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UV ttiu v- U'OU UJ VttuIt would appeal’ from tho decision of the question of Sunday bail playing as rendered by Judge Doluhautyat Long Island City that ball playing tan be legally indulged in on Sunday provided that no breach of tho peace is involved and that the garno is carried on as a pastime. This of course prohibits ball playing on inclosed grounds where An ndmissioh foe in charged, no professional club playing coming under tho head ofpastime” within the meaning of tho Ia%v. The attorney for the defendant in the case before Judge Dela-hanty moved to discharge tho prisoner on the ground that base ball, when indulged in foe relaxation or ro-creation, is a mere pastime; that tho Legislature, having, by the laws oj 1880, amondod tho Penal Code by striking out the word “ pastimes” from the Sunday prohibition, thereby declared its intention to permitpastimes” on Sunday, and that thereforo the defendant had committed no ofton.so against the law, especially as the evidence of the witnesses for the people showed that no breach of the poaco or disturbance accompanied the ball playing, and that orderly playing is allowable on Sunday, and does not toad to any disturbance of tin* peace of the day. How do our police authorities interpret tho decision in this city ?Less than thirty years ago the manufnetura of base balls was in tho hands of two. or three men who filled up leisure hours from their regular occupation in making balls for tho very few clubs then in existence in the Metropolis, Van lloru, of New York, ami Iioss, ofBrooklyn—both now dead—ranking among the first local makers of base balls. A few burnt red a year comprised the supply of balls made for club use at that period; now base balls are made at the rate of over two millions a year. Al. Beach, of Philadelphia, staled the other day that from his factory on Beach street, neat* Cramp's ship yard, no loss than l,3io.0ift) balls had been manufactured during 1883, an average of 300 dozen a day the year round. Beach fiends base balls to every quarter of tho globe.■\Yhon aro added to Iheso tho othor baao bail manufactories in the Eastern States it can readily bo seen towhat aa extent the manufacture has grown. This yearit is safe to say that nearly 3,000,0(11) of baso balls will bo turned out from the inanufuetorios through jut tho country. It was in 1837, when tho old National Association of Baso Bail Players sprang into existence, that baseballs began to bo made for club use, and at that* time they were made of two and a half ounces of rubber, covered by yarn, with a sheepskin cover. These balls weighed five and three-quarter ounces and measured ten inches in circumference. Jake Van Horn made tho balls for the old Knickerbocker, Eagle, Empire, Gotham, Mutual and Union clubs, of the metropolis, and Harvey ltoss for tho Atlantic, Eckford, Putnam and Excelsior clubs, of Brooklyn. It was not until professionalism sprang iuto existence, however, that base balls came to be made in regular manufactories. It Is now a regular business, involving an annual income ot hundreds of thousands of dullars. A factory in this city alone employs seventy-five hands and does a business of $30,000 a year in making base balls.The record of the Long Island Amateur Association’s pennant raco to July 31 shows the Stars to be virtually tlie champions of the association for 1884, with tho Daunt Jens standing a sure second, the only interest, left
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Sun, Aug 03, 1884
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