The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
MINISTERS EXPRESS VIEWS.
Several Favor Sunday Ball Games al
Washington Park, Brooklyn.

The arrest OF The baseball PLAYERS at
Brooklyn for taking part i'm Sunday
game has aroused considerable interest
1n the east. as the association of minis
ters was back Of the arrest and has
passed resolutions endorsing the action
taken py me Brooklyn police. Since
then a decision has been made IN favor OF
rho players and some Of the most pr0mi-
nent ministers Of Greater New York
have expressed their views In favor of
sunday baseball as desirable recrea-
ti0n-
The following are some of the inter
views from a New YORK exchange:
the ST. Luke's Episcopal church. said:
I nave read the controversy over sun
day baseball i'm Brooklyn. and / have
given the subject some thought do
not consider 10 by any means an unmiNed
evil. Baseball is good. clean. healthy
outdoor sport ana. considered by itself.
as one of the best and most desirable
forms Of recreation and entertainment
Further than that. there is a large class
of persons In Brooklyn who are So close
ly confined by their lahors on week DAYS
shat they earn the right of an outing
and some form OF recreation on Sunday
afternoon. HOF such rs these a good
exciting game OF baseball is to my mind.
n very good thing, lt is FAR superior to
such attractions as Couey Island fur
nishes.
Personally. would prefer an o-d-fasb-
Toned Sunday. Not O. Puritan Sabbath.
but a quaint. Old-fashioued SUNDAY. But
there appears 20 be q very strong need
for something Of this kind. and I know
Of nothing So well adapted 10 fu the
want as a good game Of BASEBALL
The Rev Father DOnOhue of the Roman
Catholic church OF ST. Thomas of AQuiU.
was very emphatic in his endorsement OF
sunday baseball He said-
.'T consider Sunday baseball a good.
healthy American amusement IL keeps
our young men from worse amusement
such as those furnished at COneE Island
and other shore resorts. i ana heartily iu
favor of IT, I think Sunday baseball
should be conducted Tn a decent and or
derby way and where 1T win not interfere
with the peace OF mind or the quiet OF
She people Of Brooklyn I can see Moth
ing but good I'm It, j ann so strongly iu
favor of it that I have Instructed our
curates TO conduct "a game at the club
grounds on Twelfth street every sunday
afternoon. I believe Il viii not disturb
anyone of good, sound morals and hsv-
ing little red blood running in his
veins 20
Rev. Lindsay Parker, rector Of ST. Pc
rers Protestant Episcopal church. asked
10 be excused from expressing an opinion
until after the courts had decided as t0
the Legality Of the game on Sunday lie
said. however, That u was good game
and that he was fond of seeing It played.
church of IS Peter and Paul Williams
DJHg. EXPRESSED himself unheSiratiugiy in
favor Qf sunday baseball playing.
II do not see the slightest harm in
Sunday baseball" he said 81 like base
ball myself and would play TT at every
opportunity. Sunday bail is an right,
just the same as anything else in the ma
ture of a healthy and innocent amuse-
ment Anything that interests the Young
and is as devoid of evil as is baseball IS
good for the young men OF our city,
am led to suspect that the persons who
object TO Sunday baseball are inclined a.
be biased and narrow minded, and have
never seen an exciting game or particI-
Pated in one