"OWNERS WERE TIPPED OFF IN ADVANCE THAT THEIR PLAYERS WOULD THROW THE GAME"

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/

'THE NATIONAL TEAM PLAYED LOOSELY & MUFFED AT HOME, THEN STRUCK OUT IN PARIS"

HARDING TO CUBS:  U.S. 'MUFFED' AT HOME & 'STRUCK OUT' AT PARIS

Marion, Ohio (JFK+50) On September 2, 1920, Republican presidential nominee Senator Warren G. Harding gave a front porch address to the Chicago Cubs* of the National League.  The Cubbies were in town to play an exhibition baseball game.

The Senator said...

"I pay to you my tribute to baseball because I like the game, just like every other real American.  I want our country to float the championship pennant in the contest for human achievement."

Mr. Harding continued...

"It is my observation that the national team...played loosely and muffed...in our domestic affairs, then struck out at Paris." 

*The Chicago Cubs finished the 1920 baseball season with a record of 75-79 & 6th place in the National League standings.  The manager was Fred Mitchell.

SOURCE

"Harding Borrows Baseball Tongue To Expound Creed, Tells Cubs U.S. 'Muffed' at Home & Then 'Struck Out' at Paris," Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1920, www.loc.gov/

                        Harding Begins Campaign

                                                  July 22, 1920

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