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Nipht Baseball Games Feature Diamond SeasonAppearance of Detroit and House of David Clubs Stand Out During Year.A pair of night baseball games, ♦he first ever to be played here, copped a busy baseball season for Muscatine’s two teams, the Mus-kics and the Indees, during the 1934 season.Both teams were more than ordinarily successful during the year and played to large crowds. The two touring teams with their own equipment for floodlighting the fields were the Detroit team and Manager Hay L. Doan’s House of David club.The Indees, through the field managership of Jack Hruska, veteran backstopper, came through for first money in the Davenport Independent tournament which included some of the most outstanding teams in this section ofj the state. The Indees defeated the Oshkosh Brewers for the title.After the regular seasons were Ialmost at a s end. the two Muscatine tean ; arranged a series of five gan s for the city title, then held b the Indees.In the tii t engagement, early in Septemlser the Muskics took a * spectacular l to 0 decision and followed th lt;1 up a week later with a 5 to I triumph The Indees, in a t mgh spot, could not j come up tlt; a victory standard | and dropp ed the third and de-I elding gai le to the Muskics by 5 to 1.Althougl to trophy was at stake, larje crowds attended theehampiorsshi; 'games and both clubs profit e financially.
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 29, 1934
Page 30
Full Page
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Michael W.
NA, 31 Jul 2023
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