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Grover Alexander HeadsGameOn State HospitalDonkey baseball, one of the pep-periest pepper ever put onand a brilliant array at baseball stars will be seen here on Monday. August sixth, when the House o£ David baseball circus comes to Middletown to battle the Black Yankees on the State Hspitai grounds.Two Innings of the donkey game are played to start off the enter-uJruuent. Then comes the rrjrular nine Inning baseball gixne. and during the course of the game the House of David stars put oil* pepper game which has bad no eqmi in the history or baseball.Manager Ray 1* Doan has assembled together this year one of the classiest club* ever to represent the colony at Benton Harbor. For tlie past several years the players have been reporting to. Manager Doan at his home in Muscatine, la., and this season natives of that csty were free with their praise for Doan’s 1934 outfit.Starting every game is a majosCHESTER TIESGREENWOOD 5-5GcNtfttj Twi-L*#f G*»e fr»v«Uterestimf Battleleague battery, that great old vet'cnin world serif* hero, Grover^ I U a | «ir» r w ••'r » » - ’--— ■Cleveland Alexander, on the mound, and Earl 01IM Smith formerly with the New York Gianti, behind thebat.In addition, the House of David baseball club carries 4u own WO,-000 porta be light pbmt lor nfthtbaseball. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world today and hfaCHESTER—Greenwood hake andChester b*ixl*d to a 2amnight in « County Tri-Loop ***e played here. Fot three ihtiirup the gam* was x slugglaf: match m\lh the visitor* poundim out ei«ht »icize*. IncluASnx two iripiM, while the home team registered five aiagk*.. Chester bunched 1U five hlu with error4, however. tor five nia. which was one more than the Lakrn raSd sqoecae out of thtir rlfcbi.Both hurkr* Uibte-oed up in the fourth and from tfoe» oa the was a pitcher'* 1*10*. wily four hits, two for each team, brm* risked up In the ntxl four innm*s. Own wood Lake Lied the arore in the fifth on single by L. Saycr and an crrur ca irturaiios 1lighted all the large baseball park* in the countrv, such as Forbes fieldat Pittsburgh; Sportsman's Park si St. Louis; Braves Field at Boston and others.The House of David club Ust year defeated such teams as the St. Iyuh Cardinals of the National I/msiif. 8 to 6t the St. Pstil Arocrllt;sa» Association team, 7 to -nt In fact thr team won per cent of its all over the conn try aiainst the strongest coinp*-ULku available.bounder.The home team had a chiisce tobreak the tie m thc4r Turn atbttt when Edward* Hru up, reacted first on an error. He w** rapped at second by Inches on a throw by Murthto when te *U'-m pled to steal and Oc*x* Oifer*-W'± Lingle whs wasted when S^rry t£k-tr fhed out.The vttUtfx adored twkv- h; Ctetrcond on Mur Chios tnpK by Kahhtw* and Cyphers and *i* r~-rnr. Chester cssw r.jht bac* wUh two tn CteJr half rr: v*r*er'fi safet? and two error* Tte later* gV. Uu* th^j- two nwfr^r* m their U;S?d ttf.four mis and an errtjr but Cr.e?t/rtook ite lead si» lh«i: hail v!/r.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Jul 27, 1934
Page 15
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