Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-19 | Page 1 | Preacher at a Sunday Game

PREACHER AT A SUNDAY GAME Poughkeepsle, N. Y., Juno 19. A new era In Sunday baseball may have been marked by a semi-professional game here yesterday when the Rev w. J. Larkln. n local pastor, opened the game with an addiess to tho crowd of a thousand. Men, women and children stood In the hot sun for ncaily an hour and heard him preach a sermon on piactlcal religion to fit the ncedB of" the masses. One mlnu'c after the clergyman retired, the umpire shouted 'play ball" nnd the game was on.