The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-01
What Some Ardmore Ladies' Think Of
Sunday Baseball
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The society editor of the Ard
morcite so thoroughly disapprovos
Of the Sunday games, that today
for the first time. the mention Of
their existence has crept into these
columns.
The concensus of all questioned
is that good baseball game is
the best sort of treat-a pleasure
from beginning To end-but that sun.
day is not the day for a ball game.
Without exception. they expressed
the desire 10 have many baseball
games for this summer on the week
days.
Some of those questioned respond.
ed as follows in regard to the Sun
day games:
You needn't ask me think it's
dreadful. Mrs. r. II. Conlee
''G wish they'd have It on some
other day. so could go surely
enjoy ball game Mrs Mccoy.
Il decide the question for no one
but myself. but 7 would never go
to a baseball game on Sunday.
I think it desecration of the
Sabbath. Mrs. Harold Wallace.
81 think the women of Ardmore
should take up the question Of
these Sunday baseball games I'm
sure they're all against it"-Mrs.
w. p. Poland
81 wish for my personal comfort.
they would have the game on other
days. You hardly feel like going
10 the park on Sunday afternoon for
fear people may think you lend
your support to the Sunday games"
Mrs. John Dexter.
"G guess it's all right TO 20 TO
Sunday ball games for those who
want to- | don't see how any wo.
man could want to."-Mrs .
81 believe just like all the rest of
you. don't approve of It at all, but
| believe I'd rather you'd leave me
out. for I'm afraid agitating the
Sunday baseball question just now
will do little good. I think there
are worse evils right here in Ard.
more, that we take no notice OF. I
surely would never attend Sun.
day game. Mrs. G. II. webb.
II was surely glad to hear Rev
Weith preached that sermon. heart
lily disapprove of these Sunday
games. Mrs. Byron Drew.
You're wasting time asking me-
Everybody knows where stand
have noticed how you stand on the
Sunday baseball and other people
have. too. II is a desecration of the
Sabbath. Mrs, c. p. VanDenberg.
you may put me down as disap-
proving of the Sunday games. -
Mrs Lamont Byars
Il never went To a Sunday base.
ball game in my life and never will
| think the Sunday games will do
Ardmore rm"-Mrs. John Teer.
And so the answers run. \ hun
dred more questions would have elec
tied a hundred more such answers
The question is not whether there
are worse things in Ardmore than
Sunday baseball-for. of course,
there re-but can we allow Sunday
baseball and Sunday excursions to
our baseball games to bring i" rne
tough element that will surely nag.
Nifty these other evils.
As Rev. Weith has said It Is not
the congregations of our n-ighbor.
ing towns who take advantage OF
Sunday excursion to attend a
baseball game, and when your chill
dren attend these games, thay do
not mingle with this class OF ciii.
zens.
Few mothers with growing chill
dren, can spend Sunday az base
ball game, cheering and nurran,hg-
and there are few people who are
so unpatriotic as not to grow n'husi.
astic-without feeling that she has
set a precedent for her child"-"
that may be to their detriment.
The child who remembers his
parents as boarding the strea- car
and taking the whole family 30 a
baseball game on Sunday af'a"lDon
must have small idea of "keep!ns the
sabbath Day holy"
Lorena Park is a boon To the