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11 deteriorate, and the public would promptly refuse the generous support which it has given the national pastime throughout the years. Within my knowledge, no player whose skill has been sufficient to keep him in the game of baseball has ever feared, or had occasion to fear that, because of this ten-day clause he might not continue as a professional baseball player, and it is generally recognized and believed by baseball players and by the clubs that the ten-day clause is absolutely necessary in order to maintain and enforce the highest standard, to which all professional baseball organizations throughout the country are committed.

It is true, as the plaintiff says, that there are not enough of expert baseball players to go around in the major leagues, but it is not true that baseball players are under the domin ion ation of clubs in so-called "organized baseball", if The American League, or The National League, or The National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs can be