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TO PLAY NIGHT GAME HEREHERE is the House of David baseball team which will play u night garne at Murphy Street nark, Monday, August 1*”, against a Lima district team. lt;j'ro\er Alexander, former big •league htirler. again is with the whiskered team and HI makehK appearance here.HOUSE OF DAVIDS TO * PLAY HIGHT GAME HEIHE QU MONDAY, AUGUST 15The House of David Baseball club, of Beaton Harbor .Mich., playing night baseball, under iheir own flood lights will play at Murphy Street park Monday night, August 15 against a Lima District All-Star team.The House of David carries its own portable Electric Power plaut, which is said to be the largest in the world on wheels. The entire baseball park will be illuminated with huge electric flood lights .elevated to 40 and 50 feet in the air, which turns night into day.The whiskered boys are one of the biggest traveling baseball club of the country, and the only reason this aggregation of star ball players is kept together, isdming out base hits long afterthe sun has gone down.The House of David hriug the same lighting outfit here they used last year so successfully inlighting Murphy Street park.their belief In the piinciples advocated by the late King Benjamin Purnell which prohibits them from trimming their beards ami shearing their hair, which does not curtail their activities on the diamond. Regardless of the amount offered them to join organized baseball not one player has ever desejicd the House of David Colony of Benton Harbor.Tt. will be a rare treat for the fans in this district to see tne be-v, hishuied players catching line drives, making double plays and
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The Lima News
Lima, Ohio, US
Sun, Aug 07, 1932
Page 12
Full Page
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Michael W.
NA, 29 Apr 2023
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