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WAITING FOR EAST.Alleged Crookedness Will be investigated.Akron, .Nov. 28 —The directors and supporters of the Akron base ball club a-e awaiting Walter East'? return from the Eat wiih some trtp;dation. L’hc/ are withholding any announcement of what they will do until he returns.“No action will be taken by the club directors regarding the expose of East's alleged attempts to fix the Canton-Massillon game until Walter re* rums,” President H. H. Gibbs, of the club, eald yesterday. “We are all sorry to hear that East has been im-p.icated in any such deal, and we still hopo that his innocence can be proven. So far a3 his alleged statement concerning the fight for thepannanti the 0. and P. league last summer is concerned you can say for me that it 13 aH rot- Bast would have made money out of it. if the team had beaten Youngstown, and he received a b?nus; of snO'l for finishing second, as it was.” Other club tIThials deny that there was any job in the ba°e ball league on tbo part of anyone connected with It, and say that if there was any it was put up-by outsider, blast is expected home today and his arrival is awa ted with keen Interest, j It )8 olaimtd that the Akron business 1 ( man involved in the rumors Hying f everywhere as being connected with 1 East in the alleged gambling deal has : also gone East. East and J. Ben I Campbell were at New Haven, Cfc ,1 witnessing the Yale-Harvard foot ball 1 game Saturday.
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Massillon Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1906
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