Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Warren PA


1914 Warren Bingoes 18-year-old Carmen Hill.
1915 Warren Bingoes 33-50. Farmer Bell finished his career with them. 8-3, 2.10 ERA. 
1916 Warren Warriors Managed by Shag Shaughnessy. 
    https://sabr.org/journal/article/frank-shaughnessy-the-ottawa-years/ Six Ottawa Senators went with Shaugnessy to Warren. 

1933 Warren Merchants in semi-pro Interstate League. 

1956-8-15 Memories of 1914 team: its officers, operator, players. Red Swanson was given a try-out for the team that year. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Bingoes

Playoff


Warren County League
    1934


    1933-9-13 Championship seemed settled; now in doubt after protest.
    "From a financial standpoint, Youngsville would benefit more by playing a series with Tidioute. At last Saturday's game there was approximately seventy-five dollars taken in. With the natural rivalry, a five-game series should take in nearly five hundred dollars. When you compare that with approximately ten dollars in the league treasury which would go to Youngsville for winning the season championship, it looks as if Youngsville's battle for the "honor and the glory" is a bit foolish."

    (1934-7-31 Warren. Boxes, standings. Warren Sunset Leaguers Poppleton and Giegerich with Irvine - batting in rear of line-up. 

Warren Industrial League
    1928

    1928-8-27 Talk.

    1927-6-19 Joe Gardner. 
        Preview: three games over weekend. "Cut" McCullough pitches for the Furniture nine. 
    1928-8-23 Myron Jewell umpired. Russell Field. Urbanski, Poppleton, Giegerich, Mintzer

Warren Sunset League (Class A )
    1933 Swanson Tires
    1939 1st half batting
    1942 National Forge

    Hines, Richard "Dizzy" p 1939 PONY at 25 1939 Eagles 1942 National Forge
    Wolfe, John "Elmo"  1935 National Transit (.304) 1938 Wrenchers
        Family Search John Burdette Wolfe 1915-2005 - BR does not have middle name or death date. Draft card


  1933-7-10 Sunset League All-Stars selected by fan vote. 
    
    1933-9-22 "Yesterday the money teams of the Sunset League were given their awards for placing in the 1933 race. And in this connection it might be noted that the circuit this year paid out more prize money than at any time during the past five years. That is really an achievement, when you stop to think that this includes the seasons of 1928 and 1929, which were really boom years as far as business was concerned. The Swanson Tires, league champions, received $39.22 for winning the league, and an additional $13.07 for placing second in the second half. National Transit, runner-up team in the series, received $26.15. State Hospital, third place team in the second half, also obtained $13.07. Altogether, $91.51 was dished out, and $39.25 remains in the treasury, which isn't bad at all in local league circles."
    Local fans are interested in the IL Shaughnessy playoffs. The Sunset League may have a four-way playoff next year.
    1934-9-06 National Transit up 2-0 v. Post Office Garage in best-of-five championship series. 
    1935-10-09 Some final stats for National Transit, which played 22 league and 12 independent games, winning 23 and losing 11. Elmo Wolfe was 25-for-103 in 32 games. Joe and Steve Massa were the top batters.
    1935-12-10 Lee Fox and Jerry Giegerich have been offered contracts to play with Butler, in the CLE farm system.
    1938-6-16 Talk. The Wrenchers may be getting too strong, as they have three Moose players in their line-up. 
    1939-5-24 "Many local fans are much concerned over rumored inroads into our semi-pro ranks by Pony League teams, but from what we have been able to observe, there is little cause for worry. True, Dick Hines has gone to the Jamestown Pirates, and Elmo Wolfe was up there yesterday for a tryout, but there is nothing definite as yet in the latter case. So far as the pitching is concerned, Gagliardi, Gilson and Jeanerette can handle just about anything that is tossed against them-ask "My Buccos"-and Pollock and Mikan are ready for duty if necessary. Wolfe's departure would be a distinct loss, but there are several capable outfielders who could at least partly fill his shoes. As for the rest of the local talent, there seems to be no suspicion that they will be bothered, principally because they are working, and very few are going to give up a year-round job for the prospect of three months of baseball at a salary ranging between $80 and $90 a month, plus expenses on the road. As a general rule, Class "D" ball is for those younger lads who are either unemployed or have a definite chance of going on to the Big Show, and professional athletes who manage to hook up with baseball, football and basketball teams until Father Time cuts them out. The situation we most need is another industry or two which is sufficiently interested in athletics for Warren to provide jobs for players."
    1942-8-14 Preview for exhibition game: Sunset All-Stars v. Homestead Grays, to be played for the benefit of the U.S.O. 8-20. 
    1942-8-18 All-star team named. 
    1944-8-25 Whole page with advertising devoted to Red Swanson, Struthers-Wells plater-manager. 8-27 is Red Swanson day - commemorating his 50th birthday. 
    1950-6-21 2nd half schedule listed.
    1951-5-17 Three teams have signed up and a fourth is expected. Red Swanson will manage Hammond Iron. 

    1950-6-28 Remembers State Bankers' team, which won championship 1930-31. Roster listed, with full names. Beat Pike Peterson 11-1 1930-5-27. 

    
    1933-9-13 VG championship series stats. Johnson of NT k'd 27 and walked one in three games.
    For Swanson Tires, Peterson was 3-0 pitching 35 innings of five games; Hicks was 0-2, pitching 3.2 innings of two games.
    1934-9-05 2nd half batting.
    Jerry Giegerich hit .351 and stole eight bases. Giegerich Sr. was 0 for 5 with Baird Tires. Poppleton was 10 for 25 - Chris Caldwell 7 for 14 in 8 games. B. Wolfe (Elmo Wolfe) was 7 for 25 in 10 games for National Transit. 
   1935-9-11 Final batting.
    Joe Massa lead league with three home runs.
    "For the past few years a younger player in the local Class "A" Sunset Baseball League has been the town's outstanding hitter, but this season the tables have turned and one of the veterans is at the top of the list. He is Ray (Southy) Poppleton, resident of Irvine and a member of the Post Office Garage nine. Poppleton gained his early baseball experience at Irvine and for many years he has been a leading baseball figure. In addition to his fine hitting ability, Ray patrols the outfield in a very capable manner. There are very few players in the game here today who can go any better than the 1935 hitting champ. Here's hoping he can continue to perform as well for many more seasons."
    1938-7-11 Top batting. Just a smidge left of first half. Jerry Giegerich leading with .419. Gagliardi in 3rd with .375. 
    1939-6-29 1st half batting. Fred Gagliardi led with .458. Giegerich in second with .424. 
 
    1933-8-14
    1933-8-15 Standings. Game played at Russell Field. 
    1938-6-14 Transactions listed.
    1939-5-23
    1939-5-26 Joe Gilson beat Freddie Gagliardi 2-0 in long-awaited mound duel. (Both pitched for Warren Moose.) 5 combined hits in six inning game.
    Pitching duel was worth a $2.20 box seat.
    "Here and there: Someone must have told Gagliardi that Elmo Wolfe had signed up with the National Forge before the game. Freddie drilled him twice out of the three times Elmo faced him... He also bounced a pitch off "Beechnut" Mintzer, but Gilson partially evened the score by plugging "Pug" Swanson ... The boys must have been practicing at the carnival . . . Youngsville has entered the semi-pro baseball field . . . "
    1939-6-20 Gagliardi beat Gilson 10-0, k'ing 13. Only two of the runs were earned; the Marconi club tied a league record by making 13 errors behind Gilson. 
    The Clarendon club will hold a booster game on 6-22, with the undefeated National Forge club as visitor. Lists Clarendon line-up, with full names. Have Pug Swanson. 
    1939-7-14 Rabbit Swanson = Clarendon shortstop and manager. Richard Hines called "Dizzy Hines the Schoolboy." 
    Calls Jerry Giegerich red-head in commentary on how he plays in FSL.
    1939-7-18 Walt Huber homered last night - the first Clarendon homer all season. 
        Elmo Wolfe homered on a 3-0 pitch at Vandergrift 7-17 and the opposing hurler was angry. 
    1939-7-28 
    
