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Show IBEfl RICKEY CHURCH GOER St. Louis Cardinal Pilot Can't See Sunday Baseball; Tem- perance Lecturer If the St. Tvouis Cardinals, by any caprice of fortune, manage lo win the 'National League pennant, and ooze Into a world's series, the Mound City fans will S'-e no games In the bluo ribbons series on Sunday, if manager Branch Rickey, of the Cards cun pre-i pre-i vent it. Rickev loves baseball, but ho cannot see the Sunday ball stuff, and has gom on record against the playing of world's series games on tho first day of the week. i if , i,iir it i" i 'jfvlble Rickey may be forced to play Sunday ball for even though the Cards did win the National ganfalon nomeono else than I Rickey would have a chirp coming about Sabbath ball, and In baseball as well as In other things, the 'majority gcnerallv rul. NO SUNDAY BALL Although It Is not generally known. Branch tUekS) never goes to a ball park on Sunday, not even now while the Cards are In tb thick of the fray nnd with a splendid chanco of taking the lead from the champion Redlog. On the Bundai games Roger Homsby Is dictator, and strange as It may seem th c'ards have plxved wonderful ball under Hornsby'tt, direction. Keeping away from baseball games with Rlcksy Is not a fad. Ho Is a downright Christian Not the kind that carries his religion on his sleeve, either, for he Is never too busy to assist as-sist In services or deliver a typical Y. M. C. A. talk or a temperance ad-ilrets. ad-ilrets. IT OF JOSHIXG Rickey has hid to stand for a lot of Joshing hOTll IBS of hl. propensity to mak address :'s. Vhn h broks In with the Kt. Louts Drowns some-yearr some-yearr ago, under Jim Meleer, lie useil to insert tho Mrowns on Sunday. hJJ to church services and then muk" n jljort IfiVCBH l9 9fc amjl town to dclhcr a temperance address. Since jjoiin Barli i 'd a has be, m given the kayo, however. Rickey's temperance hires. " j have lost much of their pop-' iulatity, but RJckgy himself has rc-tained rc-tained his popularity and It has ben of Inestimable value to him In ke p-Ing p-Ing the Cardinal latronage up to a certain standard Despite tn' fact that Rickey is a devout church member, he never interferes with the religions belli f of th members of his team It i- POry man to himself on religion as far as Rickey is concerned but he tries I lo set the example by regular attendance attend-ance at church on Sundays, and Christian Chris-tian demeanor during iho week. He Is decidedly popular with the 15.00U or more stockholders in the Cardinal olubi and many of them purchased their holdings through their personal acquaintance with him. oo |