Saturday, January 6, 2024

Maryland and Delaware leagues

 Delaware

    1919



    1919-4-09 "The Harlan team [which may be part of the proposed Tri-State League] is composed of the pick of the old All-Wilmington League." Lists players, with full names.
    1919-6-20 Doc Dolan, Edge Moor 1b, has received an offer from Reading IL on the recommendation of George Winters.

    1919-6-22 Boxes, standings. 17 total errors in five different games - 1.7 errors/g/team.

Delaware Semi-Pro League
    1944

     Slaalien, Syver "Si" 1944 Pusey & Jones standings, boxes.


Susquehanna League
    1929 Wilmington Chicks
    1930 6-30 standings


    Hayes, Walter "Hawk" p - decent milb (long-time VIRL.) Wilmington native. 
    Manlove, Sid p - decent milb. Wilmington native. 1929 Wilmington 1930 Wilmington Chicks
    
    Cihocki, Ed ss 1929 Chicks 1930 Wilmington Chicks
    Keen, Vic p - 42-44 MLB record, still young. 1930 Elk Mills

    1929-6-12 Chicks 5, Cuban Stars 5. Box. 
    
    1930-7-21Mon. Joe Baldwin is manager of Wilmington Chicks. Chicks challenged by Wilmington City and Twilight League clubs - the Cubs of St. Hedwig's, representing Browntown, Twilight League first half winners, and the Kentmere Sox, first half City League champions, who represent the "Forty Acres" sector.
    Johnny McAteer is manager of the Kentmere Red Sox. Their star pitcher is "Reds" Maguire, a native of Chester and a veteran of the Southern Association. (Was not able to confirm time in milb.)
    Sparks is manager of the Cubs.
    The three clubs will have a three-corned fight on Saturday to determine supremacy of Wilmington.
    1930-7-31 Susquehanna League has disbanded for rest of season, but Chicks will continue to play top independent white & colored clubs.
    Cihocki will sign PHA contract on Saturday.

    1930-5-21 Wilmington 8, Brooklyn Royal Giants 7. Box. 1500 ATT. Cannonball Redding takes loss.
    1930-6-29 Wilmington 10, Salem 3. Elk Mills 5, Rising Sun 4. Non-league: Wilmington 13, Wentz Olney 4. Boxes. Wentz Olney had Ed Bareiss start. 
    1930-7-04 Wilmington 6, Rising Sun 4. Rising Sun 10, Wilmington 3. Boxes. Chicks are first half champions. 
    1930-7-26 On the 26th at Pennsy Field, before crowd of 3K-4K, Chicks beat Cubs 13-2 and Red Sox 4-1. Red Sox had reinforced line-up but still lost. Boxes.
    George Winter, Chicks pitcher, is son of former MLB Winter, George
    1930-7-30 Baltimore Black Sox 14, Chicks 5. Box. Chicks' eight-game winning streak snapped
        Chicks are about to start series with Hilldale

    1930-7-21 Eddie Cihocki picture - going to spring training with A's next year. Signed by scout Phil Haggerty

  Championship series    
    1929-9-22 (Wilmington News-Journal) Chicks 5, Havre de Grace 4. Box. 3K ATT. 
    1929-9-22 (Wilmington Morning News.) 2.5K chilled fans. Has "Taken From The Brooder" - chatty Chicks column.    
    1929-10-06 (Wilmington Morning News.) Wilmington 6, Havre de Grace 3. Box w/o AB. Crowd kept small by cold. Chicks win championship. 

Wilmington Twilight League

Cihocki, Ed ss 1928 Brownson 2 (has other future Chicks)
 

Wilmington Quicksteps
1883-4-09 Quicksteps 19, Ross of Chester 3. 
1883-4-18 Athletics 8, Quicksteps 5. box
1883-4-19 Cleveland 19, Quicksteps 7. 

1941-4-14 Eddie Cihocki is named president of Catholic Youth Organization's Parochial Baseball League.

