The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-17
SUNDAY TO TURN
59TH MILESTONE
Ace Doesn't Make a Man
30 Old, It's Sin, Says
Evangelist

Speed and wind.
VI ia 20 these two things that the
v,verend Billy Sunday attributes
A. choice Of llfewUrR as well as the
.,.ress that he has made Of that
sa,t Next saturday, November 10,
~ reverend sunday viii be 80
sasrs old. The other morning he
~ a, his desk in the corner OF his
com AT the Ketchum and discussed
~, birthday. The morning sun
.,reancd IN through the windows.
:, shone full upon the fighting face
"A the muscular figure OF man
~ ma prlmo--not Of a man nearing
sixty ~ , MN.
.ror,ed. "Tll bet you that
9onld train for two weeks to get
SsSk nv speed and my wind and
RAJ | could make 100 yards In IL
.esonds right nowl'
SAID Bob Matthews, secretary to
\, Jaw now bossl Maybe you
cuid do il in 1915. but I'll be
Serged IL you could do 1t In 12i'
Speed and wind sent sunday TO
be bat In the evengelistic field.
ge,auso as a boy he could outrun
su tbe other fellows he was picked
for a place on a mems baseball
team Because he could hold his
avn on that team he was singled
an, as good timber Tor a hosc team
and be Justified that opinion by
apaufying Tor the job. Because he
established a speed record ON that
team pop Anson. tho famous
leader Of the Chicago white SOx,
saw big league possibilities la him
and before he was 1 years old sun
DAY was getting his weekly pay en-
yeiop as a member of the Chicago
,earn From Marshalltown (IowD
dfe department to Chicago UlL)
White Sox was big jump, But he
had only started. Having made UP
his mind to make the Lords busi-
pes. his, speed and wind were ems
b ployed to do it. lie hit the line
4 lard. twenty-five years ago he
tackled the job OF getting folks to
Bit the trail. Except for his record
on the baseball diamond, Il record
that vet stands, he was virtually
unknown. Today he stands alone,
supreme in his field work. At 90
he draws his thousands nightly, He
50 ways them with the fire OF faith
and Of word that at his call come
or they move. an army OF them,
down the sawdust trail. He's win
ming Gods game now. Speed and
wind.
Billy Sunday has been at II for
. quarter OF "A century. At an age
when men shy from physical eXer-
else ontailing more cXertion than
that demanded by golf he is emf
Dently tit, strenuOusiy vigorous.
breaking all known records of his
tory in the size OF the audiences that
he draws, and this night after night.
Tulsa Is no exception. Everywhere
he goes men and women wait for
hours in order 10 hear him; they
are content to stand through an on
tire service just for the chance OF
listening to him. That magnetic in
tuence draws folks out Of their
seats and sends them down the
awdust trail. At the close of his
Services when any ordinary man
would be limp and exhausted sun
day swings down the platform steps
and stands gripping the hands Of
hundreds Of people. Such physical
aamina Is unequaled. Sundays
itend, the late Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, for all mis- virility. was
quick TO admit that his endurance
couldn't begin to equal Sundays.
n I don't see how the man does Il"
lo'onel Roosevelt said at one time.
4 used 20 think I was going some
% my Whlrlwind speaking cam
ialgns In the closing days OF an
hectlon.
But | would be down and out In
, month II tried to keep Billy sun
avs pace He is IA most stimulat-
ng example OF physical perfection,
~ lphed TO the days work"
"A now does he do II? His Job never
foryes him-he always has the up