Clipping:Stagg at prayer
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| Date | Thursday, March 29, 1888 |
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| Text | A New York Special says: “Between Beefsteak John's on the Bowery and the lager-beer saloon next door is a dark, narrow stairway leading up to a strange little sanctuary on the top floor. It is used for holiness meetings. On the walls are placards which are diversified, as for instance: 'The Lord is My Shepherd,' 'Gentlemen Will Please Not Use Tobacco,' 'Blessed Be They Name,The Management Will Not Be Responsible for Hats and Coats Stolen in This Room.' The appearance of the crowd yesterday justified such precautions. A more typical assortment of toughs, sneaks, and yahoos could not be scraped up in all Slumdom—men with faces bleared and blotched by all kinds of debauchery, pluguglies of bulldog visage, crooks of sly gaze and soggy countenance, hard characters of every slum caste. It is in this place that Yale's great pitcher, Stagg, passes his Sunday afternoons when in the city. He is quite an exhorter, and no addresses delivered to this hard gang are more fervent and earnest than his. Said the Rev. Donnelly yesterday: “Stagg is consistent both here and elsewhere. He prays most earnestly for victory just before every game, and he has won the championship during the last two years. That shows Christianity is pretty good. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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