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MEETS BRAINERDUNDERARTIFICIAL LIGHTWhen the House of David baseball club, the most famous of all traveling ball clubs, plays Brainerd Monday, August 29 at new ' Bane park at 8 p. m., they will not pnly have the only portable light plant capable of lighting a ball park to play ball at night the same as day, but they also bring with them some of the greatest all-i-ound ball players outside of the major leagues, including Grover Cleveland Alexander, former major league star. Heckman, star first sacker, is the Babe Ruth of the club. Last season he hit 421. Williams, the greatest second baseman In independent baseball, and Faust, ishortstop, make one of the fastest double play combinations outside of organized baseball. Harrison, star third baseman, has hair 36 inches long and there are very few third sackers even in the major leagues that have anything on this boy. Bruski, left fielder, La Fleur, center field, and Tolies, right, make a trio of as classy an outflled as most any manager would care to have. They are good hitters and are real flyhawks. Bleiding and f Hipp are two of as sweet catchers as any one would want on a ball club. Hipp can also pitch a good game and can play any position on the team. The pitching staff would gladden the heart of most any league manager, Griffin, the great left hander, Lewis, Miller, Laufer and Harden, and with the slower ball this season it will meansmaller batting averages for the batters. Turn on the lights and let’s play ball.Night baseball played under the House of David flood lights drew wonderful crowds wherever they played last year. Practically every minor league ball park in the country is equipped or will be in the near future with flood lights. The huge portable light plant carried by the House of David, which makes night games possible, is an attraction in istelf, in addition to the fact that the House of David is one of the greatest traveling ball clubs in the country. The lighting equipment for the night game here is transported on a fleet of trucks, and when the people see the entire caravan of cars and true’s]:coming to town they will think a circus has arrived. The power plant itself is carried on a mammoth inclosed truck, and consists of a 100,000 watt generator and a 250 horsepower Sterling gas marine engine, which is cooled by a specially built radiator. This power plant and equipment was designed and built by the leading engineers oi the middle west, and the erecting and tearing down is quite a show. There is only one real portable light plant and that is the House of David’s plant, which will be brought here. They have made many improvements of which the most noticeable is elimination of cabs in front of box seats and the absolute quieting of their power plant motor.ialiiatThe “Pepper Game” put on by the House of David players duringthe game is a bit of entertainment just about worth hte price of admission by itself. It has often been said that this Pepper Game would make a headliner on the Orpheum circuit. *To arouse interest in the game with the House of David, Brainerd merchants are offering prizes for outstanding feats such as for every home run made and other individual performances.
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Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Sat, Aug 27, 1932
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