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| July 30, 1921: "This man, by his own confession, sat in his room at the Warner Hotel here and arranged to receive $10,000 for the dirty work he planned. Then Judas-like, he went downstairs to hobnob with his innocent teammates, and, in his own words, to allay the suspicions of the men whom he had just betrayed.
"He said he'd throw the ball over the fence if necessary to lose the first game. And what happened in the first game? Cicotte, the American League's greatest pitcher, hurling with a heavy heart — by his own confession — and a pocket made heavy by $10,000 in graft, was beaten 9 to 1. "No wonder he lost. The pocket loaded with the filth for which he sold his soul and his friends was too much. It overbalanced him and he lost." |
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