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Show Yank Lawyers Rap Johnson; Call Him Insolent, and He Seeks to Set V p Aut0( i NEW YOEK, Sept. 5. When Ban Johnson, iu'eMilent of the American Ameri-can league, ordered the suspension suspen-sion of l'iteher Carl Mays on July 31, for nlk'yd lueaeh of liis contract with the Huston Americans, he aeted "without informalion" on the case, exercised "unauthorized power " and assumed "dictatorship" in the league, counsel for the New York Matvball club contended today at the opening session of the hearing of the club's motion to make permanent the tern , porary injunction restraining Johnson from 'interfering with the Yankees' use of Mava. Mays cinit the Boston club din-ina a game on July 13, it was announced, because be-cause he was suffering mentally from domestic troubles and had been almost knocked out by a thrown hull. He later was found with his head between his hands, crying. Mays had never been disciplined and was held in high esteem throughout his entire baseball career, it was nttded. A short tiiiu prior to the 13th his home in Pennsylvania had beon destroyed bv lire, with virtually no insurance on it Harry Pra7.ce, , club, md .sympathi,.,, cJ,i tressed intchor over ,i :': hnanc.al ditVicultics, C( ' as other clubs ,Kuj asked Mays wh ,), on,- 1,, '": The New York chili ' , lor him, and it Wll, ,, ' club that Mays s;lill Die transter contract ,v1( . tuulInys; was sold , j-son j-son s notice ot Si,s,,,si ' ' days later, counsel ,!,, , ' ' ' Johnson had Y.ecotue '!' his actions that, he lnj a constitution for him's. If ; self was the sole jii',.,,"' j visions and (he solo ;','' ' them,'' declared .James' Vu ' . ney for the New York rirl, ".' incut. ' : i Charles IT. Tntlle, also of ! the New 1 ork cluh, then r constitution and bv-laws J. can league, and c'oiitcn,l,., showed conclusively that 'l ! no authority to order' (),,' of Mays that dtsritltaarrV caso rested with Uio 10,' ' club. - |