    1933-8-26 G#2. NT 4, Swanson Tires 3. 1st game (8-25) was a tie
    1933-9-10 Pike Peterson wins both games of doubleheader, pitching 20 innings to take championship. 
    1934-9-01/02 National Transit won 11-4 and 7-5 on Sat./Sun.
    Chris Caldwell won both games of the doubleheader. McCullough did not pitch.
    Elmo Wolfe could not play - has an arm infection. 
    1934-9-09 Post Office Garage takes two games to tie series up 2-2. 1st game of doubleheader went 13 innings - 2nd was stopped in the sixth inning because of law forbidding sports after six o'clock on Sunday. 
    "Horatio Alger and the Rover Boys had nothing on the Garage players yesterday. Jerry Giegerich was the first to step into the hero's role. With two down in the last of the ninth and the Transit leading, 1-0, Giegerich poled one to left center field that rolled under the temporary fence to give him a home run. Fritz Urbanski was the next outstanding player. In the eleventh, after the Transit had scored one in their half, he smacked a double, scoring McCullough to keep the counted knotted. Finally, "Cut" McCullough, P. O. Garage manager and yesterday's pitching star, smacked a single in the last of the twelfth to score Lord with the winning run.
Almost Equals Record
McCullough pitched the Post Office Garage to both victories yesterday and in doing so he tied one league record and almost equaled another. He turned in two wins in the same day to tie the mark set by Pike Peterson a year ago when he copped two victories from the Transit on the same day. However, McCullough pitched two less innings than did Peterson. Yesterday's games totaled eighteen innings, while Peterson's two wins a year ago added up to twenty frames, both games being ten innings long."
    McCullough's slow ball mystified National Transit batters.
    Chris Caldwell also pitched both games for National Transit. He was spent in the second game.
    1934-9-23 National Transit 11, Post Office 7. "There was a large crowd on hand to witness the game. It is believed to have been the largest gathering ever to watch a baseball game on the Russell lot."

    (1935-9-03 National Transit beat the Morticians on Sunday and Monday. The Morticians played "a hopeless brand of baseball." 
    "In both tilts Pike Peterson started for the Morticians, and in both frames was relieved when he lost his confidence after several errors by his teammates."
    The Morticians can't be recognized as the same team that won the first half pennant. One reason for the Morticians' erratic playing may be the dissension within their ranks. 
    (1935-9-09 National Transit wins twice over weekend v. Peterson Morticians to win championship. 
    Harry Mintzer, NT 2b, handled 25 chances without an error in the four-game championship series.

    1942-8-10 National Forge 8, State Hospital 2. Rabbit Swanson = State Hospital 2b and MG. National Forge is up 2-0 in series. 
    1942-8-11 State Hospital 5, National Forge 3. Large crowd. 
     1942-8-13 Steady drizzle postponed Thursday game until Monday 8-17.     
    1942-8-17 National Forge 7, State Hospital 4. 400 estimated overall ATT. Paid ATT of 283. 

    1934-7-04 National Transit loses two games by one run each to Titusville Penn Drakes. 
    1934-7-15 Baird Tire Independents 10, Jackson Club of Buffalo 3. 
        "In the past local independent baseball clubs have been censored [sic] because of lack of hitting power. The fans can have no criticism on that account for this season, for the Baird Tire Indies have been hitting at a pace which few clubs in this section can boast. They did it again yesterday against the Buffalo Jacksons when they rapped out a total of fifteen bingles.
    Myron Jewell, who handles the business affairs of the local crew in addition to taking care of the major portion of the catching duties, was yesterday's leader."
    1934-9-03 Baird Tire Independents won 7th straight game. Jerry Giegerich bats leadoff. 
    1942-8-20 Homestead Grays 6, Sunset League All-Stars 3. 1K ATT. Grays were delayed an hour when their bus had engine trouble. Joe Massa caught a Josh Gibson drive estimated at 425 feet - he had to back up a hundred feet to catch it. 

Myron Jewell

1926-4-21 Was City Basketball League president, team captain of the Bankers, and league-leading scorer.
1939-5-27 "Judy"
1966-10-14 Pic. "A former bank messenger boy is now trust officer of the Pennsylvania Bank & Trust Co., Warren office."

Axel "Pike" Peterson

1914-8-17 Ottawa. Called Axel Peterson. 
1915-7-15 Ottawa. Called Lou Peterson. 
1918-8-18 Ottawa. Lines. Former Ottawa player wins both ends of doubleheader for Toronto. 

1914-9-07 Ottawa team disbanding - Lou Peterson going back to Warrentown, PA. 
1915-5-04 Ottawa. Louie Peterson is from Warren PA. 

1911-5-15 Homered for South Side team in 16-8 win v. traveling men from Carver House. Also homering was Terry Peterson, who didn't sign with the St. Louis Nationals this year over a difference in salary proffered and wanted.
1911-8-31 It is understood that Axel Peterson will pitch for the Bloomer Girls. 
1911-9-01 St. Louis Bloomer Girls faced Warren Independents - had four women and one of them started the game as pitcher - Axel Peterson of Warren replaced here. After the game the Bloomer Girls manager offered Peterson a liberal salary to accompany them the rest of the year, but he declined. 
1950-7-24 Profile. Gives pro itinerary. Pitched for 27 years. Article opens: "Few Warren baseball fans realize that veteran "Pike" Peterson boasts one of the longest and most successful baseball careers in the entire district." 
1964-5-20 Obit - w/pic as old man. Born in Warren, 1889-7-15. Died 1964-5-19. 

Reuben Charles "Red" "Rabbit" "Pug" Swanson

WWI draft card WWII draft card Employed by Struthers Wells. Estimated as 5'8" 174 lb. 
1944-8-22 Received nickname of Rabbit in Johnson City TN. Broke his leg in 1923 while with Altoona of Railroad League. 
1944-8-23 Memories - part of series called "50 years with Red Swanson"
1944-8-25 Pic - more memories. 
1951-6-04 Red Swanson, accompanied by his wife and daughter, went to Oil City to see the Erie Sailors play and saw Billy Brown, local boy, play. 
1952-2-04 Pic. Has renewed contract as Cleveland Indians scout. Lives at 9 Alston Street. He is "one of the best known ball players, managers and promoters in the area over a long period of years..." 
    He scouted for the Pirates from 1940 to 1943, the Cardinals from 1944 to 1950, and the Indians since 1950. Lists players he signed. 
1952-4-10 Reports say that Red Swanson will coach a team of 13-14 year-olds sponsored by Western Auto. 
1952-4-23 Is league president of the Penn-York Semi-Pro Baseball League. The Dunkirk Club of Buffalo voted to join the league instead of playing in the Buffalo Suburban League.
1956-6-23 Manager of the Struthers-Wells team - is going to Corry to attend a meeting of the Pennsylvania-New York League.
1958-8-06 History of the Warren Hot Stove League, a youth baseball organization that Red Swanson, Ray Caldwell, Pike Peterson and others helped form. 
1959-3-06 Named President of the Penn-York Amateur Baseball League. 
1960-2-15 At one time Red Swanson played with Warren Bingoes catcher Gravelle, Cameron with the Oil City P.R.R. team, one of the fastest semi-pro clubs in the section. Gravelled suffered a fractured skull when hit by a pitch in Olean NY that almost put him out of baseball. 
1961-9-01 Time for his birthday. Is still a scout for the Cleveland Indians. 
1961-8-31 Birthday is on 9-03. Still scouting for the Indians when last we talked to him. 

(1927-5-31 Red Swanson playing 2b and leading off for Jamestown (NY) Spiders. 

Elmo Wolfe 
 Wolfe, John "Elmo"  1935 National Transit (.304) 1938 Wrenchers
        Family Search John Burdette Wolfe 1915-2005 - BR does not have middle name or death date. Draft card
1935-3-16 Selected to Warren City Basketball League All-Star team as a forward for National Transit. He was a "newcomer to the league this season. After being forced out of high school competition by an appendicitis operation, he came back about midseason and went with the National Transit to become one of the outstanding performers because of his speed on the court." 
1939-12-30 Elmo Wolfe will sign with BRO and report for spring training. Profile. In the Sunset League, he hit .237 in 1933 (Times-Mirror), .236 in 1934 as a reserve outfielder (NT), .304 in 1935, .559 in the first half and .446 overall in 1936, .459 in 1937 (Times Square Merchants), .381 in 15 games in 1938, and .261 in 7 games in 1939. (He couldn't play much local ball last year because he was too busy playing with the Forge.) He made 4 errors in 1935 and didn't make another until he made one in 1938. Wolfe expects to report to Elmira. 
1940-5-27 Graduated from Edinboro State Teachers College
1941-7-21 Profile. Will go into the Army air corps on 8-28. Starred in basketball and football with Warren High. Lettered in basketball and football at Edinboro, and came back to Warren to play summer ball with the Moose, Indies, and Forge. Tried pro ball for a couple of years.
1949-4-18 Signed as coach of athletics for Tarboro NC HS. "At the present time he is taking graduate work at East Carolina Teachers College, and is serving as assistant baseball coach and instructor in physical education."
    Will report to Tarboro to set fall football underway. Until then, he plans to play with Plymouth in the Albemarle League.


