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Show "BASEDILL fS A QUICilECEll OFIinTLLECr Gotham Minister Pays a Glowing Tribute to Great National Game. MXW TOML Job It. Om fcroday la each year la devoted by Berford Praabytarlaa church of BrooUya to a sermon oa beaebsll, Tha services are bald under tha auspice of too Hew Tork league of too T. M. C. A. baseball base-ball teams. This year's service was bald yesterday and tha sermon was by tha Bar. Sr. Bdward Tetrag. Bo told hie hisesrs tha tela Paai, U preach. lag la Aaarlea this snnunar, weald aa-donbtedly aa-donbtedly be aa etithuslaeeic fan, aad would attend all the gamee. ' "Paul was aa eathnetaatiee sportsman," sports-man," tha poacher aaid. "Bo rloee waa hie friendship with the . presiding officere at the great gamee of western Asia as to excite very active solicitude oa their part ia his behalf whea Paul eeemed in danger ee records rec-ords the bood of Acta. He aaee athletic ath-letic terms frequently apeeking of himself him-self St a manor and boier, and Sgura-tivclv Sgura-tivclv applying the term 'great umpire of the skies' to his master. "What a quiekener ef the intellects oar American game! A matkematiriaa haa figured out 7.2S.433 possible plays oa a baseball diamond. Wbirh one of them shall the plaver try! To see the ball aad take ia the chances aad catch the signal from tha catcher or pitcher or manager oa the beech, to estimate the distance and speed aad angles in the twinkling of aa eyes, to pack a ball full of sealed orders aa ta where it will curve, vp or dowu, or right or heft, or fade awav, to reed our antagonists' minds to nnderstaad their salt move. "An evil hour came to the ball f)M two-thirds of a generation ago when v.mhlin and hiraH defeate and riiv honest methods wellnight ruined the game, but new young men are hare taught honor and the elightcst Infraction Infrac-tion thereof would be visited with ei-clusioa ei-clusioa from the field." ' |