Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-13
FOOT BALL PLAYER A
Y. M. G. A. MISSIONARY

Big Bob Galley, the greatest center rush
Princeton ever knew, who hammered his
way to fame in her championship foot ball
team in the Dos, has been Y. NJ. c. A. sec
rotary at Tientsin, China, for seven years.
He is back on his furlough, bigger than
ever. He has bulked large in the new edu-
cation of the new China, and has come back
to his old alma mater for $4,000. The
Tientsin association has occupied the hum
dred-reem mansion of mandarin. Some
of these rooms have been fitted up with the
latest scientific apparatus, stereopticons and
X-ray machines. Now that the old system
of education and study for degrees based on
books over 1000 years old has been swept
aside, young men of China are eager to
learn what there is outside of the walls of
their own kingdom.
Gailey's associate. Prof C. II. Robertson.
who was a promising and clever young
science professor in western university,
has taught them that the eclipse of the
moon was not, as the old Chinese science"
taught-"the moon being eaten up by dog
and that drums and tomtoms should be
sounded to drive away the dog'-and his
demonstration of electricity, as young
Chinaman said knocks our theory of the
god of thunder and conjuring him against
your enemies all to pieces" By big ter
restial globe four feet in diameter he shows
them that the earth is round and that
China is not the only country on the earth.
BY the magic lantern he shows views Of
Egypt and it's ancient civilization which has
disappeared, and views of other nations in
which religion has been factor in their
progress. These exhibitions bring crowds
of intelligent men to the Y. M. G. A. to
hear him.
Galley is asking for $4,000 to buy $780,
600 scientific equipment for further demon
Stration and 1880 a year for two years to
sand aud aNrfc ,pta ~. ,.xr
with him among the literati, young business
men and the boys of China. Princeton
alumni, Cleveland II. Dodge, Robert Gar
rett, Lueius H. Miller. are his committee
for receiving funds. A $4,000 building has
been promised.
The associations supporters and Gailey's
friends In Tientsin have been men of inhu-
ence in the new order of things, such as the
new national secretary of education. Gov
eminent school students are brought to the
association for special lectures and scien-
tifc demonstrations. Nearly all of the hum
dfeds of men and boys attending these assoc
citation classes are members of the organi-
zation, attend its Bible classes and religious
services on Sunday. They come to the Y
M. c. A. for Christian as well as scientific
education.
One of the annual features OF the Tientsin
association is three-day meeting which is
attended by business men. students and Off
Gals OF the country, when the great learn
Ing" which Is the heart of the leading Chi
nese classics. is treated from a Christian
point of view by the college trained secre-
taries OF the associations and the mission
aries. The students have taken to Ameri-
can athletics and physical training as
heartily as to its science and education
DIR. Arthur Fl. Smith. author and mission
airy, after making study of the associa-
tons new and unique service in China,
wrote. ITO gain the passive good will of
the educated young Chinese is a notable
achievement of the Young Mems Christian
Association. 1t Is clear to me that the as