The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-06
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CARL MAYS TELLS STORY
 OF TROUBLE IN BOSTON
Testifies That He Was Dazed After Being Hit on Head By Ball and Left Game With
 Managers Consent.

New York, Sept. e-The hearing on the motion to make permanent tho temporary injun ctiou restraining Ban Johnson. President of the American League, from interfering in any way with Carl W. Mays in the perform ance of his duties as a pitcher for the New York American was put over yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Robert r, Wagner, until 2 o'clock
 Monday afternoon, when before him in Part IL. stephen Baldwin, attor- ney for Mir. Johnson, will make his answer to tho arguments presented yesterday by Mcssrs, Aucrbach and Futile, the attorneys for Co.'s Rup- pert and Huston.
 The arguments presented by the latter took moro than two hours yes terday afternoon, In the morning Martin A. Schenck, of tho law firm of Auorbach, Davies S Cornell, pro scented Mir. Johnson with a subpoena requiring him to produce in court copies of all letters he has written about the Mays case, together with the originals of all answers received. The attorneys for Ruppert and Illus ton want particularly to get the yet ter which Johnson on Thursday ad-
 ni,ted writing to Hiidchrand, a league 
 the Boston players regarding the Mays incident on July 13. when at the end Of the third inning in a game with the White SoN at Chicago he left the field where he had been pitchiuE The story circulated at the time credited him with having left in anger and with having voiced his de- termination not to play with the Bos- ton team again.
 Yesterday Mir. Auerbach read an af- fldayit signed by Mays in which he said that he was in no condition Co pitch that day. his nerves being upset by domestic troubles and the recent loss through fire of the home which he was building in Pennsylvania, and in which he had invested all his saw ings. together with the loss of all his baseball souvenirs, including those or World Series in which he took part.
 He said in his am5uvtt that he had not been right" all spring. and that his nervousness had reached an acute stage on the afternoon of the 18th when selected to pitch. with the result that in the second inning he failed to comprehend a signal given by the catcher to the effect that he was go- ing to make a throw to second to catch a runner mapping and failed 10 duck in time and was hit in the back of the neck by the ball and stunned to such an extent that he had to leave the game after the third inning. He went to the club house, he said, and 9 here broke down and cried. A player sent by Ed Barrow, his manager, found him crying, and Barrow ordered the pitcher Co his hotel and told him to get medical attention.
 Mays declares that he followed Bar rows advice. and when the physician ordered him Co take a complete rest for about ten days, he says that with the knoweledge and consent of Bar- row he went to Boston, reported the whole matter to Frazcc and left him his address in Pennsylvania.
 A week later, upon receipt of a tele- gram from FrazCe to report to him Immediately regarding the stories that were being circulated about him, he says he rode all night in an automo- bile so as to be able to meet Frazee in New York the next morning. At no time. according to tho affidavit. was there any misunderstanding between When he saw F'razee in New York. he alleges that the latter after hearing his story again, expressed his coufi- dence in him and told him that he . would try and place him with some other team. and Mays expressed. a do- sire to go to New York. The details of Mays leaving the game and report ing to the Boston office were corrob- Orated in supporting affidavits made by Frazee and Barrow.