Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1911 — ST. PAUL AS BASEBALL FAN [ARTICLE]

ST. PAUL AS BASEBALL FAN

Would Be Enthusiastic Rooter and ' Attended Games, Declares Rev. Dr. Young of Brooklyn. One Sunday in each year is devoted by - Bedford Presbyterian church of Brooklyn to a Bermon on baseball. The services are held under the auspices of the New York league of Y. M. CA hfißAhflll tPAinfl Thifl vflftf’fl Hftrv« • A« ÜBDQVQU tvOUsB, X UID J wfw *» V ice was held recently and the sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Edward Young. He told his hearers that St. Paul, If preaching in America this summer, would undoubtedly be an enthusiastic fan and would attend the games. * > “Paul was an enthusiastic sportsman,” the preacher said. “So close was his friendship with the presiding officers at the great games of western Asia as to excite their very active solicitude in his behalf when Paul seemed in danger—so records tbe Book of Acts. He used athletic terms frequently, speaking of himself as a runner and boxer and figuratively applying the term “great umpire of the skies” to bis Master. “A bad time came to tbe ball field a few years ago when betting apd sold contests ruined the game, but now young men are here taught honor, the slightest infraction thereof being visited with exclusion from the field.”