Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-24


indoor games by identifying them with
betting and speculation. Whenever
the leprous hand Of the gambler Is
placed upon game that sport must De
forever eschewed by the good and the
pure.
On account OF the gambler the
Christian church has been compelled 10
send forth It's cdict Of excommunica-
tion upon tie deck Of cards. II Is com
pcllcd to declare that every one OF the
kings nnd queens and jacks Of spades
md diamonds and clubs and hearts IS
q knave because cards have become
publicly recognized as the gamblers
tools as the trowel Is the mason's tool.
All consecrated Christian people should
look upon a pack Of cards as did Jonn |
Philip Quin, the reformed gambler
when In public meeting he once saiu'
"And now, after all these years OF e1-
perience and acquaintance with all tne
professional gamblers in this country
I can truly say the parlor card table ls
the kindergarten Of the gamblers hell.
On account OF the gamblers banefui
touch the angel of wrath and denun-
citation who stood with drawn SWORD
ot the Edenlc paradise. Is standing To-
day at the entrance Of every puDlc
race track saying to all good people,
"Thou shalt not enter here" Talk 10
me about the development OF the morse
at the race track! Every man Of any
Intelligence knows that the race track
TODAY is chiefly run for the benent OF
! the gamblers. Without the damning
influence of the bookmakers the race
horse would not attract enough people
TODAY as n money investment to pay
for his oats and his blankets. On ac'
count. OF the gambling evil even tne
bowling alley today, the public billiard
tohle the yachtsman's white sail and
college athletics are under condemna-
tion. In view Of the immense amount
Of money which changes hands at eV-
cry football game, it Is a very grave
orastIon whether It would not be better
for the different college faculties 70
cast their influence against every sport
wbicb would take students away from
the home campus.
In reference TO the evil influence OF
gambling upon outdoor sports ana IN
door games Isaac Disraeli, the tather
NJ the great British premier, once
wrote "Gamester and cheat were sy-
nonymous terms in the time OF snake
. sneare and Johnson, and they nave
hardly lost much of their double sig
; nifcance in the present day AS soon
az the gamblers genius hovers over
game that moment the sport Is ineV
/ itably accursed.
deadly Foe OF True Sport
Now nv friends. | protest against
l this all pervading gambling intamy'
r nrotest because it Is not respectable tol
i me to 20 and participate In some o
y these outdoor sports which are essen
: tial for mental and physical relaxation
| protest against this gambling imam.
s degrading the football field and IN
s baseball diamond because there Is moth
II ing wrong In such games in themselves
t but only as the gamblcrs evil geniu
l. has made them wrong. | protest, a
= Robert e. Spear, the Princeton am
'r lete protested in his Frank TAI
e About Gambling and Betting. III
h tha contention" he wrote, that bettin
It money Is sportsmanllke. The very II
If verse is true. 1t is this that INTRODUCES
le professionalism into college sporu
10 When men stake money they are VII
b ING to do dishonorable things to shap
the result so that they will WIN. IN
Introduction of money Is fatal. be
10 tiYg Is the deadly foe Of true sport
,e r. Won have any doubt about tn
,e tr,,th of this sweeping statement 20
v can easily verify it by going to SON
r. college town after any great athiel
a contest. The inebriety You will w!tne'
Of ON its streets is disgusting
m But there is another reason why
Ill denounce defiant gambling. Ihis eV
ly mania leads Its victims to squand
es other peoples money as well as the
ks own. Now. am not alluding TO u
er moor half crazed clerk who Will ste
ir. from his employer In order to oet
q the races. am not alluding to u
of poor servant girl who opens her m
is tress pocketboOk in order to take
ay ffty cent piece to squander II IN
re- policy shop. OF to the bank preside
| who. as trustee Of an estate, criminal
a sinl-. in wildcat speculations the mc
~ ey intrusted to his care. They a
,ut criminals. and they know IT. But
sss am alluding to those who think IN
ps are wagering only that money whi
mt is theirs by right.
ny PIT of Eternal Woe.
=" Young man, you say that you o.
'ie YOUR own money and have a right
o'- do with 1t as you will. No, you na
nc not. Where did you get that none
Wy "Oh." you say. father left it to me
n.' his will" For what did he leave II
60 YOU? Did he not leave It as tru
IN Did he not leave 1t to you IN or
uu that you with 1t could continue
,bo ,oread abroad his Christian inhuen'
th. Money is representative wo
ion Money translated into the ordin'
ow Language Of life means work ana olS
nce and sweat and exhausted energy. Nj
tar cyl Why. that represents the won
ON scrubbing ut the tub and the DO
,rn. keeper compiling his figures and
,ers nurse pouring out the medicines
of the carpenter building houses ana
will flowers for the sick aud the gospei
nee the ignorant and the deprayed.
the Won mean to tell me, o man. that
the gambling table you have II
"a to squander your mothers ana
70 I'd theirs substance like that! AND
otto 20 into any one of the postgradr
,our schools and colleges today ana
Ara will find young men at the gaming
Tho BILE not more surely destroying ID
,ze7 selves than squandering the mo
and that was won by the self denying