The Washington times., 1915-01-16
Family PARTY WILL
COME TO WASHINGTON
"ma' Sunday Tells Of Courtino
Days and Early Married Lie
With Evangelist.
BY ]. r, HILDEBRAND.

81 BY ]. r. HlLDEBRAND.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Jan. IT,
Billy Sunday. IT,. thirteen. and Paul
Sunday. seven, are bound for PhiiA-
delphia to join their father and mother
on their visit to washington next Mon.
day.
And this u how it happened: A few
days ago came this missive, in a boy
ish scrawi:
Dear Ma--Havs you been 70 busy
YET, 70" know se~e you % ana 1'e p. .enna .aad
= few days. I would like to 60 20
could 70 to Wash with you II It
Gos. not want 1s to to ss mpcs ,boo
he will gladly miss days tho.
As for me III miss q month or
gladly glad enough; nous's;. Let us know a.
Your loving Will.
."rhey pay hundr.dS don't they, for
ss said '"ss MA" 'et SUNDAY. "a But pTV I haVe a
collection like that you couidn't buy
Tor wsS tsSu'ss; snsyre q Sorts sois' NOR. than
your eid scraps Of paper that set people
TO killing each other. Oh, yes. have
some Win Iher husbandl wrote me
We were msr,ss No ss SaanSs
get a peep at them. ! generally carry
them with mo. Pa and have to make
our home where We happeh TO be-"
Married Life.
Under the influence Of this scribbled
missive the busting. businesslike Mre.
Sunday did something she does not
often do for strangers. she told OF her
children. Of the happy summer vaca-
tions she and the baseball evangelist
even Of the days when she and Mr..
Sunday first met at a church in the
west side OF Chicago. She also re-
CALLED how the star centerfe)der for
wishsd viz to marry % her While he was in
Iowa. and. with characteristic impetu-
osity boarded train and hastened TO
Chicago to make that fact plain TO
Mrs. Sundays practical mind has IN
excellent memory for figures. =,
"Oh. yes. can remember quite well
how. on September 6. 1888. We were
married and started housekeepinE TO-
| street. in Chicago. Our bedroom suite
WAS imitation cherry and cost $40.
The rent was Slb month. Ann; py
his best work on the diamond. 80 you
can see why our campaign here means
80 much to us. and why Mr.. Sunday IL
peaching as he never preached be-
Met In Chicago.
1t was after Sundays conversation
at the Garden Rescue Mission. in Chi.
Enas.toa soat sSsie.S S'nes ea ne ss jner.or
Park Presbyterian Church. in Chicago
where the rather shy. black-haired
keen-eyed. smiling young Heller
Thompson in her family. also attend
"Yau can imagine" Mrs. sunda.
| continued, that the wiry. handsome
good.l9okins baseball player vas tn
but love at first sight for us? No
indeed. I well remember that my chun
fell deeply in love with our young hero
and how I. with a young man VIII
Sunday afternoon walk
Here Billy Sunday. who had bee
struggling with a message for tn
Washington people to be printed in Th
Times. Interrupted.
II didn't fall in with that plan wort
a cent" ne chuckled. II ansled aroun
so that dumped that other chap OF
the other girl. and Ma and I talked al
afternoon together and went around t
| CHuTCH SOkctueI
Il II was on New Year night, in 1sS
that Mr.. sunday and Helen Thompson
finally became engaged. During tha
summer sunday played with the Pitts
burgh team, and spent most OF his tim
saving money. In September. as Mri
Sunday stated. they were married.
. Was Ardent Ro0ter.
Sunday continued to play ball for thre
years more. 1t was not until 1891 tha
he decided to enter Y. NJ. c. A. worl
= When he was with his club, Mrs. Sur
> day usually trailed over the circuit. to-
) and she was one Of the most arder
rooters on the grand stand in eves
city where her husband played.
"And at that l didn't get as hoarse a
I get now" she Grimiy commented.
Mrs. Sunday was born In Dundee. III
just how many years ago she decline
to say. Her father and mother move
to Chicago when she was three veal
old.
II went to public schools in Chicago
: and wish to say right now there
: no better place on earth to get an ed'
t cation. NY boys, Billy and Raul, no
.. 90 to distant school at Winona. an
George end Helen both went to pupl
schools"
George Sunday. now twenty-four yea
D old. has been in the automobile bus
}, ness in Tacoma, WASH. since his ma
. rage about three years ago.