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House Of David To Play Nats Under Lights At Stadium June 19.The House of David , baseball club, of Benton. Michigan, who are playing night baseball, undei their ov.ii flood lights will play ■*AppM Driscoll's National?, Sunday, June 19, at Rradncr Stadium I at eight-thirty o'clockThe House of David carry then own portable electric power plant, which is said to be the largest m the world on wheels The entire baseball park will be illuminated with huge electric flood lights elevated to forty and fifty feet in the ntr, turning night into day.The House of David, the long whiskered boy«, have one of the greatest traveling baseball clubs in the country, and the onl reason this aggregation of «tnr ball piaver^ are kept together is their belief in the pnne pics advocated by the late 1 King ’ Benjamin Purnell, which prohibits them from trimming their beards andshearing their hair This f ict, however, does not cm tail their activities oil the diamond. Regardless of the amount offered them to join organ i?ed baseball not one plavei ha* e\er deserted the House of David Colony of Benton Harbor.It will be a rare treat indeed for the fans of this city to see rhe bouhiskered players catching line drive*, making double plav* and drvmg out base hits long aftei the has gone downThe Hou-e of Dpvju w.U bnrg the same lighting outfit here thev used last vear successfully in lighting every kind of a bill park from ^enu-pro to bo lb National and American League parks
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Times Evening Herald
Olean, New York, US
Sat, Jun 04, 1932
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