Thursday, March 6, 2025

Barney Joy

1918 in retrospect Barney Joy/ George Bruns
1902-8-30 A. Same pic that was used for a long time. 
1902-11-08 A. Pic in football uniform - is Honolulu right tackle. \
1902-11-15 A. Pic of H.A.C. football team. 
 
1897-1-09 Star. Star newsboys beat Independent team 26-7 - "Bonnie Joy took the bun with a home run, scoring three men." 
    1900-9-01 A. Preview. Theo. Davies & Co.
1900-9-03 A. Bonnie Joy, caught for T.H. Davies Company. Charles Kaanoi in center for Davies.
1901-6-30 A. Bonny Joy pitched for Police - lost to All Stars (Stars) 10-5. 
    "Old Pal" Gorman caught for All-Stars. Stars have several years of experience - Police new team. 
    "For coachers and "hot air" artists the Stars cannot be excelled. "Old Pal" Gorman missed his occupation by not going upon the auctioneer's platform. He kept the crowd good natured by his ceaseless bantering of his own nine and the Police, but was unfortunate every time he came to the bat by striking a ball to the ground and getting mixed up with it, putting him "out."
1901-7-06 Republican. Bonnie Joy pitched for Police - lost 19-13 to H.A.C. Made several good hits but taken out in 7th. 
1901-8-01 A. 1500+ ATT. Joy loaned to Stars for occasion. Stars beat Teachers 13-4. "Joy pitched invincible ball at first, but was rather heavily battered toward the close of the game." 
    Teachers were players from Transport Thomas. Practically all their players are collegiate - colleges attended listed.
1901-8-01 Republican. 1000 ATT - at Punahou campus. Full names of Teacher players given, with year of graduation. Called All-College team. 
1901-8-10 Republican. Line. 700-800 ATT. Joy struck out 14 for Police v. Artillery - close to Honolulu record. Police won 18-7. 
1902-4-19 B. Custom House 11, H.A.C. 5. 500 ATT but not much rooting. "It had been expected, however, that the H.A.C. boys would have made a better showing and it is said that a goodly wad of their money wandered into the pockets of the collectors of the balls." 
    "Bonnie" Joy
1902-4-19 B. Joy with H.A.C. Play by play. 

1903-7-21 Gazette. "The statement is current that Barney Joy goes into a baseball game with his ears plugged with cotton batting, so that the irritating cries and expletives of the rooters may not rattle him." 

1901-4-06 A. Maile Ilima has secured battery of Barney Joy and Sonny Cunha. 

1901-8-01 B. Of Police team - will pitch for Stars.


