A baseball club is among the features of a boys’ organization connected with a prominent church. The team was challenged by a rival club. The pastor gave a special contribution of five dollars to the captain, and stated that the money should be used to buy bats, balls, gloves, or anything else that might help to win the game. On the day of the game, the pastor was surprised to see that nothing new could be seen in the club’s paraphernalia. He called the captain.

"I don’t see any new bats, or balls, or gloves," he said. "We haven’t anything like that," the captain admitted.

"But I gave you five dollars to buy them," the pastor exclaimed.

"Well, you see, you told us to spend it for bats, or balls, or gloves, or anything that we thought might help to win the game, so we gave it to the umpire."