irish troubles, of Irish disunion ' ~~ To-Night’s Weather—FAIR AND COOLER. U. S. GIRL ATHLETES , Who Won in Olympiad RETURN TO AMERICA See Page 3 NO, 21,548—DAILY. VOL. LXI. Copyright, 1920, Co. (The New , ‘ The Prees Publisting York World). NEW yo i EDNESDA RRSH TO CONTROL IRELAND, SAVEIN MILITARY AFFARS, “| UNDER PLAN OF LORD GREY “Damme SRLS MANOR MUSHY DOCTOR REPORTS Had a Restful Night and Enters Says They Should Be as Free Proposes That British Govern-| ment Withdraw After the Settlement Is Made. | LONDO? pt. 29. — Vircount ie Grey, former Ambassador to tho 48th Day of Fast Cheer- United States, in a letter to the ful but Weak. | Westminster Gazette to-day eaye: | perenne: 20 “The Government of Ireland Never been such a reproach and ¢ credit to British statesmanship as {t la to-day. Viscount Grey puts forward now U2 al ilagacacaailape Proposals for the solution of the Irish MOrHing, aid a bulletin issued by Broblem. He says the prenent Mome | the Irish.Self-Detormination League. Rute Bill tg not accepted by any one, He was very weak, the bulletin de- and continues: “The only practicable policy that offers any prospects of success scemy to me to have three cardinal polngs; | Pert to the H “First—A defin . has | LONDON, Sept. 29.~Terence Mac- Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, had a (very bad night at Brixton ‘Prison and was clared, but otherwise there was ti change in his condition, In his re- Office, me the physt- 4 at Hrixton Prison stated Mo- ’ announ clan ment that for these two islands |Swiney had a restful night @nd was of Great Britain and treiand [jn bright apirita this morning there can be only one foreign pol- | " some days,” said an offictal fey, one army and one navy, and | “the change from day to day in Lort| that we cannot stand separation in these matters any than the North could stand the separa- tion of the South in the United States, “Second—With this exception, Trishmen must be as free ay the people of the great self-overning dominions to settle themselves how their country ts to be vr Ma as been alt May Swiney has been go slight | that 4 mperceptible, | |but his emaciated face and weaken Jing voice tell the tale of gradual de- | tertoration.* } In rebutting the | Swiney's more uments of Mac that the extreme him makes the duration remarkable, newsr ernod, his togical w | “Third—To give time for t! are ceye to come to eoment with |) Cork who have bee: each other a up thelr A dale nod two days scheme, the British Government [yin stucawiney will continue to perform as t In connection with this feature the it can function nv } Yorkshire Post says: “It 4 not only | for a period not to ex- J asserted that Mayor MacSwiney is bo | ing fod, and this by direct orders of dignitaries of his church, but even the | name of the sustaining tabloid from | which It ls alleged he draws sufficient | nourishment to remain alive is given.” BRITISH TROOPS t SACK AND BURN | Be nee wanton te MALLOW TOWN| that sense of responsibility of which tp we have for centuries deprived or re- | Seventeenth Lancers Retaliate For | Neved them, and the lack of which, I Raid Last Night on believe, the deepest underlying cause e Their Barracks. CORK, Sept. 29 (Associated Press). | ; But at the that period, or sooner if Ire is ready, it will withdraw, ranging itself, If need be. terms for retiring the constabu- lary and others who have served ft, and responalbility for Irish government will be on Irishmen themuelves. * continues Lord rishmen wa. and of the failure of every attempt hitherto made to find a solution of the ” The sacking of the town of Mailow,| haga County Cork, during last night fol- | \COX TO BE HERE OCT. 23.}1wea promptly on the Sinn Fein \ -~ coup of yeste: y in which the mill | eeokh in Madison y barracks were raided and a ser rden. geant Was killed. Not the “Black and Cox will speak at Bufatio Opt. orev fans,” but th venteenth Lancers qa ont at Madison Garden | yre sak to have exacted the reprisals. re cock. CU. Oe night, | rhey burned the town and some Rg Pet acl Memon erty buildin ne he cream Attic National Headquarters two-day cry and the principal shops See NE ae Mt LIAS! | “mere was much promiscuous points. - : shooting by the soldiers but no cas- | = talties have been reported, The fire; was atill burning this forenoon, Classified Advertisers \\| ¢ siuiow acnmacis Yuesstuy after ! neon reported the raiding of the mill Important! | Vier varios ove tase sient as agency em) from Dublin an bg tte a rR eo nounced that Mallow was on fire in day World should be e 8 The World off On or Before Friday 4. Many buildings hay s6Veral place ng been burned and damage amount Preceding Publication ready Raving been done. The ciwe PRY sohhey advertising baa to be | tlilng le now ginitted for lack of time to set It THE WORLD. KESTACRANT, ndugatay. "Ne pt WonLD at day \ TENANT WINS FST DEIION UNDER NEW RENTING LAW | Landlord Wanted Dispossess| on Plea He Needed Home; Judge Refuses to Grant It. | 97 OTHER CASES LISTED.