1898-5-20 Star. Fined $25 in police court for beating up a native named Kane last night. 
1898-12-20 Independent. Young Barney Joy discovered and extinguished fire in Chinese home. 
1899-11-03 B. Bonnie Joy listed as one of possible football players for SLC, in addition to John Aylett, Patsy Gleason, etc.
1901-2-26 Star. "BONNIE IS A TERROR." Knocked out three soldiers. 
1901-2-26 Star. Cases called for 28th. 
1901-2-26 A. Barney Joy - says "his claims to the local assault and battery championship will be thoroughly investigated." 
1901-2-27 A. Gives names of his accusers.
1901-3-01 A. Acquitted. Evidence was a bit jumbled. 
1901-4-13 A. Alumni of St. Louis College form new athletic club - H.A.C. roster listed, with full names. Gleason, Joy, Cunha, etc.
1901-5-28 Republican. A policeman. 
1901-10-17 B. Made success - found wanted man. 
1901-10-20 Republican. Driven out football game for kicking a man when he was down. Was playing for H.A.C. 
1901-10-21 B. Says he did not kick man who was down but man who was standing, and only because the man had punched him. 
1901-10-23 A. One of members elected at H.A.C. meeting.
1901-11-16 Star. Has not lived reputation for brutality. 
1901-11-26 Gazette. Joy given drunken policeman to escort to police station - was punched by the drunkard and punched him well in return. 
1902-3-01 A. Fought fellow policeman late last night over debts - Joy won. 
1903-7-08 B. Police force increased from 12 to 18 last night - Joy rehired. 
1903-11-11 B. Will play right tackle for H.A.C. in first of league series. 
1903-12-17 B. "Barney Joy is in the best condition that he has ever been in during his life and will surely play a good [football] game." 
 1904-7-29 B. "Dan Renear swings a strong right arm, according to the indicator at Wood & Sheldon's store. His straight arm blow weighs 1340 pounds. Barney Joy registers second with a blow weighing 1075 pounds." 
1904-9-03 B. Has an interest in a property, the deed to which a man claims he was coerced into signing away. 
[1904-9-18 A. Lines. Big crowd. Barney Joy coached the Union Iron Works' pitcher, Kuhina, who lost 9-5.
1904-9-20 Star. "Mounted Officer Barney Joy." 
1904-9-25 A. Rejoinder to petition of 9-03. Joy only listed as a defendant by virtue of being husband of a defendant. 
1904-10-10 Star. Saw the murderer near the Honolulu Iron Works and chased after him, but the murderer climbed a fence and escaped him." 
1904-10-28 Star. Order prohibiting police officers such as Barney Joy from playing football.
1904-10-30 A. Good pic in football uniform. Frank Kanae are two of the H.A.C.'s best football players; also both members of the police force. As the game will not interfere with their duties they will be allowed to play. Good pic of Kanae. 
1904-12-01 A. Pics of Joy and "Cannonball" Kanae reproduced. "Barney Joy, the premier tackle of last season, is in fine shape and can be depended upon to play a smashing game." 
1904-12-27 Gazette. "Barney Joy, the baseball twirler, demonstrated that he was a fullback as well as a tackle. He made gain after gain through the Punahou line and the blue and gold boys could not withstand his fierce bucks. Joy is heavy and strong and with a little more experience should make one of the best backs here." 
    Kicked and punted. 
1905-3-04 A. Long letter by Joy detailing how he was victimized by a usurer. 
1905-11-22 B. Joy will play football for Mailes. 
1905-12-06 B. Pics of Joy and Gleason, former H.A.C. players who will play for the Maile Athletic Club.
[1905-12-10 B. Maile Ilima lost to Punahou in a hard-fought game. "Barney Joy proved a stone wall and few gains were made through or past him." 
1905-12-13 B. "Who says Barney Joy is a dead one? Barney played a fast game of ball Saturday and was every place at the proper time. Joy's kicking was a feature." 
1905-12-20 B. "Barney Joy is playing a star game at tackle these days." 
1909-1-13 A. Good pic. "Barney Joy, the one-time idol of every baseball fan in Hawaii, and still regarded as one of the best all-round players in the Territory, will probably go East with the Boston Nationals next season. He is now under contract to them, and is making his preparations to leave for the training grounds next season.
    Barney will not turn out for the local league season, as it means as much as his job is worth to leave work at four o'clock every afternoon and take a hike to the ball grounds. The big husky southpaw was given a month's rest by the Honolulu Iron Works, where he is employed, last season, and he does not feel that he can afford this kind of a lay-off again so soon.
    It is a good thing for Joy to take a short rest from the game at present, if he intends butting into big league company once more. He cannot improve himself much in his practise here, for there are few of the locals who can show streaks of brilliancy at the game equal to Barney, and it is only by the example of faster company that the big fellow will make himself better.
    He was pretty severely knocked during his session in the Coast league, but it must be said for Joy that this was due to the fact that he got in wrong at the outset. He was not very popular with his teammates, for one thing, and that militated against his showing the best form in playing. A ball-player, and especially a pitcher, certainly cannot be expected to show the best that is in him when he feels that the other eight men in the team are not backing him.
    Joy has steam to waste, a good, easy delivery, and is a fence-ball hitter, the latter being unusual for a pitcher. He demonstrated his class in the local league last season, when he slammed the ball over the fence for a homer at least once almost every game. [??????] He was good for a two-bagger most any old time, and wasn't particular about binging out a triple. But here again Joy did not have the goodwill of everyone back of him.
    If he breaks into the big league company again, with nothing to lose and everything to gain, Joy ought to make a showing. All he wants to cultivate is a cool head, and learn not to mind the jibes from the bleachers."
1909-4-01 A. Is negotiating with Santa Cruz. 
1909-5-28 B. Received offer of $300/month from Boston NL. 
1909-7-13 B. Helped put out a fire while in Maui with "St. Louis" team. 
1909-11-16 Hilo. "Barney Joy, the well known Honolulu baseball player, was a passenger in the Claudine last Sunday for Laupahoehoe, but as the steamer did not make a landing at the port, he came to Hilo." 
1910-10-08 A. "The case of Barney Joy, the former Seal, against the Boston Nationals was the subject of discussion before the national commission the other day. The following was clipped from Sporting Life: An appeal of Barney Joy. the Honolulu pitcher, to be released from the Boston National Club's re- serve list and be made a free agent, has been decided by the national commission. The player made his demand because the Boston club refused to send him funds for transportation and $250 advance money after he had signed a contract. The ruling of the commission was as follows: The records show that this player was drafted by the Boston National League Club from the Pacific Coast league in 1907; that he has been tendered a contract each year and has failed each year up to the present time to sign or return the same. There is nothing in the contract which he signed which provides that transportation must be furnished him or that salary should be paid him in advance. His application to be declared a free agent is therefore refused.'"'
1912-1-11 A. Higher quality version of much-reproduced pic. Is working out the Y.M.C.A. in preparation for pitching for Spokane NWES. 
1912-3-04 A. Joy will not leave for coast until 3-23; business matters are keeping him. 
1912-3-24 A. The Spokane club cancelled his transportation ticket. Joy at a loss.
1912-3-29 A. Joy still a bit confused, but not too upset.
    Stars are happy; he is their captain, and they need him. 
1912-5-14 SF via Star. Johnnie Williams contrasts favorably with Barney Joy, who was not teachable.
1913-12-18 SF Chronicle. "Barney Joy, one time with the Seals, appears to be a come-back. H. G. Lowry, sporting editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of Honolulu, sends a clipping of a recent game in which Joy was the pitcher. He held the opposing team to two hits and won 7 to 0. He didn't walk a man and struck out five. Lowry adds that Joy is really heaving fine ball and worthy of attention from teams in this country."
 
