Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-31
EVENING Chat

Did the Rev. william A. Sunday.
or Billy" as he is better known,
ever play baseball in Harrisburg. OF
course he did. He was not an evan
gelist at that time. but for baseball
player with real honest principles he
took the lead. Those who remember
him then--and there are still a few
people in Harrisburg who do-will
say that BILLY" Sunday played base
ball just like he is preaching-hon-
estly. 1t was in the late summer of
1878 that the Chicago team came to
Harrisburg for an exhibition game.
The baseball field was located just off
North Third street where the Cam
eron school building is now located.
The late George Miller, subsequently
catcher for the Pittsburgh team, and
Shappert, the man who always
wrapped ten yards of rubber band
about his arm before he pitched. were
the battery. Billy" Sunday played
the right field. Goldsmith pitched
Other players on the Chicago team,
were Flint, H.; Kelley, RI; Dali
rymple, If; PETER, 2b., and Williams,
SIS. Chicago won the game by close
score. The figures We're not given by
the old-timers who were discussing
biiiS ouHuay laSt evening. w nat
brought the discussion up was the fol-
lowing dispatch from Scranton, show
ing Billy" Sundays confidence in
Governor John Is. Tener: Billy
Sunday, in his sermon on What Shall
the End Be?' paid a tribute to Gov
ernor Tener. Pennsylvania is noted
for its honest Governors said Sunday.
I'd trust John Tener with my pocket
book in a dark alley in the middle of
the night and ] know I'd get it in the
morning"
The news item in some of the
newspapers the other day about the
registration in the town of McAdoo
recalls the fact that it was one of the
stamping grounds of the Eighth Regi-
ment during the coal strike of four.
teen years ago. McAdoo was notable
for the virulence of the remarks
hurled at the soldiers by the old
women of the place and for the rocks
In the streets. In fact, after members
of the Eighth Regiment band lad
paraded up and down the place .ney
who could play and dodge the boul-
ders could do almost anything.
The ducks are having a good time
In spite of the food in the Susuue-
hanna anyway. Sunday a log CANT
floating down the stream and it was
going some, too. On the log was
perched duck, in calm enjoyment of
the scene and unmindful of the turbu-
lent waters and the rubbish. BY and
by two more ducks came out of the
clouds and took reserved seats near
the bow. The last seen of the duck
liner was as it was heading toward
| one of the piers of the Peoples bridge
with its passengers still in social con-
verse.
Temperance people from almost
every part of the State are taking a
| big interest in the meetings to be held
! here the latter part of the week and it
| is expected that many of the folks
who have become State figures in the
no. license movement will be in the
city. The no-license move has made
great headway, according to state
! ments by people who are interested
in its spread. and the idea of the
conference here Is to unite everyone
for uniform work next year.
Members of Harrisburg's newest
society. the D'Abruzzi- -MoIise Asso-
citation, got their new charter yester-
day and the members sent Robert
Sucker, the attorney who handled the
proceedings for them, a handsomely
written letter of thanks. The society
Is composed exclusively of men who
had come from those two provinces
of Italy and there are large number
in this city and vicinity. Several Or
ganizations of men from other, prov
inces of Italy exist here,
Commissioner William H. Lynch is
scouting around for a new street
sweeper and street sprinkler. He
has been keeping tabs on the way
such apparatus has been working in
other cities and it is the idea to have
the machines here when the time for
them becomes pressing.