The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-24

iSdictiOn, will have no bearing On lAe
petition for permanent 1n1unctlon.
If he decides in favor of the Federals'
all legal fights over contracts VIII pc
halted, pending the decision IN the
suit for a permanent Injunction II
he calls the Federals out In this case
he virtually declares the permanent
injunction hearing will be only as 70
the federal law involved and that he
will not settle common law questions
between players and clubs.
While baseball experts are battling
on diamonds and cheered by real fans
this summer. sweltering court rams
may be listening to arguments OF
counsel on petition for permanent IN
junction. The proverbial forty days
and forty nights-and one more day
for good measure will necessarily
elapse before Judge Lands Will SIT
in final jud gment upon organized BASE
ball 1t may be three months ana
should the court calendar be crowded,
still longer. Twenty days were al
lowed by Judge lands for the ma
tional commission, the National ana
American leagues and the constituent
clubs to gather in any number OF
new affidavits and shower them on
the clerks desk. Then the Federais
were given twenty-one more days 10
file interrogatives before the Judge
will set the case. Every one OF the
sixteen constituent clubs will have
an opportunity to file affidavits. Ev-
ery player may have court record.
Numerous affdavits from players,
ticket sellers-and even pop corn
vendors and the senders Of alleged
'subsidizing Western Telegraph Co.
messages maybe represented with ATM
davits. Rebuttals may be filed In
each case. Abduction was one OF
the charges against organized base
bali. Cowardice was another weak
mess urged against 0. B.
Gates claimed Ban Johnson was
ungenerous. This is the first time
ANYBODY has had the nerve to put
their heads above the fence since the
time that Ban Johnson had his war
with organized baseball" he said.
And he is ungenerous enough to re-
fuse us the right to fight as he did.
Never did the Federals seek entrance
to organized baseball unsolicited by
parties representing themselves as
agents" was another assertion At
torney Gates made. 1.-THE only time
we ever considered the proposition,
he said, was when the acceptance
was predicated with the understand
ing that the national agreement was
to be amended so we could have rep
resentation in the National commits
sion and our players protected
Again the paintings OF the court
room were brought into argument
while the auditors laughed. Sarcas-
tically referring to Counsel Peppers
comparison Of the pictured Magma
Charta to the national agreement,
Counsel Gates called It sacrilege
which gave to our English forefath-
ers their liberty, to the iniquitous ma
tional agreement which takes from
National baseball players their rights
of free contract.
Declaring that under the bill OF
rights, baseball players though under
the national commission. slaves were
free men, Gates averred the shame
full" draft system enables octopus
maguates to seize their freehold
liberty" that by the "culpable reserve
clause they were outlawed and ex-
fled" and that they were Judged only
by the omnipotent national commits
sion.
Concluding his argument, Gates
said he had reason to believe further
suits would be filed in st. LOUIS
Pittsburgh and New York.