BASEBALL SCANDAL
ACQUITTED PLAYERS BANNED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) NEW YORK, August 3. (Received August 4, 8 p.m.) Seven members of the famous White Sox baseball team who were yesterday acquitted by the jury on a charge of selling the 1919 series of games, were to-day banned by the Baseball Commission from ever again playing. The Commission decided that any player who had confessed to throwing away a game or conspired with gamblers with a view to throwing the game away should not be reinstated.
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Southland Times, Issue 19295, 5 August 1921, Page 5
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86BASEBALL SCANDAL Southland Times, Issue 19295, 5 August 1921, Page 5
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