The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-17

Until Pennsylvania is ready to make
war upon the machine as such, upon every
candidate for any office who owes ale
glance to it, the State will continue to be
what it long has been and is now, the
home of political corruption so gross.
deep-seated and pervasive as to be a
scandal to the whole Republic
Pennypacker is simply punishment for
sin.
INTER BASEBALL CON
TESTS.
Christian Sun.
We are glad to note, that which seems
to be fact, rising tide Of opposition
to intercollegiate baseball as it is now
conducted. That baseball is a fine game,
affording splendid sport, excellent exer
else, much diversion and entertainment,
no one we presume, will deny. We con-
fess liking for the game A good, we'll
played game means training, skill, energy,
activity, effort and a great deal of 1T. To
the game we are not Directing.
But what good there is in number of
school boys leaving their class room, their
work their books and going off on q
iunket whooping and yelling over the
country for days, sometimes for weeks,
to meet and play with other colleges and
teams There may be good and much adj
vantage in it, but we have not yet seen 1T.
True, among the camp-followers and hang
ers- on the principal part of the mischief
is done These drink, and bet and carry
on at rate that is usually ridiculous But
the harm, the evil is there. These come
as essential elements of the game A
teacher in a college with an excellent team
told this writer not long ago that though
not a member of his classes was on the
team, all his classes became more or less
demoralized, and perfectly careless of their
lessons as soon as the home team started
out on a junket or tour" Their mind
and deepest interest went with the team,
if they did not themselves go.
We do not believe that the majority of
the patrons of our colleges favor this in
tercollegiate baseball They know too
well who has the bills to pay. Patrons do
not send their wards to college to learn
to play baseball. If their wards wish to
play for exercise and to develop the physi-
cal man while in school that is all right.
But for them to quit their studies and
take out over the country in the retinue
of junketting party, that is another mat
ter.
Editor johnson of Charity and Children
(Baptist) calls upon the authorities of
Wake Forest College (Baptist) to put a
stop to this intercollegiate baseball busi-
ness. He says that the reputation the boys
of that college team made a recent tour
in another State is not calculated to help,
but to harm the college and the reputa-
of hn IF
merely, is at stake. We hope his warn
ing will be needed And here is what DR..
Battle of the Baptist church, Greensboro,
said, in recent sermon of the game play
ed in that city between the University of
Virginia and North Carolina the other
day: Il attended the ball game contest
between the Universities of Virginia and
North Carolina. I had been advised BY
friends that there would be nothing i'm.
proper in my thus seeking needed rest
for mind and body. / love those grand
old universities, each is encircled with a
halo of honorable fame; each is the pride
of a glorious State From my place on
the grand stand I watched that contest
of manly strength and skill with intense
interest. But suddenly my feelings chang
ed from the glow of pleasurable excite
ment to a sense of righteous indignation
mingled with unspeakable disgust. Imme-
diately in front of the tiers OF benches
packed by ladies and gentlemen who, by
their appearance, one would take to be
representatives OF a city's best social life.
stood youth on whose countenance the
lines of dissipation were all too plainly
drawn. who repeatedly and vociferously
challenged the spectators wearing the col
ors OF the Old North State christian gen.
tlemen, refined ladies, and pure-hearted
children were there) to bet on the game
Suiting the action to the word, he inso-
lently shook his bills of money in the
faces of the ladies and gentlemen assem-
bled to enjoy an innocent and wholesome
pastime, and tainted North Carolina, at
time even through speaking trumpet that
he might be the better heard. upon being
afraid to back her faith in her boys with
money The spectacle was intensely hui
initiating and caused every instinct of re-
fnement to rise in revolt. 1t was shock
to the moral sense, and a distinct pain, /
doubt not, to hundreds who must have
felt that, with police officer on the
ground they were entitled to protection.
''But there was another aspect to the
case more serious still. There were many
boys there in the formative period OF
their characters. The law, as the safe
guard of society, owed it to them to shield
them from such damaging associations,
upon an occasion seemingly free from
moral contamination and whose essential
character gave no notice of the insult to
morals and religion