} All Either Withdrawn by the Landlords or Dismissed by the Court With Costs. OMe of the firat decisions under the new landlond-tenant laws was rend- ered to-day by” Justic Rob- Itzek In the Bronx Municipal Court Harry when he dismissed the aplication of John MeManus, Ia ndlord, who wished | to oust Harry Baroch from the one- 1828 Arthur Ave- nue, setting up o claim that he re quired the house for his own occu- McManus testified that sold the house he now: occupies last family house at No. | paney, he Saturday. Haroch showed that Mo- Manus ought the Arthur Avenue} property last May and that in| August he demanded p “The owner's good intent is not shown he * remarked the Court tn dismissing the case It was inti- mated that a appeal woul to tost the law All of the 97 cases which came be Robitzek ¢ ay were! er withdrawn byt liords or dismissed by the Court. Many of th dismissals were accompanied by the taxing of from $3 to $5 costs on the landle Ac etan Kh appointed last night ting of wbout 400 tenants of| Min Leader, Incorporated, a realty firm of No. 1560 Wilkins Avenue, to started to investigate a large ¢ ball ofte increase | committer | seven double apa | 1560 Wilkins Avtnue ) to 1610 Crotona Park B It was stated at the lowest present rental is three rooms, while some of t thents bring $15 a room, Exp countants who attended the 1 wweting that the » for} upart- ac. eting apartny estimated that some of the houses yleld the owners 100 por cent. | profit at the existing rent and} others from 60 to 80 per cent Samuel Hecker, Chairman of committee, who {s a clerk in the the Bronx County Clerk's office, sald the | tenants proposed to fix demanded, and for wh already aligned lease, 2,000 MEMBERS OF FORUM THANK | EVENING WORLD the increase | h they have Adopt Rising Vote of Thanks for UNION'S $1000 HARDING TRAIN JUST ESCAPES SERIOUS WRECK Trucks of His Car Break Down, But No One Is In- jured. MILLWOOD, W. Va. | PNATOR HARDI | cial train narrowly d a serious wreck near h to-day, when the trucks of the | Harding car broke down The car was derajled, but no one was injured, although both the Senator and Mrs, Harding were shakew up. ‘The train which was running at thirty-five miles an hour when the accident occurred, waa | brought to a halt, after crossing a | deep gully SOUGHT BY THREE IN SAFECRECING Lone Policeman Bluffs Trio Who Opened \ygrong Vault jChicago White Sox, champtons of the | American, League, were Indicted on PLAYER ADMITS TWO GAMBLERS INDICTED ("Circulation Books Open to Alt” tion Books Open to Entered Y, SEPTEMBER 29, 1920, Post Office, Now York, N. Xe peaeehiar geass Hugh Fullerton Describes) FIGHTER ACCUSED Plays That Indicated | OF BRIBERY IN Crookedness. | WORLD'S SERIES AND DATES GIVES NAM Strong Suspicion That Some-| thing Was Wrong Has Been Long Entertained. By Hugh S. Fullerton. (Copyright, 1920, Press Publishing Co. The Nox York Evening Werld.) Baseball disgrace, which was cll- maxed yesterday when players of the charges of throwing ‘games in the In Paintets” Rooms. | Muller of the} eet Station was passing ‘ a flash | Policeman John J. East 5ist St Third Avenue and A. M. to-day when he h Stroet at saw | from the rooms of the Painters’ Union on the second floor of No, 928 Third Avent He slipped upstatrs, found a win- dow leading to an extension broken, ad on the extension saw where a bur had been qut to a window loading | «nto the union headquarters, On entering with drawn pistol he caught three men at work on one of | the union safes, Another safe had| wuready been ope! and severa desks had been forced. 1 | “jin ay oe ‘only uted to linaginary panions ‘Hen Joe ry, cover them-from’ the rear, run notify the sta . Sow,” he said to uh burglars, “go Jover there to the wall and keep your hands up." | A \watchman, Henry Bachman, ot) No, 900 Third Avenue, he tthe po- liceman, looked in and saw the situa tion and notified the station, Re serves camo'and the men were taken to the station, where they described themselves: Samuel ieldman, twe 4d Avenue | ty-five, of No, 2255 Merma Coney Island; Joseph Goodman, | twenty-four, of No. 335 Roebling| Street, Brooklyn, and Henry Gottes m twenty-seven, of No. 119 st.