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Local baseball fans and followers will have the opportunity today at Bane park to see the Kansas City Monarchs. greatest of all colored baseball clubs in an exhibition j game with the Brainerd city team. This famous colored club was entered in the Arlington tournament at Arlington, Nebraska last season and emerged victorious with theprize money, deciaelv defeating the best independent clubs of Nebraska and Iowa.Due to previous bookings the i Monarchs were not entered in »he Southwestern Iowa Tournament at Council Bluffs, Iowa, but hold four ; victories over Syd Pollock’s Cu-l bans, formerly the Cuban House of David team, who were winners of the Southwestern Iowa Tournament in 1931.Advance notices shown by tne business agent of the Monarchs show that many of the leading sports writers speak highly of their sportsmanship and the fast ball this great club is capable of play-1Ing. |Steve O'Rourke, formerly director of athletics at St. Mary’s col- | lege, St. Marys, Kansas, and a j scout for the Boston Red Socks in the summer months has this to say \ about the Monarchs. ‘‘The Mon- j archs appeared in an exhibition game at St. Mary’s and, although they have a great club it wasn t their baseball as much as their sportsmanship that I admired. j Docie Karel), prominent sports writer in speaking of the shadow ball exhibition of the Monarchs says. The Monarchs during the«r preliminary practice, indulged in a game of shadow ball in which they j solemnly went through all the motions of throwing, catching and j hitting a purely imaginary baseball and this amusing stunt constituted one of the most laughable performances I have ever seen.
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Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1932
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