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Show GEORGE K STIJBTISS WASHINGTON, March 27. Testimony designed to show that organized baseball controls the market in players, through reservation clauses in contracts, and thereby is a trust within the meaning ot the Sherman antitrust act, was continued today in the District of Columbia supreme su-preme court in the damage suit of the Baltimore Federal league club against the National nd American leagues and certain cer-tain officials of the defunct Federal league. Witnesses appearing today included in-cluded a number of baseball players, most of whom were Federal leaguers. George Maisel, a baseball player, sketched his professional career th rough the minor .league into the major league and then back to the minors. He testified testi-fied that only a few clays ago a contract had been sent him by a ball club on the Pacific coast, the terms of which were not at all satisfactory. He added that, because of the rules and regulations under which organised baseball operates, he either had to accept the unsatisfactory contract or quit organized ball. |