The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-09
CO"ISEEY CRLlED BRUTUS AS
 JOHNSON DEFENDS HIMSELF
President of American League Claims Yankee Owners Are Playing Baby Act' By
 Ta-nE Action AEainst Him.

New York. Sept. 9.---THe third in- uIuE of fEo game between EoistcroUs F.. Johnson and Euppcr-Huston- gunu.a nv-Frnzco- Mays was staged Eost"rJng before Supreme Court Jus t..a Wa-nor. and the score now stands .u % aaaiust the salf-styled Czar of E.-.HaI.
 Eaistorous Ban had the bases filled and mono ont at ono stage of the same, but Attorney Zoe Auerbach. EurLu- for tuo opposition, frightened u0 auJ rluurl tha next three men.
 -iI lar evidence is now in the hands of Umpire WauuoT. Briefs will be
 'ui...f next Tuesday and then His Honor will lock himself in his official chamber. .iaast inc literature. and t.I m. world fair whether OF not the N"va injunction has been made per maugu-
 Last week tHe attorneys of the rev n.ulaui-.S presented their side of tho ease. Yesterday Eul-serous Bans at rrrua.. Steve Baldwin. CIOqueutly told ut his clients attitude and actions in tEa most sensational baseball war in tu, history of tao national pastime
 Tho writer r#.- the word eloquently most auI~our t.'-. Baldwin is a 300 hitter in the ..r-uagc League How ever, it so.m.I -o us that he kept off tTo law of t.. case considerab abIy. But. tlcu, it must le a tough job trying to win @ cas. when the evidence is asaiu=t ora. r a. jury had been try ing the rs.. Baldwin would have made a wonderful impression.
 ErUtre. EEo1ericE Dhu and Ban croft. tho historian. were a few of the .1#Nr brought into the case yester- "fv King AETipua was introduced at the trial before examination last week. 'HnErr. Mike Angelo and Nick Carter siI are to D. heard from
 Eoistsrous Bans manipulation of nEesla-sus was supposed tO be per L,st- Attorney Baldwin, however. did .aa aorghatfc turn with his cheaters yesterday that surpassed Bans prize effort even whom the scene is set with the stagmirr bowl of soup and the trust. napkin
 Baldwin started off by declaring that five clubs. as against three. be- a.Fud that B0tstorous Ban had tho power to suspend Mays on July 31 for something the pitcher did or did not do uu July 1&. He stated that this is tho first time since Johnson hHz been president of the American League. l period of nearly a quarter of century, that his ruling has been questioned.
 The attorney declared that Mays deserted the Red Sox in Chicago be- cause he wanted to join the New York club. as they had at that time 70 oHauen t1 win tHe pauuaut and par -'ui07ta -u the worlds series, while -nr ra=+ou club did not.
 'Inlnsnn was named after Ban rraf- who was a noted historian and
 
 looking Colonel Euprar- right in the eye aH ho maelrod this blow
 Tho contention of EuuDert-TTuston- Cnu'a kav-Tr1zev-NI7ys is that the pitcher quit the Red s0N in the game iu Nh.oHa' because of an injury he suffered low being hit ou the neck by ? throw from tna uuwioIdIy arm of vrrrr ser1u-
 Baldwin went on to show that Mays continued iu tne same after be- .re wE0-.i and that he must have ! uos#.H-a7 his fuU senses because in . .hn very next inning he made a scratch hit.
 Trnu th1 r-tn~urv for rhe defense . .r'r.n7 his 0ttHoE to Charley Comis- . T-.u. rra owner of tha White Sox. who . aaz made au affidavit on many points . -HH. make -ha Yankees case look , 'I'-e rS-E7rat gold.
 "Eoz.' said Baldwin, sarcast-ca1Iy. 'Eru-ua GnwisEoy is the Greatest . Roman rr 'Em AlT if you believe his rWHrr.-
 Ha said that. tho Yankee owners nra playing tEo "babv act" and that they were always for Johnson until { En "--onpcd un their tocs." He de- elarol that John IT. Heydler urest- d"ua of che National League, in an uHJ7vtt. upheld Eoister1us Bans ruling in tho Mays case