Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-17
BASEBALL BREEzEs.
Freedman Gets Out an Injunction
 Against spalding.

Bristol Dec 17.-Secretary Wiltsie of the Hartford baseball association at the meeting in Bristol with Managers Tracey and Kennedy and ex-Senator Pierce said that Hartford was friendly to Bristol and that he would vote to reconsider the action taken at the meeting of the State league magnates in New Haven Wednesday and that he was in favor of Bristors being in the league the coming year. He said pos itively that meeting would be held this week. He said that it was a good proposition to retain the championship winner in the league for advertising purposes and that this should be done no matter what the standing of the club i'll regard to gate receipts had been.
 Manager Tracey will go to the meeting with the figures to show what Bristol paid each club in the league and what was received from them. The question of the accessibility Of the place and the cost of getting there will be considered. As compared with Springfield, every club in the state will have to pass through the Hartford station to get to Springfield, and the cost Of getting to that city is in the neighborhood of 30 cents, while it is only 20 cents to Bristol The third rail service between Hartford and Bristol make the latter the best place in the state to get into and out of with the exception of Hartford and New Britain. The single club that stands by itself now is Waterbury, where there is the poorest train ser vice in the state at the present time. Waterbury was close second to Der. by last year for the honor of being the poorest paying city in the circuit. II the question of receipts is to be con- sidered as the basis for dropping two cities to make room for Hartford and Springfield then Derby and Waterbury will have to go.
 The Bridgeport Post of last evening contained the following Reports have ben sent out from Bristol to the effect that a meeting of the Connecticut baseball league would be called for this week to rescind the action of last week. When asked about it to-day Secretary James H. O'Rourke said:
 T have not been asked to call a meeting and I shall not call one. You can say further that all these threats of lawsuits which come from Bristol will have no more effect upon me than water upon ducks back. It is pos sible that something may be done in the near future, but you can say from me right here that Bristol will not be in it, anyway.
 Dispatches have been sent out, too, which have wilfully misrepresented the entire situation, especially in re- gard to BristoPs record as a baseball town. It has also been stated that the feeling against Bristol has changed when, as a matter of fact, the opposi- ton to Bristol is stronger now than ever. The congregations and un truths uttered in the interest of Bris- tol have angered the managers and they are now more determined than ever to stick to their original plan.
 At the Fifth Avenue hotel at about 5:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon, one hour after the scheduled time, A. G. Spalding, in the presence of the news paper reporters, a crowd of base ball men and his attorneys, said:
 "As president of the National league and American Association of Profes- slonal Base Ball Clubs, declare An drew Freedman out. I defy him to at- tend any future meeting of the league while l am president, It is now up to the stockholders of the National Ex- hibition Go, otherwise known as the New York base ball club, at meeting in Jersey City, to take the final step. Freedman is now a dead issue with me and is off the base ball map"
 This declaration came after a long statement by Spalding In which he went over the ground with care and evidently guided by legal advice and when he got through with the case it was the consensus of opinion that Spalding had practically expelled the New York man, although Spalding said afterward that the word "expel'' had not been used and that he had not made his ruling with that idea. He had merely declared Freedman out of the National league. At o'clock, as Spalding was leaving the meeting room, man handed him | bunch of legal documents.
 It was service in a suit brought by Freedman, Brush, Robison and Soden of the New York, Cincinnati St Louis and Boston clubs, in which Justice David Leventritt of the supreme court of New York county issued an order at 5 o'clock in the afternoon to show cause why temporary injunction should not be issued pending the deter imitation of an action to test the title of the office of president-secretary treasurer of the National league. In other words, the Freedman comhina- ton succeeded in tying Spalding's hands for the time being, but he was not served until after his official action ill declaring the New York man out.
 ''It's too late!" said Spalding, as he received the papers. But from now on 1 bow to the majesty of the law!"
 While on the face of 1t Spalding's mere declaration that Freedman was out does not appear to be satisfactory proof that the New York man has been busted, there are enough indications to show that Spalding has the whip hand and that he will make good his prom ises, It is not violating confidence to say that when Spalding has succeeded in recognizing the national game, af= fairs will be arranged in such a man. ner that Freedman and his friends will find that they are up against what is known as s'organized ball." Tn other words, whether they succeed in nulii- flying Spalding's action or not by pro- cadI1ra i'm the coiIrtS fhQV cannot homo