Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-06-13 | Page 11 | St. Paul as Baseball Fan

Brooklyn Minister Declares Apostle Would Have Been a Diamond Enthusiast. NEW YORK, June I.2. One Sunclaj in etch year is devoted h.y Berford Presbyterian church of Brooklyn to :i sermon on baseball. The services are hold under t ho auspices of the New York Joague of the Y. M. C. A. base ball teams. This year's service was held yesterday and the sermon was by tho rtov. Dr. Edward Young. He told his hearers that Saint Paul, if preach-in preach-in in America this summer, would uu-doubtcdly uu-doubtcdly be an enthusiastic fan, and JM would attend all the games. "Paul was an eiithusf nstiec sports-man." sports-man." tho peucber said. "So .close was his friendship -with the presiding officers at the great games jl of west cm Asia as to excite very active s'olicitude on their pari, in his behalf when Paul seemed in danger so rec-ords rec-ords the book of Acts. He uses nth-letic nth-letic terms frequently, spcakiug of him-self him-self as a runner nnd boxer, and ngura-lively ngura-lively applying the term 'great umpire of tlio skids- to his master. "What a quickener of the intellect is our American game! A mathematician has figured out 7,226,433 possible plays on a baseball diamond, which one of them shall the player try? To sec the ball and take in the chances and catch the signal from the catcher or pitcher jH or manager on the bench, to estimate the distance nnd speed and angles 111 the twinkling of an eye. to pack a ball full of scaled orders as to where it will curve., uji or down, or right ot left, or fade away, to read our antagonists' minds to understand their next move. jl "An evil hour came to the ball field two-thirds- of a generation ago wheu gambling and hired defeats and dts honest methods well-nigh ruined tho. game, but now young men aro here taught honor and Ihc slightest infrac- jH tion thereof would be visited with x elusion from the field."