The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-07
MR.DEACH' SBREADTH
Pastor Scudder Says He Is
Narrow Enough to Go
Through a Nick1e in
the Slot Machine.
GYMNASIUM AND PRAYER MEETING
President Cowles Thinks the One
Helps the 0ther-Uhristian
Billiards and Baseball.

The remarks made by President
William II. Beach Of the Hud-
son County Methodist Alliance to
the Greenville Young Mems Chris
tian Association, published In yes
terday's JERSEY CITY NEWS, has stirred
mp genuine hornets nest among the
young Christian athletes throughout the
city. Mr. Beach Is reported as having
said that IL he had his way he would
throw out all gymnasium apparatus
from the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms, and
would prohibit baseball playing.
He had never seen a gentlemanly profess
sional baseball player. and cited as an
instance the conduct of the Tabernacle
Athletic Clubs baseball team. He had
visited the Tabernacle Athletic Clubs
rooms a few evenings ago and found
young men guilty OF the crime OF bang
ing their billiard cues upon the floor in a
manner which plainly indicated that they
were brought up in saloons in districts
little better than the Bowery Of New
York.
Pastor Scudder was asked to-day what
he thought of Mr.. Beach's remarks.
II have never seen Brother Beach" re-
piled the Tabernacle's dominic, with an
of people we often find in the Christian
Church, so narrow in their theological
opinions that, il dropped intoa 'nickle-in-
the-slot' machine they'd slide through the
slot with the greatest facility. In this
enlightened age such talk as he gave the
Greenville Y. NJ C. A. is not only in
Dovating, but aggravating. Our CARTS
tian associations could not exist with
out their athletic aud amubemental de-
partments.
I'm viliifying the Tabernacle Annex he
has misstdted facts and acted in manner
unbecoming Christian gentleman. The
whole tendency of our athletic assocta-
flons has been TO elevate the young men
r Ia manners and morals. The members
Z of our baseball team, now noted In Hud-
sou county, are gentlemen with whom L
am personally proud to associate. Our
success in drawing men in ten pins and
billiards has been so great that we shall
commence to enlarge in two weeks and
put up new building to accommodate
he crowds.
BROTHER BEACH HAS SOMETHING TO LEARN.
Brother Beach has some important les
sons TO learn yet. IL he came to the Tab
ernacle for year be might become quite
useful Christian. AT present his ini1u-
ence with young men must be in the vi
cinity Of the zsro point. do not wonder
that the 7. NJ. G. A OF Greenyille was
angered by his words. And in future
they will steer clear of such speakers. IL.
according to his statement, the young
men he saw in the Tabernacle Annex
were reared in saloons, instead OF going
home dIsgusted he should thaye held a
praise service on the spot and THANKED
God that they were in place OF safety,
respectability and refinement.
"One of our main objects is to destroy
the saloon and take away It's patronage.
We give the amusements without the
liquor. We allow no young men to drink,
smoke, swear or bet upon the premises.
The example that the Tabernacle has set
In the matter Of amusement IS being iml-
tated In all parts Of the country. And
this great movement will 90 on In spite OF
all that Brother Beach may say. IL he
should attempt to run a Christian Asso-
citation on his narrow guage principles he
would run 1t IN the ground in less than
two months.p
AN INDIGNANT TABERNACLITE.
A gentleman who signs himself "A
member of the Tabernacle A. AS Base
ball team" sends TO this Office letter
which, on account of its incorporate Ian
guage, cannot be published in It's entirety
A portion of the letter follows:
II want to express my contempt for a
man who would make such an unpro-
voked and malicious attack upon the body
OF respectable, hard working young men
who play ball under the name of the
Tabernacle A. A. As for the incident in
understand that IL billiard player drops
his cue upon the floor, after playing, that
1t is quite likely to create noise.
1.-The Tabernacles do not take Mr..
Beach's remarks as coming from the
Greenville Y. NJ. G. A, and hope that
such a nonsensical discourse will not pre-
vent them from doing all that is within
their power to advance the cause of ath-
letics In Hudson county"
President f. S. Cowles Of the Y. NJ. c. "A
of this city eau scarcely believe that Mr.
Beach made such assertions. 1T he did, 7"
said Mr.. Cowles, "he is mistaken. Our
gymnasium is a great help 10 US in
CDristianizing young men. We have
many young men who attend our relig-
ious services who would otherwise never
attend. Why. they even leave the gym
nasium apparatus, sometimes with their
gymnasium suits on, to participate in the
religious meetings, young men who sell
dom go inside a prayer meeting room in
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