1913-8-11 (Philadelphia) EASTERN SHORE TEAMS IN BITTER FIGHT FOR TITLE
SEAFORD, Aug. 10.-The baseball fever was slow to arrive on the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula this year, but it has come at last. Cambridge and East New Market were responsible for the malady by starting a series of games for the championship of the Eastern Shore, which resulted in a free for all fight during the third game of the series and the clubs have since refused to meet one another. even on neutral grounds.
Federalsburg, Delmar, Berlin, Millsboro, Sharptown and Seaford are now in the swim and so great is the enthusiasm that Delmar and Berlin have put up the "kale" and secured a bunch of crack hired players. Seaford has won three out of four games, while Delmar claims an equal record, and the two will settle the first place dispute here Tuesday afternoon. Floyd Clunn, the noted southpaw, will be on the mound for Delmar, while Culver, the 16-year-old wonder, will twirl for Seaford. Culver has pitched 36 innings for Seaford this season, during which he struck out 40 men and only allowed 17 hits.
1921-7-09 Wilmington. Baseball is experiencing a revival on the peninsula. The top team is Newark, MD. Talk of both current teams and the old timers' memories of the greats of old.
1921-7-23 (Seaford via Wilmington) Big salaries are being paid on the peninsula. The Wilmington semi-pro scene has been depleted as a result and attendance is down, it is said. Reports of a pitcher being paid $65/week and a catcher being paid $35/week. Salaries were lower in the old days. A major leaguer was suspended without pay for a month and came to Seaford to manage - he got $35/week. 
    Some games have receipts of $600 or so. "In the old days a $250 crowd was rare. But the admission is about twice as much now. It used to be 15 and 25 cents and about ten cents extra for grandstand. Now it is 30 cents general admission and 50 cents for grandstand."
    "A few years ago Seaford had the finest [field] found on the peninsula, but the war enclosure around its grounds [put] a stop to baseball, and finally the fence and grandstand were sold. Since then Seaford has played on an open field." 
    Some talk about stars, past and present.
    "Although all of the towns have expensive clubs, it is said that in some of the towns the gate receipts are sufficient to keep the team going."
1923-8-16 (Seaford via Wilmington) The old Seaford baseball grounds were divided into lots.
    "Seaford had a team every year until three years ago, and engaged in series of games with practically every town on the peninsula.
    "The most famous stars who played on these old grounds were Eddie Rommel, Jimmie Dykes, Joe Boley, Vernon Touchstone, Floyd Clunn, Frank Pickup, Lefty Wilhelm, 'Home Run' Baker and 'Buck' Herzog."
   
Maryland

Baltimore boxes

1913-6-28 Sat.
1913-6-29 Sun.
1919-5-25 Sun. Dry Docks win twice in Shipyard League - have Waite Hoyt. Rube Watson threw 1-hitter in Inter-Club League. 
1923-5-13 (Sun.)
1923-9-16 (Sun.)

NBF
1923-9-08 (Pittsburgh) Baltimore Mills 17, Harwick Coal and Coke 2. Class A.
1923-9-16 In NBF Bauer Meats of Cleveland eliminated Baltimore Eastern Rolling Mills. 

Baltimore Industrial League
    1920 7-25 standings

    Zellars, Reid 1920 Curtis Bay got SMACKED


Baltimore Inter-Club League
    1919 Hampden
    1921 8-21 standings
    1922 7-18 standings
    1929 9-01 standings
    1930
    1932 Police
    1936 Police

      Ehmling, Al 1929 Police 
    Lyston, Jimmy if
    Schroll, Augie p 1929 Police 1930 Police 1932 Police Police have clinched championship with 19-1 record. Schroll won both ends of double-header.
        Swingler, Whitey c  1929 Police 


    1920-4-09 Mac Lattin, who piloted Hampden to the 1919 Inter-Club League pennant, is now managing the No-Leak-O amateur team. Has some of the finest amateur players in the city; lists a few.

    1929-8-31 Boxes, standings. 
    1930-6-28 

    1929-10-28 Bugle Apron Co. took doubleheader from Bloomingdale - the first game by battle, the second by forfeit. 6K ATT. The end of a "most interesting semi-pro series." 

