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Pacific Press Publishing Company · New York · December 1, 1892

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 7, No. 47

The “Pearl of Days” gives the latest baseball news as follows:—

Playing baseball on Sunday is a violation of the Nebraska law. The Supreme Court of Nebraska so decided November 11, in the case of the State against O’Rourke, a case originating in the arrest last year of the Lincoln baseball team while engaged in playing a game on Sunday at Lincoln Park. The players were not fined by the County Judge. The County Attorney filed exceptions and carried the case to the Supreme Court for an interpretation of the law, so that future controversies might be avoided in regard to the legality of playing baseball on Sunday. The court yesterday sustained the exceptions. The syllabus of Chief Justice Maxwell is as follows:—

“Under the provisions of section 241 of the criminal code, any person of fourteen years of age or upwards who shall on Sunday engage in sporting, etc., shall be fined in a sum of not exceeding twenty dollars or to be confined in the county jail not exceeding twenty days, or both.

“Playing baseball on Sunday comes within the definition of sporting and renders the person engaging therein liable to the punishment provided for in section 241.”

There are a considerable number of young men in Lincoln, Nebraska, who know that “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord,” and who faithfully observe it, to whom this decision will be of interest.