SUNDAY BASEBALL OPPOSED BY CHURCHES AND THREATENS TO DISTURB NATIONAL SPORT
CHURCH OPPOSES
SUNDAY GAMES
Dispute Makes Trouble in Na
tional Pastime and Gov
ernment May Act
The right or wrong, morally and
legally, of playing baseball on Sun
day has been agitated lh this country
for years, but this season it
threatens to come to a climax and
perhaps disrupt some of the leagues.
This section of the nation appears
to be firmly against turning Sun
day Into a play day. Chicago and
St. Louis, on the other hand, have
their greatest crowds at the Sab
bath afternoon game when it Is
common to have 27 000 go through
the turnstile.
The proposal that the baseball
parks be thrown open on Sundays
for the use of the 20,000 soldiers and
sailors stationed In Philadelphia is
encountering much opposition from
leaders of religious organizations.
I'he movement for Sunday games be
gan when the American League team
oTtred Shibe Park for the purpose.
Mayor Smith approves of Sunday
games among enlisted men played
under stringent regulations and it
is stater! that government officials
are considering the matter.
Rev. James M. S. Isenberg, a
leader of the Interchurch Federation,
said to-day he Is opposed to Sun
day games, even for enlisted men. "I
have four nephews in the service and
foity members of my congregation
are wearing the uniform," said Dr.
Tsenberg, today. "Personally, I think
it a poor way to begin to teach our
young men to violate the Lord's day
whan we believe our cause is right
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and expect the Lord's blessing to
rest upon it. It is a serious mistake
to regard these boys as any differ- j
ent from other young men. We j
ought not to teach them to violate
God's law."
The Rev. T. T. Mutchler. secre
tary of the Philadelphia and Penn- |
sylvania Sabbath Associations, when |
told of the proposal to open Shibe <
Park for Sunday baseball, declared ;
that such a scheme was in direct op- '
position to the law, and that the I
supreme court had already decided
that Sunday baseball, whether ad- j
mission was charged or not was in ■
direct violation of the law.
Yesterday changes in the playing I
schedule of the National and Amer- I
ican Baseball League to permit of 1
I Sunday games in the east, were con- i
{ sidered at Pittsburgh by President |
| Ban B. Johnson, of the American j
! League, President John K. Tener, i
land Secretary John B. Heydter, of
! the National League, and Barney |
Dreyfus, president of the Pittsburgh :
Club, and a member of the original
joint schedule committee of the two j
major leagues. The schedule changes j
are contemplated to permit the New |
York National and American teams i
and the Brooklyn team to play Sun- j
day ball at Harrison, N. J.
"No decision was reached," Presi- i
dent Tener. said at the close of the !
committee's session, and he refused !
to discuss the question of a possible I
invasion of territory claimed by the j
International League under the na- j
tional agreement between major rnd i
minor baseball leagues. Neither i
President Tener nor President John- i
son would comment upon a state- j
ment of Joseph J. J,annin, owner of
t£e Buffalo Club of the International j
League, wtujis also one of the league 1
directors. Mr. Lannin declared that
if the major leagues play Sunday |
baseball at Harrison, it would be an :
invasion of the territory of the New- j
ark club of the International League,
and such a step would be a viola- !
tion of the National Agreement which '
th International League would fight
in the courts.
PHILADELPHIA GOLFER WINS
AT ATLANTIC CITY I,INKS
Atlantic City, N. J., May 3.—Fred
W. Knight, of the Aronimink Coun
try Club, Philadelphia, won the qual
ifying modal in tile Atlantic City
Country Club's spring golf tourna
ment at Xorthfield yesterday. His
card was seventy-nine, four less i
than Maurice Risley, of the home I
club. Next to Risley came J. W.
Piatt, North Hills, Pa., and R. W. !
Smith, Greensburg, Pa., with eighty
six each.
Baseball Summary;
Where They Play Today
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
American League
Philadelphia. 7; New York, 5.
Detroit, 9; Chicago, 6.
Cleveland, 3; St. Louis. 2.
Boston, 8; Washington, 1.
National League
Chicago, 12; Cincinnati, 8.
i Brooklyn, 7; Boston, 4.
j Pittsburgh, 7; St. Louis, 0.
