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FESSESTO PART IN FOOTBALL DEAL.Lays the Blame onCoach Wightman.The Massillon Man Wasto Receive S4000 ForThrowing the Gameat Canton,\ ; ra Dec. 6.—The Beacon Jour*Hi. tonight publishes a sensationalit a* mient made by Walter East, con-c-ruing the Canton-Massillon footballtontrovery, as follows:Walter R. East, who has been ac-c ,s*'lt;t by the management of the Mas-Filion football team of ’having attempted to ‘fix” the two games pl iyed between that team and Cantu;, returned to. this city Wednesday t ening, and this morning issued a f ir enent making public his side of the matter.Accompanying his statement is a : »!• of the agreement entered into b him, Coach S. H Wightman andI T. Windsor.Mnong other things East exonerate ‘ Blondy” Wallace, poach and n r. ger of the Cauton team, from complicity in the scheme, and, al-» eigh he acknowledges that he ligned an agreement with S. H. V thtman, the Massillon coach, teby, for a money consideration, was to arrange matters so that first game should be thrown to on and the second won by Mas-s 'Oil, he holds that he should not bem as much of the blame as Wight-i tti. claiming that the Massillon man directed the entire matter.What will Interest Akron peoplef *re is to learn that East declares the statement to the effect that he fl imitted having ‘ fixed” a game between Western University* of Penn-R 1 vania and State college last fall. r 1 that he said Akron finished sec-0 i in the O. P. league because :e was more money in it for^rfhi,»re “absolutely and unqualifiedly fuse” He learned of the charges *h!eh had been brought against him v thin a few days after they wereII ide public, but spent much time in P' 'sburg before returning to Ak-Wightmau’s request lHat I saw the Massillon players, Shi ring and Maxwell, that it was at bis suggestion f looked up a party tc» furnish the money; that it was at ills request a meeting was arranged at Pittsburg, and that after the terms demanded by W ightman had been turned down, it was at the suggestion and urgent request of Wightman that negotiations were reop* ned and a meeting atCleveland, O., arranged. A reference to. the records of the local telephone exchange will corrorobate these last statements, the same showing t hat Wight nr 1 repeatedly called tip and sought interviews for the purpose of arrauging those meet*EXONERATES WALLAC E.“I notice further that Wightman and the management of the Massillon football team charge Mr. Wallace, manager of the Canton football team, with being a party to tlie deal. If he was, it was wholly without any knowledge on my part.“No member of the Canton football team or of the Canton Athletic association, were, so far as I know, connected with the deal in any manner whatever. If Walace was connected with the matter, as Wightman and the Massillon football management assert, they, ar.d not I, are aware of the fact.“As an excuse for the loss of the first game, Massillon charges that I gave their signals to the Canton players, and then say that they were obliged to change their signals and'(Continued on Page Four.)WHAT’S A WAKE?iv 1beth-Ch.runI develops that the “Akron man-1 i irer” who was said to have beenf- i with East in his alleged at-1 to put his scheme through is‘ 0,her than John T. Windsor,ary and treasurer of the Wind-I trick company, and vice presi-’if of the Akrou base ball club, however, says that Mr. Wind-refused to accede to Mr. Wight-n ; - requests at the first conference.R ' hat the contract was drawn up* ward, after Mr. Windsor had i mposed that his refusal had con-1 the matter. He endeavors to* ‘re the blame equally with Wight* n ui and to let out the others whoR r* supposed to have been impli-till*rliEastR nrThree Supreme Court Justices SpendFive Hours to Find Out.New York, Dec. 6.—Three grave justices of the appellate division of the supreme court of the state today spent five hours of their valuable time, they draw a salary of $17,500 per year, hearing an appeal from a decision of Justice Hoyer that Joseph J. McCullough’s bill of $73.25 against the executors of the will of his uncle, Peter McCullough, for supplies furnished for the “wake”*was not proper.Peter McCullough died in 1904, and his nephew prepared for the burialand for rites and ceremonies necessitated and lequired by the racialcustom, spent $73.25, which sum went for the purchase of ham, corned beef, eggs .butter, potatoes, mustard, steaks,other meats, ice, bread, rolls andcakes, beer, whisky, port wine, sherry, soda water and tips to coach drivers,etc. Attorney Clare for the appellate in his argument first sought Webster in defining a “wake,” and then quoted at length from Samuel Lever, the Bible, the Jewish encyclopedia, from Scott's Ivanoe, and even from Shakespeare- and Virgil, to show how in allages it has been-custom of man tofeast and make merry in the presence of death. After listening to the lengthy treatise on the wake as defined by masters in'masters in literature, thlt; three justices declared that the; would reserve their decision.!TO PREVENT ACCIDENTSNe\1Athewill»*ed(EAST’S STATEMENT ibs signed statement is as follows: pon my return from the east'hat a considerable unpleas-notoriety has been attached to Kv iame in connection with tlie' ii Massillon football teams,consequently Jn justice to my-nnd for the enlightenment of1 herewith present ament of the case, without re-I shall not go into all the *u.s details which finally termi-^ 1 an agreement with S. H.‘ ^man. coach of the Massillon ^ y which for a money consider*h '■ he was to throw games. Suf- say, that the entire matter ' a -il with, and was directed by; Wightman; that it was Mr.^ nan who first suggested the‘ to me; that I at first declined. 1 1 !tl*° the affair, but consent-‘ later Interview; that it was at1The N. O, T. Co. Has Issued aOrder.new order went into effect o N. O. T. lines yesterday whic go farther for the prevention accidents than any precaution tht has yet been taken. The order is tha on all lines that are double tracke any car running in the opposite d rection from a car stopping to dl: charge or take on passengers will ha\ to stop until the car has passed.This will be the oul yeffective meai of preventing accidents caused b people walking around the rear of car without looking in the other d rection. A serious accident that olt; curred 011 the west line in this• IIWEI1Iseveral weeks ago was responsible the action taken by the company.»OBY WAS RESPITEDUnder Pledge to Return in March anBegin Prlaon Term.I Special to Morning News.Chicago, Dec. 6.—William1J. Ol:^ was respited by Judge Landis on tt representation that his w*fe wasoon to have a child, and feared thf
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 06, 1906
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