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ALEXANDER TO START BATTLE FOR UNSHAVENGame Is Scheduled To Start At Athletic Field At 3 O’ClockGrover Cleveland Alexander (The Great) whose phenomenal pit* h-ing made history in the major league, and who bowed out of the big show two years ago, is scheduled to can them over for the House of B \ in their exhibition game with the Dubuque All-Stars Sunday a r-noon. The game is to start a t o’clock. One of the feature att-ac tions preliminary to the game. 1 the pepper game staged by four i p five of the unshavenAlthough some of the All-Stars were pulled into Chicago to com. pete in the C. Y. O. baseball tournament, the officials of the Dubuoue nine feel they will be able to throw a pretty strong club against the *»lt;* whiskered gentlemen from Benton Harbor, Michigan.Original Nine.There are two House of David nines, but the one that plays in Di-buque is the regular team. With the exception of “Old Pete,* as Alexander is known to those of yesteryear, they wear long tresses and are unshaven. The beards, parti.**, larly those who are capable of grow, ing long ones, are cropped to a cer. tain extent, so as not to handicap | the players—particularly the infield-era—when they bend over to handle grounders. Alexander refused to j permit his tresses to grow long or even grow a beard. He doesn’t waftt the general public to get the impreju sion that someone is impersonating him.Old Pete has had his trials and tribulations in the big time. For years he was the baseball idol of the Chicago fans, then a member of the Cubs. He and O’Farrell were later sent to St. Louis Cardinals, and needless to say Grover certainly made good.One Great Performance.Always a pitcher, smart and heady,I probably his outstanding perform : ance—and which is in the record j book—was in 1926 in the world series I with the New York Yankees. The i teams had each won three games. Wee Willie Sherdl was pitching— and a great pitcher, too,- but he got into trouble in one of the innings, although the Cardinals were leading by a single margin. He filled the 'bases There were two down. Horns by signalled to the bull pen and ! Alexander the Great strode to the pitching mound. He faced, at that ; time one of the toughest hitters in | the Yankee lineup, Tony Lazzeri. It . was a tense situation. The world I series hinged on only one pitched | ball. Alexander struck out the mighty Tony and gave to the Cardi*! nals their first world series I Joins House of David.Two years ago Alexander was put on the block, but nobody seemed to care for the once great hero. Baseball was his first love and still is, and even waning years in his life could not keep him out of the game. He joined the House of David, reputed for years one of ths strongest semi-professional traveling baseball machines on the road. He has been all over the Un^ed States with the unshaven crew and he has done much in a way to bring many victories to this club.He’ll be here this Sunday,
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald And Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Sep 16, 1934
Page 14
Full Page
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NA, 30 Jul 2023
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