Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — To Cut Out All Sports On Decoration Day. [ARTICLE]

To Cut Out All Sports On Decoration Day.

Decoration day festivities hereafter will have to be confined to tiddledywinks, charades, drop the handkerchief or Jackstraw* if Senator Hal leek has his way about it. Not only that, but if one plays any of the great American games, such as baseball, or indulges In horse racing on that day, one is liable to be brought before a court of justice and fined for committing a misdemeanor, if Senator JHalleck’s plans do not miscarry. ~ Senator Halleck started to change the Decoration day program Monday afternoon, when he introduced a bill providing that hereafter it shall be unlawful for any one to “engage in the racing of horses or in playing any game of baseball or any other public game, or in the directing or managing of any such races or games on May 30, commonly known as Decoration day.” Any violation of the proposed act is punishable by a fine of from $6 to $25 for the players and a fine of from SIOO to SSOO is provided for the promotors of such enterprises. Senator Halleck said he had been requested to introduce the bill by a number of veterans of the civil war, living in Rensselaer.