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House of DavidBallplayers Arei J\ll Clean Livers-mVeteran Athletes BilledHHere Give ‘Old PopTime’ a TussletoP,AY hull:”To the bearded members of the famous House of David baseball team, which clashes with the Hol-sum Bakers at Community Park at 10:3U a.m. Sunday. ‘ Play ball!” is more than a call to the diamond.It Is their cardinal rule of life.For 18 years these sturdy athletesfrom Benton Harbor. Michigan, have been playing baseball. They're still at It. winning more than 100 games a season, because they live clean, active, cheerful lives.Waking or sleeping, eating, resting, traveling as well as on the diamond, these men “play hall.”Like all members of the religious colony to which they belong, they eat no meat. Theirs is a plain, wholesale vegetable diet, augment-! ed with eggs, rnllk, butter and cheese. Their code prohibits eating meat because that means taking the lives of human creatures.Refuse to (irow Old \ They dress simply, get plenty of s *lepP and. of course, take vast i amounts of outdoor exercise. They 1 never touch liquor, tea. coffee or lother stimulants. thBaseball is still a young man's sport, but the David crew is one team that refuses to grow old. The .trkaIaverage age of the 14 men on the club Is 33 years. This does not in-!elude Grover Cleveland Alexander.for 20 years n major league star, i. j who is now hoth manager and ace Pitcher on tV team, Alexander, however, is nol a member of the religious cult.Doc Tally, the Babe Huth of the team arid one of th# beat remem*be red of the whiskered boys whoplay ad her# during th# past three year®, hr 37, John Tucker, the ■a elongated fir®t sacker, in 39 Mow-!®ver the flowing beards and longhair of these expert ball player®■^jKtves them an appearance of age far beyond their actual year®, andmake® them unique in the annals of baseballWith the exception of Alexanderall pi a vers are said to be members of the religious cult, theIsraelite Mouse lt;»f David, The colony was organized in 31years ago by King lien. He died \lx year® ago and theh col- j ony ls now under the direction oftIlls wife, Mary Purnell,They MarledThe original idea of the colony was not athletic, but because of recreation ® baseball team was or* rianised, said Francis Thorpe, theyenersl manager, when the David ?#am appeared here last year. “We #haned up on numerous Industrial teams around Benton Harbor, Mich.,* nd flftslly started a nation-wide | *our which has been continued for H years. jl“Now we go south for spring s raining and usually play a few j firjy season games w ith mator |f-ague clubs. Our barnstorming**urs have been exceptionally sue* eessful and now we io*e very fewcontests/9 he concluded.In the four games pHyed against ^ocal teams, the House of David*!%«« wore three and lost one, thedefeat cominer In 1930, their first nerforma nee here.«
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Salt Lake City Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Fri, Sep 01, 1933
Page 14
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