BARNEY JOY (XTRA)
Francis Bernard Joy
Born: 1882-1-27 
Died: 1938-5-25
1938 obit has good summary of life outside of baseball including post-career pic


1900-5-25 Mother obit. 
1900-8-14 B. Inherited mother's estate - valued at $970

1907-2-17 Barney Joy beats Johnny Williams in benefit game w/ pic
large crowd out to see Joy pitch for last time before leaving for PCL

1906-6-22 Star. Pitching stats compared with those of Bill Hampton. 

year in PCL: 

1907-8-23 Babe Reuter, who Joy used to catch, wants to come to US and has offer from Portland. Jack Huston offered $4500 for Joy. Some club will probably have draft put in for him but he can be covered up somehow. "after game crowd of patriotic small boys attempted to carry him off field on shoulders"
Best liked on team. Rooters shout at him "hickey-hickey" instead of "wikiwiki"
1907-9-24 Called negro by Washington Post.
1907-11-22 Star. Return. 

1907-7-09 SF Bulletin. "Maybe if Bill Squires got as many chances to make good as Barney Joy he would turn out to be just as big a find. But what's the use of talking, as the poet says, May bees don't fly in July. Remember how, a month or so ago, every one was telling their next-door neighbors and relations about the quince that Danny Long had picked up in the South Sea Isles. Well, it don't look much that way now, does it? The big Hawaiian is going ahead and annexing game after game in championship form. In spite of the fact that the team behind him played ball that was anything but class A. he had such an assortment of benders to puzzle the Beavers with in yesterday's contest that he finished the afternoon one point to the good. At that the tailenders put up a game tussle and all but nosed out the Seals in the last few frames. Besides shooting the sphere over the pan in a manner that was pleasing to Danny Long's eye, Barney Joy further ingratiated himself in the good heart of the doughty manager by landing on the leather for two nice little hits that had much to do with the final scoring."
[1907-8-03 B. "Barney Joy is gradually catching onto the siang expressions. He heard one the other day which was never sprung in Honolulu. While standing on the coach- ing line Bill Devereaux piped over to big Barney, "Get Jerry, Barney! Get Jerry there!"
    Joy was puzzled. Bill's language was anything but plain. Finally he asked one of the Seals, "Who is this fellow Jerry Devereaux is talking about? I don't know any Jerry."
    After a good laugh Joy was enlightened as to who Jerry was.
1907-8-03 Oakland Tribune. Pitched one scoreless inning of relief. 
1907-8-04 SF Call & Post. Seals had lost six straight times to Oakland - Joy saved their honor by winning 3-1. Barney Joy "was the kid of victory and he had enough to blank a hundred Oakland teams if his colleagues had not gone wrong with him at a critical moment." 
    Joy allowed an unearned run in the 9th. Joy gave up one hit in the first eight innings and a second in the ninth. 
    "Devereaux, as usual, started out to have a lot of fun with Barney Joy and while the Oaks were on an even footing the kidding act was all his. But when Bill was thrown out at second on a close slide in the eighth the pride of Honolulu handed a few to the brindle boy, who was so thoroughly sore and out of sorts that he failed to come back."
1907-8-07 SF Bulletin. "Too bad Barney Joy can't pitch every day." Cartoon. 
1907-8-07 Oakland Tribune. "The kanaka grass burner had an assortment of curves, benders, and burners that played havoc with Dillon's men." Joy in "his very best form" - "seems to be a coming pitcher." 
1907-8-07 SF Examiner. Described as "dusky-skinned." Cartoon of Joy - "Did you all notice Barney's haircut." 
1907-8-07 LA Times. Actually tells how LA's first run was scored. Player scored during argument over play. 
1907-8-09 SF Call and Post. "Joy did not let out all his speed yesterday, but played more for control of the ball." Consequently, only struck out two. Largest Friday crowd in history of new park. 
    "It may not look right on paper to the skeptical brigade, but it goes all the same, and the Seals hung another on the Angel band yesterday afternoon. Of course, the whole team is entitled to share the credit for the fifth straight victory of the home team without a miss, but those who watched the proceedings insisted and still insist that Barney Joy was the one man who turned the clever feat.
    Barney deserves to be lauded stronger than any of his companions, for his magnificent pitching surely kept the Angels swinging for fair and hitting nothing most of the time. After putting a run through in the eye opening period, the champions fell to the shoots of the big Kanaka kid like a grove of bushers.
