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 will be thought now when my daughter is seen attending these games?"

"But they are not playing Sunday baseball, daddy, and I agree that you were quite right in bringing your influence to bear against that, though, as I said before, I hold that there is no harm in the game itself."

"There is harm in whatever produces harm, which is sufficient answer to your argument. And look at the class of men who take part in those games. Would you be proud to associate with them? Would you choose them as friends?"

"No," she confessed; "not many of them; but still there are some really decent ones who play. Larry Stark is one. I know him, and I'm not ashamed of it."

"There may be an occasional exception, but you know the old saying that exceptions prove the rule. Once in a while a respectable young man may be led by necessity to make a business of baseball, but I am sure no such young man will long continue to follow it up."

"Respectable people watch the games. Some of the best people in Kingsbridge were there to-day."

"Which denotes a deplorable tendency of the times. And you must not forget that this town