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Duffys Face Gents With Long HairHouse of David Nine to Play Florals In Twin Bill Sunday at Shewbridge Field. _____Jack Quinn May Pitch for Locals; Be whiskered Players Offer Strange Sight; Colored All-Stars and Duffys In Labor Day Tilts.Bhewbridge Field will a warm next Sunday with those bewhiskered gentlemen who play baseball for the House of David. In this day and age it is a strange picture indeed that is .presented by these gents who are continually waging war with all barbers. It will be even stranger to watch them oppose the Duffy Florals In a pair of baseball games.- If the Florals can overcome natural awe in the presence of such personages they might even attempt to give them a baseball lesson. Smarting under the double defeat handed them by the Logan Square club last Sunday the Duffys have decided that the House of David ancients must '.suffer.Quinn May Hurl.Dutch Kohlenberg and Tony Sims will be on the mound for the Florals. However, in the event that old Jack Quinn, the hurling phenom of all these decades, arrives in town he will hurl one of the games for the Florals. In past weeks Quinn has been playing in the East with an All-Star team.Brady, Nusser and Steisman will do the twirling for the House of David. Johnny Pucker, the showman of the circuit, will handle first rase for the long-haired boys. Also In the lineup will be such luminaries as Anderson, Hansen, Wycoff, Clift, Atwell, Hutson and Fleming.Between games of (he double header, the House of David hoys will indulge in one of their novelty events —a. pepper game. The hoys claim they can manipulate the ball faster than the eye can discern.Meet All-Stars.On Labor Day the Duffys will engage in another dquble header with the Colored All-Stars at Shewbridge. This club is considered one of the strongest in the Midwest.
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Southtown Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1934
Page 19
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Michael W.
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