    The fans nearly went wild when they heard that Barney was carded to do the twisting. Everybody was there to give him the joyous hand of welcome when he entered the box. This may have had a lot to do with his grand work, for he was inspired with a bunch of confidence as soon as he heard the multitude shouting for him and only him."
 1907-8-09 Examiner. Joy asked to pitch the game because it was ladies' day. 
[1907-8-11 Examiner. "Barney Joy, the Honolulu lad, has been coming into his own in grand style of late. In the early part of the season he looked to be hopelessly amateurish. He had plenty of speed, but he lacked control, and as for fielding his position, he didn't know the first rudiments. Danny Long at that time came in for some rather severe criticism for the reason that he didn't give Barney opportunity enough to work. The kanaka was left home while the Seals made trips to Los Angeles and also to Portland, which hardly seemed the right way to treat him, inasmuch as he had come all the way from Honolulu to accept a salary which was probably smaller than that given any other box man in the league.
    It now appears that an injustice was done to Long in both these criticisms. The reason Barney was left at home was because he flatly refused to go out to the park in the mornings and work, and, in fact, cared more for the idle life which is led over-seas in his native land of dreams than for the arduous job of getting up early in the morning, beating it to the ball park and getting the benefit of practice and wholesome coaching. He had a lot to learn, but didn't know it. Now it is all but impossible to keep him away from the park. He is out almost every morning, with two others of the team, shooting 'em over the plate, while one man acts as backstop and the other as batsman. The result is that he is getting what he lacked in the early stages. Control is coming to him, and all the while he is learning more and more inside baseball, so that right now he stacks up well against any pitcher in the league. In fact, there are those who do not hesitate to class him as the star slab artist of the quartet of clubs.
    Long has been duly appreciative of the Honolulu boy's desire to do his best, and although the official figures haven't been given out, it is known that Barney has had two raises in his salary, and both of them of the handsome sort. So it seems that while Long hasn't been saying much about it, he has been helping Barney to make good, both by persuading him to work and by tendering him some financial encouragement. Barney is by far the best box-office attraction of any of the pitchers in the league. As a matter of cold fact, he is the only star, from a box-office standpoint, at present on any of the pitching staffs."
1907-8-11 Chronicle. "where the question used to be, 'When is the feller going to win a game?' it is now 'When is this feller going to lose a game?' " Joy has the Indian sign on the Angels - won his third straight win against them, and his fifth for the season. "Mighty fine work for a man that was considered a gilded brick a few weeks back." 
1907-8-11 C&P. Record crowd of 7K cheered Joy to victory. 
[1907-8-13 Chronicle. Jack Huston [St. Louis Nationals' scout] offered $4500 for Joy before leaving town but Long refused him. 
[1907-8-13 LA Times. Solid pic. 
1907-8-14 Oregonian. Beat Joy on bunts - scored two earned runs mainly via bunts in 4th, and scored two runs in 5th when Joy made wild throw on bunt. 
[1907-8-18 Oregon Daily Journal. Solid pic. Is most popular pitcher in Coast League. 
1907-8-21 Examiner. 
1907-8-21 Chronicle. Pitched a clever game. 
1907-8-21 C&P. Did not walk a batter - is acquiring control. 
1907-8-25 B. Was mowing the Commuters down until the 8th - didn't even allow a baserunner until the 5th. 
1907-8-25 Examiner. Sequence of scores in 8th: 1b, e (1/2), 1b (1/2/3), wp (1/2), 3, hbp (1/2/3), bb (rbi, 1/2/3), sac fly 7. 
    Pic of Barney going up in air in 8th.
    With the bases loaded, no out: "The Commuters did everything they could to excite Joy. They ran around the bags, jumped in the air, crawled on the ground, and even went so far as to shout at him in words which resembled the Hawaiian tongue. The combined efforts of the shouters had their effect."
1907-8-28 C&P. "Like the Seals, the Beavers were weak with the stick, three hits being the best they could extract from the puzzling benders of Joy, who seemed to grow more effective as the innings rolled by." 
