| Chick Gandil hatches plan to throw Series. |
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| Gandil tries to sell Ed Cicotte on his idea. |
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| Cicotte agrees to join fix for $10,000 paid before
Series. |
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| Gandil begins recruiting other Sox players to join
fix. |
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Sept. 10:
Gandil meets with gambler Sport Sullivan and asks for
$80,000 to
throw series. |
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| Attell tells big-time gambler Arnold Rothstein of
the Burns' proposal.
Rothstein turns down idea at first. |
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Sept. 23:
Burns and another gambler, Billy Maharg, meet with Abe
Attell in
hopes of raising cash for fix. |
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| Cicotte and Gandil meet with Burns and tell him they
will throw
Series for $100,000. |
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| Gambler Sleepy Burns discusses a possible fix with
Cicotte. |
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Sept. 21:
7 Sox players
meet in hotel room to hear Gandil's
proposal. |
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| Burns and Maharg meet with Rothstein, but again
Rothstein refuses
to fund the fix. |
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| Attell inaccurately, as part of a scheme of his own,
tells Burns
that Rothstein has reconsidered and will fund the fix after all. |
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Sept. 26:
Sport Sullivan meets with Rothstein, and this time A. R.
is convinced
to provide backing for the fix. |
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Sept. 29:
Sullivan and Rothstein's representative, Nat Evans, meet
with Gandil
and 5 other players. Evans says he'll get back to them after
talking
"with associates." |
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| The players are divided: Williams says "no" to fix,
Jackson demands
$20,000--who knows what Weaver thinks? |
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| Gandil puts $10,000 in Cicotte's hotel room under
his pillow. |
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| Sullivan bets $30,000 of the $40,000 intended for
players on the
Reds. He gives $10,000 to Gandil. |
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| Evans gives $40,000 to Sullivan, expecting he will
deliver it all
to the players. |
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| Rothstein bets $270,000 on Cincinnati Reds to win
the Series, dropping
the odds. |
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| Rothstein gives $40,000 to Evans to take to
players. He says
to promise other $40,000 at end of Series. |
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Diagram of a Fix