    "On September 7, 1929, the [Havana] Red Sox squared off against Joe Cambria’s Bugle Coat and Apron Laundry team at Oriole Park in Baltimore. Cambria was a former minor-league player whose professional baseball career had been cut short by a broken leg in 1912. By 1929 Cambria owned one of Maryland’s largest laundry services, which in turn financed his baseball endeavors. He built Bugle Field in East Baltimore for his baseball team to use as its home grounds."
    "In order to accommodate the large crowd that was expected to come out to see the Havana Red Sox, Cambria rented Oriole Park, home to the Baltimore Orioles of the International League, which had more seats than Bugle Field. Cambria’s Bugle team was a semipro aggregation made up of former professional players as well as a few local standouts with hopes of climbing the rungs of Organized Baseball. Chief Bender, Allan Russell, Walter Beall, and Lefty George were some of the major leaguers who donned a Bugle uniform in 1929. In addition to taking on a heavy schedule against independent teams, the Buglers played in the Baltimore Interclub League."
    "Over the next few weeks the Buglers were in a tight race for the Interclub League pennant. They eventually finished in second place behind the Baltimore City Police team. Cambria’s charges continued to play deep into October against local nines, including the 1929 ECL champion Baltimore Black Sox. For the Havana Red Sox, it was back on the team bus and on to the next town."
    

Baltimore Semi-Pro League
    1921 6-26 standings
    1926
    1932 Cloverland final standings

  

    Eakle, Charlie (Eakles) 2g 1915 FL at 27 - no other time in pro good SABR bio 1923 Hampden
    
    1926-6-27 preview

    1923-5-13 (Sun.) Standings + boxes. 

    1926-8-02 Augie Schroll


Peninsula League
    1915 8-08 standings


    1915-9-24 "Jock" Steineder recommended to Athletics

 Sunset League (Maryland)
    1908
    1909 

    Russell, Lefty 1909 Hagerstown also according to SABR bio had 18-2 record, 9 shutouts 

Pros:

Tiedemann, Ab Baltimore IL if WWII 1942 Westinghouse 1942 Spring Grove team beat Camp Holabird 15-0. 
 1942-10-18 Signed by Baltimore Soccer Club. 1942-11-06 Soccer pic. 

  Baker, Home Run 1905 Ridgely
Gardner, Ray 1931-4-08 Left OB because he didn't want to report to Sacramento. Will spend this summer selling cars in Frederick. 1932 Union Bridge All-Stars 1932 Frederick All-Stars He organized team for Saturday games.
Mattingly, Earl p 1935 Annapolis Police Hit to hell and back.



Army (Third Corps Area)
 
1923-3-21 Bill Henderson was 10-0 for the Tanks in 1921 and 35-4 in 1922. Two of the games he lost were to Cueball Ellis. A third was to Orioles and a fourth to the Marines. 
    "Henderson pitched in an amateur league in Pensacola, Fla., before joining the army two years ago, but he wasn't a star. He developed at Camp Meade after Barber Brown, a veteran of the Texas League, who had thrown his arm out, began to teach him some of the fine points of pitching. And then along came Buck Herzog and helped to finish the schooling." 

Tanks = Camp Meade Tank Corps
    preview Both teams have 5-0 records 
1922-7-17 Tanks 2, Camp Holabird 1. "These teams meet on the Tanks' diamond at Camp Meade Saturday in the game which will practically decide the championship in the Northern League of the Third Corps." Bill Henderson called "Undefeated Henderson." Buck Herzog is Tanks' coach.
1922-7-22 Tanks 8, Holabird 1. 3K ATT. The Tank School of Camp Meade clinched the Maryland Army League title.
1922-7-30 Fort Monroe 4, Tanks 1. 1st game of championship series. Estimated 6K ATT.
1922-8-01 Tanks 2, Fort Monroe VA 1. Several thousand spectators. VG pics of Henderson and Ellis. Pic of Jimmy Hogan, Monroe coach.
1922-8-04 Fort Monroe 8, Tanks 7. 3K ATT. 12 innings. Deciding game of Third Corps Area championship - Fort Monroe received silver trophy.

