BASEBALL SCANDAL
INDICTMENTS AGAINST PLAYERS
DISMISSED,
(Rec. March 18, 5.5 p.m.)
New York, March 17.
The Chicago Courts have dismissed the indictments against the baseball players charged with conspiring to allow their opponents to win the 1920 world series, on the application of , the State Prosecutor, who announced that the State’s case had collapsed owing to the repudiation of confessions by the players. The trial of gamblers who allegedly bribed the players has been indefinitely postponed. The prosecution’s action has caused amazement in American sports circles, who are anxious to clear away all tho suspicion attached to .professional baseball—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
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101BASEBALL SCANDAL Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
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