Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Under Grabiner’s régime the “honor system” as practiced at the Chicago
park began to be suspected. It began to be mysteriously suggested that
visiting teams were not getting their full share. Through a system of
false accounting, it was said, money was being held out. Naturally, with
all the other secret investigations that were proceeding in baseball,
this clue was not left untouched. Detectives were hired. Watchers were
stationed. Secret counts were made. Not only one club nor only two clubs
adopted secret methods of finding out what was occurring under
Grabiner’s secretaryship. They discovered that the “honor system” was
not in vogue at that park. Their suspicions were confirmed, the
mysterious rumors were verified. It would probably be highly
objectionable to pro-Jewish persons to mention the Jewish management
with these methods—but there are the facts.
The White Sox of Comiskey’s palmy days have certainly ridden to a sorry
finish under the Jewish control that has been foisted upon it. And it is
typical; for there is no surer clue by which to trace a certain type of
Jew than by the near certainty that even with honest money rolling in
upon him, he will try to increase the flow by petty dishonesty which,
once discovered, declasses him forever. It is typical. There is a lure
in trickery that appeals to some men more than sound and satisfying
achievement does. Think of a world-famous baseball club allowing a
system that cheated the guest club of a few hundred admission fees!
Then next in this gallery of notables in the background of baseball is
the Jew gambler, Abe Attell, whose connection with sports has been of a
questionable character ever since his dethronement from his pugilistic
pedestal. Attell is known as the “king bee” of the scheme to “throw the
games” in the World Series. He knows all about underhanded “throwing” of
contests, because he has “thrown” his own fights, now feigning to be
beaten when it involved gambling bets and easily winning when the same
reasons prompted. Attell is of such a character that he ought to be
barred from the grounds of any sport, as Mr. Fullerton suggests. He is
the Morris Gest of sport, without Gest’s success. All the players named
Attell as the “fixer.” Even Rothstein named Attell as the “fixer.” It
seemed unanimous—with perhaps Attell’s own consent—that he should be
regarded as the “fixer”: it made it so much more comfortable for others.
Attell went so far as to say that he approached Rothstein with the
proposition to raise a pool to bribe the players to “throw the games,”
but Rothstein declined. And yet Maharg, another Jew, whose name spelled
backward is “Graham,” says that a telegram came through signed “A. R.”
which promised $20,000. The “A. R.” was supposed by some to mean Arnold
Rothstein, but others say he is too shrewd even to sign his initials.
However, it was asserted that 10 gamblers, all Jews, cleaned up $250,000
on the games and that nearly as much money was used to manage it.
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