Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-21
With spalding's Consent, Courts Tie

With Spalding's Consent, Courts lie
 Freedman Up Completely.
 As a result of the legal proceedings before Justice Scott in Part I of the supreme court yesterday, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is so completely tied up that it is a question whether it will be able to play ball next season. Meanwhile the plan to increase the American league cir cult to twelve cities will proceed smoothly and Ban Johnsons agents will continue to grab all of the desir- able players remaining with the old organization. Tn other words the tenn poraIy injunction secured by Freed man and his friends restraining \. C.. Spalding from acting as president of the National league until the legality of his election can be decided by the courts appears to have acted as q boomerang, inasmuch as the question may not be settled for q year, during which time Freedman *as well as Spalding cannot go on with official bus mess.
 When the injunction suit came up before Justice Scott yesterday, there
 
 man faction when Spalding's attorney, Alfred ". Riddle, consented to. allow the injunction. to stand, pending the suit to test Spalding'se recent election. Under the injunction Spalding is re- strained from exercising the function of secretary-treasurer and is required to turn over the effects of the league. said to be in the trunk which he secured week ago today, from the former president, N IL. Young. But just when the trunk will be recovered is problem that cannot be solved for the reason that Freedman's attorneys have so far been unable the big Chi cago magnate
 The leagues predicament is becom- ing amusing. The only way to call a meeting is upon the request of six clubs, the order to come from the president. Four clubs, the Brooklyns, Philadelphias, Chicagos and Pitts burgs, see no reason for calling meet ing, as they finished up all business last week, including the election of of .ficers, assisted by the presence of Fred Knowles of the New York club who made quorum when the Spalding clubs went into session. Therefore, Freedman's four clubs. Boston, St Louis, Cincinnati and New York, can not secure the consent of two other clubs to call q meeting and the in junction proceedings against Spalding prevent him from issuing the call.
 Even N E. Young and the National league as a body have been enjoined from proceeding further, so that Young's hands are tied The presi- dent was elected the schedule commit tee so that under the present circum-' stances no official list of championship games can be arranged. The various committees, including the board of di- rectors, and the national hoard of ar bitration, will probably stand until their election has been taken into the courts. Freedman and his friends ii they continue in their present line of action, must await a ruling from the courts. while there Is nothing to pre- vent Spalding and his allies from going on with other plans, calculated te freeze the New York men out of organ ized ball.
 It would seem that Freedman's move to decide matters in the courts has proved as much of an obstacle to his own progress IS to that of his rivals, who, enjoying the alliance oi the American league and that of the or ganized minor leagues of the country, ore inclined to smile broadly at this latest phase of the situation. To disinterested person it looks as if