Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
DELAY IS MAJOR
LEAGUE CLUBS
WEAPON IN WAR
Organized Ball Hopes to Break
FederaIs by Injunctions and
Other Lawsuits.
Bv Bill Bailey.

~ Ebay is Inc Neapoh seleoteu
by the fellows in organized
H. baseball with which to make
their fight. They have an idea it will
nroye fatal, all right, too. But 1t is
,bs,r opinion that it will be the other
follow who will suffer the fatality,
Meaning the men in the Federal
League.
Delay. lawsuits OF all kinds, includ-
ing damages, and injunctions are
among the weapons to be sharpened
when the magnates of the two leagues
gather in New York on Tuesday and
Wednesday Of next week. At any
rate that Is the impression which
YOU gather after talking it over with
The fellows who own the jor league
ball clubs.
Await Legal Battle.
Now. here is the peculiar part of it.
The Federals claim that they hope
that The fellows in the organized
game employ those tactics. They say
there will be no delay. Also that 1t
will be 4 great thing to have the legal
battle on as soon as possible. the
idea being, of course, that 1t Will be
over all the sooner and the Feds Will
know Just where they stand.
When the eight club owners Of the
National meet the octet of the
American in New York on Wednesday
of next week the plan of battle will
he formulated. And as near as can
he learned now it will provide some
Thing like this:
Every major league club which has
lost player will ask for an injunc-
ton. Charles w. Murphy is expect
Ioin Ward Miller from playing with
the Federals At the same time the
Sox will request that some action be
taken to keep Ted Easterly from
hammering any long drives over the
Fed fences. simultaneously will the
Philadelphia club arise in its might
and demand that Otto Knabe be le-
gally requested to refrain from ca
vorting on OUTLAW territory.
To Ask lnjunctions.
simultaneously will Mr.. Josephus
Tinker be requested to cease his Fed
eral activities. Temporary injunctions
viii be asked for.
Then comes the big legal fight.
These intunCtions will be asked for
upon the grounds that the men have
violated the reserve clause which is
the foundation of the organization.
The organized forces will care moth
ing about a short and decisive fight.
II they can keep the courts busy on
technicalities for several weeks or
months all the better. For in that
part of the game the major league
clubs figure they have it on their OPP
ponents.
It's like this: The organized clubs
have a sufficient number of men to
man their clubs and play their sched-
ule. But should temporary injunc-
tons be obtained against the big
league players who leaped, then they
will have to remain idle while the re-
quest for a permanent injunction Is
being decided.
Keep Jumpers Idle
Get the idea? Organized baseball
wants to keep the fellows who jumped
Idle Then they can go along playing
their schedule while the other fellows
have to employ substitutes. Some OF
the major magnates have an idea
that they can tie the proposition up
In the courts for years. The Feds give
the organization men the laugh on
this proposition. But it promises a
fne scrap Just the same.
Meanwhile Joe Tinker says that
his crew is preparing to do bit OF
litigating also. The fellows who
signed with the third league and then
hoped back to the organized Fellows
are the ones against whom Joe Is
leveling his threats
Did you ever stop to think what's
going to become OF these fellows VINO
have signed with US, accepted our
money and then jumped ?" querfed
Tee
WhatT" Joe was asked.
Well, they VIII be missing on pay
day. It's certainty that we Will tie
them up, and it Is d certainty that the
courts can't decide the question right
on. Who Is going TO pay them while
they are tied up and can't play? We
certainly can't be expected to. Well
win then in the end, which means
that the organized fellows won't"
1t looks decidedly promising for the
legal gents.