Thursday, June 15, 2023

Kansas leagues

 Kansas


State championship
    1964 (34th annual) 


 
    1961-7-17 (Eagle) Game commentary. 
    1964-7-16 (Eagle) Game at Lawrence Stadium. Harold Deitz added to Rapid Transit staff for tournament. Box. Wendell Lundberg (6', 230 lb.) threw a 1-hitter for Wichita IGA. He was 0-5 in the Victory League. W/ action pic. 
    1964-7-22 Deitz threw a 2-hitter. Boxes. Action pic. 
Rapid Transit 10, Altamont 0. Herman Newton, Altamont's catcher, is 45. 
Bob Moore Oldsmobile (Victory League champs) 4, National Guard 0. Ron Hammett ran scoreless streak to 16. 
Columbus (Southeast Kansas League) 9, Wichita Beech Flyers 0. 
    Standings, schedule.
    1965-7-14 Dreamliners 8, Salina 0. Three former major leaguers (two former Mets) in Dreamliner line-up. Box. Standings.
    Roger Lindgren is Salina manager-catcher; he was Victory League all-star catcher in 1964.

    1964-7-21 (Beacon) Pic + profile of Herman "Newt" Newton, black catcher in his 30th year in baseball.  
    "Newton started playing with Wichita Cudahy Packing Co. in 1934. He played with that team until 1941 when he entered the Army, where he continued his baseball playing.
    "AFTER DISCHARGE from the Army in 1945, Newton signed a contract with the Homestead Grays, a Negro team in Philadelphia. "But by that time age had caught up with me as far as pro baseball was concerned," Newton said. He returned to Coffeyville where he became a switchman for the North American Car Co. and a catcher for Coffeyville Boosters and Texacs baseball teams.
    Newton joined joined Shaffer's Altamont team 10 years ago. "There has been no big change in baseball since I started playing," the catcher said. "I am playing with faster kids now." He laughed off the suggestion he may be slowing up."

Oil Belt League
    1923

    Markwell, Leo 1923 Eureka

Southern Kansas Semi-pro Baseball Association
    1939

    1939-8-13 Affiliated with NBC. Has a ton of brothers in league, who are listed. Biggest league affiliated with NBC

Southeast Kansas Amateur League
    1955 Oswego
    
    1955-9-15 (St. Paul) League all-star named. Herman Newton, Altamont Merchants' catcher, is one of the two catchers selected. 

Victory League
    1964 Bob Moore Oldsmobile
    1965 Dreamliners 

    1966-6-06 Boxes.

Pros:

MLB:

Sanders, Roy 1922 Soldiers' Home
Swindell, Ernest-Josh also 1910 Rose Hill post-season w/cartoons - 29-8 in CARA, 1911. 
    1912 Augusta Progressives Playing first, hit a homer, a double, and a single. Helped give El Dorado Athletics their first defeat of the year (in October.)
    Outfield was in dangerous condition. 
    1912 Rose Hill Recently in game v. Augusta threw 20K no-hitter. Has been pitching for New Orleans this year. 2 "Rose Hill's favorite son"
    1908-2-14 Pitched three games for Wichita, WA, last season, and acquitted himself well, but was released to cut down on expenses. Negotiating for berth this season.
    1911-6-29 Brother of "Swindel," current Mulvane catcher. Used to beat Mulvane all the time pitching for Rose Hill.
    1913-10-03 Arm went bad

milb:
 
Blodgett, Tom p good 1920
Horrell, Will 1b "Wild Bill" 1919 Hunter
    1921 Louisburg Lost 13-4 - opponent, big Roy Sanders, spitball artist,, k'd 18 - 
    Shackleford uses emery - paid $100 for game
    1921-8-10 hasn't allowed a run in 55 innings (alleged)


1918-12-11 (Kirwin) Don't know if Vern Willey has reached France yet
1919-6-21 Manager Sewell got a letter from Clay Schoonover, the star who will outfielder for the Leaguers, that he "is visiting with his mother at Genoa, Colorado, but will come at once if needed. He will be called immediately. 'Schoony' recently returned from overseas service with the 89th division." 
1919-7-03 Vern Willey came from the river with a fine string of fish.
1919-7-03 Schoonover arrived last night from Genoa.
 