[1907-8-30 B. Mike (Mique) Fisher disposed of his punk shop on Fillmore street. "there will be nothing stirring in Europe until he has visited the Hawaiian islands with his all-star aggregation, which will be in November. The ball tossers and their followers will miss Fisher, for his dump was their headquarters. There, the players assembled nightly to fan, play the machine and listen to Fisher's perpetual flow of hot air. Barney Joy could always be found at 'the smallest retail cigar store in the world.' "
[1907-8-30 Chronicle. Today is ladies' day. Joy likes to show for the ladies but wrenched his ankle on Wednesday (8-28) - may not be able to play. 
[1907-8-31 Chronicle. May have to take rest - twisted ankle going into 2nd on Wednesday and it's giving him trouble. It is hoped he will not miss time. 
[1907-9-01 Oakland Tribune. NVG pic. 
[1907-9-01 Chronicle. Joy thinks his ankle can stand pitching - he will pitch in the doubleheader today. 
1907-9-01 Chronicle. 4334 saw morning game and 8000 saw Joy pitch in the afternoon. "Barney Joy is one grand southpaw pitcher, as his work yesterday afternoon proved," but he must look to his laurels - Hartman of Portland, who beat him 1-0, may be even better.
1907-9-01 Examiner. Seals' inning streak snapped in afternoon game. For their series were 5-1 v. Portland. Oscar Jones relieved Joy in the 8th. 
1907-9-01 C&P. Barney Joy played well throughout the game - if everyone had played like him, Portland would not have gotten that one run. 
[1907-9-03 Bakersfield. Boston Nationals drafted Barney Joy. Joy pitched his first game on the continent at Bakersfield - Bakersfield fans wish him well. 
1907-9-03 Examiner. Has done much better work - did not appear to be trying very hard. 
1907-9-03 Oak Trib. "Barney Joy runs with all the grace and ease of a sick hay wagon." Seals disappointed to lose Joy by draft - will get only $1000 for him. 
[1907-9-06 B. "When Barney Joy was told that Boston had sent in a draft for his services next year he innocently asked: "Where is this place Boston?"
    The reply was: "It is about3000 miles east of here." "Gee!" he rejoined, shrugging his expansive shoulders, "but that is a long way to go to play baseball. Don't think I want any of that." "But they will treat you right," continued the bug: "Boston is a good baseball city."
    "That may be," said Barney, "and so is San Francisco. I am pretty well pleased with this city, and besides, I am as far away from dear old Honolulu as I care to go at present."
1907-9-06 Chronicle. Joy walked eight - had bad day. "Several friends of Barney Joy from the islands came out to see him work and they were disappointed at his showing."
    Joy is billed to pitch both games on Sunday. 
1907-9-06 Bulletin. "Muscular and massive though he is," Joy may have been overworked these past few weeks. 
[1907-9-07 Bulletin. Henry Harris, or Uncle Hank as he has been known to baseball fans for fifteen years, came out to see Joy yesterday. Oy vey. 
[1907-9-07 Oak Trib. Danny Long will give Oakland fans a chance to see Barney Joy on Sunday. Joy is just as popular in Oakland as he is in San Francisco. 
[1907-9-07 LA Evening Express. Good pic of Joy. 
1907-9-08 Oak Trib. SF doubleheader was played at Freeman's Park in Oakland. Joy only allowed one run until the 9th inning, when he allowed five runs on six hits. "This blowing up of the big fellow has happened several times of late." 
    "Whether Barney Joy possesses the bull dog qualities of courage that is so necessary to a great pitcher, the writer has been unable to determine; but it certainly looked toward the end of yesterday's game that Barney's college colors are a decided ochre." 
1907-9-10 C&P. Joy allowed three runs in the first inning but shut out LA from then one; was taken out in ninth with score tied 3-3. Game won 4-3 after 12 innings. 
1907-9-10 Oak Trib. "The belief that Barney Joy is the possessor of a cabbage for a head will be the belief of the twenty-first century, for it is the belief, beholden of H. G. Lowry, primate of the Press Box.
The one failure of Joy's life will be his inability to impress Sisyphus Lowry that he possesses anything but a cabbage where a head should rest. Some day, say 100 years from now, they will print Mr. Lowry's lucubrations on the subject, and Joy's standing will be placed for posterity.
    The twenty-first century, if it concerns itself at all about Barney Joy will see him, not as he really is, but as Mr. Lowry sees him.
