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TEAMS ENTERDENVER SBIDPRO TOURNEYTexas Teams Have Already Entered Play For National Championship.DKNVEH, July 2' -r S»u»|-I i ofesslona I baseball from anumb* i lt;lt;! VYlt; -1«• i a siatlt; -lt; on- lt;Ctli*ua with 1*»i iti**r or potential bigbaguers in their lineups, uib -Miliar here next month for the I!*th annual tournament sponsored by the lenver Post.Dams for this- year’s competition are August 1 'lt;• 12, The games will1 »c played m Merchants l‘ai k, homeot the len\vi Bear.- when this city was represented in tin* \Y-stern league.JH\ Julv 2 f. ten davs before theV •: ije- “W -——r tpFentry list was »lt; heduh-d to « lose. P n out-of-tov n teams had mailed their forfeit lt;heel These wen Llt; tvellen. Neb. House of l»avid ofBenton Harbor. .Mleh. Haddant. Kan.. Mount I'b a am. T» \ •isausas Citx aionarchs l*;iei!ilt;Fruit Kxpres of Tult;«n, Ai ir.r Sid-U* y. N-a : 1 i Isolde Oil ot Ov ernes. Tcx.i' Lexingtoh, Neb . and Shltei-tier ,|ew « li v ot K a nsas i 'it \ITT?' W ™ -• - TJ. - •lt;*'At least four 1 )en\ er t**;t in- w silbe entered. They w ill he ** leet**d from the semi-finalists of a-eitytournament now in progress.The Denver .\1 a O. cigar club, which w on th - 1933 meet aftet a litter struggle with the Stockyardsclub of Sioux City, low a. w u 1 not be in tliis year's tourney although some of Die players of last year’s championship aggregation are expected to appeat in other uniforms.The Kansas City Monarehs, a barmstormim: outfit with thegreater number of its games on the winning side tf the ledger, will be the first Negro cmi ewu to playin the tournament.Several of the clubs entered for the 1934 event have appeared here The House of David bearded players participated in the 1932 tout-ne\ Overton. Texas, tlsu w i * -presented two years ago. The Sidney team will he the first to enter tin* tournament since a Sidnej team won it in 1921.L’ddi* Mill r, manager ot thlt;Tucson entrant, has stated he wiibring to Denver a team that* ha lost b it one game in 22 this sea son.. Last year the team w - v j* torious in 1* of 43 contests am captured the state titie.The tournament, as in past years will he conducted on a two-gamielimination basis. The eiitr IPwill close at midnight July '»lt;, of ficiais said they expected about 21entries.
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McAllen Monitor
McAllen, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 29, 1934
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