CUBS PRESIDENT ADMITS SWEEPING INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY ON GAME FIX
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On September 4, 1920, a "new bombshell" in the baseball gambling scandal "exploded" when William Veick, president of the Chicago Cubs, admitted that a "sweeping investigation was underway of charges that the Cubs had been fixed to let Philadelphia win" a recent game.
The Cubs ownership admitted they had been "tipped off" that some of their players had agreed to "throw the game."
SOURCE
"Bare Cubs Baseball Scandal, National League Game "Fixed" by Gamblers, Charge," Los Angeles Evening Herald, September 4, 1920, UCR, www.ednc.ucr.edu/
