Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — CONSISTENCY A JEWEL [ARTICLE]

CONSISTENCY A JEWEL

The New York Sun pertinently remarks: “When Chris Mathewson and Branch Rickey played ball each had clauses put in their contracts that they would be exempted from Sunday ball games. Matty coached on Sunday, but Rickey does not go that far. He won’t even manage a team on Sunday. But suppose all his.players took the same attitude? What then? -Seems to be a ‘conscientious objector’ on the question of Sunday ball and yet not averse to profiting therefrom. To be entirely consistent Mr. Rickey should have no connection whatever with any organization that aids and abets Sunday baseball for profit.”