Month’s Delay in Hearing for Rose Granted
Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti has postponed for a month the hearing on gambling allegations against Cincinnati Manager Pete Rose.
Rose had requested the postponement of the hearing, which had been scheduled Thursday. Giamatti granted it today in a terse, one-paragraph statement announcing that the session was scheduled June 26 at 9 a.m. in the commissioner’s office in New York.
Two weeks ago, Giamatti received a report from John Dowd, a special counsel appointed to investigate charges that Rose had made numerous bets on sporting events, including baseball games.
Last Friday, Rose made the request for the postponement through one of his lawyers, Reuven Katz. Katz said that after receiving seven volumes of alleged evidence against Rose, he received 60 additional transcripts.
“This is a serious matter, and we need to do a thorough job,” Katz said at the time.
Rose’s advisers have said that if Giamatti declined to grant the postponement, they would go to court.
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