Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-07
BASEBALL NOTES.

il is pleasant to record the name OF
one organization which refuses to play
ball on Sunday Captain Nelson Mar
gets OF the Bankers team was asked
20 meet the Brokers nine yesterday,
but refused. stating that neither he nor
his men believed 10 sunday sports. A
game has been arranged however, for
the benefit of the SCohcld sufferers be-
tween the Bankers and the RioGrandes,
20 come of al Walkers field on
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
Whatever money Is taken IN win be
devoted 90 the good cause and Il IS to be
be hoped that all lovers OF the national
sport win turn out IN force.
Speaking Of Sunday baseball playing
a gentleman who Is an ardent advocate
OF the game said this morning. 1T Is
10 be regretted that Salt Lake and Og-
den still remain In the list OF places
where Sunday baseball playing is al
lowed. when many OF the largest cities
East. where the Sabbath Is much less
lightly thought Of than here. prohibit II.
] am an ardent admircr Of the game and
/ never miss attending a contest on a
week day To my mind the kind OF
sport the four local league teams are
now providing Is such as win rouse a
degree OF interest not witnessed here
since the days Of the cred Stockings
and the "Deserets." They never had
Sunday games then. yet the receipts
on some Of their big days were equal
20 those OF a big minstrel or opera
company at the Salt Lake Theater; yet
/ believe many who ardently love the
game do not attend even on Saturdays
now because they cannot conscientious
~ countenanCe a sport which violates
the sabbath and certainly hundreds Of
people who attend week day games
would not patronize baseball on sun
day
The Herald on Sunday gravely an
n0unced that while the baseball game
that afternoon was going on, Held's
band would render q sacred concert,
and there was apparently not suspl-
cion Of grotesqueness in the statement
20 the mind Of the writer Mr.. Held says
his band was not asked 20 play. and
would not have done so II * had. Fancy
the strains OF Nearer my God % Thee
floating over O field from which arose
such yells as those which usually greet
q victorious play. or the pleasing inter-
ilAlNhillih VI lAlH IlNkHN VT ANlAN VIII
me-" with the cries Of "Slide. Kelly,
Slidew Butter fingersW XIII the um-
pirel and other playful calculations
inseparable from the national game,
GrHns umplrlng on Saturday was
one Of the pleasantest things possible
90 follow and listen TO- This veteran
OF the diamond. who used TO shine at
center field. Is apt 20 have a monopoly
OF umplrinR In Salt Lake, for there are
few whose decisions are so rarely dis
puted and 50 generally received with
respect
Probably the star player OF the day
On the estimation OF the crowd was
Clark. the ogden third baseman. His
candy colored hose an first made him
the object of some .derision on the part
Of the "bleachers" but his brilliant
plays soon turned the sentiment into
enthusiasm.
Flake. the Ogden short stop, did some
rapid and effective work.
Both pitchers acquitted themselves
handsomely though pcndergroft was
biz ofteuer than Hansfor1.
The crowd was big and brilliant The
seating accommodations are good and
the grounds excellent. When the pub
l.c gets 20 know that on Saturday after
Moons there Is % be seen such high class
sport as that witnessed on Saturday
last, the grand stand VIII certainly have
10 be enlarged.