...From page 16 of Guy Daines scrapbook
COLONELS PLAY AL-STAR CLUB ON BEACH FIELD
Newport's Kentucky Colonel diamondball team will open a three game series with the Miami Beach All-Stars on Flamingo Park diamond today at 8:30 p.m. as the openning games of a tour which will take the Colonels through 15 states.
The series will give greater Miami fans a chance to see some of the best diamondball players in the country in action. Chief among them is Cannonball Bailey, the brilliant pitcher who will oppose the Miami Beach ten on the mound tonight. Bailey had the Miami Beach all-stars helpless in two games he pitched against them in Cincinnati last fall, giving Miami Beach two of the four defeats it suffered on the trip.
Bailey was by far the best pitcher Miami Beach had to face, and members of the touring team rate as the greatest speed ball pitcher they ever opposed.
But Sroufe is the other pitcher carried by the Colonels and he is especially talented as a curve ball heaver.
The third outstanding athlete on the visiting aggregation is Tiny Gilbert, the seven-foot, 11-inch first baseman, who is the tallest diamondball player in the world. He towers almost a foot and a half above Primo Carnera and wears a size 23 shoe.
Other players on the Kentucky squad are from Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Hamilton, Dayton, Springfield, and Ironton Ohio, as well as from Covington and Newport, Ky.
Newport's Colonels in claiming the world's diamondball championship, point to a record which is one of unbroken victories in exhibition games. However, J.B. Lemon, director of the Miami Beach recreation department, has selected a strong line-up for his all stars and figures his aggregation will prove the hardest the Colonels have ever had to beat.
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