The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-09
PRINCETON STUDENTS, SIS STRONG,
PROMISE BILLY SUNDAY THEY'LL
LEAD SIMPLE LIVES HEREAFTER
Baseball Evangelist Slides Bases Slabs High Fast Ones
and Prays For Hibben in Church of Which Presi-
dent Wilson is An Elder.

P1ineeton. March s.-when Billy
i Sunday. called for converts at the close
of two services before students of
j Princeton University and Princeton
/ Theological Seminary yesterday, 615
Icollege men hit the sawdust trail of
repentance and shook the evangelist
! by the hand.
Sunday suddenly broke off in the
middle yof his prayer to shout to his
! hearers, whose heads were bowed in
/ devotion:
.How many of you fellers'll come up
4 to me and say, Bill, I'll go on the
square, and here's my hand that by
] the grace Of God I'll live my life for
/ God p How dnany'Il do that for Jesus
fChrist7 Come on, boys, come on.''
The college men raised their heads
uncertainty wavered, and then, under
/ BilIys urging. surged forward to shake
his hand. Sundays accountants clock
ed off SO on their markers before the
/ last man filed past.
souls, told them to write home to their
mothers oftener, and prayed for the
salvation of DIR. John Grier H1bben,
president of princeton University, who
had refused to Sunday the use OF the
| University buildings in which to speak.
The morning service. was devoted to
latudents of Princeton Theological Som
i mary, members of the faculty and
townspeople. Every man of the 100
men enrolled in the seminary was
present At the afternoon session only
i llnd ergfaduates were admitted. Both
! services were held in the First Presby-
/ terrain church, which is bounded on
three sides by college property, but is
mot included in the campus
i Acts Like Ball Player.
i Speaking from the pulpit of the
Ichurch in which President Wilson is
an elder, Sunday gave a whole base
ball game in pantomime. He sprinted
across the platform, caught high
4 throws with one foot on q fancied base
i and slid bases
Starting slowly, Sunday accelleFated
This speed until his sentences were =
1continueus series OF explosions He
rushed along without a breath until a
IpaEt tcn1arly striking epfgTam brought
a roar OF anuseneat from his audi
i ence. Then Billy doubled up with
Ilaughter, drew q breath and started or
Il on another sprint.
Sunday used more gestures to the
paragraph than are found in a. whole
handbook of oratory. He drove home
| his words by sheer muscular effort,
i pounding, showing, even kicking them
into the faces of his audience. With
his entire figure shaking from efrort
body like q whipIash to emphasize
each point.
launched up over the back of a chair.
/ Sunday gave a representation OF ED
i Williams, shortstop on the Chicago
| White Soxs when Sunday was playing
outaeId for them, as drunken bum
In the back room of q saloon.
Then Billy acted out the ball play
er's death, spraw1ing over the pulpit
and coughing with terrible realism.
i Speaker Hops Up and Down.
'sEd says to me- Sunday gasped.
6 fra
9Ireach home say a few words for me-
i But Ed was caught trying to stretch a
three 5bagger into a home run, and the
Umpire OF the Universe called him
tout''
Sunday told how he had been saved
land went on to dflate on the sad fate
lof his companions who had not re-
81 formed, and who only .tpanhandIed
friends and smooched' them for 9. Hap
i Jack. AS he depicted the horrible end
lsof his friends who had refused to turn
from drink, Sunday hoped up and
Flown with excitement
One dark, stormy night in Chicago
4 staggered into the arms Of Jesus /
ives with the White Sox then, and was
Ipretty badly tanked up, when heard
hymns on the corner like my mother
Il used to sing Ia the log cabin down IN
i Iowa Since then I've never broke my
ICON tract with God.
* W. were playing Detroit for the
Echalnp ionship- Tt was the last inning,
1.-TWO men out and two strikes on Char
i lie White at the bat. I was back in
4 the outfeId when he hit the next ball
Ismack way beyond me-. yelled to the
crowd to get out Of the way as I ran
back, and they opened up like the Red
Sea for the rod of Moses.
LAS I sprinted offered up q little
prayer, fOh, Cod I pleaded, I'm in
an awful hole. Please help me, but
hurry, for You amt got much time
to make up Your mind I caught
the ball and saved the championship.
That catch won me $1,000 The
Lord certainly helped me that day. .
Tries to tDriye Out Devil
Though President Hibben had de-
cided he would not be able to permit
him to speak in the college build
fngs, Sunday worked at the topmost
pitch of fervor to drive the devil out
of the college town.
A decided split occurred in the AGA
Edemic element in the town over the
evange1ist's coming, the professors OF
the Princeton Theological Seminary
| favoring his appearances, and the off,
GERS of Princeton University opposing
it,
81 The two institutions are not con