Thursday, February 13, 2025

OK KS leagues

 Oklahoma-Kansas League
    1914 Ponca City
    
    Backus, Mel c 1914 Winfield Reds brother Tom in left field

    Horstmann, Oscar p (Horstman) 1914 Winfield Reds

    1913-6-23 Winfield Daily Courier. Kyger and Breeden couples drove to Ponca City to see game.
    1913-9-04 Blackwell Weekly Sun. Reprints league outlook from Winfield Daily Courier.
    1913-9-23 Winfield Daily Free Press. Kyger and Breeden couples drove to Ponca City to see game. (Ben Breeden was Winfield player.)
    1913-10-15 Winfield Daily Courier. Final standings and Winfield stats. Criticism of Blackwell paper and team. Reputedly silly extract given, in which hippodroming is accused. 
    1914-1-26 Winfield Daily Courier. If Arkansas City MG wants to get along with rest of the league, has to quit knocking Blackwell and saying it should be dropped from league. 
    1914-9-03 Ponca City Courier. News taken from other papers - including: Arkansas City center fielder picks league all-star team. 
    1914-9-10 Winfield Daily Courier. Lists scheduled games for rest of season - last game on 9-27. Reds team strengthened. 
    1914-10-03 Blackwell Daily News. Standings - season closes 10-04. Extract from Wichita Eagle - SLB scout impressed by play. 

    1914-5-11 Blackwell Times-Record. Box, good description. Teams will play two games a week from now till September, the end of the season. 
    1914-5-21 Winfield Daily Free Press. Play by play. Oscar Horstmann called Bosco Hortman. 
     1914-6-28 Blackwell Daily News. Play by play for doubleheader. contin. Boxes. Some talk. 
    1914-7-16 Winfield Daily Courier. Box, standings, play by play. Four game illustrations by "F. Fogarty," who I believe to be Frank Fogarty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fogarty)
    Game at McGregor Park (Winfield.) 
    A few O-K leaguers are in Winfield Twilight Church League. 
    1914-7-23 Thur. Winfield Daily Courier. Box, standings, play by play. Ginger Lyons, umpire, has been universally complained of for a month. "Umpire Lyons is not necessarily crooked. He's just incompetent."
    1914-7-26 Ponca City Courier. Box. 
    1914-7-26 Arkansas City Daily News. Box, standings, play by play. Solid talk.
    1914-9-09 Ponca City Democrat. Box and partial play by play. 
    1914-9-27 Winfield Daily Courier. Box, play by play. Reds kicked the game away. 

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