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nun oeconu tunica iOh Sunday AfternoonThe first exhibition games 'w ith outside clubs this season 'will be played here by the Black Knigiits On Saturday and Sunday of this week ■when Grover ClevelandAlexander and his House of David baseball team invades Beckiey for a two-game series at R. M. I.Park.Both games will be played in the afternoons and although no definite starting time was named this morning, it was expected that action will start around 2.30 O’clock each afternoon.Of late years the whiskered team of the House of David hasdeveloped into one of the strong* gat traveling clubs in the countryand as a result has become probably the best available drawing card for exhibition games for minor and even major league teams in spring training. Theteam coming here opened it*training season early in April in Texas and has played the NewYork Yankees and many otherAmerican and National league teams in exhibition games.Local fans w-ill remember the excellent team of the House of David that appeared here last (•son stopping off long enoughto give our Black Knights a 7-0. 1er and Alexander allowed oniy four hits to the club that later ■lammed Middle Atlantic pitching for beter than a .300 batting av. erage for the season. |;TheSunday will present an array of |lt;talentedahellacking when Pitchers Beck ,one-time dean of National League pitchers, Grover Cleveland Alex-1; aader. The only field the whisk-1: ered team plavs on long enough {j to regard it as the home field is |i the training site ,it Mineral Wells, Texas before starting on the sum* mer-Jong jaunt that carries them into many states of the union.Since local fandom has had little chance to look over the prospective players for this year’s Black Knight lineup the games j* here on Saturday and Sunday will afford the opportunity of getting a much better analysis ofjj;the ability of the horde of ath-j-Jeies now working out daily un-jv der the watchful eyes of ManagerHarris, and it will also give him first opportunity to find out just |'i how well many of the aspiring candidates stand up under actualfire.TbrfI
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Tue, Apr 18, 1933
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