New York, 6; Philadelphia, 0.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
American League
W. L. Pet.
i Boston 12 3 .800
| Cleveland 8 4 .687
j Chicago 5 4 .556
j New York 6 3 .429
Washington 5 8 .385
I St. Louis 4 7 .364
I Detroit 2 6 .333
Philadelphia 4 8 .33
National league
W. L. P-t.
[New York 12 1 .323
! Chicago 8 3 .727
I Philadelphia 8 5 .615
i Cincinnati 7 7 .500
I Pittsburgh 5 5 .500
I St. Louis 4 9 .30S
| Boston 3 10 .231
! Brooklyn 3 10 .231
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
Anicrienn league
Cleveland at St. Louisa
Chicago at Detroit.
Boston at New York.
! Washington at Philadelphia,
National League
I Cincinnati at Chicago.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
New York at Boston.
j Paul Smith, one time coach for
Central High, is to have full charge
jof the Hech football activities this
fall. As nearly the whole Tech line
up remains intact Coach Smith
should be able to furnish a winning
team. He had great success at Cen-:
tral High.
The Academy nine meets the Bal
timore Polytechnic team on Satur
day in the first contest ever staged
between these two schools, on the
uptown diamond. Coach Gavin has
! been keeping the players hard at
j practice all this week and the Blue
and Gold hope to retreive themselves
| for losing their tirst two games,
j Either Ezquerro or Stone will pitch
i and the rest of the positions will be
I about the same as last week.
I AROUND THE BASES
VV. J
Joe Jackson, the hard-hitting out
fielder of the Chicago White Sox,
has been placed in Class 1 by the
District Draft Board for the Western
District of South Carolina. Jackson
registered at Greenville, S. C., and
originally was placed in Class 4. If
Jackson is called he will be the first
man of the regulars, who won the
American League pennant and the
World's Series for Chicago last year,
to leave the team for war.
Jim Scott enlisted and Jenkins, a
young pitcher, was drafted.
Jackson will be 31 years of age on
July 16 of this year.
Philadelphia boxing fans, at 'he
National Club,, will have another
chance to witness world's bantam
weight champion Pete Herman in
action when he spiels off with Jack
Sharkey, of New York, in the final
bout on Saturday night. Herman is
boxing instructor at the Algiers
Naval Station, New Orleans. Shar
key is that type of boxer who will
extend the champion to the limit. He
is able to stand up and take tho gaff
besides being a boxer of more titan
average ability.
Eddie Ainsmith virtually has been
assigned the job of catch
ing all of the games for the Wash
ington Senators. As backstoppins
is considered such tough work, a
catcher is rarely called on to receive
in more than half of the games play
ed by his club. However, after the
departure of John Henry to the
Braves, Washington is left without
a dependable catcher besides Ain
smith. Thus far Ainsmith has
caught every game this season, and
he is going to attempt the hitherto
unattempted feat of going through
the season without being relieved.
The Highspire A. A. baseball
team will cross bats on Sunday aft
ternoon with the Middletown Avia
tors on the grounds of the latter. A
large crowd of rooters will accom
pany the team to Middletown where
the Highspire team expects to take
the measure of the Aviators.
Sisler, of St. Louis Is champion
breaker-up of games. The other day
against Detroit, with the score tied
in the tenth, two outs and Tobin on
second, Sisler drove the ball over
Cobb's head, scoring Tobin with the
run that gave St. Louis the victory
over Detroit 3 to 2. Ordinarily the
hit would have gone for a home
run. Sisler got four hits and a
walk In five trips to the plate, stole
a base, scored a run and drove in
the remainder of the local's runs.
Stanage was forced to retire in the
ninth, because of a broken finger
received from a foul tip.
Charley Moran, the new National
League umpire, who replaces Kitty
Branslield, was a member of the
Cardinals in 190S, and again In 1908
making his first appearance in the
Mound City as a catcher, and his
second as a catcher. Moran is five
feet, nine inches tall, weighs 186
pounds and has had seven years x
--perience In umpiring. His home is
at Horse Cave, Ky., but this is no
reason why he should fall for a
Charley Horse In mid-season.
Harrisburg Boy
Honored at State
CAPTAIN JESSft L KRALL
A high honor Is announced for a
Harrisburg boy, .Jesse Krall, who
will be remembered as an Academy
Star of the first water. He has now
been elected captain of the Pennsyl
vania State track squad for the next
season. Krall cleaned up everything
here in his class and as a quarter
miler now he can average close to
fifty-one seconds for the distance:
He Is a junior In the School .of Agri
culture at State.
