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\ • Didrikson, Donkeys and Davids Fail to Thwart Batting of Dusky ClubThe Black Yankees occupied the major rin» in*** izzt —0LV »*.«,*• the veteran Earl Smith hro»»»V widrikson and the No. 1 House aT U«rid circus outfit under 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 Afiro-genealogy, spank the pseudo Benton Harbor Beards 5-2.___And today representatives oftbis House of David crew, undoubtedly' the greatest magnet of any oi America’s myriad travelling semi-pro clubs, went to bat again—but a law office was the setting and not a hall sward. Difficulties concerned what Max Berger termed was the tmcermonious severing oi the contract between the Beards and the Otisville Firemen for the match that was not played two weeks agoOtisville Attaches $322As a result there now reposes, according to P. A. Schriver. the sum of $322 (part of last nights gate! in the City Court sale That amount represents an attachment equal to claims of the thwarted Otisville Firemen ball team. The total was arrived at thuslv: $10o for renovating and inclosing Berger Park as. per specifications of the Beards' advance booking agent,*6 for preliminary advertising and $210 prospective profits on an estimated crowd of 1,500 persons and a gate «p»*t of 65 percent and 35 percent with the Davids on the bie end. Tac next move, it was said today, will be by the Beards home office m an attempt to get it bsclvWhen 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 Kmg 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 gal ball player, was added later. She was dropped by the first string road team and a mess Ot donkeys for a now act became a part of the growing: menage,TJidrifcson HerselfAnd finally Babe Didrikson, doss'bly the greatest woman athlete the' world ever has applauded, was signed It remains only for this Van “Dybish outfit to appear next year with George White’s famous If22 chorus (renovated), Professor S’atz Myrofski's juggling seals, the S.. Petersburg Gasparula Belies and a ten-pole tent to complete the set-up.But it would have required more than a carnival mr and really good baseball to boat the slugging Black Yankees last night.This club, carrying virtually the same lineup for the last- two or three years, waved bats when the business of waving did the most good and won actually 5-2 but theoretically 3-2 inasmuch as they collected two doubles and pair of singles for two romps on Miss Didrikson in the opening heat she pitched.The Babe, incidental!}', should rot have been judged last night by the expected ability to smoke over curve balls but merely as the extraordinary woman athlete she is She caught and threw like a man, a pretty fair man player. That was enough. It must be remembered she won the three events she was allowed to enter in the Olympics sit Los Angeles and won the national track meet in Chicago (1932) single handed when she entered all eight events and won all but one. In that she tied, being kept from victory by a virtual accident. At any rate —with her cap mannishly over one ear and a decided swagger—Diclrik-son last night upheld her reputation of being decidedly off the feminine side m appeal onccs and ac-
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1934
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