The sun., 1919-09-09
DECISION ON MAYS
STILL HANGS FIRE
Another Hearing on Mooted
Johnson VS.. Yankees Case
Set for Friday.
VERDICT NEXT WEEK
e.
scathing Denunciation of
Baseball Gar in Conf
skey's Affidavit.
VERDICT NEXT WEEP

Ban Johnson's attorney. Stephen G.
Baldwin, had his inning, in the Carl Mays
case Yesterday. The Carl Mays case Is
more like cricket than baseball. You
play part Of it one afternoon. partake of
r.freshments and then postpone It to
some other afternoon.
Take It from Steve, Ban isn't as black
AZ he is painted by the Yankee-Red Sox-
white Sox alliance.
In fact, Ban only looks after the Amer
ian public, which, 1t is admitted, pays
The freight. and is only interested that
II gets a square deal. So Baldwin told
Justice Robert F. Wagner in Special
Term. Part H.. of the Supreme Court
yesterday afternoon.
whether the injunction restraining
Johnson and his umpires from interior
ing with Carl Mays pitching for the Yam
KEGS will be made permanent again has
been showed forward. and Justice Wag-
mar will not give his finding until week
from to-day, September Is. Both sides
srreed TO submit new affidavits to JUS
tice Wagner by next Friday, and His
Honor expressed the opinion that the
matter could be decided by next Tuesday.
Baldwin, Johnson's attorney, started
his case by poking fun at the Yankee
lawyers, Auerbach and futile, whom he
referred to as ''these learned elocution-
lists" Baldwin, however, was not in as
GOOD fighting form as he was In the pre-
itrninary hearing before the referee last
Thursday when he advised Johnson to
punch futile on the nose
johnson Draws $4,000.
thing, the amount OF salary which is
paid Big Ban. This variously has been
estimated between $4,000 and $4,000,
but Baldwin told the world that John
sons pay envelopes of the year add UP
to 10000.
when your Honor reads the consti-
tuition of the American League" said
Baldwin, (which pays Mr.. Johnson $780,
900 year to see that the players do
nothing detrimental to the interest of
baseball in general and of the league in
particular. you will see that the presi-
den: would have been unmindful of his
duty II he had not suspended Carl Mays
for having deserted the Bostons on the
field at Chicago merely because he
wanted to get with team that had
chance to win the pennant, so that he
might share In the winnings of a worlds
series.
Baldwin then paused for breath and
went at length into Mays desertion of
the Boston Red Sox on July IS. "Why
this man jumps his team in the middle
of game. tells the Boston team he is
through with 1t and then gays he is going
fishing" exclaimed Baldwin.
A Crafty Insinuation.
He added it was plain case of con-
tract jumping. Not until he got into
the hands of astute counsel who could
draw up clever affidavits did we ever
hear anything about him having been Mt
With baseball while lodging a throw
from the catcher to second base" de-
clared Baldwin. Gan that was an after
thought"
Reading extracts from the American
League constitution. Baldwin said John
son was clearly within his rights in
slspending Mays on July 81. He said
that the attitude of the New York, Chi
eago and Cleveland clubs in trying to
secure the services of Mays was a sell
hsh financial action and injured the in
terests Of the other clubs in the league. =
In his rebuttal Joseph Auerbach re-
peated his former arguments that Mays
had done nothing deserving of suspen-
sion and that johnson had exceeded his
authority in suspending the player. He
dwelt at length on the telegram sent
by Jennings to the Red Sox asking what
cash price they would consider for Mays
after Frank Navin, president OF that
club, had asked for Mays's suspension.
ComisiSey's Affidavit.
Perhaps more important than the tes-
umony Of either side was the affidavit
made by Charles Comiskey, president
and owner of the Chicago White Sox, In
we Mays case. Comiskey is one of the
biggest powers IN baseball, and judging
rom the tone Of the affidavit the break
between him and his old friend and con-
tederate, johnson, Is irreparable. 1t
Srings out some of the hottest stuff yet
troyanI, forward during the Mays con-
Comiskey's affidavit goes back to the
inception OF the American League. It
ells now the circuit expanded into a
major league largely under his guidance,
ana mat when the young league waged
H successful war against the National
league victory was won on advice taken
mainly from him.
ne SAID that for years after the Amer
Nah League won major league recogni.
uon 1t was run by a committee of ex-
psrlenced baseball men, but that gradu-
Sly as the old practical baseball men
sol out OF the league johnson has ar
,'Su HilhSsH more ana more author
IVY and that he has become more and
more dctatoTial in his manner, and in
stead OF running the league in an inn
partial manner has run II az his whims
and prejudicas dictated
Johnson Hindrance.
IN recent years, he says. johnson has
Oeen more OF hindrance than a help, "
ana that his conduct would be a menace
70 the league but for the solid founda-
slohs OF the league and the great interest
In the game"
Comlskey further says he Is familiar
with all disciplinary measures taken by
sne president of the league, and that he
mas never heard of case (other than
,he Mays case) where the league presI-
aent waited more than forty Eight hours
~ suspending a player after receiving al
'gmplre's report on a breach of discipline
furthermore. An Comiskey's entire base
oal experience, a period of forty years
ne recalls no other occasion of league
president suspending a player, for leav.
ing club either In or out of season.
the Chicago owner takes up John
sons hostility to Frazee, and how John
son said hn- 1voi1fd -,1rivn-hfy,,- -,,,,t-oi