When John L. Sullivan met the
Prince of Wales, afterward King of
England, he was no more flustered
than a Harrisburg garbage collector
asking for a tip;
"The Prince was in very good trim
for a man who opened five fairs,
three bazaars, gone to seven fun
erals by proxy and laid two corner
stones in a week. He immediately
referred to his trip in America be
fore the war and how in Detroit he
had had his first real scrapping
match.
'lt was a stand-off,' he remark
ed. 'My eye was darkened, and
other man's nose was red.'
'I see,' remarked Sullivan, with
professional nonchalance, 'you got
what we call a baptismal black eye,
while the other fellow received his
claret christening.' "
Said Dr. Fisher to Matty, when
Big Six suggested Honus Wagner
going to France instead of himself:
"You alone can do more to build
up the morale of the American
Army by directing and developing
baseball than any living man. Me
chanically it could be done as well
by any one else, but it is you they
want to see. Your presence, the
things you represent and the fact
that you yourself are with them,
would do more to make our army
men forget the hardships of the war
than anything else."
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TECH ATHLETES
TO BE SELECTED
Track Meet Next Week to
Pick Men Who Will Com
pete at Pitt
With the hope of discovering
some new track material in the
Technical High school. Coach Hill is
planning a track meet for the four
clashes to be held during the coming
week Events will be pulled off on
the Island the first four days of the
week, and the.showing made by the
entries will determine to a great
measure, the students who will make
the trip to the Pitt meet at the
Smoky City, May 18.
The interclass meets at Tech have
been annual affairs. Three years
ago, the Tech coaches unearthed
"Pete" Sutch, the best long distance
lad that ever came out of Tech. Up
until the day of the class meet Sutch
did not know of his ability to run.
In his senior year he captained the
team, and set records that will
stand for years.
Coach Hill has planned to have
the 100-yard dash, one-mile run,
shot put and low hurdles on Mon
day. The following day will be the
two-mile, discus, high jump and 220-
yard dash. Wednesday is scheduled
the quarter-mile, high hurdle, pole
vault and broad jump. On Thursday
the meet vill close with the javelin
throw, half-mile run, hammer throw
and class relay.
While the athletes will be out for
the individual honors, the big meet
will be to determine the best class
of athletes in the school. First placs
will count 50 points; second, 40;
third, 30; fourth, 20; and fifth, 10
points. No star will be allowed to
take more than two first places.
Should he land first place in more
than two events, the number of
points to his credit will be calculated
in a descending ratio.
Winners will be picked to go to
Pittsburgh to represent Tech. Last
year the local aggregation went to
the western part of the state and
cleared up the pick of that part of
the state as well as the best teams
of Ohio. May 25 will be the annual
meet on the Island, while the only
other meet scheduled will be at La
fayette on Memorial Day. While the
Maroon institution lost a large num
ber of stars through graduation last
spring, there is still a good number
of capable athletes ?n the school,
while there are several stars of the
first magnitude.
Carl Beck will go to Franklin
Field Saturday morning where lie
will be entered in half a dozen events
against the best school boy athletes
fro mthe East. In the afternoon he
will travel out to Swarthmore Prep
where he will enter the meet con
ducted by that school. His school
mates are sure he will give a good
account of himself.
CAPITAL CITY SPORTS
This afternoon at the Academy
tennis tournament. Loose will meet
Campbell. Monday's play will bring
together Westcott and Solorzano; tha
final match in the first round will be
played on Tuesday afternoon at
which time, Nestor will clash with
Meyers. Conpors, the odd man in the
first round, will ibe passed into the
second round.
Yesterday was calamitous for
Brinser who was defeated by Lee in
the fourth match. Lee will next meet
Zea, who defeated Morse. Lee had
an easy time yesterday, taking two
sets, 6-1 and 6-4. This Is the first
match in the tournament which has
been taken in only two sets. Coach
Pritchard is giving the contests his
close attention. No one seems to be
a certain winner and the tournament
may be won by a dark horse. There
are 15 entries and much skill is be
ing shown.
The Central Iron and Steel bowl
ers put it over on the Capitol Stars
last evening at the Casino alleys,
winning three straight games. The
highest score was made by Stouffer,
of the winners, with a tally of 302
pins in the second game. Black, of
the same team, won the high triple
honors with a total score of 646
pins.
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