Show SUNDAY As a general proposition there la Is no fault to be found with the game of baseball or any other athletic game per so e the only or at least the principal trouble la is that such sports are sometimes permit permitted tea to encroach upon time which should be devoted objects and this course followed upends spends in the disregard of proper con editions dit ions rightful times and appropriate places for two or three years year past the game of ball has been played in or near this city on the sabbath day the ex ample has haa become contagious and has haa spread to other localities the law in 10 the case being completely set aside it if even thought of the first offense of the kind we believe was prosecuted and a light fine imposed but it must have been a decidedly halfhearted half hearted proceeding for it has so far bad but one practical effect that pat spoken of above of increasing and ap spreading reading the practice the spectacle of a public game of lany any kind la is immoral in itself and him baa ft a demoralizing effect in that it lessens the respect for the day and gradually extinguishes it altogether this applying not only to participants but spec ape 0 as well and it draws away those who otherwise might engage in more commendable exercises or in proper rest it to is all wrong and ought to be topped stopped |