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Show SHUN STRONG DRINK, SAYS MONTE CROSS PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.' ' Lot drink alone if vou want to win iu the baseball game of life," was the advice Monte Cross, veteran baseball player and shortstop with two world's champion cham-pion teams of the Athletics, gave in a talk last Sunday at the Mariners' Baptist Bap-tist Bethel Bible school. Although Cross says he is not going to become a baseball evangelist, he gave a talk on clean living. His sisterj Airs. Joseph Monroe, who is interested in the work at the Sunday school, induced him to give the children a. talk. In introducing Monte Cross, H. 0. Hollingsworth, assistant superintendent of tho school, said Monte may become as great an influence for good as Billy Sundav. "I have played baseball for twenty-six twenty-six years," Cross said, "anr I kno'w that baseball players, once painted as a bad lot, are not so bad, after all. Many of them are' good Christians, and the majority, in fact all, the men who make good, are clean livers. They go to church on Sunday, even though they have to play a game Sunday afternoon. 'If you have been a clean liver and kept good, you'll get homo in life just as sure as you do in baseball. "Drinking counteracts every other good thing that you do. So my advice ad-vice is to clear your mind and" keep your body clean, and you '11 reach home. "Take care of your body and your soul will havo a chance to keep good." To Look Over Cubans. Thomas McCarthy, the Boston Red Sox scout, will go to Cuba soon to look over the native talent and come back by way of Florida. |