| Show MILLION FIFTY-MILLION DOLLAR BASEBALL COMBINE JE MAKING BITTER BATTLE FOR EXISTENCE IN UNITED STATES COURT Four Hundred Magnates Gather Cat to Hear Federals' Federals Legal Attack on Old Organization Jobe for Players Play Play- ers Depend on Result By HUGH S S. S FULLERTON t I Staff Start Special CHICAGO Jan 23 Legal ba baseball at which wo we have havo been poking Jibes proved I a serious contest when the tho forces of or or organized ort or- or I t baseball l driven to tho ho defensive o after years of or monopoly In the tho business I faced tho the Feds Fc In the lie court of ot Judo Judge Kenesaw M. M Land Landis Is Those who have e jested and Jibed re 1 realize I 10 tho the Importance of or the Issue when they watch the tho proceedings s In the federal I court In tn Chicago Organized baseball has at last st drO dropped all pretense of or tI fighting opposition through technicalities and settled set set- et tied down n to a 1 straight ht Issue to determine determine deter doter mine once and for all time the tho legal status of the baseball business In that courtroom there thero gather at Rt each Mch session tho ho most noted men or ot baseball Never before at an any time has lies there thero been such a n gathering of ot the clans There arc to more than tift fifty of ot the owners mon managers and tho the important players here hero hereto hereto to listen to the two armies of ot attorneys battle baUle with affidavits as aa their weapons On the bench the little gray Jray haired sharp featured Judge who knows baseball baseball base base- ball baU and baseball law quite Quito aa as well nell tut t he does legal law that's a fine Uno distinction listens and at times Injects a sharp question question ques ques- tion which alono alone Indicates his trend of or thought At the tables with th swarm of ot at attorneys attorneys at at- toneS from a dozen cities sit August Augut Herrmann John Tener Toner an and B. 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B Johnson John Johnson son zon the national l commission which Is ts tho legislative executive and Judicial force of organized baseball It really hIthe la is lathe the national that Is on trial trial trial- end and one can cnn tee see lawyers Vcrs and Judges 08 squirm while the attorneys read tho the In Interpretations In in- of oC law In the past b by these three hi-co who ho arc on trial In Ion long double rows rowa behind them sit Mt the defendants am and the complaining witnesses wit wt t- t nesses mingled In Barney Barney Bar Bar- ney tuss Is la smiling Charlie Com Comiskey Comis- Comis Is key looks look as If It he enjoyed enJoy d It about as ns much as he does a wake Frank Navin bald an and serious zits sits b by Bob Hedges who continues to smile having lost a pennant pennant pen pen- nant once b by one game gains and being able ablo to lo endure anything Branch Rickey and Lee Magee lagee sit It with Roger Bre n b between tw en them Over O atone at aton atone on one side are arc Charlie tho the man who n-ho threw the monkey wrench wench laughing as he points out the big men of or the tho game came cameto to his hie wife and friends Jim Gilmore and Robert Ward sit alt leaning forward consulting with mth their attorneys Thomas of ot the Cubs Charlie Ebbetts accused of oC blacklisting more players than any man mm In the tho same game BrItton of ot St. St Louis Charlie Somers Somera of or Cleveland i Hempstead of ot the tho New ew York Giants GUnts Colonel Huston the new Yankee owner Jim they are all there earnest serious and not at all the confident ones the they have been Behind them In the space for tor spectators there thero Is a constant Jam and In that crowd are many of ot the rhe leaders of minor league ball mingling with the tho rAn fans The Tho owners of ot about baseball clu clubs s saro are aro there thore and the representatives of ot thousands of or players It Is very serious buln business s. s and not atall at atall atall all the Joke that we have havo made It It means a struggle for the control of ot a game with Investments of or perhaps of ot 50 the control of or ball players and the Increase or decrease of or salaries of or those men end tho the earnings of oC owners The filing of or iCO scores S of or affidavits In support of or the char charges es brou brought ht Insured d da a lon long lone fight light Pitcher Addington used a n tantalizing t slow one during durin the early Innings inn Inn- In ings and appeared ared hut rallied and commences commenced using more moro steam and 2nd a spit tel tar Miller used speed almost exclusively but the the- Feds Fedt seemed emed onto his curves at the tho opening and scored cored quickly Quick He stopped them and arid at nt the end of or the fifth the tho score wa was tied The bo box score FEDS R R. H H. PO A. A E. E u c cf ct 1 i 0 o 1 0 0 Ward aN ss 55 0 I 0 0 3 2 Jones rf rt i-f. 0 3 0 0 0 Gilmore Ib lb o 0 0 o 6 0 5 S If Ir o 0 i 1 0 o 0 0 Tinker I 0 1 3 I 0 Stifel I lb b. b 0 0 0 0 0 Gate c. c o 0 2 J 4 0 I 5 p p. p o 0 0 3 I 0 7 Totals j G c 15 C 1 19 O. O B. B B. B R. R H. H PO POA A. A B. B I He Herrmann If t. t 0 It 0 Pp 4 t 0 D D John Johnson on lb Ib o 0 o 0 S o 0 6 Y c c. c 1 1 0 4 0 o 0 o Hedges ss Is 0 0 0 0 0 Pepper cr b. b 0 1 3 0 1 illiams o 0 1 0 7 2 Ten r. r if and p p. p o 0 0 0 0 8 3 Hedges r rf 0 0 0 0 0 Bresnahan Bresnaha 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miller p p. p o 0 2 3 1 l' l 4 t ToWs Totals 5 5 8 I 21 j H 5 15 i Technicalities Feds Feds 1 10 12 O. O B. B B B. 16 Ran Ean Ran for tor tho the do dog Innings z- z Federals 1 j f 0 0 i 0 o 0 0 i 1 Organized Baseball 0 0 J 0 1 0 0 i 1 Double Plays Pepper lays to Williams to toAi Miller i A i Gilmore i to Ga Gates tes to J Affidavits filed tiled Fed Feds 01 91 0 O. B. B B B. T B-T 96 Double crosses crosse Feds crosses s-Fe-d s Feds s. s i 1 1 O. O B B. B. B 6 Missed 2 Umpire Umpire- Landle Landis Time Time Eternity |
