Catholic Church Adjusts Services to Allow Sunday Baseball
THAT Sunday laws are principally designed to cut off all pretext for not attending church, and everything that tends to a rivalry of church patronage, is frequently manifest in compromises with such rivalry. Such compromises are most frequently met in the action of Roman Catholic churches. It is said that an arrangement has been made between Priest Waring, of Dyersville, Iowa, and the management of the local baseball team, whereby the Sunday afternoon church services are to be held a half hour earlier and the ball game a half hour later than formerly, so that those who desire to attend both can have the opportunity. The Sunday holiday as a church institution originated in the Roman Church, and it is but logical to expect that authority to set the pace for its observance. It is said that Priest Waring “realizes that Sunday baseball has come to stay,” and evidently it is all right with him if it does not interfere with attendance at his church. This is an old-time principle of that church.