Evening star., 1915-01-10
FEDS HAVE MAGEE
CASE POSTPONED
Organized Base Ball Lawyers,
Anxious to Proceed, Are
OverruIed by Court.
INJUNCTION SUIT is SET
FOR HEARING JANUARY is
Gilmore Says Wingo Will Be Enjoin-
ed and That His League Will
Not Invade Cincinnati.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

CINCINNATI, January O.
The refusal OF United States
Judge Hollister to allow a tenn
porary restraining order asked
ior by the National League to
prevent Lee Magee, manager of
the Brooklyn Federals, to recruit
new team for that organization !;
the continuance of the suit until
next Saturday, the statement of
President Gilmore that the Fed
erals would bring suit against Ivy
Wingo, who jumped from the
Federals to St. Louis, and that
Cincinnati will not have a Federal
League team were the topics that
occupied the base ball world to-
day.
The postponement of the Ma
gee case was made over the pro-
test OF Attorneys John Calvin and
Ellis Kincaid, representing the
St Louis National team. The
court indicated he would hear the
case next week, despite the eff
forts of the attorneys for the
Federal League to have the mat
ter go over until after January
20, the date set for hearing the
suit filed in Chicago by the Fed
eral League against the national
commission and the teams of the
National and American leagues.
Attorneys Keene Addington of Chi
cago and Edward E. Gates of Indian
apolis, representing the Federal
League, asked for the continuance on
the ground that they had just received
a copy of the suit and had had no time
to prepare defense for Maeee. They
also stated to the court their grounds
for believing that the Chicago suit
should take precedence over the AIagee
case.
When Judge Hollister asked Attor-
ney Addington how the Magee case had
anything to do with the Chicago case,
the latter replied: I'VE regard this suit
as a part of the general conspiracy of
organized base ball to injure the Fed
eral League. The suit against Magee
VIII be brought into the other case
as one of the instances in which we
have been harassed.
Demands Early Trial.
Attorney kincaid replied: "Magee is
not party defendant in the Chicago
suit, and l ask my opponents to show
me the place in the bill of complaint
where he is mentioned. The Federal
League magines that the outcome of
the Chicago suit will settle all claims
1t may or it may not. But 1 contend
that the present case is entirely for
eign 10 the case in Chicago. If we
until after the settlement of that case
ana Nagee was not enjoined from act
ing as manager and a player of the
brooklyn Federals. there is nothing
that would prevent him from going out
into the open field and organizing a
rival base hall club. We want iinne-
diate action
The same points are involved in both
cases, Addington replied. They reach
to the very foundations of oreanjzed
base ball"
Why, then, is not this case as broad
asked.
Cincinnati will not have A Federal
League team because the CITY is nor
considered q good enough base hall
town 10 support two major leapue
CLUBS. according to the statement made
by President Gilmore of the Federal
League. He said, however, that the
American League cities can sr1pport
three leagues if they are properly dis
tributed, but personally he does not
believe that any city, even New York,
rdn support three major league teams
Besides the legal talent of the Fed
erals, President Gilmore was accom-
panied by Joe Tinker, manager of the
thicago Federals: John W. Ward of
Brooklyn. Ned Hanlon and Harry cold
man OF Baltimore and Magee himself
fillmore was positive about his plans
10 keep Ivy Wingo out of Organized
base ball, and declared that suit to pre-.
vent the star catcher from playing with
the Cincinnati National club to which
organization his st. Louis transfer was
shifted yesterday, will he fled by the
Federal League
Winso Has Two-Year Contract.
"!nBo's case is considered an nm
usual one in the fact that he had
signed two-year contract to play
with ST. Louis. The signature was OBJ
tanned by Manager Herzcg of the Reds
TINS week at the home of Winyo in
Norcross, Ga, Wingo's contract has
been transferred to Cincinnati
Gilmore. in speaking of the suit filed
by the Federals in Chicago, said it was
for the purpose of forcing a show-don,n
He said it was ridiculous to nav hail
players the large salaries some avg
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