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BEARDS HEAVY FAVORITES T 0 COP ARC TILT/Official Benton Harbor Outfit Here Tonight Listed Best In Independent BallGrover Cleveland Alexander’s official House of David team, making its bow in this region, was to be preceded here at-four p. m. today by afleet of trucks bearing the portable light plant which .'will make possible Middletown’s first night game of baseball. The Grays will be ready for the fracas at 8:30.With ducats at the same price as for twilight games, a record crowd is anticipated at the State Hospital encampment.The probable lineups:House of David—Le Fleur cf, Williams 2b. Tolies rf, Heckman lb. Jacobs cf, Faust 3b. Blackney ss, Bleiding c, Alexander p. Grant p.Grays—Cronin cf, Fisher rf. Macken or Woener 2b, Malone or Myers 3b, Barnes lb, Treraper If. Bergen ss, Smith c, McNair (if sufficiently recovered from a leg injury a week ago) p, Whalen p, Sedgwick p.Odds were five to two that the Alexanders would win tonight. Recorded as the best outfit in independent baseball today, the Benton Harbor team has played nearly half their 1932 season’s slate of 175 games under the arcs. The Grays, largely comprised of Bushwick stars, on the other hand, likewise Is useSTolnghrball. ■The Davids trained this Spring at Mineral Wells, Texas. Last season they copped eighty per cent of their games, winning thirty-three of 'em in a row and travelling 25,000 miles to do it.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Jul 18, 1932
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