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NDidrikson. Donkeys andDavids Fail to ThwartBattingThe Black Yankees occupied the major rinc in»* ***the veteran Earl Smith hro»»»V uidrikson and the No. 1 Housei* rs«r*d circus outfit unde* the portable lights at the State Hospital''diamond. Between 2,500 and 3,000 fans watched these dusky lads from'•Gotham, many of whom are out of the majors only because of Alsa-genealogy, spank the pseudo Benton Harbor Beards 5-2.And today representatives of thisHouse of David crew, undoubtedly the greatest magnet of any oi America’s myriad travelling semi-pro clubs, went to hat again-—but a law office was the setting and not a ball sward. Difficulties concerned what Max Berger termed was the uncennonious severing oi the contract between the Beardsand the OtisviUe Firemen for the match that was not played two weeks agoOtisvill* 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 sale Thatamount represents an attachment equal to claims of the thwarted OtisviUe Firemen ball team. The total -was arrived at thusly: $lw for renovating and inclosing Berger Park: a* per specifications of the Beards' advance booking agent, 56 for preliminary advertising ana$210 prospective profits on an estimated. crowd of 1*500 persons and a gate spht of 55 percent and 35 percent with, the Davids on the bie end. Tue nest move, it was said today, will be by the Beards home office in an attempt to get it bsckWhen bigger baseball circuses are arranged the House of David undoubtedly -will arrange them. Starting not so long ago wi,h nothing but actual members of Ehng 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 the first string road team and a niC£foi donkeys for a new act becamea part of the growing menage. t5driksan liersclfAnd finally Babe Didrikson. doss’b] v the greatest woman athlete the' world ever has applauded, wassigned It remains only for tins Van Dykish outfit to appear next year with George White’s famous If22 chorus (renovated), ProfessorToday's SportsParadeBy Henry Mctemor®GRIDIRON PREVIEWSAN FKANGlSCO- This is the tame oi 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 m 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’ll just put the dough on the line, I can get even money . . . elr.”Of course, this was a highly fantastic situation to anyone who has had his football education m the East, where they raise only weak teams (Columbia, for instance) and the mere fact that a westerner would raise the point that Southern California's Trojans were even thought of as a weak sister, made H like moving the mace in Parliament.So we inquired: “What's wrong
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1934
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