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OLD ALEX TOHURL AGAINST HQLSUM CLUBHouse of David Appears Here at Community September 3The Israelite House of David baseball team from Benton Harbor, Mich., will invade Salt Lake for a fourth successive season next Sunday morning, September 3. The longhaired, long-whiskered boys will tackle the Salt Lake Holsum Bakers at Community park, beginning at 10:30 a. m., on that day.The House of David is touring the country for the eighteenth straight Reason, and so far this year has eclipsed all its previous records. The Davids have captured 59 contests already. The reason, no doubt, is the newest member of the club—Grover Cleveland Alexander, who is both manager and pitcher.Alexander is one of baseball’s best known performers, having played 20 consecutive years in the major leagues as a member of the Philadelphia ^hillies, Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. It was with the latter team that he proved to be one of the greatest heroes of all time.It was in the world’s series of 1926 Alexander had been picked up earijer in the season when he was cast off by the Chicago Cubs, and he won two games in the championship series from the New-'York Yanks. In the last game St. Louis was leading, 3 to 2; the bases were loaded and two were out. Alexander was sent to the mound with only one day’s rest. He struck out Tony Lazzeri, former Salt Laker, to retire the side, and finished the remainder of the game without allowing the Yankees a single hit, thereby giving the Cards the championship.Alexander remained with St. Louis for a number of years, was moved down to the Texas league and then became manager of the House of David club. Old Alex will start the game against the Bakers, one of Utah's fastest diamond aggregations.With the exception of Alexander, all members of the House of David club are members of the clan. In addition to wearing long hair and beards of a few inches to 30 inches long, the David members have other odd tenets, including a strict vegetable diet.But the long-whiskered boys have always supplied plenty of entertainment and laughs in their three previous appearances in Salt Lake. Their pepper game or hidden ball trick is one of the cleverest exhibitions in baseball. Fans usually enjoy this pepper game equally as well as the regular contest.Iw
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Aug 27, 1933
Page 44
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