| Mark's Place, Manhattan, The polici say all have records, and they were| after $10,000 they heard was In one|t of the safes, They cracked the wrong safe and got nothing. Magistrate Police Court held the in $5,000 bail Monday when they Simpson in Yorkville | three pris for exan asked for an ad- Successful Crusade Against Regt Profiteers ORE than 2,000 members of the Inwood arose and Civie Forum oheered last Journment to felal of the safe plain counsel, An of union stated that in the which was attacked were $2,500| in cash and $3,500 in small checks which ready’ to to-day the were to ba distributed painters, decorators night when a motion was made hangers on strike to give a rising wote of thanks — to The Evening World for the SWANN WON’T ACT crusade whieh resulted in the rT , passage of the rent iaws at the UNLESS HE’S ASKED recent special session of the Log | y lature. The Forum m ng was | eae + : erAnny Hf is held at Public é a3 the baseball Inveatigatio, Acaieniy st f the alloyed Axtor Hot to dixcuss the rent pe advantages It gave te 1 wil mot do anything i the mat until Ntate'a Att Hoyne of Chicago wake me We have an un. “ Attorney Willi ratanding concerning matters over snd Astor |iapping between the two. clties, and I dn and Chester | Hl not interfere unless requested, ‘The B Barrett. The meeting was led | hve roceived Mee ncaa (hese and & @by Phillip M, Goodpars, | avesugation.” } : { World's Series, has been an open secret for ten months, | Practloally every one connected with baseball knew that the aerios| n Cinoin 1, the first two and the| 1 i inal game especially, was not play honestly. A scorefof men connected} with tho game—owners, managers | ape er nd reporters—knew or were told all | = ——--— — the details of the fixing of the series, t ) ) openly and no notoriously was World's Serica carried that bee fore the first ball was tehed hun- Ivedg believed that the thing was GAMES IN SERIES fixed and that the gamblers at last had = Buc 1 in corrupting the sport which had been considered in | corruptible | pelied to rev concorning T t at th World's Series ended and Claude Williams fost the! Brooklyn District Attorney oe he New Bh iene at! Takes Step to Learn if Such World: “There are sof™mot the Chi-| Attempt Has Been Made, eago White Sox who Will not be on the team next spring.” My author- | a 3 ean Player, Third to Confess, Names All Those Involved—“We Have All Evidence Needed to Prosecute;” Judge McDonald Says, President Heydler Declares That Different Clique Has Operated in National League, Who Paid Crooked Players a Percentage. CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—The first indictments against gamblers al- leged to have been connected with the conspiracy to throw the 1919 World series to Cincinnati were returned by the Cook County Grand Jury to-day. narred as the “fixer story to the Grand Jury. jtaken before the Grand Jury. “We cute ev the Jud id, CHARGES CARRY FIVE YEARS IN JAIL, ity was Chariea A. Comiskey, owner District Attorney Harry EB Lewls of th who then believed that] of Kings County to-day began an| Details of Counts Against Indicted his team had been corrupted, Later, | Rees 0s jon into orinted allege White Sox Expected to n advice of friends and his lawyer, (ABYoMtm@tion Into a printed won| te Sox E xpected t and torn by doubts, he allowed all |Uon that attempts had been made to! Be Known To-lay. save ono to return to the tea |dribe players of the Brooklyn base CHICAGO, Sept. 29. ‘The manygr which the Zries| batt team, winnora of the National HE detatis of charges against vas played was significant. Never % sheared gy ots ai (with one|@aguc pennant, to throw the the elght White Sox players sas o Serie z _ " against whom true bills exception r can World's Series to Cleveland's Indians aay susp reread hers sidhasdes | were voted yesterday, bave not wreatly outclassed as the Reds were! of the American League. | been completed, according to As nt res. They were a hard-) Mr, Lewis tolegmphed to State At-| ‘sistant sta Attornéy Hartley hades Buen oe jtorney Maclay Hoy £ ChicaK| jrepogte’ He said he expected Nechars and their only hope was quoting @ newspaper article which) the indictments to be formally that Busth nd san 4s jran “information which has been) amwn to-day, and that they ae a ee ene aus | gathered by officials tends to indl-! might contain several counte mefore , -_ a np Pig Chicago | bleré which t# alleged to have ‘Nxed true bills alleged but one offenne, and eee there was little Cinein, {the 1919 weries hax made plans to at-| “conspiracy to commit an illegal hey wis dnd a [tempt to have