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NONARCHS, SUNDAY OPPONENTS, HAVE GREAT WIN RECORDNEGRO WORLD CHAMPS DRUBBED KANSAS CITY BLUES FIVE OUT OF SIX.Defeated Major League Team 10 To 3; Has Lost But Three Games In Kansasjn 7 Years.By DICK HACKENBERG.The Fargo-Moorhead Twins, withSkinny Holton up, are scheduled toclash with the Cuba (Township)Tigers in the Moorhead league parkat G: 15 p. m. today in a game whose junderlying purpose is to prepare the Twins for the classic of the 1932 season Sunday when the Kansas City Monarchs, negro world championship baseball team, invade the local diamond.The Tigers are expected to give j the Twins an excellent workout in anticipation of the more serious struggle Sunday, and a little stronger opposition than that dished up by the Hawley outfit a week ago. Cuba holds a 6 to 3 victory over Hawley, defeated by the Twins 15 to 3.Expect Big Crowd.A crowd closely approximating the record mob of 1.800 who witnessed the night game in 1931 when Grover Cleveland Alexander's House of David team appeared here, is expected at the Moorhead park Sunday. Famed far and wide as the greatest ball club outside the major leagues, and having established their superiority over several big time loop teams in exhibition games, the Monarchs are reputed to be the best drawing card in itinerant baseball today.Every year, before the start of the diamond season, the Monarchs have engaged the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, their white-skinned rivals, in an exhibition series in Kansas City. This year the Monarchs won five of the six games played. *Barred From Majors.It is a well known fact that the majority of the Monarchs’ players possess the ability to be in the major leagues if they were not barred because of their color. This has been proven in exhibition games with big league teams during the training season in California andCuba.One one occasion the Monarchs played an all star major league team made up of such stars as A1 Simmons. Jimmy Foxx. Jolley and others. and decisively trimmed the big time artists 10 to 3. Many major league players and managers describe the Monarchs as the most colorful ball club playing ball today.The Monarchs’ infield is said tobe the classiest combination in the country, because the quartet have played together so long. The Monarchs inject a lot of comedy into their play but never at a time when their antics might endanger their winning a bail game. Despite their comics and clowning on the diamond they have lost but three exhibition games in Kansas in the last seven years.Win World Series Twice.The Monarchs, since the National Colored Baseball league was organized 11 years ago, have won four pennants and have played in three colored world series, wanning the world championship twice.They entered the Arlington. Neb.. tournament last season and wralked off with the prize money, easily defeating the best independent clubs in Nebraska and Iowa. Bookings prevented them from playing in the Southwestern Iowa tournament at Council Bluffs in 1931 but the Monarchs drubbed Syd Pollock’s Cubans, formerly the Cuban House of Davids. winners of that tournament, four times in a row.The dusky countenanced diamond experts, while having a wide reputation for being great ball players, also are reputed to be real sportsmen. Steve O'Rourke, former director of athletics at St. Mary’s college. St. Mary’s. Kansas, and during the summer months a scout for the Boston Red Sox, said: The Monarchs appeared in an exhibition game at St. Mary's and although they have a great ball club it wasn't their baseball as much as their sportsmanship I admired.
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Wed, Jul 20, 1932
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