Show A SERMON FROM THE SPORTING PAGEO PAGE N F DOES NOT OFTEN GO to the sporting page pace of ot the O daily dily newspaper for a sermon but tile the sermons are an there thIt it you yew care cue to look for them Joe JG Kelley manager of the Ute Cincinnati baseball club would probably be shocked if I anybody called him a preacher Indeed he be might t w oe Inclined to resent re ent the allegation with sours sons vigor rigor but we have kYe rarely seen a better temperance lecture than that d by bF this same ame Kelley Kell a feW days ago age Among other things he be said The fact tact is the day of the hooter boozer in baseball ball is 18 practically practically over yer Where one formerly found foud about half the themen themen men In on oa every ever team indulging too freely m in liquor one sel ael seldom seldom dom finds ends a case of intoxication nowadays among the play players players ers p The reason for this is that the same game loss gotten so eo fast that players players cant drink heavily and 4 lid hold Ji 14 their po positions Overindulgence in liquor is 18 a bad thing thine for tor an aD athlete and won soon ten tells on him The result is that the 1 ted man soon theman the theman theman man who lea has acquired the drink habit bU and alai his ala exit from the pats game is 18 fast tUt and permanent Many an a good pocI ball bail player has hu been spoiled in the past because ho he could not JOt let liquor alone al e The horrible examples that ate are running na around now making touches off oft the players who have sense tie enough to be h moderate in aD their are a warning w ning to young yoa players laen that they are heeding more and more m n every year ya h Mr lr Kelley Kelle makes out a very vel strong ease cue Without as aa assuming suming to touch the moral side aide of the question at all he hi shows show that itis it b very ver poor Delly for tor baseball players play to drink whisky to excess He Be B might have Mft added with truth troth that It Is II bad for them to drink Intoxicants at atall ataD atan all an either excessively or otherwise The meager manager tells tella the truth when he says an athlete cannot afford to drink Those who do tIo drink quickly give way to men en who can con control control control their appetite appetites In the tile formation of the salt Lake baseball club this temperance question will doubtless be given gt first consid consideration The man who does deer not DOt drink is III not Bet a good goad baseball player but bat b t the good player who does will wW not ii t be considered for any position because ha ba Jt pct not a t td dependable d le The Tile manager DIM I can ean sever never ha be sure fire that Js s win will appear ap ar in time to enter a game and If tt he doss appear N r there is never any Dy certainty that he be wilt will be it fit to play Thus This is b regardless of his bl influence on the other ather players player which Is Ia always baneful AJI And AM In this connection it Is 18 perhaps possible pos to explain why tOO tho Ogden team has bu been almost T success successful ful fal ia la its meetings with Salt Lake lAb mines ins t be Ogden laden n young men are practically without witheat e c believers v In Ia Intemperance intemperance temperance t while bU e in Salt Lake we have baft had made up la in large proportion of what bat Mr Kelley lit in inelegantly elegantly designates as 1 ei nott not account acco for ajl I of our detests defeats of course COt Ie Met bot lor for a considerable percentage Ie of them We had better have bave no team teem at nt all an tills this year tha thane to t have one that is b i not sober steady and Del reliable reft bk |