The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1904-08-31
STaL
md BROYHER BOB
mes Interested and
Reyises Views on Subject
WITNESSES A GAME.
Enthusiasm Sweeps Him Along Until
Accident Restores Mental
equilibrium.

YlClClS anu rSuglouS SCrupleS about
mo alnissi9ility OF Christian people
going out TO witness baseball game
Wheneyer d game assumes the proper
tons 10 which baseball has attained in
t'se pub ic eye it is clear to my mind
HAT check to It's growth should be
eli eteR. And seeing that Christians
are re salt of the earth the question
force its If upon the logical mind, If
we GhristiaHs do not salt the baseball
craz,, w~herewithal shall it be sailed?
So hsve had a mind often to salt it a
litsle Tor conscience sake.
L l5oow our College authorities claim
that 20 exercise oneself therein is good
for she sudents muscle and gristle
That much / am free TO admit, but 1t is
scissors on blOol and bone. A decent
ii3ticuif ina good shady place would
I've al that, aud would be less corrupt-
trg morally, in that each participant
would have equal chance. These we're
tH2 convictions fastening themselves
about my conscience for years, and of
course | had never witnessed a match
game OF bail. Not long since my son
came home from Wofford with a big
leather glove on one hand. Hooked at
1T and observed, only son, this is q
brightly heavy glove for summer-wea
brt Is tho season is son ewhas ad.
v.Tcel they viii come In alright for
Winter-wear. Where is the other
glove sonnic?" He explained that that
was q baseball nit and was not in
tended for Sunday use. 1t came to me
a. occe that my son had been duped,
ana had departed from his fathers
ifitls a gloom spread over my hori-
ION thicker than the glove [ gazed at
through ter bedtmmed eyes. Next
came my grandson from the way OF
The Shoa'S. 1T soon developed that he
too had baen duped. He had been per-
mItted to go out and witness a few
q mes at the Shoals, and although only
Wenty months old he has caught the
toer and the spirit of the game. He
gets out in my front yard with ball and
bat ana goes through all and singular
the entire movements, pastures, :.hered-
it'menis and appur!enances in any way
U1'onSins 20 Vhe pau player, his heirs
ny "s9iGoS forever Now the interest
nave in this young man,-blood of
my blood, boae OF my bone-has led
"e 10 reconstruct the question and to
seriously inquire in my mind, if It were
not possible that | had oyerdrawn on
my Sanctity in creating this prejudice
Ems "n institution sanctioned and
1mo'"ce" oy one so innocent n so
go 20 heIrIhg mat there was to be
same el"7e' me woodruff and the
''''"'i liu Ve"Ihs Oh the 18th day of
'o'l ann hume one 'an~
'o'the sovereignty of
AleS OF America, being
One oap-Russo war, [
'n's particular time would
up ana see Vhe game out.
"e n'sSINlug went as into a
luce, soon sf.er my arrival
'.iS one game proper began
''e 10y re exercising ITEM
= 'p"'@V'ry 10 the battle-get-
va GIG supplei and their
I''9.isS eI ''t'cIfed-the famous catcher
on jAA foun'a'p Inn team got it in the
eye, % ter@hc was the blow and 50
WORN u member and appurtenance
''"C ~ WAS 0oo1gh on awhile he would
"oO oe aoie TO ofloIate' BIT just at 30
minutes P@s0 tnree' tandard time, and
5'' say ninety nine and three quarter
eyre i~@hrenhel6, he donned his wire
NlI ana the battle began to wage.
Wh'le ne stood behind the bat pattiug
Vue o'l' mo MS gIoVed hand, as | had
sen my grandson 90 in my front
yard, orayely challenging the pitcher
Tor laser balls and stronger balls, L
eoola al but recognize in him my
g'Ano'son twenty years hence stand
ing before q wild throng OF eight thou
sa d enthusiastic admirers bowling
themselyes hoarse in praise of his ath-
80 "'Osin'neats' only so feebly fore
'""Uo%ou IN my ont yard a few days
az IN the midst OF the aurora OF bliss
mere ana men threw down my old
' anu PreJuulce ana counted
exact Conscience de.ormi,ina frono