New Britain herald., 1916-03-18
THREATENS READY
 TO PRESS B. B. SUIT
Papers Are Completed Naming
 Mo6ulS in 0. B. as Defendants

New York, March 18-Arranse- mcnts were completed yesterday at- ternoon for the filing of the suit for damages by the Baltimore Federals against the club Owncrs of the Ma tlonal and American leagues under the Clayton Antitrust law. Stuart $. Janney, attorney for the Board of Directors, who also is a member Of the board, was in this city for a few hours yesterday to discuss the case with a local lawyer. Janney left last night for Philadelphia, where he is to have a conference with William A. Glasgow, the famous trust buster, thlc morning. Glasgow, who was retain ed as counsel for the Terrapins in the impending Suit will receive ali the papers in the case today, and, ac cording to Janney, will be ready to start suit in the United States court of Philadelphia hy Monday.
 Janney said that the papers in the suit will name the owner of each club in the National and American leagues, Ban Johnson, John K. Ten CT and August Hermann, who com pose the National Commission; Charles Weeghman, now Of the Chi cago Nationals, who was president of the late Federal league, and Harry Sinclair, the Oklahoma oil king. who owned the Newark F'ederals.
 Tener, Johnson, Gilmore, Weegh- man and Sinclair. the papers declare, acting as a special commission, caus- ed the loss of S3OO,0O0 to the owners of the Baltimore club by their action in bringing about peace.
 Feel Confident of Result.
 The Terrapins, in their suit, in tend to show how baseball in this country is handled. They intend to go into every phase of the national pastime and show how the ball play CTS who are signed by the big leagues are controlled from the time they leave the sand lots. A description of the Federal leagues formation and it's handling by Gilmore also will pe given the court. The papers declare that Organized Baseball bought off the associates of the Terrapins, and that Baltimore, as a result, was the chief sufferer In the transactions that caused the amalgalnatiOn of several Federal league clubs with those of Organized Baseball
 According to Janney, one of the chief reasons for the Baltimore Feds taking the matter into court is that two recent decisions indicate that the case will be decided in favor of the TerrapinS In the same court where the impending suit is to be tried the Federal judge recently decided that motion pictures are within the scope of commerce and in this city Judge Hand of the Federal court ruled that vaudeville actors come within the same scope, because both films and the actors travel about the country and cross the lines from many states.
 Will Attract Much Attention.
 Tn going into the damage feature the Traps will shap how they were compelled to sacrifice their 5000 ball park to the highest bidder, Jack Dunn, at 25,OO0, and on deferred payments at that
 The case, no doubt, will attract great deal of attention, because of placing baseball within the bounds of COmmeT
 Glasgow is prominent in the legal world because of his connection with the Harvester case and several coal matters He has been retained by the United States government upon sev~ era1 occasions as special counsel for the Interstate Commerce commission.