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lighted Forbes * • Id* National Leaguepark, Pittsburg! . Pa , three sucer* slve r.isrh'e last season.The Kansas *'ity Monarch Lighting rompany w ho are furnishing th» flood light* for the Hoy**** of David Baseball dun her# Saturday nighthas lighted leaf parks in thw fol*lowing cities, Chicago. St. Lout*. Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus. Mil-waukpp, Kan*-1 * C»ty Wichita, Nashville. Shreveport. Memphis. I*al1a« San Antonio. Waco and many other league parka.Tise Kar. lt;City Monarch lighting company has a portable system that can he moved, set up and taken down, and transported from one baseball park to another.Huge llnnd Lights.The huge electric flood lights can he set up after a day game has beenplayed. They ran he erected in abouttun ho ;r«, a? 1 he ready to turn night into day. the large projectorsare mounted on 30 foot poles and placed around the entire playing field; these poles ar© similar in construction to a jack knife, or a firs d«*partm* nt with tn extension ladtiers, the hghfs are erected so thevwill light the ground as well as the sky. Th** er tire field is lighted *•bright as day, and under these lightscavort the athletes of one of th*moat colorful and interesting baseball clubs ever brought together* The lighting ssten »io« beingused by the House of I»*v»d club isthe same as that used last summer at Nash stadium when the whiskered i-ovs plac'd the Kenosha s*tateleague chib.Alexander tlt;» Hurl.The writer, w ho is president ofti e Karins Baseball Lana* association, together with l.ouis J*eft, vtce-president of the a. -o* stlon, attended tlie game at Burlington last night In which th* House of laud club handed the Burlington boys a sound troun* ing In a conversation with M xand* r. th.-* former major leigu* hurt* r ;»• -*ur* i lot »1 officers that he wouid positlxciy hurl part of the game in Itactne Saturday night.Harry Liufcr. form* r hutler withtCddie Stumpf * Milwaukee club will In all probability handle the major share of the pitching dull* s «tg itnstth** Be lie-cThe whisker** d bovs stage a pepper game between th* fourth and fifth inait-g* w hi* h alone ui wellworth the price* of admission, fiatur*da} night - game at Horlick Athletic fie 1*1 will start at 9 p. m. so as to P *i i. it m* r* b;* i • and clerk** to at -tend after closing i-h p at £ 30. A ■ * exand r has promts* I to take the mound late in the game so that late comers may h«n * an opportunity ofseeing him in a* tion on the mound.There will be no advance in admission prices with the regular ad-mission price to remain at 50 cents,* hich in* Iud* - grandstand seat* Reserved bo* seats w* * * pi lt;ce.j on«wHe t.,»da-, at the A- •• Cigar storeand th*'• will r tatl at *5 centsi i* hii* i ii**-I* r 1 2 ye.in* of age will be admitted for 25 cents.Mai iger * left} * Kdwards will us** his regular bn* up and may takethe mound himself with * Boole'* Robetcky in a reserv e role.
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Racine Journal News
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Jun 02, 1931
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Michael W.
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