Baseball Magnates Raided in Saloon
Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and other baseball officials swept up in an early-morning police raid on a Seattle saloon.
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Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, John Agnew and John Burns, prominent lawyers of Chicago, D. B. Dugdale, president of the Northwest baseball league, and John T. Ireland, manager of a saloon, were arrested by a police sergeant and two plain clothes men early this morning while they were in the place enjoying a wine dinner. Comiskey, Burns, Agnew and Dugdale accompanied the officers to the police station, but were not booked. Ireland, on a charge of violating the 1 o'clock closing ordinance, was released on $100 bail. Comiskey and his associates left Seattle this morning for Vancouver, B. C.
“Comiskey, Burns, Agnew and Dugdale accompanied the officers to the police station, but were not booked.”
Public spectacles involving athletes and nightlife figures remain a staple of sports reporting, though today’s scandals are more likely to unfold on social media than in a 1:00 AM police raid on a saloon. The '1 o'clock ordinance' was one of the era’s early attempts to regulate the vice that permeated downtown nightlife in Western cities.
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