The Detroit times., 1916-09-16

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Four members Of the New YORK
baseball team entered just before
the sermon began and took seats
ON the platform The school boys
gave them a yell and then a cheer
FOR the Yankees" The players
were }. Franklin (Home Rum Ia
ker. Paddy Bauman. Lee Magec
and Franklin Gillholly. Baker and
Gillholly. with five other profess
sional ball players, hit the trail"
during the Sunday campaign In
baltimore.
Loves National Game.
Billy Sunday spoke on the sub
Jcct, Forces that Win"
I'm glad | played ball" he said
at the start. 'and I'm proud OF the
men who play. played eight years
and ] tell you there is nothing
crooked about baseball | know IT
and IL there was anything crooked
about II | would tip YOU off, Once
played against Detroit with Pitts.
burgh In the last half of the ninth
inning the score was nine to nothing
in our favor. There were two men
cut and TWO strikes III Charlie
Bennett. your old catcher The next
tall he hit for two bases and then
n men followed him to the plate
and they beat us 10 10 g. That
looked like a frame-up, but you
wouldn't have thought II was II you
had been out in the field chasing
their hits
Boys" he said. addressing the
students. Pm IN Detroit TO fight
the booze gang for you and don't
give a whonp WHO gets hurt in the
fight. There are "A lot OF men in
the booze business that might bet
ter be dead tell YOU there Is
hardly a community that would not
be better Off Il 1t had about 80
funerals
Listen. boys and girls. II you
find a man on the top OF mountain
you may bet he did not just land
there. he had 20 climb that noun
tain 70 get 10 the ton II IS the
men who work and climb that hang
their mugs in The hall OF fame for
us 10 look At. II takes more than
IA mortar board hat. a diploma. a
frat pin ana a ran, rah, rah To make
q man
20 succeed one must be a
worker and give the vorld some
thing When a ccw quits giyins
milk Us mission in life is ended.
people don't keep cows for com
rany'
he urged n" pupils 20 value
their education AMI 10 work at 1t
with all their strength. lie paid n
high tribute 10 Lincoln and eX.
planned that e was work that
brought him 20 the pinnacle OF
fame. no drew a picture OF Lincoln
spreading ashes thinly on the floo-
and then tracing mathematical
problems in the dust with his fin
ger because he lacked pencil and
paper. 10 illustrate what men would
DO TO get -, education and urged
his hearers 60 tGkc advantage of
their opportunTrTCs
The newspapers today" he cried.
VIII give you better college cdu.
cation than Abe Lincoln had
lie urged the students 10 have
some OF the grit that characterized
Lincoln and 20 go right 10 "A thing
once they knew II 10 be- right.
There are some people" he add
I'd. who are afraid 10 20 ahead
when they know a thing Is right rs
well as Solomon and Brigham
Young knew they were married. BE
like a man with the itch--make
everybody scratch that gets near
YOU. BE right and then so ahead
for it's either heaven or hell for all
Of us God keeps no halfway house
But don't get conccited It's a sad
day for a boy who gets so couccItcd
that Taft's oycrcoat wouldn't make
him vest And a YOU work your
way through life. keep smiling
Every time You laugh YOU put n
crimp in the undertaking business
and help TO keep the embalminr
fluid out of your veins Don't boast
about your religion or anything else
Some people can talk more religion
in 10 minutes than they can live I'm
two years.
N You Fail You're a Mutt.
II hold that the boy who goes TO
school is bigger than the young lob.
ster that loafs In the street or goes
into n booze joint and trie, 10 drink
the whole bunch under the table
II Is bigger 20 pray than IA curse
II IS bigger TO cit in church than H.
Is 10 line up az some bar Tho
chance for n boy with education I'm
this country n great and n you cant
become something worth while YOU
IRE mutt, a mollycoddle. excess
baggage and a mere cipher. You
can become great Ivy nEhtinC the
world When 1t knocks YOU down
get mp. Don't take the count
Blood environment, grit, education
and Christianity arc the FIVE essen
tials for success"
One ~ the largest crowds that
has yet attended the meetings was
there In the evening II is possible
10 crowd only $4,000 i'm the taber-
naclc, including 1000 or 1000 who
are permitted 10 stand. Every door
and window f. packed with eager
faces AZ the night meetings and
thousands turned away. While no
more heard Billy Friday evening
than on other evenings for the rea-