Bottle Opener 1919 Chicago Black Sox Hotel Shoeless Joe Jackson World Series
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RARE Bottle Opener from the Hotel the Black Sox met with the gamblers to discuss the Fix to throw the 1919 World Series.
The ONLY one I've ever seen!!!!
Neat relic and addition to any Black Sox collection.
John L. Horgan was the hotel manager in the 1910's and 1920's so it fits to the time period.
From...Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series
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The book outlines Roush's theory that the White Sox were playing to win after Game 1. This theory is developed with Roush's story of Jimmy Widmeyer, the "Million Dollar Newsboy"
who ran a newsstand at the Walnut and 5th in Cincinnati. Widmeyer, who was alerted about a possible fix, rented the room at the Sinton next to Black Sox stars Ed Cicotte and Happy Felsch.
Widmeyer "with his ear pressed against the wall with a water glass" overhead arguments between White Sox players and the gamblers, presumably Abe Attell, about getting their
pay-off for tanking Game one of the 1919 World Series.
From the Trial transcipts:
Frustrated and angry at getting only $10, 000 from Sullivan, seven of the players (only Joe Jackson was absent) met on the day before the Series opener at the Sinton Hotel
in Cincinnati with Abe Attell. Attell refused to pay the players any cash in advance, offering instead $20, 000 for each loss in the best-of-nine Series. The players complained,
but told the gamblers that they would throw the first two games with Cicotte and Williams as the scheduled starting pitchers.
Q. [What players were there at the meeting at the Hotel Sinton]?
A. There was Gandil, McMullin, Williams, Felsch, Cicotte, and Buck Weaver.
Q. What about Jackson?
A. I didn't see him there.
Q. Did you have any conversation with them?
A. I told them I had a $100, 000 to handle the throwing of the World Series. I also told them that I had the names of the men who were going to finance it.
Q. Who were the financiers?
A. They were Arnold Rothstein, Attell, and Bennett.
Q. Did the players make any statements concerning the order of the games to be thrown?
A. Gandil and Cicotte said the first two games should be thrown. They said, however, that it didn't matter to them. They would throw them in any order desired, it was a
made-to-order Series.
Q. What else was said?
A. Gandil and Cicotte said they'd throw the first and second games. Cicotte said he'd throw the first game if had to throw the ball over the fence [at Cincinnati's park...]
Q. Who left the room first?
A. Attell and Bennett [alias of gambler David Zelcer of Des Moines, a defendant in the case]. I asked the players what I was to get. Gandil said that I would get a player's part....
After the first game, I met Attell...and then we met Maharg. Attell said he bet all the money and couldn't pay the players until the bets were collected. I told the ballplayers and
told Williams that Attell wanted to see them. Williams, Gandil, and I went to see Attell at a place on Walnut Street about a block and a half from the Sinton Hotel.
BOTTLE OPENER IS THE ONLY ITEM FOR AUCTION HERE, THE PICTURE OF THE BLACK SOX WAS JUST TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET
The ONLY one I've ever seen!!!!
Neat relic and addition to any Black Sox collection.
John L. Horgan was the hotel manager in the 1910's and 1920's so it fits to the time period.
From...Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series
...;, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 255);">
The book outlines Roush's theory that the White Sox were playing to win after Game 1. This theory is developed with Roush's story of Jimmy Widmeyer, the "Million Dollar Newsboy"
who ran a newsstand at the Walnut and 5th in Cincinnati. Widmeyer, who was alerted about a possible fix, rented the room at the Sinton next to Black Sox stars Ed Cicotte and Happy Felsch.
Widmeyer "with his ear pressed against the wall with a water glass" overhead arguments between White Sox players and the gamblers, presumably Abe Attell, about getting their
pay-off for tanking Game one of the 1919 World Series.
From the Trial transcipts:
Frustrated and angry at getting only $10, 000 from Sullivan, seven of the players (only Joe Jackson was absent) met on the day before the Series opener at the Sinton Hotel
in Cincinnati with Abe Attell. Attell refused to pay the players any cash in advance, offering instead $20, 000 for each loss in the best-of-nine Series. The players complained,
but told the gamblers that they would throw the first two games with Cicotte and Williams as the scheduled starting pitchers.
Q. [What players were there at the meeting at the Hotel Sinton]?
A. There was Gandil, McMullin, Williams, Felsch, Cicotte, and Buck Weaver.
Q. What about Jackson?
A. I didn't see him there.
Q. Did you have any conversation with them?
A. I told them I had a $100, 000 to handle the throwing of the World Series. I also told them that I had the names of the men who were going to finance it.
Q. Who were the financiers?
A. They were Arnold Rothstein, Attell, and Bennett.
Q. Did the players make any statements concerning the order of the games to be thrown?
A. Gandil and Cicotte said the first two games should be thrown. They said, however, that it didn't matter to them. They would throw them in any order desired, it was a
made-to-order Series.
Q. What else was said?
A. Gandil and Cicotte said they'd throw the first and second games. Cicotte said he'd throw the first game if had to throw the ball over the fence [at Cincinnati's park...]
Q. Who left the room first?
A. Attell and Bennett [alias of gambler David Zelcer of Des Moines, a defendant in the case]. I asked the players what I was to get. Gandil said that I would get a player's part....
After the first game, I met Attell...and then we met Maharg. Attell said he bet all the money and couldn't pay the players until the bets were collected. I told the ballplayers and
told Williams that Attell wanted to see them. Williams, Gandil, and I went to see Attell at a place on Walnut Street about a block and a half from the Sinton Hotel.
BOTTLE OPENER IS THE ONLY ITEM FOR AUCTION HERE, THE PICTURE OF THE BLACK SOX WAS JUST TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET
