New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-26
MINISTER'S DISAGREE.
Some in Brooklyn Say Sunday
Baseball Is q Good Thing.

Police Commissioner McAdoo yesterday said that
he had written TO Corporation Counsel Delany
asking him for opinion on the legality OF sun
day baseball and had also asked the district at
torneya of Kings and Queens to appear. or have
representatives. at the hearing IN Brooklyn TO-
morrow. This hearing OF the arrests made al the
Brooklyn game Sunday was scheduled FOR yes
terday but was postponed until tomorrow. The
Commissioner said there such diversity OF
opinion on the subject that he thought 1t necessary
FOR the District Attorneys Office to be represented
The case will possibly be taken to Special Ses-
sions as all concerned want the question settled
finally Ex-Police Commissioner B. J. York ana
John Montgomery Ward. tho latter an old player
on the New-Yorks. will represent the basebal IN
terests.
Several Brooklyn clergymen yesterday expressed
themselves being IN favor Of Sunday baseoah on
thu ground that 1t clean, manly game that
would keep both spectators and players from more
harmful recreationS. The Rev. q. +. McGoldrlck'
pastor OF St MichaeTs Roman Catholic Church.
Forty-second-st. and Fourth-ave. IL so much I'M
pressed with the game that he encouraged the
Young mems club OF the parish. OF which he Is a
director, to organize two clubs. which play every
Sunday at Forty-siXth-st. and Second-aVe-. 5outh
Brooklyn. The field is open. and no one need pay
10 see the games. but grandstand. seating LUZ
has been built. and all who buy programme TOT
ten cents are entitled to a seat there. The money
obtained IN this way devoted to the running ex-
penses OF the club.
Father Donohue, Of tho Catholic Church OF st.
1AOulaS AQQluhs. Saul
1 consider Sunday baseball good. healthy
American amusement 1t keeps our young men
from worse places, such as are fouad at Coney
Island and other shore resorts I am so strongly
In favor OF II that have had one OF my assistants
conduct a game IN our club grounds in Twelfth-st
The Rev DR.. Henry c. Swentzel. rector Of ST
Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church. said:
do not consider Sunday baseball by any means
an unmixed evil. There is large class of per
in Brooklyn who closely cOnnued by
their labors on weekdays that they certainly earn
tho right outing and some form OF recrea-
ton on Sunday. For such good. exciting game
far superior TO ATTRACTIONS such as are TO be found
at Coucy Island. Personally l would prefer a
Cuiet. old fashioned Sunday but there appears 10
be "a need FOR some sort Of recreation, and know
OF nothing to III tho need so wei as 4 soou game
of ball
The Baptist Missionary Conference at the Madi-
son Avenue Church yesterday added another to the
petitions TO the Mayor denouncing Sunday base
ball The executive committee OF the citizens de-
following churches: Bushwick Avenue Methodist
Episcopal, Westminster United Presbyterian, Wes-
lev Pentecostal, Bushwick Avenue Congregational
Emmanuel Congregational. Bushwick Avenue Bap-
section yesterday sent set OF resolutions TO the
Police Commissioner expressing their disapprovai
OF Sunday baseball
VanderErift catcher; Eason pitcher. and George
Rutledge ticket taker, OF the Jersey city Eastern
League team arrested at the clubs new grounds. in
Bayonne. on Sunday, yesterday held Tor the
grand jury by Recorder Lazarus of Bayonne- A
peculiar mistake made in connection with the
whose guidance as a lawyer the players were act
ing, was supposed to have been arrested as ne
went off the field with the officers, and the police
later said he had been arrested