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LO\CJ WHISKERED BOVSAT GOVE AUGUST inctb:HNmHiteI..11-/-s.E00030cctiThe House of David Baseball Club, of Benton Harbor, Mich gan, managed by Chief Bender, whoare playing n ght baseball undertheir own flood lights will playat Edgewood Grove, Somers* t Aug.18. at 8:00 P. M. The House of David carry *heir ov,n portable aelectric power plant, which is said hi to be the laigest in the world on ti wheels. jcCThe entire baseball park will be Nilluminated with huge electric Lflood light, elevated to 40 auj 50feet in the air, which turn;, n ght into day. ItThe House of David, the long whiskered boy., I. one of the c, greatest traveling baseball clubs of the country, and the only reason this aggregation of star ball play- jj0 ers is kept together, is their belief v3 J in the principles advocat'd by theGjiate “King” Benjamin Purnell .J; \ wh ch prohib ts them from trinrm- L2» ing their beards and bheanng their w Oihaid wh ch doca not curtail their 11 11 activities on the diamond, and re-'0 ©ardlers c.\ the hn*ai| t ofiljn^ n o|tli»m to join organised baseball f10 pjt one player has deserted the ti01 House of David Colony of Benton £2} Harbor to jo.n organ red baseball.a° It w II be a rare treat indeed for n 282314the fans ol' th,s city to see the be-whlskered players catchingr line driver*, making double plays and driving cut base hit:: long after the ^un has gone down.The House of David will br.ng the same lijhth.’j outlit here they used for the last 2 years so successfully in lighting every kind of a ball park from semi-pro to both Natonal and American Leagueparks.vc
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Somerset Daily Herald
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 08, 1933
Page 4
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Michael W.
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