| 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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