From the desk: BROOKLYN SEMIPROS
On Sunday, July 12, 1931, not more than two miles from where I presently live, the Bay Parkways lose both games of a doubleheader against the Detroit Clowns at Erasmus Field, McDonald Ave at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line. This marks just the second time Manager Lippe's Parkways are swept in a twin bill this season. Only the New York Black Yankees had accomplished the feat previous to Detroit's arrival in Brooklyn.
"In the first game Johnny Day of the Clowns proved a young twirler with big league possibilities. Only 21 years old, and playing for the first time away from his hometown near Albany (N.Y.), Day displayed sharp hooks and sweeping curves to turn back the Parkways with only five hits." - The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York), Monday, July 13, 1931
GAME ONE - Detroit unveils their new young hurler, Johnny Day, who yields just two runs on five hits (one for extra bases) and one walk with six strikeouts through nine innings for the win. The Parkways ninth-inning rally falls one run short of tying the contest at three. Day's duel with Brooklyn's Lefty Hinkle lasts through the sixth. But Detroit's two runs in the seventh inevitably make the difference. Southpaw Hinkle surrenders three runs on six hits and one walk with two strikeouts in a hard-luck loss.
GAME TWO - Starter Wuzzy Fullerton of the Parkways is pitted against Al Uska for the Clowns. The two pitchers duel through a 2-1 contest in favor of Detroit through the eighth. The Clowns then erupt for three runs in the top half of the ninth. Fullerton yields 5 runs on eleven hits and three walks with no strikeouts for his third loss this season in an otherwise well-pitched game. In Fullerton's defense, the hitting in support of his effort is minimal. Clown starter Al Uska, a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, limits the Parkways to one run in the sixth, seven hits, and two walks, with six strikeouts for the win. Detroit's first baseman Buster Kenny wields two hits in game one and two hits in game two.
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