(1919-7-23) Beloit 9, Simpson 6. Play by play. Beloit 10, Hunter 3. Only box.
(1919-7-31) Beloit won first prize in a four-team tournament: $300 out of $725. They won their three games by the scores of 26-0, 11-2, and 18-1. Boxes for two of the games. Schoonover collected 6 hits in the 26-0 game.
    A state tournament will be held at Beloit from 8-25 to 8-30. "Ike Sewell and his Leaguers"
(1919-8-07) Beloit 11, Esbon 2. Play by play. Tom Blodgett k'd 21 in $200 game before 2K people. Little Dutch Nagle was 5 for 5 off Sanders' emory ball. Beloit 7, Hunter 3. Only box.
1919-9-04 Beloit 3, Arkansas City 2. "The Beloit Leaguers took the second of the state championship series of ball games yesterday..." The game was fine and "worthy of a larger attendance than it had."
(1919-9-09  Beloit 3, Hunter 1.
    The season between Beloit, Hunter, and Simpson is over. 
    Beloit was 13-3 v. Hunter with 140 runs scored and 60 allowed. Against Simpson Beloit was 5-0 with 56 runs scored and 13 allowed.
    Profile of player Davey Williams, the baby of the Beloit team.
(1919-9-11)  Beloit 3, Arkansas City 2. Second game of the state championship series. 
(1919-9-25) Beloit has played five games against Omaha WL. The scores so far:
Beloit 1, Omaha 3.
Beloit 10, Omaha 9. 11 innings. 
Beloit 2, Omaha 3.
Beloit 5, Omaha 2.
Beloit 1, Omaha 2. 10 innings. 
Play by play for one of the games.

1919-8-23 Schoonover is leading the Beloit Leaguers with an average of about .600. 

1921-9-28 Osawatomie Athletics had 4K park




1895-7-23 Winfield 7, Emporia Maroons 4. 
1895-8-01 Independence 2, Winfield 1. 


Dreamliners
1965-7-27 "Kanehl operates a construction business in Springfield, Mo., and is flown back and forth by Rapid Transit to play for the Dreamliners." Kanehl recently talked with Casey Stengel - when Kanehl told Stengel some of the players on the Dreamliners, Stengel jested he wished he had them. 
1965-9-09 (Beacon) Profile + cartoon showing him in Dreamliners cap.
1966-8-09 (Eagle) Kanehl given eight-page spread in current SI issue.
    Kanehl: "A man's goal in life is to be depended upon. In Wichita, they depend on me."

1966-7-09 Kanehl pic.

https://archive.org/details/sim_sports-illustrated_1966_24_index/page/n6/mode/1up?q=kanehl Kanehl article is in 1966-8-08 issue.


Winfield Reds
Dale Gear SABR bio has good accounts of 1890s semi-pro. Winfield KS Reds was a traveling team. 

1911-10-23 Winfield Daily Free Press. Reds' final batting. Team was 11-7 this year, 10-10 last year.


Veale, Bob
1957-5-02 Atchison KS. Beat Washburn 4-1. Boxes. Veale pic - wearing glasses.
1957-5-05 Atchison KS. Beat Rockhurst 6-5. Boxes. 
1957-5-20 Atchison KS. Bob Veale lost 2-1 for the St. Benedict's Ravens (Benedictine College) in the first game of a doubleheader. The Ravens finished in 2nd place in the Kansas-Missouri League with a 5-3 record.
    Commentary only. 
1957-12-12 Atchison KS. Bob Veale made his bespectacled basketball debut

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