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Beards Spot BlackNDidrikson, Donkeys and Davids Fail to Thwart Batting of Dusky ClToday's SportsParadeBy Henry MemoreThe aiack Yankees occupied the major rinsr iww i^t «*«•**the veteran Earl Bomb hro»b‘ uidrikson and the No. 1 HousezZ D«rlu circus outfit under; the portable lights at tile State Hospital diamond. Between 2,500 and 3.000 fans watched these dusky lads fromGotham, many of whom are out of the majors only because of Alse-genealogy, spank the pseudo Benton Harbor Beards 5-2.And today representatives of tbis _ _Bouse of David crew, undoubtedly —“~~I i the greatest magnet of any oi America’s myriad travelling semi-pro ciubs, went to bat again-—but a law office was the setting and not a ball sward. Difficulties concerned what Max Berger termed was the uncermonious severing oi the contract between the Beards and the OtisviUe Firemen for thematch that was not played twoweeks agoOtisviUe Attaches $322As a result there now reposes, according to F. A. Schriver, the sum of $322 (part of last nights gate) in the city Court safe. Thatamount represents an attachment equal to claims of the thwarted OtisviUe Firemen ball team. The total -was arrived at thusly: $10t for renovating and inclosing Berger Park; a* per specifications ox the Beards' advance hooking agent,J6 for preliminary advertising and $210 prospective profits on an estimated crowd of 1,500 persons and a gate spPt of 65 percent and 35 percent with the Davids on the bie end. Tue next move, it was said today, will be by the Beards home office in an attempt to getit backWhen bigger baseball circuses are arranged the House of David undoubtedly -will arrange them. Start-ing not so Jong ago wi.h nothing but actual members of King Benjamin Purnell’s clan as the fan dragnet, the Davids added the veteran Grover Cleveland Alexander and a good pepper ball feature.Jackie Mitchell, the heavily publicised sal ball player, was added later. She was dropped by theC+rl TVfT team and. a mess i ™rm*vGRIDIRON PREVIEWSAN FKANGlSCO- This is the Ume of the year when football stories start off with “westerners today looked forward to the greatest football season in years, etc.”In the East, of course, it will begin something like this, “Yale andHarvard fans today began to contemplate the probable winner in the traditional elassic in November between these hoary rivals . . . or, if it's in the Middle West, “Notre Dame started today on the long road back, under the auspices of theii new coach, etc/’There is still the World Series, and Jimmy McLarnm wants another crack at Barney Ross' welterweight title, which used to be Jimmy’s title, and seafarers of Long Island Sound look forward to Britain’s Tommy Sopwith reviving the 83-year old quest of the America's Cup.However, this is strictly a football story. And what makes It a football story is the fact that a friend popped in from the South (Los Angeles) and started off without preliminaries* “Any guy that thinks the Troians are going to be a weak sister this year has dough in his dome, and if he'U just put the dough on the line, I can get even
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1934
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