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Show Baseball by Injunction Serve Writs on Players Base Hit May Mean Jail IHICAGO. Dec. S- How splendid base- ball is going to be next season! The stove leag-ue fans have been getting a tatte of the new baseball baseball by injunction. in-junction. So far. the writs, pleas, caveat emptors, supersedeases and torts have been confined con-fined to the magnates cv.tl of the game. The tans have seta Fa:; Johnson attempt at-tempt to punish Pttch.er Mays for leaping leap-ing from a second division team to a pennant pen-nant possibility, have seen his efforts fall because of an Injunction or two or three. They have seen part of the American league try lo schedule a meeting for Chicago, Chi-cago, only to be upset by a temporary writ. T r e w ; h be me rry 1 1 m es on the "s ball fields next summer if this writ business busi-ness keeps up. Won't it be lovely? Nemo Lelbo'.d comes to bat and he has Walter Johnson in the hole, 3 and 2. Then Kid Oleason dashes out cn th.e field with, a lawyer's clerk and serves a paper enjoining the Washington Wash-ington pitcher from delivering the third strike. Nemo walks, steals second, and Eddie Collins is on the point of smashing a sharp double to right, when Griff runs up with a duces tecum ordering Eddie to appear In court immediately with his bats and ail other evidence to show cause why he -shouldn't be jailed for contempt. Then about th.e time Fred Mitchell Is starting to tell Cmptre Klem what he thinks about him, along comes MeGraw, empowered to act as guardian ad '.item, and lias Fred silenced with a court order. So far as the merits of the Mays case are concerned, it looks from the Ride lines as though. Ban Johnson had the belter bel-ter of the argument. At least ho has five t teams with him of the eight teams in the league. |