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NIGHT BASEBALLSTATE HOSPITAL GROUNDS ©nday, July 18th, at 8:30 p. m.HOUSE of DAVID(OFFICIAL WESTERN TEAM)FEATURING GROYER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER,The FAMOUS ST. LOUTS HERO of the WORLD SERIESvs.State Hospital GraysCOME EARLYTHE HOUSE OF DAVID PEPPER GAME IS ONE OF THE GREATEST BASEBALL JUGGLING ACTS EVER SHOWN“Up and at ’em” Nothing can stop themwiuuc. a. atuuiu xii.y ue*irc, j.shall follow you.”Police detailed a plain clothesman also to follow her._______THIEVES LOCATE SAFEUTICA. N. Y.—Thieves entered the home of William H. Auasir and escaped with a safe containing $500. Augat* received a telephone message a few days later telling him where his safe could be found. Police found the safe, but no trace of the $500 was found.O'Doul, Brook 76 313 59 109 .348Lombardi, Cin. 66 234 35 81 .346Leader a year ago, Klein, Fhila--delphia, .362.American LeagueCr AB R H P.C. Foxx. Phlla, .. 86 331 89 125 .378Jolley. Boston 79 313 33 108 .345Averili, Cleve. . 84 355 67 121 .341Walker, Detroit 65 235 35 80 .340Burns. St. Louis 81 331 66 111 .335Leader a year ago, Morgan, Cieve. land, .396.Grays Play Monday UnderLargest Portable LightsAlexander’s Davidmen Bring World’s Biggest Portable Gatfit for Ball BattleWhen the offcial House of David team, led by Grover Cleveland Alexander, who’ll pitch at least three frames, meets the Grays here Monday night the region will get its first glampse of night baseball. The tilt starts under the world's largest portable flood light equipment at 8:30 p. m.The entire. State Hospital Park will be illumnated by this Big Bertha of a light plant—the lights themselves towering from steel poles fifty feet up. Special equipment is necessary, inasmuch as the sky as well as the ground must be illuminated for a ball game.The same outfit which the bearded boys used last year to light theii exhibition games with the Curds, Giants. White and Red Sox. Tigers, Phillies, Indians and the then Brooklyn Robins will be brought here by the truckload. And that’s the word because the apparatus needs almost as large a caravan as a circus.The power plant itself is carried in a huge truck and consists of a 100,000 watt generator and a 250 horse power marine engine, cooled by special water • systems. The equipment, designed by mid-western engineers, is said to be the largest portable night lighting plant m the world.This outfit. as well as Alexander’s team,' drew 25,000 persons to the Folo Grounds; 20,000 to Shibe Park. Philadelphia and pulled in the record attendance marks at all minor lrague parks where they appeared
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1932
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