On Thursday, August 6, 1925, not more than two miles from where I presently live, the local Ray Ridge Baseball Club and Brooklyn Royal Giants split a doubleheader at Graham Field, 15th Avenue at 86th Street.
GAME ONE - Thursday's opener features southpaw Willis Flournoy starting for the Royal Giants opposed by Eddie Lennon for Bay Ridge. While each team totals just six hits apiece, it's the Ridgers who bunch theirs together a bit more effectively. The Royals open the scoring in the second, then take a 2-0 lead in the third inning on catcher John Cason's home run. Bay Ridge's first run comes in the bottom half of the frame due to subpar infield play on behalf of the Royals, who this game commits six fielding errors. The pitching duel between Flournoy and Lennon resumes as the score remains unchanged through the sixth. Then comes the home team's big four-run seventh, when they string together three consecutive hits to knock Flournoy out of the box. Into the game enters Dick "Cannonball" Redding, who likewise fails to escape the frame unscathed. Eddie Lennon closes out the game with two more scoreless innings, having surrendered just two runs on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts through nine complete. Meanwhile, "Lefty" Flournoy, up until that fateful seventh, holds the Ridgers hitless through his first six innings pitched but issues five bases on balls with six strikeouts in losing effort. Captain and first baseman Eddie Douglass accounts for two of Brooklyn's six scattered hits. Whereas the lineup's two through seven batters for Bay Ridge each hit safely.
GAME TWO - The second contest is an abbreviated seven-inning affair. Brooklyn Royal Giants' starter Connie "Broadway" Rector hurls a gem, limiting Bay Ridge to just three hits and two walks with five strikeouts for the win. Rector keeps the Ridgers scoreless through the first six innings until easing up and allowing three seventh-inning base runners to cross home plate. Meanwhile, the Royal Giants have little problems solving Bay Ridge starter Sandy Burk who surrenders eight runs, often in bunches, on 13 hits and two walks in a losing effort. Eddie Douglass goes 2 for 4 with two doubles, catcher Charlie Spearman starting in game two homers off Burk. Center fielder Irvin Brooks
leads the team with three hits, including a double and two runs scored, and third baseman Johnson Hill goes 2 for 3 with two runs en route to an 8-3 victory over Bay Ridge and twin bill split.
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