    THAT Barney Joy possesses not one whit more grace than a pachyderm he showed in his fielding yesterday. Something useful may be turned out of his rare behemoth of a man, but we thank our stars and the cat of Egypt that it is not our task. Possessed of mulish strength it strikes us strongly that Barney is also possessed of a mulish mind. In the opening inning Barney tangled himself up with his feet in trying to scrape up Dillon's grounder and we can assure you that it was no graceful picture that Barney presented when he tried beloberedly to unfasten himself from the coils of his own feet.
    They say that great bodies move slowly, and the adage was never better illustrated than in the person of Barney Joy, when he attempted to field Dillon's bunt in the opening spasm."
1907-9-10 Bulletin. Joy remove when he showed signs of distress. 
[1907-9-12 Oakland Enquirer. It appears from the official records that three big league clubs tried to draft Joy. 
1907-9-13 Oak Trib. Joy walked three batters in the 5th. The fans implored Long to take Joy out; catcher Charles Street implored field captain Irwin to put another pitcher. But they left Joy in, and Joy allowed one more run but no more. Pitched a fine game overall. 
1907-9-13 B. Barney Joy won by the skin of his teeth. 
1907-9-15 B. 
1907-9-15 Chronicle. "As a failure, [Barney Joy] was a glittering success." 
1907-9-15 C&P. "the pennant aspirations of our boys are due for a ride in that balloon Barney Joy hires so frequently for his excursion trips." 
1907-9-20 C&P. Barney Joy won 2-1 10-inning game on ladies' day. Beat "cute little Johnny Hopkins," "the blond-haired lad from across the bay." 
    "Whether it was because he was not used to working alone or whether he just had an off day, no one knows, but Umpire Moore certainly handed the Oaks a package at the game yesterday. His decisions on balls and strikes were so poor and so patently in the Seals' favor that even Billy Brackett, champion rooter for the San Franciscos, pleaded for him to give the Commuters a chance. He also made two or three very poor decisions on the bases, and in every case he favored the Seals."
    "San Francisco's run in the first inning probably won the game, for with that run to fall back on the "kidding" from the Oakland bench and the antics of Wild Bill Devereaux failed to send Joy up into the air sufficiently far for the Oaklanders to chase runs across at will. Then, too, Umpire Moore, who, by the way, umpired in the same league Joy came from in Honolulu, helped to steady the pride of the land of poi by giving him all the best of it."
    1907-9-19 B. New umpire Moore has played in Honolulu. 
[1907-9-17 B. Pittsburg tried to draft Joy but lost out. 
[1907-9-21 LA Evening Post-Record. Solid pic. 
[1907-9-23 B. "The local baseball fans will laugh, but it's a cinch that Barney Joy will not wear a happy countenance when he peruses the article penned by a New York scribe to the effect that the Hawaiian is a full-blooded negro. It will pay the Eastern reporters to smoke up on their Coast League dope a trifle, as Barney is far from being a negro, and his name is not "Bill."
    It is true that the few colored players who endeavored to butt into the big leagues back East were forced to retire because the men on the opposing side generally jumped on them with sharpened spikes, but when big Barney shows up on the field and they see that he has no trace whatever of negro blood in his veins, the typewriter artists will get busy predicting a bright future, while the ball players will soon learn to like the good- natured pitcher. Manager Tenney needn't worry about the cold shoulder at the hotels or on the dining cars because of the chocolate hue of Barney, as he just has a natural tan that will wear off when not exposed to the sun's rays. The article reads:
    "The announcement that the Boston National League Club has signed a negro pitcher for next season has started a zephyr along the baseball circuit which is liable to develop into a hurricane before Manager Tenney solves the hotel and dining car problem which stares him in the face.
"Bill Joy (that is his name) is a cracking good pitcher, and is a native-born Hawaiian.
    "Some ten years or more ago the same thing was tried in the National League, but the negro second baseman who was with Boston found it so uncongenial that he had to quit. The negro infielder who played with Harvard for several years and then signed a contract in the New England League lasted little more than a month."
[1907-9-23 SF Chronicle. Did not journey north with the Seals. 
 
