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HOUSE OF DAVID | BAI L CLUB DID i NOT SHOW UPColored Team Disappointed Local Fans; No Word or Reason Received YetThe first travelling baseball club to disappoint Brandon fans in years proved to be the colored House of | David team. Hilled to play two games litre on Wednesday, the bewhiskered oovs never put in an appearance and ;.,s yet no explanation has been forth tcming from the?'] as their reasons tor cancelling Hieir double engagement. Hundreds of fans who went out |:O the Athlct i. erounds to see the ‘colored boys perform against an all-jstar local t« am. wn-re disappointed, i It is known that the House of David |club left Sioux City on dune 1 ’ and I*hey were headed north into Canada. S'me that tirn * tie y have not been ji-eavd fr«un. hilt nee travelling ball, |lt; hihs take to tin road they usually j go through w ith their schedule. It was mu to he expected that within it In- spar • of ope week, the whiskered (Ham would lose their way. I«ocal pro* j motors and tin Hrrtndon dub are fi-rui . ial hst-n , result, wliile the f t its were out a pleasant double program. t \ * ,Rufbed In Team Wbm. i! « vn.ii r■» failed to show op for the aitoiiHwui tilt, the long distance phones w }.* used to interest emir outsuin (dtths in an exhibition ; in th«' evening lack MacArtbur and , Kd. Riley, tie ofticials of the Brandon Greys, were in o * umental in getting ja composite team from Neenawa and j Ojnnedosa to run over for the game, ami while they did not give the local i'ds a very strong argument, they pro |vented the day from being a complete ! w ash-out.j It was no fault of the local pro mot ers that the series fell down, but it will probably result in touring clubs being asked to give some guarantee that thev will on the Joh and n ady to play when billed.
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jun 22, 1933
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