    National Forge and Ordnance of Irvine - aka NFO Forgers.
   1949-5-06 "As I am writing this letter I am confined to a bed in Hamot hospital. As the result of recent operations my baseball playing days are over.
    My right leg is in pretty bad shape as the result of a shop accident last December. Up to now I have spent 17 weeks in three hospitals.
     I just finished reading two recent issues of the Lake Shore Visitor-Register sport pages. They were very good and I enjoyed them very much.
    You have an excellent case in your fight against the PIAA on behalf of the PCIAA. I agree with every word that you have written.
    If you, or any of the other sport fans who remember me, have the chance I would appreciate your dropping down for a visit. The 60 miles between Erie and Warren seem much longer when you are away from home.
    Dick Giegerich, Hamot hospital."
    1949-5-13 (Erie)
    "Behind Giegerich's letter was tale of a brilliant sports career that was crushed virtually at its height.
Sport fans down around Warren, Titusville, Bradford, Du Bois and surrounding areas probably know the yarn well. Fans in this section may also recall Giegerich if they start racking their minds or begin tearing through their records.
    Down around Warren, Dick Giegerich and his brother, Jerry, are still rated among the best all- around football, basketball, and baseball products ever to come out of Warren high.
    Jerry, who loved baseball best of all, worked his way well up into class AA baseball circles and has long been an outstanding star in the south. [???]
    Dick, who loved all three sports and occasionally tried his luck at bowling, hunting, and fishing, re- mained in Warren.
    Giegerich, however, will always be remembered for his playing days with the National Forge and Ordnance company baseball club of Irvine. He also starred with the court five. Dating back to the late 1930s until the present time the NFO Forgers have ranked as the top semiprofessional baseball club in the Middle Atlantic area.
    There has never been any secret to the fact that in their prime many of the Forgers turned down class AAA and class AA contracts for reasons known only to themselves.
    From 1939 until 1941, when the tournaments were disbanded, the NFO club ranked as district semipro champs. In the same interval they went as far as third and fourth places in the finals for the state champ- ionship.
    Warren fans still contend that the Forgers would have won state crowns both years except for the heavy traveling schedule.
    Most of the games were played at night at Vandergrift. The team worked days, traveled to Vandy played their game, traveled back to Irvine, went to work, traveled to Vandy, played, etc.
    In 1940 the Forgers played Ford City and in 1941 Natrona, when both were state champions, in post-tournament games and had the fun of defeating both.
    Forge followers love to remember one game played in the state tournament against Brackenridge at Davis field in Vandergrift, now the home of the Middle Atlantic league Pioneers.
    Irvine defeated Brackenridge that night, 11-8. The Forgers lined up with seven lefthanded batters in the lineup and continually shot for the short right-field wall at Davis field.
    To indicate Irvine's batting power, eight of the Forgers' runs went sailing home as the ball went riding over the wall.
    Two seasons ago Erie fans were all, agog when Tookie Gilbert slammed three home runs one night in double-header at Vandergrift. Elmo Wolfe, playing for the Forgers, did it in three successive times at bat, besides picking up a triple and single.
    Wolfe, who recently accepted a coaching post at a southern high school, campaigned with the Erie Vets club in the 1947-48 Times City league. The Vets cakewalked to the title.
    The year Wolfe hit his three homers in one game he wound up replacing Vandergrift's Stanczak as state batting king with a cool .625 average in seven or eight games and a slugging average way over the .800 mark. But we are getting way ahead of our story. Giegerich was one of the stars of that Forge team and was up until last December when he was hurt.
    There was little need to catch with men like Harry (Rosey) Rosequist, Ab Mack, and Reed Pierce to handle the mitt.
    And no need to hurl with men like Frankie Kulick, Bill (Pinky) Caffery, Dick (Dazzler) Hines, Fred (Jughead) Gagliardi, and Big Hank Wise to do the chucking.
    If you have any trouble remembering these names just drop down and ask Mike Cannavino to refresh your memory. These were the boys that battled Mike's Erie Gunners and Meadville Pioneers win for win.
    Playing in the outfield the Forgers had Joe Massa, Elmo Wolfe, Nick Creola, and Geigerich.
    In the infield they had Emmy Morrison, Red Hajnik, Stiggy Petrewski, Les James, Joe Nagle, Mike Stock, Rabbit Swanson, Mike Solock, and occasionally Giegerich.
    The 1942 and 1944 seasons were great years for this crew. In 1942 they swept through Warren's Sunset league split season undefeated and won the Shaughnessy playoffs in three out of four games.
    In 1944 the club won 32 out of 34 games. That year, Dick Hines won 16 out of 17 starts, coming back from virtual oblivion after losing the top of a finger on his pitching hand.
    Giegerich was always a .300 average hitter and a .985 fielder, both in fly chasing and diamond duty. We, however, like to remember him for starting a triple play one Sunday afternoon at Irvine's Wilder Field.
    Dick went behind second, snagged a liner with his gloved hand, touched second and then threw to first for the three-ply killing.
    Giegerich was within a yard of the man on first, but elected to throw to the first baseman for the putout rather than attempt a run down.
    Another point of interest about the Forgers is that most of them were and are Catholics.
    The boys hail in general from Warren's Holy Redeemer and St. Joseph's parish, St. John's of Tidioute, and St. Luke's of Irvine. Giegerich is a member of St. Luke's parish."

    1939-7-13 Warren Indies 4, NFO 2. 
    1940-6-30 National Forge 3, Corry 0. Fred "No-Hit" Gagliardi threw a 1-hitter. 
    State Hospital 4, Emblem Oils 1. Gilson pitched for State Hospital. 
    1940-7-02 7-02. National Forge 11, Girard 0. There will be an all-Warren county series for semi-pro championship of northwestern Pennsylvania. Frank Kulick k'd 15 in 3-hit win. 
    1940-7-05) 7-03. National Forge 5, State Hospital 0. National Forge took a step towards winning its second straight northwestern Pennsylvania semi-pro title. 
        7-04. National Forge 4, Titusville 0. Freddie Gagliardi, husky right-hander, threw his second one-hit shutout in less than a week. 
    "Tonight at Irvine the second and possibly the last game of the district semi-pro tournament will be held. with the National Forge, defending champions, taking on the State Hospital, whom they defeated Wednesday night in a shutout, 5 to 0. To date the Forgers have not permitted an opponent to cross the plate and only ten hits have been charged against Forge hurlers in the tourney. All in all, the Wolfemen have performed like real champions and we pick them to win again tonight."
    1940-7-05 National Forge 10, State Hospital 2. 
(1940-7-29 Warren. Beat Wellsville-Sinclair 7-1 in a NYPL game. Lost to them in prior years.
    Beat the Pittsburgh Lyceum club 8-7 in the state tournament at Vandergrift.
    Fred Gagliardi, who hurt his arm several weeks ago, returned and pitched seven strong innings.
    Elmo Wolfe is NFO manager.
    1944-8-24 Beat Asheville NY 7-2 for 28th win. 

Warren

8) Homestead Grays 13, Warren 0. Warren made one error to Grays' two - but. Pike Peterson pitched for Warren. Swanson lead off.
    Polish Falcons 5, Warren 1. Vern Group of Corry batted 5th and pitched for Warren. Warren made two errors to Falcons' 5 - but.
    

Warren Independents/Indies
Fuss, Bobby 1927-32 NYPL TL 1939 Warren Indies 
Transki, Vic p 1937 BIST -  1939 Warren Indies "Smethport left hander"

1939-6-21 Talk. District championship playoff coming up, it sounds like. 
    "While we're on this subject, we'd like to tell the fans of the city that the present outlook for a continuance of semi-pro baseball locally is extremely bright. The Indies are not bankrupt, and the only reason for holding up the announcement of future games was the desire of the management to check all accounts payable so that the club didn't get in too deep and leave the suppliers of equipment, grounds keepers, etc., holding the bag Treasurer Bleech has announced that all bills are paid and has flashed the green light, meaning that the high class clubs will be played as scheduled. We don't think we're telling tales out of school when we state that the players have voluntarily abrogated their pre-season agreements and have agreed to play for what they can get, so that baseball may go on and the Centennial year will not be a bust in Warren. With the support of the fans, however, the players will be playing for a little more than spike marks."
 1939-7-29 "The Warren Independents are looking for a good crowd tomorrow afternoon at Russell Field when they meet the strong Smethport Quakers. From the number of spectators who have turned out to see the previous games, with the exception of the opener and the battle with the National Forge on the Fourth of July, the Indies are beginning to wonder whether the fans are still interested in the sport. The two contests mentioned were the only ones in which the club has not lost money. With the price reduced to a minimum, there should be no excuse for a poor turnout tomorrow."
    Game preview. Art Johnson = Indies manager. Dick Hines will probably pitch - he pitched yesterday in the Sunset League.

    1937-6-01) Indies split doubleheader. Pike Peterson pitches his best game in years on Pike Peterson Day. Beat former MLB Ray Caldwell (Bradford Hanleys) Caldwell was 49 - was 19-7 in SOUA at 43. 
    Warren fans donated money to Peterson. 
  1939-7-13 Warren Indies 4, NFO 2. Indie Nick Creola homered over the 321-foot right field fence. Bobby Fuss went into the pine trees in right to rob Elmo Wolfe of a triple. 
    "Every time we look at that Forge field we wonder why this town can't have one just half as good... The gate was a little disappointing... The Indies' winning share was $30 while the Forge took $90 on the Fourth, but, of course, it was the middle of the week, and a lot of fans had no way to get down there..."

Warren Merchants

1933-7-07 Warren. Preview. 

    1933-7-09 Warren. Warren Merchants won 4th straight game in league. Have Joe Massa, Jewell, and Wolfe. 

Warren Moose
https://piratesprospects.com/2020/06/game-rewind-pirates-vs-moose-august-17-1924.html
https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2024/09/moose-grays-battled-in-front-of-2000/

https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?user=2392642&query=moose

1938-6-15 Averages. Will play the NY Stars tonight at 9 o'clock beneath the Stars' portable lighting system. First local night game of season. Gerry Archibald is the Moose's manager. (Unsure what the NY Colored Stars were exactly.)

1938-6-15 Warren Moose 20, NY Colored Stars 3. 
(1938-7-11 Warren Moose 8, Titusville Merchant-Industrials 7. 3rd straight win v. TMIs. Wolfe made four hits. Warren Moose 5, Brockway 4. 

"Fall of 1938. In Warren, Pa., a town of 15,000 nestled in the skirttails of the Allegheny Mountains, the hills flamed red, and golden and a faint blue haze softened the gray, functional outlines of the oil‐refinery cracking tower, the iron works and the W.P.A. watchman's shack beside the sewer‐line ditch. "
"Almost every Sunday the kids went to Russell Field, hard by the railroad tracks..."
"If, as was usually the case, the kids didn't have 25 cents for a ticket, they tried to scramble over the weathered board fence without getting caught by the harried cop inside. Foiled at the fence, the kids waited by the gate, hoping for the blessing of the Red Jacket players as they arrived at the field after having dressed at the Moose Club."
"At half‐time, because Russell Field had no locker rooms or fieldhouse,
"Russell Field is gone now, like the rest of that fading and largely unlamented world. An electronics plant squats where Whizzer White, Johnny Blood, Walt Kiesling, Joe Cardwell and the other Pittsburgh Pirates of 1938 performed."

https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/forgotten-history

"“One summer day in 1939 a kid squatted on the bank behind home plate at Russell Field in Warren, Pennsylvania, fielding foul balls (which could be redeemed for a nickel each – no small consideration in those days), and saw Josh Gibson hit the longest home run ever struck in Warren County. It was one of many impressive feats performed by touring Black players that excited the wonder and admiration of that foul-ball shagger. This book is the belated fruit of his wonder.”

Bob Peterson
Preface, "Only the Ball Was White"

1963-12-16 Red Swanson told that Jim Magee, old-time ballplayer, is ill and confined to bed. Played with the Norris Athletic Club, at one time under contract to SLB, and played in Panama Canal Zone League. 


Honus Wagner Day
1938-7-26 Honus Wagner Day was yesterday. He was kept busy greeting local admirers and renewing acquaintances from his time with Warren in 1895. 1500 people saw him off at the station. 
1962-7-15 Memories of 1938 Honus Wagner Day - when the Moose beat the Pirates. 

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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Biographical data missing on BR


        
     Cheney, W.J. 1901-9-28 "W.J. Cheney and E.E. Tilton, of the Ponies baseball team, left to-day for their homes in Potsdam, N.Y., to spend a couple weeks. They will return here and probably remain."
      Dutmer, Joe p I think 1915 Houseman & Jones lost 10-0  
    Martz 1957-4-30 Greenville Sun. Is a presbyterian priest; was a two-sport star at Wooster College. 
        1928-8-03 Syndicated. Of Cincinnati, will captain Wooster College team next year. 
            1929-8-21 Wooster College has sent three players to Wooster Tyrites: Charley Martz and two southpaw pitchers, Myles Beeler and Pete Blough. FamilySearch
     Robinson, John B. 1919 Westfield TL - wicked spitter
    
    Webb, Emory p 
    Williams, Johnnie J. Williams 1911-9-27 Victoria Daily Times. Pitcher Jack Williams will soon return to Honolulu home. Belongs to Sacramento. 
    Yoxtheimer, Milo FamilySearch 1930-5-01 Richmond. TR BL.
  
Brown, Fred listed with 1904 Sacramento CASL - should be: Brown, Fred

 Tuckey, Richard p good mid-minors 1909-10 Marines FamilySearch
        1917 Military Census 5'10 3/4", 166. Spent four years in army. Can ride a horse, handle a team, and swim well.  Draft card Born in England, 1888-10-21. Lists profession as pro baseball player.
      Tuckey, Tom
    Tuckey, Thomas FamilySearch



Eliza Fulwell Mother - 1848 to 1913. 
Richard Tookey death Father. Died 1896-10-29 in New Haven. 
1900 census Tookey. Arrival date: 1887. 
Richard - 1885-10. May A - 1883-10. Thomas - 1875-03. William - 1873-01. Mother: Eliza. 


1896-10-31 Hartford. "Richard Tookey, about 35, of Naugatuck, an employee of the Goodyear India Rubber Company, committed suicide Thursday night by taking rough on rats. Despondency over the death of his brother is believed to have been the cause. He leaves a wife and four children." 
1911-10-24 New Haven via Bridgeport. Dick Tuckey has pitched phenomenal ball for the Franklins this season. His catcher, Fred Campbell, is likewise mighty fine. About. 
1917-5-06 Hartford. TR. 
1935-10-07 Hartford. "Dick Tuckey, Jr., may not mean much to the present generation of baseball fans, but to those who were knocking around in the days of the old Connecticut League, the name of Dick Tuckey brings to mind a blond-thatched pitcher who was a pretty good right-hander.
    The Tuckey name is being carried on by that former pitcher's son and in college football, not the diamond sport.
    Dick Tuckey Jr., contributed the longest run of Manhattan's 59 to 7 win Saturday over Brooklyn College when he galloped 80 yards behind some nifty blocking to score one of Manhattan's nine touchdowns. Tuckey scored another touchdown on a shorter run."
1973-2-17 Naugatuck CT. Richard Tuckey Sr. Died 1973-2-15. Buried in St. James Cemetery. Excelled with baseball teams around the state. 

1937-8-02 Waterbury. "A six base hit for you is a homerun for Lightning Dick Tuckey, who can clout that there apple in the pinch, but runs like Shanty Hogan, Siamese Twins style." 
1972-1-10 Naugatuck CT. Jr. elected to Naugatuck HOF - one of greatest local athletes of all - son of another star athlete. 
1974-12-26 Richard Tuckey Jr. obit. NFL star. Starred in baseball in the Waterbury City Amateur League. 


1901-4-29 Naugatuck. "Thomas Tookey, a well known Naugatuck baseball player, is being tried by the Derby league team. He pitched for Derby in Saturdays' game and made a splendid showing both as a twirler and batsman. His fine work delighted the Derbyites and if he continues to do as good work will probably become a regular member of the team. Tookey's many friends here believe that he is fully competent to pitch for any of the league teams."
1901-5-01 Naugatuck. Pitched again and made another good impression - he is "remarkably cool, as well as possessing a fine arm and good curves." 
1901-8-16 Naugatuck. "Thomas Tookey of the Derby base ball team is in town to-day calling on friends." 
1902-4-21 Naugatuck. "Thomas Tookey of the Hartford baseball team spent Sunday [4-20] with friends in town."
1903-12-07 Meriden. "News has reached this state of the marriage of Thomas H. Tuckey, the star pitcher of the New Haven base ball team, to Miss Mary Carroll, of New Haven, the wedding taking place in New York recently. Tuckey is now at his home in Naugatuck and will remain there until the opening of the baseball season." 
1914-3-19 Lincoln Journal-Star. "One of the players included in the wholesale suspension decree handed down at Hastings is Tom Tuckey, the former Lincoln southpaw. Following his release from Lincoln last summer Tummas [sic] landed with the Hastings. club and about set fire to the State league, winning seven games and losing none and batting at a .341 clip. The Hastings management was notoriously liberal with its players, which surely means that Tuckey was well compensated, yet this year finds him holding out."
  1914-3-20 Hastings NE. "Lincoln Daily News: [3-19 article]
    *
    We know but little concerning the Liberality of the Hastings management in the Tuckey case but Hastings fans probably recall that while Tuckey was some twirler, he could scarcely have been said to be one of the flames of the league. And regarding that seven game proposition. Forget it. Mexico."
1914-3-21 York NE. Included on the suspension list at Hastings. 
1914-3-28 Holyoke. Dan O'Neill, who owned many different clubs in the CTSL, visited New Haven yesterday - "Dan told of some of the old-time meetings of the directors when they would sit in trunks in the express offices at the different railroad stations and transact their business. He referred to the meeting at the time Pitcher Tom Tuckey, then with New Haven, was fined for pitching independent ball, and of the hard fought battle put up at the directors' meeting over this matter. This was the time Bridgeport won the pennant from New Haven over the technicality of Tuckey being suspended and some games he won being thrown out."
    Good memories of CTSL  days. O'Neill thinks the good days are gone - current players just in it for the money. 
1914-7-10 Lincoln Star. Is in the NESL. [?] Looked - Tuckey - 1914 - NE - no current games. 


Almost certainly different - from birth index, in Leicestershire:
Richard Tookey 1887, Market Bosworth
Thomas Tookey  1883, Market Bosworth
Mary Ann Tookey 1886, Hinckley
William Tookey 1877, Market Bosworth
John Tookey 1871 Leicester

R. Raby
John E. Spalding's book lists as Frank "Chief" Raby - the lead I needed
Family Search Rollin Francis Raby
draft card Lists race as caucasian
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=raby--001r-- 1913 San Jose
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=raby--000--- 1914 San Jose

Errors: 
Same stat-line listed for both Casey, Tom and MLB Casey, Joe for 1917 Vernon PCL: 7 for 33 in 9 games. Oakland Tribune 1917-11-25 confirms it was Tom Casey by saying that Casey, San Mateo catcher (Tom Casey was a native of San Mateo) caught in a few games for Vernon late in the year.)

Moseley, Glenn "Red" p TL 1913 La Grange (G.A.L. - unlisted on team roster on BR)


            1953-8-09 Wedding - pic of bride - groom resides in Galveston TX
    Dad pitched in Akron 1920s
   Burdick, Johnny p TR 1930 Firestone FamilySearch John Samuel Burdick 1903-1976
      Churchill, Ralph FamilySearch w/pic
    
Connatser, Roy 1935 Goodyear Regulars FamilySearch 1910-1976 brother of Bruce Connatser
    Husak, Edward "Lefty" p 1927 Permanent Home Sales 1926-6-04 confirm article calls him John but contemp Cleveland news called him Ed (Lefty) Husak FamilySearch 1906-1968
    Ingram, Dean p 1936 CAML 1934 Crains 15-3 FamilySearch 
    Leskey Leskie, William Albert FamilySearch
    Nason, Lyman "Chief" also 1931-5-16 confirm. FindAGrave pic
    Oliphant, Elmer of 1919 Atlanta SOUA confirm W/pic. Called "Famous Athlete" from West Point. Was on 30-day furlough from army 1919 Fort Benning
Reed, Milton f 1919 Atlanta SOUA .380 in 22 games confirm Was on 30-day furlough from army 1919 Fort Benning
      Rubo, Fred (BR lists no first name) p 1907 Fairbanks-Morse
    1907-5-13 Fred Rubo in Spokane (bowling) 1905-2-07 Pitched for Chicago Skilliers last year Obit (1889-1938) 1914 "boy constable" WWI draft  mistaken identification
    Seaton, Joe p two-way 1909-10 Maiers 2 pitched & threw left-handed
      Stadelli, Art  also  of  1909-10 Maiers 2 - pitched & threw left-handed
            1912-5-01 Asked by Seattle Post-Intelligencer how to spell name - replied Stadille. 
            FamilySearch

    Loper, Bill citation William McKinley Loper? 1911-1968 William W. Loper? 1909-2001

Alvarez, Cesar p FamilySearch 1952-1-05 Obit. 1952-1-17 confirms that it was the ballplayer that died. 
    Dominguez, Justo Domingues box Dominiquez 1927-4-30 Justo Dominguez, rookie pitcher from University of Havana - HA. 1927-3-29 Protege of Merito "Cubie" Acosta
        Lujan, Francisco alt CUWL/milb - Enciclopedia Biografica del Beisbol Cuban, p. 371 - 1888-7-30 (Matanzas) to 1962-3-19 (Matanzas) - confirmed that both the minor leaguer and the winter leaguer were the same player. 
    Nicknamed "Paco." 
   Freine, Charlie Friene confirm Charlie Freine played for Boise in WTSL in 1912 - 1912-8-22 - only started after Friene stopped playing for Vancouver. Vancouver newspapers always misspelled name. 

     Martin, Harold p https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27946663/harold-j-martin buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Ogdensburg. 1958-5-09 Ogdensburg. Obit. Pitched several years under the pseudonym of Doc O'Reilly - "The money he earned was used to establish a children's playground in Ogdensburg." Born in 1895-11-10 in Boston MA - attended Boston College HS - graduated from Fordham in 1920. Ordained as priest in 1923. 
    McClellan, Brinton FamilySearch 1970-2-17 Solid obit. 
    John Melvin Myers 1885-1953
    FS 1885-8-09 to 1953-11-30. Buried in Colma, San Mateo. 
WWII registration Living in San Francisco. Born in Port [illegible] WA. Employed by A. Steinbrenner Sons. Lists address. 
CA death index Born 1885-8-09 in WA. 
1953-12-01 SF Examiner. Obit. Beloved husband of Alleene C. Myers. Member of Snohomish Aerie #195 F.O.E. 
1953-11-30 Everett. Sister heard he died early today in San Francisco hospital. 
  [PCL]  Meyers, Soldier 1919-8-23 Box for Soldier Meyers' "only pro game." He was a righty.
            alt 1906
            FamilySearch Enlisted in army in Portland, 1903-9-07. 1965-2-08 Inaccurate obit. 
        Miller, Granville "Bozo" also  p 1972-4-16 Granville "Bozo" Miller obit. 
            Find a Grave FamilySearch
    Moseley, Glenn "Red" p  1913 La Grange "TL" (G.A.L. - unlisted on team roster on BR)
        FamilySearch 1885-1939. Obit Shot himself. Article identifies him as former baseball star. He had been employed at Southeastern Compress Co. for a number of years, up until six months ago. He was despondent for the last several months, friends say.
        Find a Grave
   [PCL] Norton, Robert 1926-8-04 SF Examiner. BR TR. Averill knows Norton. 5'11" 190 lb. Recommended to Bill McCarthy by a Seattle sportswriter. 
        FamilySearch 1908-1977. WWII draft card says he is 6'0" 220 lb. 
    Oravec, John 1937-7-11 Played football at Willamette - Little All-American in HS - blond, 155 pounds, from NJ. 
        WWII draft card Obit
    Peterson, Alex Peterson, Lewis 1964-5-20 Axel Peterson. Obit - w/pic as old man. Born in Warren, 1889-7-15. Died 1964-5-19. 

Halloran, Jack  Played in CASL in 1905 and 1907, not 1906, and did not play in 1905 PCL 
        FamilySearch Obit
         Longanecker, George p p 1907 Vancouver NWES spelled Longanecker Arthur also George 1908 Slater & Slater FamilySearch
    Peters, Jerome FamilySearch Has a pic of him. 
 Rubo, Fred 1907-5-13 Fred Rubo in Spokane (bowling) 1905-2-07 Pitched for Chicago Skilliers last year
    Shepherd, Alfred "Doc" FamilySearch 1861-1938. 1938-3-08 Obit. Alt Will be buried Memorial Park Cemetery. TL
        Singley, Charlie "Specs" 1935 Perth WWII draft Slight limp on right leg. 1935-3-01 Hazleton. Lives in Middleport. Death index 1971-10-06 Obit
    Skuce, Bill 5'11" 165 lb. Pitched this year and last year with Pellers in the Senior City Baseball League. 17 years old.  1953-7-27 Bill Skuce signed by PHA - w/pic. Records are hidden. Dad's Family Search 
            2015-2-13 Ottawa. Died in Sooke on 2015-2-11. 
            2015-5-13 Sooke BC. Detailed obit. Died 2015-2-10. Of Baha'i faith. 
      St. Louis, Wesley Find a Grave WWII draft Carlos Bauer lacked birthplace
  Sweatt, Chester BR has no birthdate - born 1886 FamilySearch 5'10" 187 for WWII draft card Find a Grave
    Vaughn Vaughn, Jim 27 in 1922 1966-3-29 Obit. WWI draft Find a Grave
    Villarin, Manuel Villarino  Villarin, M. (Villarina) 1b 1924 FLOR 1953-5-23 Obit. Manuel (Villarin) Fernandez died at 63 - killed in auto accident in Americus GA. Funeral services will be held in Tampa. 
        Death record Born in 1890 in Cuba - mother's last name Villarin, father's Fernandez
Wolfe, John "Elmo"  1935 National Transit (.304) 1938 Wrenchers
        Family Search John Burdette Wolfe 1915-2005 - BR does not have middle name or death date. Draft card
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Friday, January 17, 2025

District of Columbia leagues

1954-5-22 (Washington Afro-American) D.C. Recreation Metro Baseball Association schedule. With Washington Giants, black club.


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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Football


https://www.rsssf.org/country.html#full

https://www.footballsite.co.uk/index.html
Lots of really good old pictures and info. 
"The 1948/49 season was an amazing one for attendances in English football. Hull City, for example, saw 19 of their 21 home League matches attract 30,000+ crowds - not bad for a Third Division side! Their top League attendance was on Christmas morning 1948 when 49,655 were present at Boothferry Park for their top-of-the-table clash with Rotherham United. That was the record-ever Division 3 (North) attendance with Hull winning the match 3-2 which helped them pip their Yorkshire rivals to the title and with it the one promotion place from the division that season. But that 49,655 wasn't the best at Boothferry Park that season - 55,019 were present at their FA Cup quarter-final tie with Manchester United - an all-time record Hull home crowd. The amazing interest in that cup-tie is shown in the picture which, amazingly, is just the fans queuing for tickets for the match on the Sunday before the fixture. Around 30,000 tickets were up for grabs but some 75,000 turned up to try to buy them. Around 2,000 camped out overnight to be at the front of the queue with dozens ending up needing medical treatment due to feinting and crush injuries."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-election_(Football_League) Until 1986, teams that finished poorly - last three spots in 3rd division, last four in 4th - had to apply for reelection to the Football League. Non-league teams could apply.

1932-7-22 (Caernarfon, Wales) A movement to resurrect pro football in Caernarvon is underway. "Professional football in Caernarvon, after flourishing for four years, came to an abrupt end two seasons ago. During their brief but brilliant career the Athletic F.C. were the champions of the Welsh National League in the first year of their existence; runners up a season later, and in the last season created a surprise by advancing as far as the second round proper of the English Cup.
    "In that year Caernarvon's name gained wide publicity on the strength of the notable achievements of its team - the best advertising media the town ever had...." 
    "Soon after [their success in the F.A. Cup] the directors of the club found themselves in financial difficulties, and though heroic effort was made to carry on until the completion of the season, the players departed and the team broke up." 
    Enthusiastic meeting over the admission of Bangor F.C. into the Birmingham Football League. The team had a surplus of £26 17s. for the season, and their total liabilities were reduced from £982 to £838. "The latter had been attained by the generous action of a number of creditors in making allowances from their accounts, and others in cancelling their holdings of cricket certificates." 
    "After full consideration, it was decided by a large majority to fix the membership fees at £1 5s. for ground and stand, and £1 1s. for ground only, these figures being considerably lower than those of Colwyn Bay and Rhyl." 
1932-11-18 (Caernarfon, Wales) Standings and commentary for Birmingham League and Bangor and District League. 
1932-12-24 (Stokes-on-Trent) Lists matches for a TON of leagues. Pics, commentary.


Birmingham & District League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Midlands_(Regional)_League
Established in 1889. "Once the league's structure settled down, it came to be regarded as one of the strongest leagues outside the Football League itself, rivalled only by the Southern League and the Midland League."
    Its coverage was much greater than Birmingham. Teams from Wales etc.
    In the mid-50s it absorbed its competitor, the Birmingham Combination. 
    In its early days it attracted good crowds; 3K to a game in 1899. Attendance gradually declined but in the 1960s Kidderminster Harriers was still able to draw 1K a game. By 2005-06, average attendance was 50 or so. 
 1932-7-22 (Holyhead, Wales) Bangor F.C. admitted into the Birmingham Football League. 


Midland Football League. (1889-1982)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Football_League_(1889)
Second pro league formed. In the early days, there was overlap between the Football League and the Midland League - Football League teams might be relegated to the Midland League, Midland champs might be promoted to the Football League. As the larger pro clubs became stronger, they placed their reserve sides in the Midland League. By 1905-ish, half the teams in the Midland League were reserve sides.
    Peterborough United, which won five straight titles from 1955-56 to 1959-60, was the last Midland League club to be elected to the Football League.
    Wiki article lists clubs promoted to the Football League, of which there were 28. 

https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engmidlandhist.html Has standings for each year. 
https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/NonLeagueTables/ML1920-21.htm 1920-21 standings - includes the voting for which teams were to be admitted to the Football League. 

Southern Football League (1894-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Football_League
Pro football & pro sports in general developed more slowly in the south of England than the north. Rivalled Football League around the turn of the century.
    "In 1920, virtually the entire top division of the Southern League was absorbed by the Football League to become that league's new Third Division." 


America
https://phillysoccerpage.net/2014/12/12/the-origins-of-soccer-in-philadelphia-part-8-troubled-times-phillys-first-league-and-the-citys-first-professional-soccer-clubs/

Italy
https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/italchamp.html
https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ital63.html Scores & goal scorers for every Serie A game - final standings, final goal totals. Has final standings & goal leaders for Serie B. Points standings for the three Serie C leagues. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20080318012438/http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.com/Gren.html Gunnar Gren stats for each season

Norway
https://www.rsssf.no/archive.html
https://janitsjar.net/Lagnivaa.htm Visualization of teams' varying divisional status

Sweden
https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwedhist.html
Allsvenskan standings from 1924-25-1997. 
Player of the year awards
https://web.archive.org/web/20111210191752/http://svenskfotboll.se/svensk-fotboll/historia/ar-for-ar/artalen/ 1908 season overview - not all seasons archived - site still active but no longer seems to have historical information. 
Hall of fame

https://ifkdb.com/game/1198 Database for IFK Goteborg - has listing for every game - ATT, goals, etc.
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Cricket

 1933-7-21 Birmingham. Lists weekend's matches in various local leagues: Birmingham League (Divisions I and II, with eight teams in each); Business Houses League (Divisions I and II, with eight teams in I and ten in II); Birmingham Works League ( a lot of clubs); Suburban League (also a lot); Birmingham Parks League (countless teams). 

Central Lancashire League    

1897-6-16 Standings.

1920-7-31 Rochdale resigns. Mr. White said he "would endow a new league with £1,000 to provide working expenses, medals, and cups for a considerable time to come." 

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Monday, December 23, 2024

In-season exhibitions list

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Cueball Ellis

Army records consistently list birthdate as 1899-4-04
Veterans Affair Master Index Three stints in army: 1917-8-08 to 1919-4-01, 1919-6-30 to 1920-6-29 (?), and 1928-11-13 to 1933-1-04. Says his birthdate was 1899-4-04. 

1923: Led league in hits with 370 - tied for lead in ER with 139 and led in runs with 185. One of five pitchers to commit a balk - one of four who tied for 2nd most with one.

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." 

1922-6-14 Buck Herzog is instilling a lot of spirit into his soldier-players. After just five days of training under Herzog, Camp Holabird has won four out of six games and they grumble at the two losses. They fear no greater army team.
1922-7-21 "The Southern division, Virginia section, has completed its divisional league season and is waiting for the upper tier in Maryland to decide the question of supremacy." 
    Buck Herzog has picked six members of the Fort Monroe team for his All-Third Corps team, "which will play a series of games in September and October with rather formidable opponents." 
    Private Leland W. Ellis is one of the soldiers picked to report for training for the team. "Fort Howard has been selected as the training center for the representative area team, and the 20 to 25 "

1922-7-06 Fort Monroe captures Virginia Army League title as Ellis wins 4-3.
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.
    "Ellis really lost his own game because he could not think quick enough." With Burke on third, a grounder was hit right back to Ellis by Williams - Ellis "had Burke off third" but decided to get the runner out instead. The first baseman tried to nail Burke but threw high and a second run scored.
1922-8-04 Fort Monroe 8, Tanks 7. 3K ATT. 12 innings. Deciding game of Third Corps Area championship - Fort Monroe received silver trophy.

1922-9-02 Third Corps Area 14, Washington Navy Yard 2. Team pic of Third Corps Area. Their 1st appearance in Baltimore.
1922-9-03 Yankees 12, Third Corps Area 3. 7K ATT. Baltimore native Babe Ruth hit three home runs. Ellis gave up 11 hits and 10 runs in 7 innings as starter, and allowed Ruth's first two homers. The nervous Third Corps Area made 9 errors.
1922-9-04 Third Corps Area 9, Marines 5. 1st game of annual series. The game didn't have the "spectacular setting and unrestrained enthusiasm of an Army-Marine gridiron clash," there "was plenty of spirit on the part of the fans and determination on the part of the players." Bill Henderson got the win.

1922-9-30 (Newport News) Fort Monroe 6, Phoebus Moose 4. 1st of a three-game series; poorly played. Seven players returned to Fort Monroe from "Herzog's Army Wild Cats," including Ellis who did not appear.
    The teams will meet in a doubleheader today to close the season and settle the Virginia Peninsula championship, as Fort Monroe are the army champ and the Moose are the civilian champs. The game will be played "on the lot at Old Point, inside the fort enclosure." "Seats will be provided for more than 1,000 visitors on the sides of the diamonds." 

1923-3-08 (Gaffney Ledger) Is spending a few days here with relatives before he reports to the Orioles on 3-15. "Since leaving Gaffney with the local company of Coast Artillery when that organization was called into service for the recent war Mr. Ellis has developed into an excellent twirler."
    "Mr. Ellis completed his enlistment [sic] in the army a few days ago. He had been in the ordnance service at Fort Monroe, Va., after having been transferred from the coast artillery. 
1923-4-06 Profile in Buffalo Courier. Is 6'1" 175 lb. BR TR. He had a 29-8 record for the Third Corps Area in 1922. He played for Charleston SC Peninsula League, 1917, and Ft. Moultrie 1917-21. 
* 1923-4-27 Cueball Ellis released by Orioles on Jack Dunn's orders. Charlie Schmidt is acting VP of the Orioles but Dunn still calls the shots. "The Newark Bears were badly in need of pitchers and appealed to Dunn." 
1923-8-20 A trio from the Newark Bears - pitchers Harry Baldwin, Cueball Ellis, and catcher Otto Greenae - played for South Orange 817 in their win versus Orange.
1923-8-21 Trio suspended
1923-8-22 Players reinstated after two days' suspension incurred for playing for an independent team. "The Newark baseball park fire caused a postponement of the doubleheader at that time and the players took advantage of the layoff to play with an independent team."
1927-2-10 Lists pro records. Born in Gaffney SC, 1901-4-04. BS, TR. 
1928-6-26 (Gaffney Ledger) Returned home. Started season with Montreal but developed arm trouble and could not get going.
1928-7-03 (Gaffney Ledger) Recently returned home. Tried out with the Greenville Spinners of the class B South Atlantic Association but was hit hard.
1928-7-07 (Gaffney - Cherokee Times) Played right field for Gaffney. 
1928-7-13 (Gaffney - Cherokee Times) Pitched for Gaffney in 12-6 defeat of Cherokee Mills. "At the continued requests of the fans, 'Cueball' Ellis pitched the last few innings of the game for Gaffney, and held the visitors practically hitless." Large crowd.

1932-6-28 The features of the clash between the Amateurs and the 31st Infantry were the spectacular and surprising twilling of Ellis, normally a first baseman, and a round trip blow by Neprud in the eighth inning. For some unaccountable reason, most of the Army team failed to show up, and Ellis asked for and received the pitching assignment. He held the Amateurs to three hits, and prevented them from scoring until the eighth, when a four-ply sock by Neprud averted a shut-out. Ousha started on the mound for the Amateurs, but was driven from the hill in the second inning, the doughboys by that time having a substantial five-run lead. Wever finished the game for the Shanghai team, and kept his opponents' hits well scattered, allowing them to score only once. Infantry 6: Amateurs 1.

1933-5-25 Ditto.
1933-6-03 Ellis may pitch for the Gaffney Manufacturing Company in Gaffney-Buffalo game.
    Couldn't find box or account for either game.

1948-6-03 Of 318 Broad Street - a house painter. Fractured both his wrists and may have injured knee after falling off a roof."
1956-7-10 Obit. Of 316 Broad street; died at Johnson City, TN. "He had been in declining health for several months." 

    Eubanks, Paul (P.D.)
1973-8-13 
    "One of the most memorable recollections of my younger days are centered around Elm Street Park, that dusty baseball diamond which produced more thrills than even the instant replay could recall.
    "The sound of bat hitting ball, the crack of a baseball bouncing off the rough boards of the outfield fence and the screams of youngsters chasing a foul in the swamp behind the stands, still ring in my ears.
    "The old park is gone, but the memories return each time I hear one of the old ballplayers talk about those days or even the days when other fields and parks were used."
    P.D. Eubanks sent in a list of local all-time greats. Lists Leland Ellis as one of three pitchers.
1973-9-07 Roy Hughey, one of the players listed on P.D. Eubanks' all-time all-star team, sends in a team of his own. Includes Leland Ellis as one of seven pitchers.
    Roy Hughey catching for 1933 Ware Shoals - teammate of Eubanks
1973-9-21 Gaffney Ledger. All-star team. W/ full names but without Ellis.

1923 Newark Bears
http://www.luckyshow.org/baseball/trunkmakers.htm Harrison Field, home stadium, burned down 1923/8/18. Meadowbrook Oval became home field.

1922-6-29 (Baltimore) So far this season only eight home runs have been hit at Harrison Field. All players who have homered at Harrison Field listed - only two visiting players have hit one.
    "Bernie Moan, vice-president of the Newark club, might also be termed the caterer of Harrison Field. Moan has charge of the refreshment dispensers and has been known to jump right in behind the hot dog counter and serve bow-wows himself in a pinch." 
1922-8-02 Newark fans want to own their team. Hope to erect a "modern park within city limits." "It is understood that Ashton and Moan want $65,000 for their holdings. They were forced to assume a four-year lease of Harrison Park, held by the majors, before they could start the ball rolling this year." 
1922-8-15 "A CROWD of 67 fans turned out to see Rochester and Newark in a double-header at Newark last Saturday. It was raining and Walter E. Hapgood, business manager of the Chiefs, tried to prevail upon Bernie Moan to postpone the contests and have the games transferred to Rochester.
At the time Moan and Hapgood started the argument there were 11 paid admissions in the ground. Later came the other 56. The Newark club lost around $650, it was stated in a Rochester paper.
    THE Bears are growing more unpopular at home. One fan, writing to a Newark paper, calls attention to a nickname of "Hot Dogs, tacked to the Bears in certain towns on the road. He says it is a disgrace for a team to be known as the "Hot Dogs." He probably has the impression that baseball has gone to the bow-wows in his native heath.
    "Hot Dogs" was tacked onto the Bears by a sporting writer in the North just to kid Bernie Moan, who looks after the business interests of the Newark club and also superintends the refreshment concession.
1923-3-31 "Bernie Moan, business manager of the Baltimore-controlled Newark club..."
    "It appears once more that the controllers in the local club are willing to have an outfit represent the city merely in order to maintain for Jack Dunn a controlling vote on the league councils on the draft issue."
  1923-5-19  "JUST YEAR AGO THAT LANDIS PROBED NEWARK 
IT was Jack Dunn who got the Akron franchise for Newark. Later Dunn announced he had nothing in the club at all and that Billy Ashton and Bernie Moan were the owners.
Nevertheless considerable row was stirred up in this league and it led to an investigation that was conducted in New York last summer. No statements of that meeting ever were given out. But it is pretty well known that Judge Landis was there and that he sent for President John Conway Toole, Jack Dunn, Billy Ashton, Bernie Moan and others supposed to have connection with the two clubs, or knowledge of their affairs. The International League was represented by several club owners. I understand that Dunn was ordered to dispose of any interest he might have in the club.
Which is the only right way out of it. A club owner has no business being interested in another club in his own league.
NOW STALLINGS HINTS THAT ALL IS NOT WELL 
THE question is whether Dunn did dispose of his interests. When the club was in Rochester George Stallings, of the Chiefs, hinted that all was not well and that a show-down was coming.
Dunn insists he owns none of the club. But Dunn sent Johnny Honig to Newark when the outfielder was reinstated. He sent Cueball Ellis, a promising young pitcher, to Newark before giving him a trial with the Birds. Joe Faber, a recruit infielder of the Birds, went to Winston-Salem, and Rabbit Whitman, a young outfielder, went from Winston-Salem to the Bears. Bill Clymer, not retained as manager of the Bears this year, was given a berth with Baltimore.
There certainly is a close connection between Newark and Baltimore, whether or not Dunn is owner of both clubs.
(1923-7-09 The Hot Dogs beat Rochester 9-6.
    Bernie Moan is known as "Hot Dog." "Moan doesn't stand in with many of the players, who have been at loggerheads with him for the past two years"
1923-7-09 (Kitchener ON) "Mickey Devine is still manager of the Newark Bears even tho he was 'fired' by telegraph on Friday. Bernie Moan, Secretary of the club, failed to show up again to settle Devine's status."
1923-7-12 (Buffalo) "The story [of Dunn's ownership] was prevalent all last season." The rumor is still rife, tho Dunn, Ashton, and President O'Toole deny it.
    "But the fact that Billy Ashton, who lives in Baltimore, is a close friend of Dunn's and that Bernie Moan, a former associate of Jack's, as business manager of the Bears seems to be able to hire and fire players over the head of Manager Mickey Devine and then to fire Mickey himself, makes some of the Int magnates and scribes smell smoke again. Mickey himself at least thinks he has discovered things that ought not to be, in the action of Moan in grabbing players he, Mickey, had recommended for his team and turning them over to strengthen the Orioles. There seems to be no doubt that Judge Landis can lay the facts of this case before the public and this seems a most desirable move. As Fred Tubbyville of the Baltimore Evening Sun puts it:
    "If Jack Dunn really has no business connection with the Newark club he should aid Judge Landis in getting the mess cleared up at once. It doesn't add anything to the league's reputation to have these stories floating around and getting in print every time Bernie Moan and one of his athletes have a run-in."
1923-7-15 (Rochester) Mickey Devine backtracks
1923-7-22 (Rochester) More on Devine
1923-8-25 (Buffalo) "BERNIE MOAN, Newark club impresario pro-tem, is so tight, Bear athletes charge, that he can carry an armful of eels up a ladder and not lose a one, remarks Cray Remington.
    When the Newark, stand burned Bear athletes saved nothing. They intimated Mr. Moan might pay for shoes, uniforms, gloves and hats. They merely intimated. Bernie has not taken a hint.
    The athletes should not censure Bernie too much. Mr. Moan, too, suffered more than mere words can relate. His losses enumerated were: Two dozen hot dogs, one jar mustard, two dozen bread rolls, one salt receptable, one pepper receptacle, five dill pickles, one peck peanuts. The peck of peanuts is merely an estimate Mr. Moan thinks there were more peanuts. Indeed he's inclined to think, on second thought, there were two pecks.
    While the fire raged the hottest Bernie rushed frantically around in search of peanuts. He saved one peck. The other peck was a total loss. If he had not been worried about the last peck of peanuts he would have stood in the burning aisle eating peanuts by the peck.
    However, Mr. Moan is thankful. The full half dozen hot dogs were saved. And anyone can tell the world they were hot. The hot dogs were saved because they barked shrilly for succor."
1923-9-20 (Baltimore) Account of fight between Moan and player. Can cull colorful quotes.
1923-12-07 (Balt) Newark IL sold to group of local Newark businessmen. New York, Dec. 6.-The Newark Club, International League, changed ownership today when the franchise and players were sold to a syndicate of Newark purchasers, who will hire a baseball park in the city limits for the 1924 season and plan to erect a permanent plant at a convenient location the following year. The purchasers were Michael McTigue, real estate operator; Corbett McCarthy and Charles Gould, merchants.
William Ashton and Bernie Moan, of Baltimore, were the former owners of the Newark franchise, the purchase being engineered in the office of President John Conway Toole, of the International League, in New York, with Charles H. Knapp, who is also the legal adviser of Jack Dunn, president of the Baltimore club, representing the Ashton-Moan interests.
    Knapp Goes To New York,
    Ashton came to New York on Tuesday and Knapp followed yesterday. Rumblings of an impending sale came to a head when the syndicate made an offer for the complete rights to the club which was satisfactory to the Baltimore men.
    Since the fire, which practically destroyed the stands at Harrison Field toward the latter part of last season, the Bears have been without a home, playing the remainder of their 1923 schedule at their opponents' parks. The club finished next to last, a high light in its somewhat sorry showing being the pitching of Harry Baldwin, a Baltimore product.
    To Strengthen Bears.
    It is the intention of the new purchasers to strengthen the club, and by 1925 to house the Bears in a modern baseball plant. The Ashton-Moan regime did not prove popular in Newark and criticisms were often leveled at the club for being owned and controlled outside of Newark.
    Civic pride, as well as the belief that a good ball club conveniently located in Newark would make money, is said to have been controlling factors in the change of ownership.
    Baseball enthusiasm for a good club at Newark run by local interests is reported high, and the fact that Jack Dunn, of the Orioles, was often accused of guiding the steps of the Bears did not serve to make the club popular when it was located at Harrison Field, the old Federal League Park.
Charged "Syndicate Ball."
    "Often various owners of the International League have accused Dunn of being interested financially in the Newark club, and there have been charges of "syndicate ball." Only this week President Sam Robertson and Manager Hooks Wiltse, of the Newark club, were reported as ready to demand an investigation of the relationship of the Orioles and Bears, the change of ownership, of course, putting an end to such demands.
    "Jack Dunn purchased the Akron franchise in 1919, transferring it to Newark. Later, Ashton was announced as the purchaser of the club from Dunn, and Bernie Moan became associated with him as secretary-treasurer.
    Paid $25,000 For Club.
    Dunn was reported to have purchased the Akron franchise for approximately $25,000, the terms of the sale to Ashton never having been disclosed. No price was named for today's sale to the Newark interests.
    Ashton and Knapp will leave for Chicago Saturday to attend the meeting of the International League in that city Monday. They will be joined by Jack Dunn, and in case the new owners of the Newark club do not attend the league session their interests will be taken care of by President Toole.



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