The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-30
NO MORE SUNDAY BALL GAMES.
So Thinks Mr.. Beach, Who Pleaded With
MIR. FaEan on Saturday.

Jersey City had it's first and last taste
of Sunday professional baseball of the
year yesterday afternoon on the new
Eastern League grounds, In West Side
avenue. according to William H. Beach
Of the West Side Avenue Methodist Church.
He headed a delegation to the City Hall
on Saturday and pleaded with Mayor Mark
NJ. Pagan and the police authorities to
prevent the game. The officials refused
to interfere because the baseball manage
ment volunteered to donate the entire
gate receipts to the local fund for the relief
Of the suffering San Franciscans.
The church folks made a vigorous effort
to convince Mayor Pagan, the Police Com
m~issioners and Chief Murphy that the
charity game" was illegal and was simply
intended as an entering wedge in the in
terest of Sunday games. The officials de-
clared there was a public demand for the
contest and gently but firmly told Mr..
Beach and his friends that it would take
place as scheduled. Then the Methodist
hustled around and tried to get a lawyer
to apply to the courts for an injunction
restraining the game. No attorney wanted
excuses that they were too busy or that
they couldn't And a Vioe-Chancellor on a
Saturday, afternoon.
Five thousand or more persons attended
the game and saw the local team thrdshed
by the Montreals. The defeat had a depress-
ing effect upon the fans which perhaps 40
counted for the nice, quiet, orderly manner
in which they left the grounds and walked
Generously past Mr.. Beach's residence
and the church property in West Side ave:
u q Chief, Murphy had forty men In and
around the baseball park and every crowded
car which carried the disguised Jersey
rooters to their homes had two or more
cops on board to quell any disturbance.
Mr.. Beach said after the game,
we have decided in the circumstances
not to prosecute anybody for to-day's vio-
l4tion of the law, and as far as this particu-
Lar game is concerned we shall let the mat
ter drop. When / saw Mayor Pagan OIL
Saturday he assured me on his honor that
after to-day there would be no more Sum
day games at the Eastern League Park.
stop them at all hazards, and President
Potts Of the Police Board gave the same
promise. They explained that to-day's
game vas demanded by a large number, of
citizens so that money could be raised for
the San Francisco fund
Il sympathize sincerely with the Mayor
because | believe he is a Christian gentle-
mar and means to do the right thing. l
told him at the interview that he had been
heralded as a reformer and had the OPP
pDTluIlty dS tue Mayor W bNdhd lOI tiIS
enforcement Of the law, but he didn't feel
that he could stop the game.
The proposition, to donate the gate re-
ceipts to the fund was made by Robert
Davis, one Of the owners Of the baseball
club, at last Sundays meeting of the re-
lief committee, of which he is a member.
There were several ministers at the meet
ing and none of them offered any objec-
tons.
Il heard that a plan is under way to play
a game next Sunday for the benefit Of st.
Francis's Hospital. If there is a game l
pital. nave been fighting against Sunday
baseball playing for thirty-seven years
and am not going to stop, now. I have
walked on diamonds Sunday afternoons
ard nave said, You can't play have
beer told that if l didn't get out Of the way
/ would be Drained and l replied Brain
away but they didn't. do not think, in
view of Mayor Fagan's pledge, that there
will be any Sunday baseball playing on the
West Side in the future"