New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-25
TO TEST SUNDAY LAW.
arrests at Washington Park
BROOKLYN Beats Philadelphia.

Whether not the playing Of baseball games N
this city Sunday IS Illegal Is to be decided on
test the first step in which was taken yester-
day when. acting under instructions issued by Po-
lice Comm isiorcr McAdoo the pOlice arrested three
players and three sellers of score cards on tHe
grounds OF the Brooklyn Baseball Club. Washing
ton Park. Brooklyn Last Friday Police com
missioner McA.0o said that he would not permit
the playing Of games in Manhattan. but that ne
would allow such contests at Washington FaIk.
Brooklyn. and Ridgewood Park, in the Borough o.
Queens.
The washington Park and Ridgewood Park
grounds are sparsely Inhabited districts ana the
Commissioner contended that the playing OF sunday
games there was not a nuisance TO the nearby in
habitants Yesterday, however. the commissioned
issued instructions the police Ot1cers IN BrooA-
lvn and Queens to arrest in good faith any per-
sons Offering score cards programmes for sale
on the pIavfng grounds which he had previously
exempted and also to arrest the persons whom the
police deemed to be the most conspicuous actors
in the playing of games. that the law might De
tested
Nearly fourteen thousand persons assembled at
the Brooklyn clubs grounds, Washington Park
Brooklyn yesterday to championship game
between the Brooklyn and Philadelphia National
League clubs. Before the game began three vendors
Of score cards were arrested by policemen in plain
clothes As soon as Frank Roth. OF Philadelphia.
had struck the second ball pitched by Poole. OF the
local team. Police Captain White and four de-
tectives walked out the diamond and placed
Roth and Poole as wei as JackAtscn' catcher Oh
the home team, under arrest.
The six prisoners taken to the Butler-st sta
ton where the players were charged with Violating
Section Z67 Of the Penal Code which fOrbidS gam
bling racing and pubic sport on Sunday, and the
score card sellers charged with a violation OF
Section 80. which forbids selling goods on Sunday.
All six were admitted to bail in the sum Of $50
each which was furnished Immediately. They will
have d hearing in the police court at Myrtle and
Vanderbilt ayes. Brooklyn. this morning.
Ignorant OF the action taken by the police In ar
resting some OF the players at the baseball game
In washington Park. Brooklyn. yesterday, in order
To test the law the question Of Sunday games,
pastors of a number OF churches in South Brook
iyn circulated petitions among their congregations
asking Mayor Mcclellan to use his authority to
stop the Sunday games
In the evening the Rev. Wesley ". Bowd5h. pas
tor Of the sixth Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church Sixth-ave and Eignth-st- spoke on "A
Continental a COnsecrated Sabbath; or. Shall We
Have the Baseball or the BiDle?'
After the arrests Thatcher and Ritter were sub.
stftuted the local battery, and the game went
on without further interruption. The Superbas
won the game by a score of to s.
The visitors had all the better Of the early part
Of the contest. the score stood to in their
favor when they had completed their half OF the
fourth inning. The home team then made two
runs adding another in the hfth and In the sew
enth the entire Brooklyn team went 70 bat, hitting
Duggieby freely for five runs which won the gams
for Brooklyn By score of to o. The score: