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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Friday, January 5, 2024

Jimmy Woulfe

frequently also known as Woulffe

1885-7-24 Woulfe released by Gruber - Gruber collects signatures of players saying they would continue to play with Gruber. 
1885-8-03 Woulfe said he was released by Gruber due to personal hostility. 
1891-5-04 with Lees

1899-8-03 president of Young Men's Gymnastic Club - returned with others from amateur rowing regatta in Boston

1912-2-20 Maurice P. Woulfe, assistant clerk of the City Council, died.

1913-2-19 (Wednesday) page 1 with picture - in jail - clients lose $300,000 - arrested 2-18 - rumors had been rumbling for three weeks prior
    
arrested 10.15PM Tuesday "on charges of forgery in connection with mortgage note transactions, aggregating $11,766.66. It was said that the alleged illegal transactions would aggregate $300,000." refused to make statement. Bond fixed at $5,000 each for twelve charges, which he refused to pay. List of twelve charges with names & numbers. 
    "The arrest was ordered by District Attorney Luzenberg, following a two-hour conference with an attorney representing the holders of twelve mortgage lien notes that are alleged to be forgeries."
    Woulfe was one of the most prominent city notaries and city notary under Flower admin. from 1900 to 1904. 
    His office was seized. An investigation will be made, and a shortfall of $300,000 is expected. 
    Rumors of a shortage began three weeks ago. "It became a common topic among attorneys, but no specific charges of any sort were made until an attorney communicated with District Attorney Luzenberg Tuesday afternoon." 
    "Dan Mouney, assistant chief of detectives; Special Grady and Capt. Dimitry were detailed by Superintendent Reynolds to make the arrest..." account of arrest - taken at home. His brother-in-law, Joseph Norris, assistant clerk of City Council, was present and they talked briefly. 
    He said nothing when told of his charges - said nothing even when told of $60,000 bond. Only thing he said was "Good night, thank you" as he was being taken from the room "to be booked at the First Precinct station." 
    
    If the charges are true his methods must have been similar to those used by those employed by Robert J. Maloney:
    "An attorney who is familiar with these cases outlined it this way: The basis of operations is a perfectly good note upon good security. The better the note the easier it is. An investor coming to the notary is shown the good note, and permitted to investigate the property, and otherwise satisfy himself as to the validity of the paper. He calls upon the maker of the note and, of course, is informed that the notary holds it. But when the investor purchases the note he is given a forged note, the notary retaining the original. The purchaser is told to call upon the notary for the interest. Then the note is sold over again to another man on the same plan, and possibly is sold a third time. In the end the notary will sell the original also. When the interest falls due he will pay the purchaser with his personal check, informing him that the maker had called the day before and paid it. 
    'The interest of these notes runs at 6, 7, and 8 per cent, and it is easy to see how quickly a shortage will run up.'
    No hint as to what could have become of such a sum of money as the shortage is alleged to be could be obtained last night. The length of time during which it existed was thought to account for the magnitude of the sum."

    "During the early 80s he gained his notarial experience in the office of the late W.J. Castell, who was a notary of great prominence. In 1884 Woulfe was appointed a notary by Gov. McEnery."
    "It is said he developed a sporting instinct at that time, and was noted for his activity in betting on baseball games as a commissioner for others. He also owned several race horses during the palmy days of racing, and is credited with having made and lost large sums of money on the races. "
    "Returning to New Orleans [after his pro baseball career - chronology of this may be warped as they say his semipro baseball career began in 1884 -fp] Woulfe took up his notarial work, and also became active in politics in the Third Ward. He fought Capt. John Fitzpatrick, and in the Citizens' League campaigns was so successful that he was rewarded with the office of City Notary. He served four years in that capacity, after which he opened his own notarial offices. He had numbers of clients, and is known to have done a big business...
    He was a leader in aquatic sports, being an expert oarsman. He is a member of the Young Men's Gymnastic Club, and for some time was active in all its rowing affairs. Later, however, he and some others split off from the rowing club of the Y.G.M.C. and organized the St. John's Rowing and Canoe Club. Most of his leisure time was spent in  rowing and canoeing about the lakes and bayous, and he was a familiar figure at all aquatic events. 
    Woulfe was one of the few notaries of New Orleans who never was a lawyer. He had a large clientele brought by his many connections. His brother, M.P. Woulfe, was a clerk in the City Hall for many years, and died while so serving. Of late years Woulfe has been aligned with the "regulars", and was one of Capt. Fitzpatrick's ablest lieutenants in the primary commission council fight. Some years ago he took the stump in opposition to the placing of a garbage plant in the Third Ward and made a number of vigorous speeches." 

1913-2-20 Big article on p.1 - and almost the entire p. 10 about Woulfe
 had at least four confederates - has not confessed 
    "An attorney who conducted the investigation into this feature and laid the matter before Mr. Luzenberg, explained the transactions in this way: 
    'The notary would inform me that he had a client who had, say $2000, and he wanted to buy a certain piece of property worth $4000, and desired to borrow the difference, and secure it by a mortgage lien upon the property. He would make an appointment with me, say at 10 o'clock on a certain day. I would find his man - let us call him Brown - there, and the purchase already made. The seller would have signed and left. Before my eyes Brown would execute a bill of sale and notes for the $2000, and I would give a check for the sum. Every detail of the transaction would be carried out properly, and the bill of sale would be recorded in the mortgage office. The transfer of the property would actually take place.
    "Perhaps an hour later he would have another lawyer there and go through the same form, executing another set of notes and another mortgage. And perhaps it would be done three or four or any number of times.
    "Of course only one mortgage would be recorded, but as this is made out by the signer to himself, and indorsed by him, neither I nor any of the purchasers of the notes could judge other than that it was the one executed in his presence. The notary would even furnish insurance policies with each set of notes.
    "John Dymond, Jr., who had a number of transactions with Woulfe and was one of the complainants who furnished information to the District Attorney, when asked about this development stated: 
    'There is no question in my mind but that he had assistance. I have notes signed in my presence and for which the bill of sale was signed in my presence. And there are other notes out on the same property which, I am informed by the holders, were executed in the same manner. I have insurance policies covering the property, and so do the others. The thing I cannot understand is how these policies were obtained.
    ' This is a fault of the system. Beyond question the notes should be recorded as well as the acts of sale. There is absolutely nothing to protect the owner of a note from collusion between the owner and the notary.' "
    
    There are now sixteen formal charges against Woulfe. (again listed) Cover $18,200. 
1913-2-20 p.10
    Plead not guilty. Made no effort to pay $80,000 bond. 
    "In fact, it was said by Criminal Sheriff Long that representatives of a big security company called at the Parish Prison Wednesday morning and offered to furnish the accursed notary's bail, but that he refused to take any action in that direction whatever. His present expectation seems to be that he will remain in prison until the charges against him are formulated in more concrete fashion, and the full amount of his bond finally determined." 
    "A significant fact in connection with the alleged forged paper found in Woulfe's office is that all these notes are drawn up on very thin paper, which, District Attorney Luzenberg pointed out, rendered them susceptible of being traced from. the original signatures where a forgery of an original good note was counterfeit- ed. Instead of using the more favored heavy paper on which notaries generally draw up important notes or acts, Woulfe resorted to a fabric that has almost the appearance of tissue paper.
That not only charges of forgery, but that some of the transactions will lead to charges of obtaining money by false pretenses was stated by District Attorney Luzenberg."
    "According to attorneys interested, the number of sufferers through Woulfe's defalcations will not be more than sixty. 43 were represented in the group of creditors who made the demands upon him prior to his arrest, it is stated. Eight victims will lose close to $200,000. About $125,000 will cover the losses of the others. The largest victim loses $60,000, it is stated."

    "Woulfe's plunging on the race track several years ago is blamed by his friends for his downfall. He is known to have owned, in partnership with a well-known sportsman, a horse that created a flurry on the local track on 1905. He is said to have assisted in financing the stables of P. Tomilson &Co. and B. Vincent & Co. He also was supposed to hold the contract on "Jumps" Coombs, a Jockey, who created a sensation during the riding season of 1897-98. One of his biggest winnings is said to have been o a horse named Great Bend at Washington Park, Chicago, in 1904. The odds against the horse were 15 to 1 at the outset. The play is supposed to have netted him $75,000.
In his first turf ventures Woulfe was in with Tomilson, and later he let Vincent handle the horses which turfmen credited him with owning. Woulfe frequently visited other cities to back Vin- cent and Tomilson horses. He was known in those days as a heavy plunger, but always shunned notoriety, and usually worked through betting commissioners, old followers of the turf say.
His losses of the racing days were never made up, some of his friends say, and the high rate of interest he was forced to pay really amounted to compound interest, because he had to borrow again to pay the interest on the principal. At 7 and 8 per cent, the principal would double in eight or nine years."

       "One piece of property valued at about $5,000 has outstanding against it $30,000 of mortgage notes"
    "Undoubtably most of the notes out that were handled by Mr. Woulfe are genuine. I should say the great preponderance of them, because as I understand it his business was large."
    notes should be registered 
1913-2-21 p.1 Trail of forged notes begins in 1894
    "More than 500 notes, most of which bear evidence of having once been afloat and having been redeemed, and the great majority of which on their faces seem fraudulent, were found by Mr. Saxon among the defaulting notary's papers. The earliest of these bear the date 1894, and they run up through the years to 1912. 
    Three Annie Shannon notes, found in the collection, throw much light upon Woulfe's method of operation. Miss Annie Shannon is a teacher in the Frank T. Howard School, and never borrowed any money from or through Woulfe. But the notary handled her mother's estate, and upon an act of sale in the estate he predicated several $1000 notes, purporting to have been signed by Miss Shannon. Upon one of these notes one of the forgery charges against him is based.
    Three identical notes, signed Annie Shannon, each for $1000, for one year, all of them without a date, were among Woulfe's papers. They were carefully pinned together, and apparently were held ready to be dated up and floated when the occasion should be propitious."
    "Mr. Saxon found eight identical [Samuel W.] Penot notes. Each of them was dated Oct. 14, 1894, and each of them was for $1000, for one year." 
    Also used name of James E. Toohey for a series of notes, a man who did not even exist. 
    "Most of the note found in Woulfe's office had been retired, and Mr. Saxon expressed surprise that the notes had not been destroyed by the notary when the real note had been presented and the obligation met." 
 1913-2-21 p.10
        "Woulfe appeared at the meeting [of attorneys on Tuesday afternoon] and admitted that he had sold a large number of irregular notes. He furnished a list of these notes which was, he said, as nearly complete as he could make it. The list totaled $300,000."
    Woulfe had expressed a desire to deal as well as he could by his creditors, and offered to turn over all his property, amounting to about $60,000, over to a bank selected by them for division among the holders of the notes. This agreement was entered into at the Tuesday afternoon conference, and the transfer of the property was to have been made Wednesday morning. The arrest of the notary Tuesday night prevented it. 
    Woulfe said at the meeting he regretted the injury he had worked, but had become involved and to save himself from immediate exposure had been forced deeper and deeper, until the final crush found him more than a quarter of a million dollars in arrears."
    doubtful that property can be divided among the creditors
    "The commencement of litigation will involve an expenditure that may wipe out much of the comparatively small amount of property in sight, however." 
    some of the note holders do not want to prosecute. One woman possessing a $10000 note said that
    "Mr. Woulfe has always been very kind to me and has made considerable money for me. I feel sorry for him. The money is gone: let it go."    
    "Others have displayed a similar reluctance to prosecute and several have torn up the notes as soon as they made certain they were worthless.
    One attorney who had several notes which proved to be worthless, was unable to get any of the holders to agree to prosecute." 

    Woulfe may have had a woman confederate.

    "The first of the series [of forged notes] date as early as 1893 and the tabulation has shown that the notary was short $15,000 or $20,000 by 1894."
    "The James F. Byrne series, of which several are still in circulation, is the most daring of those found by the notary. Six identical notes of date of Oct. 14, 1898, for $755 each, and for one year each were issued by the notary. He issued four identical two-year notes for the same amount and three identical three-year notes for the same amount on the same day. This number he had put out and redeemed. Others may still be out."

    "The many extensions granted on a majority of the notes is a feature of considerable interest. Some of the Samuel W. Penot notes, issued in 1894, were not finally paid until 1908. Some of them show partial payments, but most are simply marked "Interest paid and note extended.
    A legitimate transaction was apparently behind most of the frauds. The bogus notes were simply copies of genuine notes backed by genuine acts of sale passed by notary Woulfe. One, two, or three, or sometimes six or seven copies, were made and sold to different persons. 

