OTD 7/5/1922: Brooklyn Royal Giants In A Romp Over Fairbanks Nine, Vermont

From the desk: DEM BARNSTORMERS

The Caledonian-Record (St. Johnsbury, Vermont)

On Wednesday, July 5, 1922, the Brooklyn Royal Giants venture north into Vermont, defeating the local Fairbanks nine.

"The Brooklyn Royal Giants added one more victim to their long list of barnstorming successes when they pummelled and thumped two Fairbanks A.A. pitchers to all corners of the campus and won a slugfest, 16 to 2.  Were there no dark line in the big league, there would certainly be several colored brethren from this Flatbush nine up in the American and National organizations.  The Brooklyn Royal Giants were easily the fastest dusky baseball outfit that ever appeared in Northern Vermont.  They simply outclassed the locals in every department of the game ... outclassed just as any baseball club now in Vermont." - The Caledonian-Record

NOTE: the author's overt racism insofar as 

descriptive variations and frequency in this article are high.

The Caledonian-Record (St. Johnsbury, Vermont)

The Caledonian-Record (St. Johnsbury, Vermont)

BROOKLYN ROYAL GIANTS

With Brooklyn already leading 5-2 after six, all a dismayed Manager Hoernle can do was look on as Eddie Douglass' seventh-inning home run against Reed appears to still be on the climb as it leaves the field of play, then again as the Royal Giants bat-around against reliever Cuddy Murphy for another six runs scored in the eighth.  

All told, the Giants amass 21 hits in 41 at-bats, yet only three go for extra bases.  All nine Giant batters wield at least one hit, seven of whom post multiple hits.  Left fielder Irvin Brooks goes 3 for 6 with two doubles; Sam Mongin, Bob Scott, Eddie Douglass, and Wagner also register three hits.  

Starter String Bean Williams laces two hits during Brooklyn's six-run eighth.  Williams allows just two runs on twelve hits and two walks with seven strikeouts through nine innings for the win on the mound.

Fairbanks' first baseman Frank McLaughlin goes 3 for 4, and second baseman Ted Butler goes 3 for 5; together, they account for half of Fairbanks' twelve hits.  Catcher Tommy Starr and McLaughlin score their only runs.  Reed yields 13 hits and two walks, one wild pitch, and strikes out five before getting yanked in the seventh.