Ellis, Leland "Cueball" p 5 yrs in IL1922 Fort Monroe

Henderson, Bill p 1923-28 O's 


Foreman, Buck p 1938 BPD preview
Schroll, Augie p 1925 Baltimore Police pic 1935 BPD smite former MLB Earl Mattingly of Annapolis Police - final score 15-0. Schroll is 3 for 3 with 4 runs.  1936 Baltimore Police Series v. Washington Police. Played in right and was 3 for 5. 1937 pic of players before annual series with Washington
Sherry, Henry two-way BPD 
    1929-1-21 Playing soccer as outside right forward for Canton. Albert (Whity) Swingler.
    1929-2-03 "Canton will be without the service of Albert (Whitey) Swingler, who is ineligible for national cup play, having been under contract to the Baltimore Soccer Club when time for transfers expired. Swingler would have been out in any event, for he was injured last Sunday when Canton lost its only game of the campaign, a 1-to-0 decision to the Clifton Soccer Club."

1923-4-01 Only five hold-overs in line-up from last year. Is one of the oldest semi-pro teams in the city; has existed nearly 13 years and has usually had a winning club. Has played independent ball the last 3 or 4 years. Team getting together. Next Sunday Buddy Miller will finish his soccer season on the grounds.
1923-9-09 (Pittsburgh) The Alcos are the oldest team in Maryland. Were organized 20 years ago - won the first state championship ten years ago. Their name is meaningless. They have an enclosed park that can seat 4K. Rube Watson, manager, dissolved the team at the end of last season but rebuilt it back just as well this year. 
    About roster. 
1925-5-22 Will play Hampden at Roosevelt Park on Sunday. Both teams have large followings.

1923-5-13 (Sun.) Alcos 5, Faultless 3. 2.5K ATT. Alcos 4, Laurel 3. The fans were very knowledgeable about the players. Atkinson, Alco catcher, is a local fireman, and right fielder Kelly is a local policeman. "These two were the subjects of good-natured jests between the players and spectators alike all afternoon." Steinert is the Alcos' new pitcher secured from Havre de Grace. 
    Profile of Henry "Lefty" Huester, who will report to the A's. He is 6'1" and 23 years old. "He has been a student and teacher at Mount St. Joseph's College for the last six years.
    "Brother Gilbert, who recommended Babe Ruth and the late Joe Barry to Jack Dunn, is sponsor for this promising young left-hander."
(1923-9-17) Harmarville 2, Alco 1. Harmarville 5, Alco 1. Deciding games of NBF AAA championship series. Alco manager is E. Raymond (Rube) Watson. Harmarville had won in Pittsburgh on Saturday and won the championship with yesterday's double-header's first game - the nightcap had no bearing on the title.
(1923-10-19) (Afro-American) Alcos and Black Sox split their first two games in series for semi-pro championship of Baltimore. 2K ATT - box and pbp for 1st game, which the Black Sox won 5-3. The Alcos won the 2nd game 7-0 in five innings - no box for that.
(1923-10-26)  (Afro-American) Black Sox beat Alcos 17-11 - pbp. 1200 shivering fans, a good sprinkling of them white. Black Sox won series. 
1925-5-25 Mon. Lost twice to Bethlehem Steel of Sparrowpoint. 

1923-5-14 Action shots incl. of Huester- pic of rooters watching from wagon
(1923-9-17) Action shots of Harmarville, incl. Bill Schultheis, who reportedly has 27 homers in 30 games.

Rube Watson

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GDNN-5H2 1897-1987
1965-7-07 Pic + profile. Was once the strikeout king of Baltimore. Pitched for the Dry Docks - got a trial with PHA but hurt his arm.

Baltimore Dry Docks

1920-4-09 The Orioles cannot win against the Dry Docks; the Dry Docks took the seven-game series between them last fall and have beat them so far this spring.
The Baltimore American of September 7, 1920, published the batting statistics for the Baltimore Dry Docks. Lefty Russell was leading the team with a torrid .429 batting average. Russell had batted 229 times and scored 69 runs while poking out 93 hits. Ben Spencer’s .411 average was second in the club. Spencer had previously played with the Washington Senators, and his grandson Jim Spencer would later play in the major leagues.

