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Show PREACHER WHO PLAYS BALL. I Gives Up $3,000 Offer Because Sport I Was Denied Him. " I Playing baseball and preaching the word to his Westchester, N. Y., flock is contentment compared to $3,000 a year and black-frocked dignity all the week around, in Troy, to the mind of the Rev. William D. Giflin of the Westchester West-chester Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev. Mr. Giflin has relieved the anxious minds of his parishioners by announcing that he is going to stay and will not accept the offer of a big flock in the up-state town at more than double his present salary. "In the first place this is a delightful spot, is filled with delightful people, and I feel as though I can do lots of good and help many people here," he said. "And then, you know, I like to play ball. Even $1,800 more a year couldn't stop me from playing base-. base-. 1 1 Txnifr whan tnov opTit fnr me and told me they wanted me at $3,000, I told them I wanted to think it over. I told them I played first base, pitched well, rode a bicycle, played tennis, and if I came I wanted them to realize that I wasn't treating the cloth with lack of dignity if I continued at the Hia&;y-iom. "But the deacons up there shook their heads and said 'No very firmly. They told me to think it over, and I did. I sent them word this week that I would rather stay here and play ball at $1,200 than go up there and not play at $3,000." That was final, and here I am." The Rev. Mr. Giffin is twenty-nine years old, tall, broad-shouldered, and an all-round athlete. |
