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mm playE OF DAISpecial Lighting Equipment Brought By Whiskered Gentlemen—Alexander Is. Feature of Attraction.Cruvnr Cleveland Alexander anil hl« original I Jo use of Da.vhJ; of Hen ton J(arbor, Mich., who arc playing night I'Kiobali under Iholr mvui ’portable riood lights will play nt Dunkirk al. lhi Point. UraLSoL baseball park on j Mom:ay evening, Jiijiu 20, at 3:30 P, I ■». • :.Thu House oC OiiYlU carry Uielr own; portablo electric light plant which is said to he one of the JnrgesL hi tin* world on wheels. Thu House of D;i* vld I« one of the greatest traveling hall clubs.of the country, and the only reason thl* aggregation of filar hall ' playors mo kopl together, la their he-1 [lief In the principle** advocated by j the late Kliig Henjauiln Purnell which prohibit* them from trimming 'their beards anil Hhearing their hair,’ ivhleii docs not curtail their activities I on the diamond, and regardless of tho amount offered ihcru Lo join organized lt;baseball not one playor has ever tie-'sorted llin House of David colony at | Hen ton. Harbor, Mich, *.• Jt will he u .rare Lreat indeed for the .fanKof Dunkirk to sco the liowhlskor-ed play era catching line driven, mak-j log double plays and driving out baoo I hits long after Lhe sun lias gone down. The House of David will have the same portable light planL they used last year so aiicees* Cully in lighting every hind of a hall park [rum the ycniJpru, Lo both National and American league porkn.• When old Grover Cleveland Alexaii-; dor trots his be whiskered alhleten out on the diamond at the Point Clratloi! park against tho Dunkirk Alco base-hall nine on June 20 at 3:30 v:- in., tlio fans will rdc one of lhe greatest pitchers of ull llmo tuko the mound, for Alexander pitches a part af every game. This gamo will ho played under n porta bio light plant.Tlic light planL is transported on a Jloel of trucks, and when the people hod Uiu entire caravan of cars and trucks coming to town they will Lhink ;l idrciis has arrived. The power plant itself.In carried on a mamrnotli inclosed truck, and counts of a 100,000 watt generator and ^ 250 horsepower gas marine engine, which is cooled by.M specially huilt radiator. This lighting equipment was designed and built by the leading taigineors of tho coimtry. .The largo projeclora aro mounted on SO font pnlc« ami placed around the entire playing field, those iHilCii are similar In construction io n telescope, or A five department with, its extension Judders. THo.JIrUIs arc. crnclcd so they-will light* the ground as well as tho sky. The entire playing (lehl Ifl lighted us .light aH day, nod under those lights cavort the long whiskored nthlotes of the most colorful hase'ft'l) dubs ever l*roiight tone ilicr. Thrco players put on a base-ball juggling act which is called cha Popper (tamo** and this act alohe l« said to bo worth the price of admission.
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Dunkirk Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Tue, Jun 14, 1932
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael W.
NA, 28 Apr 2023
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