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NATIONALLY FAMOUS NEGRO BATTERY WILL OPPOSE F-MHERE SUNDAY.«Signing of Carlie Pederson, Davids’■Slugger, and Lou Benson Strengthens Twins.By DICK HACKENBERGWhen one considers that the Little Falls baseball team has won 62 games and lost only nine in the last three seasons, or a percentage of .873, it really isn’t hard to understand why Luke Moher, business manager and guiding star of the Fargo-Moorhead Twins, is trying to bolster the lineup in preparation for these diamond demons here Sunday.AOne of those 62 games is a victory over the Minneapolis team of the American association. Another isa 4 to 0 shutout of the House ofA «David team, led by Grover Cleveland Alexander. One of those nine defeats is a close one at the hands of those same Minneapolis Millers, the series between the two teams now standing at one and one.McDonald Boasts StringNearly every one of the 62 victories chalked up by Little Falls, who in the past three years have come to be recognized as the greatest salaried aggregation in the Northwest outside organized baseball, has been hurled by that master negro pitcher, Webster McDonald, of New Jersey, Eastern Colored league.McDonald’s submarine ball has*sunk plenty of pellet-pushers in combat against the Little Falls lineup. He is well nigh invincible on the mound. While playing for the Eastern negro champions he hurled his mates to victories over all star teams made up in one 'instance of American League stars, in the other of National loop brilliants.His battery mate, “Hooks” Foreman, recently with the Kansas City Monarchs, champion negro base-ballists of the world, and with the All Nations, one of the greatest of traveling clubs, is one of those pieces of chained lightning behind the plate that backs up everything this side of center field and proves to be the sparkplug of every contest.The remainder of the team is made up of minor league stars that possess Big Bertha propensities in shelling the enemy with a barrage of base hits.Unabashed, Moher yesterdaysigned ^Carlie Pederson, House of David’s star and outstanding bats-man of past seasons, and hopes to secure the services of Lou Benson,league shortstop. Pederson clouted the horsehide at a .390 clip for the Davids last season, and in the only night* game ever played here he collected a single, two doubles, atriple and home run in five times at bat against Harold Anderson.With these two players backing up the rest of the Twins’ lineup which includes no small amount of power at bat anyway, Mr. McDonald is expected to have his hands full Sunday afternoon in the Moorhead le®ue park from 3 p. m. on. It’s a cinch that Benson and Ped-erspn, batting third and fourth in the Twins’ lineup, will cause Webster a little trouble.
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Thu, Aug 06, 1931
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