Brooklyn throw the} act" An official of the court eee cethed Cinemnat! during the|coming eeries to the Cleveland In-| wld that under thia heading Led Denti of day preceding | dans.” | charges might be drawn that ahh Waa | ahe Chicago prosecutor was asked| were punishable upon conviction the opening game and met Joe Jack-| 7 «oD {ee . son,'a Detroit paper man, who said he | furnish any information he ped y imprisonment up to five years = “4 which would substantiate the article or fi up to $10,000, (Continued on Second Page.) | Mr, Ebbetts informed Diatrict At-| Under linols statutes tt torney Lewis that his players will be| limit when suits might have been Jaasembled in Mr. Lewis's office at 9.80 o'clock Friday morning, when an CINCINNATI JURY TAKES UP SCANDAL |investigation wilt be put t brough |with all speed in order to have the 1 > stte ‘onfession | matter cleared up be the com Vel Ast: 00 Cleats S| ms ss ae nent of the World Bertes He Wa in World's Lewis suid that if a plot Is fopnd Serie to re exist, bo Intends to puniah the gamblers and players implicated CENCINNATI Hept, 29.-—~As the re They be promwouted, he sald, ut of pite Fait Bi atte'n s haeee ine Mennmainenciandn As that he foun MOREY | oy thing is pillow at a in Cin cinnat! after he had pitched and lost THe WOKLA the opening game of World's | arcady dubiiace (y Series, the Now Hamilton County | i wy summoned to assembl | brought by bettors to | losses on last year's World Series expired six recover months ago. r {s another provision, however, that makes it possible for a third | part bring suit even now to | fecover twice the amount tont half of which would go to the county ang ) the informer a Chauffeur In Set Free, Holding that no culpable negiig had been proved, Magiatrate Hots Ten yok in Morrisanta Court discharged Martin 5 Monroe Streot, on a eharke of homb paivin had been held in : with tie death of Samuel nH olght-year-old boy who ‘4 down by an automobile reepeck Avenue and 156th Street, FINES UP TO $10,000} ° | | added “Sport” Sullivan of Boston and a man by the name of Brown, by Claude Williams, the third of the indicted players to confess, were charged withrconspiracy to do an illegal act. The indictments were voted immediately after Williams had told his players and gamblers alike,” “We do not need any more evidence.” wi me sald he Wigs first aps Proeached about the conspiracy im New York to “Gandll called me to one side, out in front of the Hotel Ansonia, and asked me if anybody had approached mo about the World Series,” be “L asked him what he meant, He eaid the World Series would 66 fixed and wanted to know what I would do about it.” “I told him I would give him my answer later after thinking ft over. When I came back to Chicago I was called over to the Warner Hotel where I met dikddie Cleotte, Chick Gand, Buck Weaver, Happy Felach and two fellows introduced as Brown andSullivan, ‘The last two were eup. posed to be gamblers, or the fellowa fixing \t for the gamblers—they didn’t say which.” “Would you know them if you saw them," he waa asked. “Sure I would know them, ‘They wanted us to throw the eeries to Cine elnbati for $5,000." “On the second trip to Cincinnat® otte and I had « conference, I told him we were double crossed and 1 was going out to win if there wae Ciwotte said he felt the any chance. same way Gandil told me in Cinoimnatt that Burns Abe Attell were-fix« could get $100,000, — rr ing never got It “We had & meeting in Chick Gans i's room at Clncinnatl, We just Jrapped in, one at a time, There were Buck Weaver, Eddie. Cleotte, Chick Gandil, Happy Felsdh and mye selt there “Welasked Gandil when we were jrolng to get the $199,000 that Burns and Attell were aup) toh give us He said, "They are supposed {0 give $20,000 or $80,000 after enoh a we ne a 4 ae wed Maes The third confession was announced by- the authorities to-day.@ |“Le‘ty” Williams, piteher, told of his part in the alleged conspiracy, Williams, who was mentioned by “Shoeless Joe” Jackson as the {man who gave him his $5,000, named all of the gamblers who were ins olved in the deal, Replogle announced, Immediately after telling his story to the Judge the player was He involved the same eight players as Cicotte and Jackson mentioned in their story, the Judge said, now have all the evidence necessary to go ahead and prose- one interested in the conspirac EXPERT FOR EVENING WORLD WILLIAMS CONFESSES $5,000 ~ TELLS HOW CHAMPIONSHIP | BRIBE TO FIX BALL GAME BALL GAMES WERE THROWN) JURY INDIGTS'2 GAMBLERS SE —— eee et ee me a een , 4

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