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Show I Two Chicago Clergy men Use Championship Struggle for Themes. iA HOME RUN" IS THE j SUBJECT OF ONE SERMON .2reo, That Game Is Greatest. (ran desi and Nohlest of All Sports. CHICAGO. Oct. 3o! Ttvo ministers c,d the championship baseball series as" 'i topic for pulpit; discourses last nieht both agreed that U10 game is the cleanest oi all sports, but they deplore de-plore the ffict that gambling was permitted per-mitted on tho grounds and that one of the contests was played on Sunday. Thev appealed to the managers to take s sianti against these tvro evils in the Johnston ulycrs preached on "A. Home Run." at Immanuel Baptist cbVch, and declared, among other thine?, that "Tf the samo spirit which sets men wild at such baseball games .13 have been witnessed last week iu Chicago, were manifested in tho church, there would not be a 'skeptic loft' in Chicago." , "In Winning the Pennant." ,Iu Winning tho Pennant ?' was the subject chosen by Rev. Keaeh Straiten, pastor 01 the Second Baptist church. ''Baseball is the greatest, grandest and noblest of all sports," he said. "It is clean, manly and safe. There are but. two strong criticisms that the best elements ele-ments of a community ought to make on the game. First, the amount of gambling attendant on the big league games. The second criticism is the Almost Al-most general custom of playing tlie game on the Sabbath." |