The Baltimore Dry Docks finished the 1920 season with a record of 102 wins and 29 losses. They won the Shipyard Championship and Coxe trophy for the second year in a row. By season’s end, Sam Frock’s men had taken on and defeated all of the best independent teams in eight states including the highly touted Allegheny Steel club.

1920-7-26 will play Athletics tomorrow - local boy Ed Rommel will pitch. Game at Oriole Park. (Orioles on road trip)

1921 Baltimore All-Professionals w Lefty Russell / roster listed w/ full names and town

Baltimore Police Police champions: 1930, 1936

Has 1936 team pic.
"[Henry Sherry] and Runge pitched as the police team captured two pennants in 1936. The first was in the local Interclub League, where the Bluecoats finished with a record of 14-3. The second championship was earned in what was called the John Law Series, games played between police-department baseball teams from Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, and the FBI. All the teams had players with professional baseball experience so this was always a hard-fought series."

1937-8-21 About to play Alexandria VA Police. BPD were police champs in 1936.
1938-7-02 Will start annual John Law Series at Oriole Park by facing the FBI. Lists uniform numbers.
1939-7-22 Will face Norfolk, who have a former Piedmont Leaguer on the mound. In John Law Baseball Series.
1940-3-02 Team dissolved so more men would be on the street fighting crime. Some info about the team - who backed it - full names.

1925-5-24 Sun. Lou O'Neil, police pitcher, hurls no-hitter for O'Donnell A.A. Caught by Whitey Swingler. Pic of Lou O'Neil + action pic.
(1926-6-27) Beat two local teams and tied Norfolk Police 4-4
1930-6-28 Baltimore 8, Richmond 1. 5K ATT. Game in Intercity Police League. box + BIG pics Hampden A.A.

1928-8-02 Howard (Lefty) Mallonee (MLB - BR) signs with Hampden. With Maisel and Spencer, the latter another Virginia League star, Hampden sure has a strong outfield.
1965-7-29 Memories.

1928-8-19 Sun. Split double-header with Bethlehem Steel. Both one-run games. Bethlehem Steel has Lyston and Citrano.

Exhibitions 1923-4-09 Baltimore Orioles 14, No-Leak-O 2. Vs. Negro Leagues

(1928-8-11) Black Sox beat Poke Whalen's All-Stars twice. All-Stars have Howard Mallonee

Joe Barry
1922-3-20 Schedule for Leonard Hall, a scholastic team. Barry is a veteran. Brother Gilbert is principal of Leonard Hall.
1922-11-26 Died yesterday following an operation for appendicitis. Was 21.
    Dunn had obtained him from Leonard Hall, Leonardtown.
1923-1-28 Dunn said he would have developed into one of the best catchers in league - had lots of grit. 1923-5-13 (Sun.) Recommended to O's by Brother Gilbert.
Lefty Russell won 24 games for Baltimore in 1910, bought by Athletics for highest price ever at time ($12K), threw shutout in 1st game against Red Sox, hurt arm in spring training, never won another pro game, played in minors as position player, became a pitcher again in semi-pros. Went to Wisconsin State League in 1925  https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/8951349/?terms=%22national%20baseball%20congress%22&pqsid=-VnmNuTXG277ypM4WR-rvQ%3A11000%3A238793071&match=1 "Country baseball's survival"

1925-7-12 NYPD 4, Baltimore Police 3. Pics. 1.5K ATT. Long account + drawings.

1932-6-28 Frederick A.C. winning streak snapped. Three combined errors. 1965-7-08 Fritz Miller. Important in basketball - once Baltimore's Nat Holman. Played a bit in semi-pro at Patterson Park - was a good outfielder and fast on the bases but couldn't hit. They had Johnny Neun, Lefty Russell, and Buck Herzog. Managed the Hilton White Sox who used old CHW uniforms.
1965-7-09 Red Burman. Boxer.
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