The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15

! tabIisned, dissipation driven rom ina
pays Ia-1As, aha Inc nall0nal game
LciuSLdteu III DuDIIC OF, as evidenced
- ene U4IOIHlUUS Glow u LlraL NON a.
eSuH tue gaines.
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dtner u EaseUaII, \, Imam a. HUI
perI Is Its sdNIOr-lIou Dless ms mem
OTy-dIlu II Is no SmulI uouOr 20 nave
L~Sh e-4e SAVIOR o. "a nation sport.
LaseDalI 10 Il sentiment ana noe "a Dusl-
less, < spOrC anu uOL d commodity, and
Lne siedu uumCuILy LuaL Ieassue ana cIun
olicidls nave IN Ie5IsIaJIus Tor the game
y A.. - ans 10 august ii business mar
NESS 20 LuIo ITdCuO3Is animal WIN lIf
lnC4I. experience and efforts IL fire.
4Uenuy happens JndL wuen the cham
plonsHlp. race - on, the business mar
hess 5tyes way somewhere duC me
bdseoaii InaSuaLes are at each others
lntoais try lHs 10 rcp-lu-. tne Dreak-
inc press GeNOJes much space TO
these odScUl-II business NTanguags, ana
casual observers might ne lusuued IL
considering DdseDaII managers q lot OF
hyenas5 DuL, as d matter OF 1acJ, they
are, as Il rule, nlGn-gT4le men, honestly
trying TO satisfy theIr IO,ai patrons ana
advance ana safeguard the game. itself
Baseball Is also great spectators
game, ana L believe LuaL 4 am WITHIN
the DounGs of truth when L assert that
matches Jnan attend ali other athletic
games IN the world put together. In
making this assertion L am not uurnind-
tui On the enormous crowds that attend
cricket and football games IN this and
other Engiisn-speaking countries
Ii seems unnecessary 10 explain the
game itself, for every American boy is
born with baseball and bat ia his
grasp. lie understands The rudinents
FF 10 Er.r-
C's, ana grows into youth ana manhood
with natural affection for the sport.
The mental and physical activity of
baseball makes it a great educator ana
training school for the boys of our M
ton; II teaches them to be alert. quick
OF thought and action. necessitates
controlling ones nerves and temper un-
der exciting conditions, and especially
fits boy for the rough and tumble
commercial life. of today
Baseball is the father or forerunner
Of athletic sports in the United States.
which were practically unknown TO this
country before the civil war. Forty
years ago il was a discredit for a man
to be seen with any kind of athletic i'm
plemenJ, but now il is a badge of
honor. Baseball was the spark that
brought into action that natural, in
born AnglO-Saxon love Of all kinds of
athletic sports. and today the youth
and young men of the United States
can hold their own with the leading
athletics of the world. There is today
no greater moral and uplifting force in
fiUencing the youth Of this country than
athletics, when kept within reasonable
bounds.
Wellington said that the battle Of
Waterloo WAS won on the cricket fields
of England, and President Roosevelt
is credited with a sOmeW hat similar
statement that the battle of San Juan
hill was won on the baseball and foot
ball fields of America
The spirit Of baseball has permeated
into every part of our strenuous life: it
exists in all business enterprises: it is
seen in our president. in the cabinet. in
congress, in the pulpit, in the counting
house and factory, and If renewed en-
ergy is sought. fresh enthusiasm or in
spiratiOn required in any of these
places, it can always be aroused by the
utterance of these two well understood
wOrds-"Play ball"
Address before the International
Young Mems Christian Association
Training school, Springfield, Mass,