1908-2-15 Dick Reuter signed by SF; Joy by Boston NL
1911-8-19 B. Bats left. Is Stars' captain. 
1912-3-12 Cohn indignant to hear that Joy did not take the boat from Hawaii Cohn wanted him to take and will not report to Walla Walla until 4-03 or so.
1912-4-06 (Spokane) Will not come to pitch for Spokane - shows an indifference that does not please President Cohn. "Word from the islands" says that "Joy was way over weight and out of condition." 
1913-7-19 Barney Joy says sorry for being ungentlemanly Honolulu Advertiser puts on the heavy
1921-8-12 Pitching in Hilo. 
1921-9-05 Visiting in Honolulu from Kohala, "where he has been engaged for some time as head machinist in one of the sugar mills of that district."

1932 account of St. Louis College sports history - H.A.C. was a team of SLC alumni
        had Henry Oana too
1930-12-18 16-year-old son, Rufus Dickson Joy, died. 
1938-5-26 A. Obit. 
1938-5-26 B. Obit. One of first newsboys in Honolulu. 
1938-5-28 A. Pallbearers listed - baseball teammates. 
1938-5-29 A. good account of time w/ H.A.C. 

1906-10-04 En Sue & Joy sign with Frisco
1907-2-03 H.A.C. changes name to "St. Louis College Alumni" - they are the "red and white." 
    Talk of rosters and switches. Lemon is manager of Kamehameha. 
    Barney Joy has signed for $125 a month - on 2-16 there wil be benefit game for him played between HAC and picked nine. "En Sue does not go, because the manager of the San Francisco team feels that he cannot risk having too many players from the minor leagues, he having already signed a number." 
1907-5-07 "Bull Perrine", Coast League umpire, recollects playing with Joy in islands five years ago, and thinks he will make good. 
1907-6-10 Letter from Barney Joy to Jess Woods
1907-6-22 Soares gives long quote in article about Barney Joy
    "He is trained down. His old friends would hardly know him. That big stomach he had is all gone. He is trained down to the pink of condition. He does not look near as big as he did.
    He has improved a good deal since he went up there. The only fault he has is that he is a little slow on his fielding. But he is improving in that. His batting is strong.
    But the great difference between the baseball of the Coast League and of our league is not so much in the quality of the playing, though, of course, they player faster than we do, as it is in the planning and signal playing. Every play is made on signals." 
1907-7-04 preview.
    "Jim Gorman, one of the old time players and a good one, takes Fernandez's place at short for the Diamond Heads today."    
    Barney Joy threw a no-hitter against the Elks two years ago.
1907-8-03   Some cartoons from SF Examiner about Barney Joy.
1907-8-24 St. Louis needs to win to end season.
    San Francisco Bulletin cartoon imagining Barney Joy in return to islands. 
1907-8-24  Riverside League:
    "John Lo, the Chinese Athletic Club pitcher, who was under the training of Barney Joy for some time, when the latter was here, and who expects to follow Joy to the coast some day..." 
1907-9-03 contract offer sent for Dick Reuter (6 ft 200 lb.) for $150/month - what Joy first got

1908-8-02
"Barney Joy at right field went after the ball as it reached the foot of the benches lined along the fence. Barney's spirit was very willing but his flesh, instead of being weak was too strong. There is a physical reason for Barney's being unable to stoop with the greatest ease in the world, and the big man humped himself up and hunted that ball till he looked like nothing so much as a baby elephant digging up roots with its trunk."
1908-8-09  Joy umpired second game - had been umpiring some games.

 Oahu League
1910-7-26 Fans say the Japanese Athletic Association can have Athletic Park - real amateur games will be held at the league grounds. 
    Heavy gambling on the Wasedas is said to be the cause of the Japanese boycott. The Athletic Park management is concerned only with placating the Japs.
    At the last Oahu League meeting Barney Joy was ousted from his umpirial position by a majority of managers - Henry Chillingworth is installed in his place. The non-Japanese teams claimed Joy had ruled against them and for the Japanese team unfairly on several occasions. 
    Japanese were not happy with (correct) decision that went against the Wasedas in the Saturday game. 
1911-8-11 Oahu League meeting. One umpire appointed from all four teams.
    Andy Bushnell will be allowed to pitch for the P.A.C. Manager Marcallino released four players, including "E. Fernandez, the grandstand player, who is now busy on Maui showing the Keio-Hawaii game with his motion-picture machine." 
    Manager Pasera of P.A.C. released Manuel Olmos. "Olmos is a star player, but business seems to prevent him from turning out."
    Some players added by teams. 
    People were wondering if Barney Joy would make a motion to be allowed to pitch for the Stars, but he did not. 
    Desha claims his team has only reliable pitcher: Lota.

1922-6-04 A. Hawaiian Pines 7, Standard Oil 3. Pines won championship. Season now over. Duchalsky won for Hawaiian Pines - also pitched for Braves that day. Barney Joy umpired. 
    "The biggest gathering of baseball bugs that ever graced [Makiki field]" attended the game. "Every seat on the stands was taken and the field was spotted like an army of men at rest after a long hike. In addition, there were a hundred automobiles parked around the field." 
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