Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-15 | Page 1 | Baseball is a Craze

BASEBALL Preacher Says It Stands in the Way of Religion Wllkesbarre, Pa., July 15. "The two groat Impediments to religion in the nortnwest are the baseball and the money craze," declares Rev R. W McCullough. pastor of the leading Baptist church here, In a report to his congregation on a western trip. "The westerners are baseball mad It is baseball seven days of the week, Sunday and Monday alike "In the. Dakotas they prefer going to a ball game to going to church. They go by train, trolley and auto mobile, scores of miles. When they return home they are so full of the feats of the heroes of the diamond that they can think of nothing else." oo