Show Baseball Case se Delayed Fo For Two Iwo VI Weeks NEW V YORK March 24 CUP UP- UP The reinstatement requests of three players suspended from organized organized organized or or- baseball were headed Thursday for a two to four week delay instead of or the immediate action sought by hy their attorneys Hearings were held in federal court Wednesday on the reinstatement reinstatement reinstatement reinstate reinstate- ment Injunction asked by Danny Gardella former New York Yolk Giants outfielder and on a similar In Injunction Injunction injunction In- In junction asked b by former St. St Louis Cardinals Max Lanier and Fred Martin Judge Edward A. A Conger ordered ordred Gardella's attorney Frederick Johnson to file me a brief by March 30 and he told baseballs baseball's attorney Mark Hughes to file a reply to Gardella by April 6 File Fite Brier Brief Judge Conger also directed baseball baseball baseball base base- ball to file an answering brief in inthe inthe inthe the Lanier and Martin injunctions request by April 23 The setbacks all but wiped out whatever hopes the suspended players may ha e had for getting back in uniform at the start of this season On April 19 The set setbacks bocks were made against the protest of John L L. Flynn at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney for Lanier and Martin who claimed baseball already had hod had ample time to reply Hughes had asked for more time because baseballs baseball's baseballs baseball's baseballs baseball's base base- balls ball's o 0 officials f f i c cia i a l 1 s are scattered throughout the country for spring training Hughes also raised the objection that he did not think the suspended suspended suspended sus sus- players legally could ask for both reinstatement and cash damages In damage suits still pending Lanier has asked for Martin MorOn for and Gardella for Denied As Assertion Johnson told Judge Conger that Gardella was ryas more interested in being allowed ed to play for semipro teams without interference from rom organized baseball than he was in j 1 reinstatement Hughes denied Gardella's Gardella's Gardella's Gar- Gar dellas della's assertion that baseball had interfered with his attempts to play semiprofessionally and called Gardella's reinstatement appeal much ado about nothing |