Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
Sunday Wins 687 "Trail
Hitters" and With Them
North Jersey City's APP
probation-Playing Golf
Today.
Forty Faint in Stifling Taber-
nacle Heat - Philadelphia
Girls Help Evangelist With
"Peppery" Special Meet
ing.

PATTERSON, N. Jo April 26.-lf there s
been any doubt about "Bnly's' winning
Paterson, It's gone, dispelled, dissolved
into faint mist; dissipated and other
things that happen to ideas that don't
belong
When the 52-year-old erstwhile baseball
player, who used to be the fastest little
baserunner in all the National League,
jumped into the tabernacle air last night
landed squarey upon his chest, and slid
an old-fashioned slide into an imaginary
home plate, this city rose to him.
Billy" has won Paterson. Tho slide
did It. When he jumped to his feet.
brushing the dust from his nicely creased
trousers and called for 'raIl-hittcrs, they
scampered down the asles to him and
he was happy. He grnued all over, from
his rolled-up shirt sleeves to his col
larless neck.
You surely can go some for God, old
Paterson" he exclaimed.
He was right, for 6S7 hit the trail yes
terday at the tabernacle, as he flung his
DEVILS boomerangs and dshed up his
very hot cakes from the griddle of his
baseball experiences and as s2lO3 dropped
in the collection plates, leaving less than
s347 to be collected before the entire eX-
penses of the North Jersey revival are
settled. The only damper Of the day came
when Miss Francis Miller preaching to
the women of Paterson and 100 girls from
Philadelphia, announced that, If Mr.. and
Mrs. Weather did not cool off a bit, Mr.
Sunday would be inclined TO pack his
nir nd al IL rrap rI hn n ha
bungalow on Winona Lake. Ind. The
heat said she, was too much for Billy"
It was. Tho temperature at the taber-
nacle yesterday. barring breezes, tangoed
about 90, while two score prospective
pcnitents were prostrated and carried out
of the swelterng building upon stretchers.
Men hundreds of them, lolled about in
the sawdust trying to get q little air be-
tween "Billy's' vehement whrls of the
DEVILS boomerangs.
- One hundred girls. 9 from Philadelphia
for the day. pumped "Billy's" own
brands OF pepperino, ginger and tabasco
into the revival, heretofore none too
hilarious. They got into the balcony of
the 5th Regiment Armory and cheered
and shouted and paroded the old
evangelical hymns in enthusiastic fashion
They even ran a little experience meet
ing of their own. for the edifCation of
the revivally apathetic silk city. They
moved Paterson lust as "Billys' we'll
known boomerangs moved It, When they
left town. hundreds watched their street
cars trundling into the north Jersey
mist. and cheered them and their de-
parting songs
Somewhere between this city and New
York the song ceased and the Philadel-
phia girls, who hadn't been still for
something like "a hours, got n little rest.
They needed It before going back behind |
their Monday morning counters and type |
writer's and things.
BILLY" was up bright and early today, |
utterly oblivious OF anything but his |
coffee and the fact that he was going |
a. -golhng. From the innermost recess of |
his wardrobe Jack Cardiff dug up golf
ing suit that would have made an honest |
blush with envy. BILLY"
donned It and motored out to the North
Jersey Country Club links. where he
vrestled for several strenuous hours with
Colonel Bogey and other famous golfers.
II feel" said he, like making Colonel
Bogey very i'll gentleman, Speaking of
,eople who aren't feeling right this morn
ng the devil is very Ill. Wen have him
n the hospital by the Fourth of July
we keep on driving at the clip we're
;oing now. He got his. the devil did,
yesterday"