1913-2-22 p.2 "First forgery due to race losses; increased like compound interest." 
    More, than twenty years ago Woulfe "got in bad" in the races. His records and cancelled notes found among his possessions show that he was short as early at 1893. The amount seems to have been in the neighborhood of $15,000. From what acquaintances of those days know of him, the races seem to offer the most reasonable solution.
To maintain a false credit, in other words to keep afloat, it was necessary for him to keep fraudulent notes in circulation. His shortage cost him close to 10 per cent interest, according to the estimate of a notary who has looked over the papers.
The bogus notes bore 7 and 8 per cent interest. With every note an insurance policy on the property involved had to be furnished. The cost of securing this policy and the premium had to be borne by the notary. Then, in order to meet a note falling due, he had to issue another and float it in advance. In this manner frequent lapping of interest on large sums must have occurred. All in all, the cost of the shortage must have been 10 per cent.
As the notary had no other way of meeting the interest except borrowing again, the interest really was compounded. In twenty years, even a small shortage would have grown to immense proportions.
    But during the twenty years since he first began to operate in forged paper, the notary apparently has made numerous efforts to catch up and get clear again. That his efforts never were completely successful is told in black and white by the notes. Had he been ahead he would now have permitted old bad paper such as the Penot notes to remain outstanding until 1905 and 1906.
    Many stories of big killings made by Woulfe on the race track have been told by turfmen, especially since his arrest. But the record is too strongly against them. If he won, the cost of his stables ate the money up or he risked it again and lost. In all the twenty years when the records shows his first transactions to have been made, he was never clear of bogus paper.
    It is only in the last five or six years that his shortage has been so large, however, and while no traces have yet been found, it may be that he suffered further reverses during this latter period in an effort to recoup his fortunes.
During these twenty years of fraud and forgery, Woulfe has enjoyed a good business. He has always been able to find money for his clients and he was credited with having one of the best notarial businesses in New Orleans. His income must have ranged above $5000, and one notary estimates it at $10,000 a year. All of this went into the vortex. He always lived modestly and had no extravagances. Betting was a hobby with him, but his risks usually were small, and if his friends remember correctly, he won as frequently as he lost."
    
    "Attitude of resignation"

    While Woulfe apparently is resigned to his fate, and he has answered without equivocation questions put to him by various victims who have called upon him, he has not yet indicated what course he will pursue with reference to the forgery charges against him. It has been generally accepted since the full extent of of his operations became known, that he would plead guilty to a number of charges and accept sentence.
    At first some of his friends discussed an effort at compromise, basing their hope upon the service Woulfe could be in straightening out his affairs and making it possible for his victims to re- cover at least a portion of their losses. As the days have gone by this hope seems to have flown, however.
Woulfe's relatives are sticking to him closely, although he apparently has gone through every cent owned my his family. Property inherited by his wife, the house occupied by himself as a home, and the home of his daughter, all went into the ruin...
    He has expressed to his visitors the keenest sorrow at the ruin wrought by his actions and a desire to do everything in his power to work what restitution he can. His daughter has undertaken to call upon those of his victims who have been the hardest hit and to see if some assistance cannot be given them in the division of his property."

    a lot of diff. notes listed


    "Ten separate and distinct charges of forgery will be brought against James J. Woulfe in the Criminal District Court Monday morning was the important an anouncement in the sensational notarial defalcation case made Saturday evening by District Attorney Luzenberg. The ten charges have been carefully selected from a vast number of them that Mr. Luzenberg and his assistants, David Henriques and Ben Daly, have investigated, and informations embodying them will be sworn to before the judges of the higher criminal tribunal as soon as they mount the bench Monday.
With this announcement of the formal presentations of the charges that will be pushed against Woulfe, District Attorney Luzenberg Saturday gave out a list of all the present outstanding alleged spurious mortgage notes found among the imprisoned notary's papers. This list shows a total of $284,894.76 said to have been lost to Woulfe's clients through their dealings with him. In addition to this amount District Attorney Luzenberg declares he has reason to believe that there is about $50,000 more in worthless mortgage notes in existence which he has not yet been able to lay his hands on, and this addition will swell these figures, to nearly $335,000."

    Woulfe claims ownership to real estate on which he places a value of $60,000. One of his creditors who has looked it all over says it's not worth more than $40,000 all told. Against every one of these pieces of property legitimate mortgages and legitimate notes are outstanding in amounts that, in most instances, are the full value of the property. Naturally, the holders of these legitimate notes are going to recover the full amount of their notes, providing, of course, that they can prove the genuineness of the paper they hold."
     Only the surplus, after the holders of genuine notes have been satisfied, can go toward satisfying those holding bogus paper issued by Woulfe. In the opinion of an attorney who has looked into the matter carefully, if this surplus were divided pro rata among the creditors without deducting court costs they would not realize more than two or three cents on the dollar."
    "There are said to be several cases of this sort where Woulfe directly with the attorney of the purchasers and succeeded in fooling him as successfully as those of his victims unversed in law."

    "Mrs. Charles Brady Accuses Notary of Embezzlement"
    embezzled $4000 of estate of which he was administrator

    COTTON IS IS BLAMED.
Woulfe's Betting Commissioner Says He Was Successful on Track. 

Samuel W. Penot, Woulfe's betting commissioner in the race track days, believes that the defaulting notary waxed rich on the ponies and dropped his winnings in cotton. When Woulfe's use of Penot's name on bogus notes first came to light and old-time turfmen recalled the relations between the two, it was said by his former friends that Penot had left New Orleans. He is living here, however, residing at 2427 Urquhart street. Woulfe owned the Shamrock stables and during those days Penot was his betting commissioner. In the period between 1893 and 1898 Woulfe's winnings netted him $200,000 according to Penot. The former betting commissioner says that he thought Woulfe worth $500,000, and that he is sure the notary made big money at the racing game.
James Jemison's connection with Woulfe began in 1900, according to Penot, and from that time on Jemison acted as betting commissioner for the notary. but his relations were not as intimate as those of Penot. "I believe he lost it as fast on cotton as he won it on the ponies," Penot said."

    "Mrs. Woulfe Owns Residence. The residence occupied by James J. Woulfe at 2628 Canal street is owned by Mrs. Woulfe, and was brought into the family by her on his marriage. The property originally belonged to the father of Mrs. Woulfe and was given her. Under the terms of the marriage contract she retained it after the marriage. Mrs. Woulfe was a Miss Mary Murphy."

1913-2-24 the identify of most of the noteholders is being kept secret. Tells some of the stories. 
1913-3-14 stoically pleads guilty
1913-3-21 sentenced to fourteen years of hard-labor - lose estimated now at $350,000
        "Woulfe heard the penance assigned him in Section B of the Criminal District Court with the same lack of emotion that has characterized every public proceeding in the case since his arrest."
1913-4-19 appeared in court as witness
1913-4-25 Parkerson claims $10,000
1913-5-08 Woulfe has paid $73,000 of shortfall - testifies in other case
1913-5-09 now Michael Irwin, friend of Woulfe who endorsed one of the notes, is being sued
1913-10-08 suit brought against Woulfe's trustee in bankruptcy
1914-1-16 Joseph Loeb v. William Fischer concerning a Woulfe note is settled - nonsuit
1914-2-05 American Bonding Company of Baltimore is being sued in connection with Woulfe
    Woulfe is in the Penitentiary of the State of Louisiana
1914-2-13 suit v. Irwin brothers/ Woulfe for $5,000

1900 census married in 1887
1910 census his parents were born in Ireland. Children: Ethel, Maurice, Jas Wolfe jr. 
grave
death certificate parents: Patrick Woulfe and Annie Berrigan. Married Mary Murphy. 

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

New Hampshire leagues

 White Mountain League
    1913 Bethlehem
    1914

    1911-7-25 two Morristown AA players leave to play with Bethlehem - roster listed - team plays
        five games a week
    1914-8-30 Bethlehem roster

    Whitey Witt signed to Philadelphia Athletics from St. Johnsbury
    https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Whitey-Witt/
    
    “I went right from high school to the A’s,” he said proudly. “I was going to boarding school in Barre, Vermont, and playing in the White Mountain League. That was a summer league with teams sponsored by the big resort hotels in New Hampshire and Vermont. Most of the teams were made up of college boys from schools like Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. They had summer jobs at the hotels.

"I was hitting over .400 while playing for St. Johnsbury," Witt continued. "A scout was following me. One day I got a telegram from Connie Mack asking me to meet him in Boston."

1913-7-15 "Baseball is booming again up at Newport, N.H., where there is another strong team.
It was 10 years ago this summer that Newport had its best nine, however one with Mike Lynch, Harry Pattee, et al, who played 13 games against Lebanon.
Newport's team was strong, but George Whitney's purse was too deep, for, with paying Connie Mack $1000 for the use of Andy Coakley, $150 a week to Wylle Hyatt and fancy figures to Pete Noonan, Van Zant and others, Lebanon naturally came through the winner.
Newport still is a great ball town and has a fine park, but the nine now is run on business principles and not as a 'plunge.' "

Wildes, Edmond "Red" 1913 NBME Bangor/Fredericton 1920-7-26 in his 40s but still playing will for Berlin NH
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100 game-winning teams

1890-91 Greater Camden - 1890-94 Camden club considered best team in history of city
        really good club, filled with pros - Harry Davis was captain - in 1892 were 104-25-, state champs, 
        big crowds - Garret Cowls managed  1929-9-15 

1905 Des Moines Hopkins Bros.  won 100 out of 118 - 37 of last 38. MLB Radebaugh, Roy
    2 10-2 3 12-1 4 4-2, 13-1, 9-2 won Winterset tournament
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