The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-11
Giants and Cubs Will
Play for Fighting Goth
Next Thursday to Be Father Duffy Day on Polo
Grounds-Receipts Will Be Donated to Funds of
Famous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to Attend.
NJ FREDERICK @. LIEB.

Baseball fans Of New York will have
I, q grand opportunity next Thursday to
show their appreciation of the fighting
Qualities Of the ls5th Infantry, the cd
Fighting Sixty-ninth" OF New York.
when Father Duffy Day" will be cele-
championship game between the Giants
and Cubs, preceded BY u band concert
which will ba directed by Victor Her
bert.
Not only will the fans OF the city be
given an opportunity to do their bit
for one Of the grandest regiments of
the entire United States Army. but they
will have an opportunity to pay a per-
sonal tribute to the Rev. Major Frank
Duffy. the lighting soldier priest, than
whom there was no moro beloved char
acter In the entire A. e. r.
Practically the entire portion OF the
! Giants share OF the receipts will 70 to
! the funds OF the sixty-ninth, and the
game will be played under the auspices
Of the trustees Of Fund for Benent CT
166th U. 8. Infantry. OF which Daniel
NJ. Brady, affectionsteiy known as the
godfather Of the Sixty-ninth," is vice.
chairman and the leading light.
In order to do all In their power to
make Father Duffy Day a success.
Charles Stoneham. John McGraw and
Judge McQuade Of tho Giants rendered
Nicholas Brady one Of tho best dates on
their schedule. Q game with the Chicago
club, league champions and the great
est rivals that the Giants have in
baseball.
II will not be the first time that New
do its bit for this famous Irish-Ameri-
can regiment In which every New
| Yorker, no matter what his extraction,
takes such honest pride. On August
10. 1917. playing the hrst Sunday Ma
| tional Legue game ever waged on the
Polo Grounds. 10000 citisens attended
''Slxty-ninth Day" The contest was
| the entire proceeds went to the funds
Of the trustees OF the regiment
Incidentally Il was at :his game.
played for such a noteworthy purpose,
that John McGraw and Christy Mathew
\ son, managers Of the Giants and Reds.
were dragged into court on the charge
, Of violating the statutes prohibiting
sporting contests on the nrst day Of the
week. The managers were brought be-
fore Magistrate McQuade. who dis
missed them after commencing them
as public spirited and patriotic cftiEenA
There was 60 much resentment ut the
arrest Of McGraw and Mathewson at the
time THAI II started the agitation for the
repeal of the motheaten statute Of the
eighteenth century. The night for Sun
day baseball was launched by Judge Nc
Quade, and soon he had many warriors
at his side. Their efforts wero crowned
with victory when Sunday baseball be-
came q reality in this city several weeks
ago.
However. one cannot look back at that
great benefit game OF 1917 without q
pang of sadness. Hundreds OF brave
lads OF Gaelic descent. who paraded on
the Polo Grounds on that August after
noon nearly two years ago. now lie
buried In the fields of France after
making the great sacrifice.
Left Many in France.
When Father Duffy Day was launched
at little luncheon at the India House
last Friday Dan Brady remarked that
the Sixty-ninth had more casualties than
any regiment In the A. r. +. outside of
two regiments OF marines
When Brady asked Col. William Dono-
van of the 165th to verify this statement
the Wild Bill Donovan of the army said
he couldn't speak for the entire army.
but that the l6bth had the most casual
ties of any regiment in the Forty-second
Division, and remarked that ''the Rain
bows got pummelled up q bit" I'VE
left $50 over there who were killed or
| died of WOundL yvifh0uf countinU Ehnsa