Evening journal., 1891-07-14
LAST EDITION
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King and Kartz Disagree Over Saturday Is
Game of Base Ball.


Game of Base Bali.
What have you to say about the
attack w. r. Kurtz makes upon you in
to-day's Morning News2' asked a le-
porter of General Secretary King of the
Y. NJ 9. A., this morning.
Il simply have this to say: That the
language used by w. F. Kurtz is
scarcely becoming one gentleman to an
other. In the first place neither wrote
nor dictated the language he quotes from
conversation with reporter of the Sun
day Star, when be applied to me for
report OF the base bali game played
between the Y. M 9. A. and the Warren
Athletic Club team. | said there Is
another matter that wish the news
papers would speak OF in their descrip-
tion Of the base ball game, and that
is the conduct of the audience in the
grand stand. / said there was more
profanity and vulgsrity used during that
game than had heard in q long time,
and added at the same time that 1t was
evidently the following of the Warrsn
Club AS far as the members Of the
Warren Base Ball Club are concerned
they acted in gentlemanly manneP all
through the game.
"Did you mean to say that the mem
bers of the Warren Athletic Club were
the ones who used the profsne Ian
gusgeY'
mo Because not being acquainted
with the members Of that club, / had no
reason for saying such a thing, not
knowing whether they ware members OF
rhe club or not. | am more than
surprised that Mr.. Kurtz should
rush into print and accuse me of tho
article referred to wit hout having first
interviewed me to see il was correctly
quoted | have not anything against
the Warren Club, hor have | any reason
to speak against it as an organization.
am not the censor OF the morals of any
one, but have a high sense
OF duty to perform towards the members
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion. U pom this basis | shall stand as
long as have anything to do with the
association work There is plenty OF
room in this city for both organizations
and the association has never been In ans
sense q rival of the Warren
Athletic Club, pursuing, as they
do, two entirely different courses
excepting the amateur athletic sports
do, however, feel responsible for thl
moral atmosphere in which our young
men move, and could not sit still OF
that occasion ana hear the things I did
without raising my voice in protes
against them
"Do you think Mr.. Kurtz treated you
fairly in his newspaper article?"
II do not consider that Mr.. Kurt
treated me as one gentleman should
treat another He misrepresented me
in the first place; and il
the second place used languag
in his article that was entirely uncalle
for in personal way II he had com
to me before he wrote the article, h
would probably have been ia a differen
frame of mind
William F, Kurtz was seen at his hom
this ar0ernoon he said Il have nothin
further to say than the statement whic
have already made, and .whic
am able to support hav
nothing to retract nor nothing {
add. The reporter of the Sunday Sta
who took the interview with Mr. Kin
told me that he had said Just thos
words, and the reporter ought to kno'
what he is talking about. As ia
as the harshness Of my language in th
statement, will say that did not pr,
pose to treat the matter in nam by pan
by sort of way Mr.. King has, in man
instances, given evidence Of a petit
dislike for the Warren Club On tht
OCCASION when he succeeded in inhuen
ing paper to use his own words, as the
own, in descriptive acc cunt of g col
test between the two organizations q
the base ball field, / thought that b
acffons ahould no longer be overlooked