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Teams to Meet Under LightsDonkey Game Will Be Part of Entertainment; Babe Didrikson to Take tMound. tCompetition of major league 11 1 caliber will be encountered by the I Muscatine M us kies here on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 18, when ! i Manager Ray L. Doan’s baseball j t extravaganza shows at League j field under the House of David j t ! $30,000 floodlight equipment.Doan has gone into the baseball j , showmanship busniess in a big [ way this year and has banded to- j gether, in addition to a squad of ! baseball luminaries, a bunch of I donkeys on which the two teams j i engage in a donkey game for two j ; innings, either before or after the j regular nine inning engagement, | Show Goes Over Big.The Doan baseball show has 1 ( ! gone over big everywhere he has 1 presented it this year, according to newspaper clippings submitted j by the manager from such places 1 as Boston in the east, Scranton, 1 Pa., Wausau, Wis., and cities j through the south and west.Included among Doan’s stars is j I Miss Mildred ‘‘Babe” Didrikson, ;' that famous girl athlete from i Texas to whom the Boston Evening American contributes two full columns of space with three action photos recently. Miss Did- ! rikson is working for a salary of j $1,000 a month. Earl “Oil” Smith, ; a former major league backstop, j manages the House of David club j on the field.Lights Are of the Best*The lighting equipment to be used by the teams for the night game is reported to be the best , of its kind available. The equip- i i ment *s transported on five large |I truck* and creates its own power, j The equipment was used in the St. j ! Louis Cardinal park early this season and the major league club ! said alter the game the players | had no trouble at all in following j j the ball.Lineups of the two clubs will be announced by the respective man- ! agers later. The Muskies will at- j j tempt to bring Harold Tackleson i ; here to do the chucking for the j club. Tackleson was one of the ! outstanding pitchers in the state j ; semi-pro tournament at Des j Moines this year and has been turning in some exceptionally fineTuesday Night
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 12, 1934
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