The keeping open of dramshops and places where intoxicating liquors are sold is the principal business which the Sunday laws attempt to prohibit absolutely on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, although there are other businesses falling within the same prohibition. Thus, in one State there is a statute prohibiting the keeping open of any place in which sports or games are at any time carried on or allowed.

89 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 1398; Humpeler vs. People, 92 Ill., 402; Farmer vs. People, 77 Ill., 324; Com. vs. Sinclair, 138 Mass., 493; State vs. Downs, 116 N. C, 1064; State vs. O'Neil, 58 Vt., 140; State vs. Chastain, 19 Or., 176; Pike vs. State, 40 Tex. Cr., 613.

80 People vs. Bellet, 99 Mich., 151; State vs. Powell, 58 Ohio St., 324; State vs. Hogreiver, 152 Ind., 652; Jones vs. People, 14 Ill., 196; Soon Hing vs. Crowley, 113 U. S., 703; Cooley's Const. Sim., 471; 1 Dillon, Munic. Corp., Sec, 397.

This statute has been construed to include the game of billiards; and base-ball is included in "sports" which are forbidden on Sunday.91 The conducting of a theater or any business connected therewith, on Sunday, is a violation of the law prohibiting persons engaging in their usual occupations on the Sabbath day.92 The game of base-ball is included in a statute against horse-racing, cock-fighting or playing at cards or games of any kind.93