OTD 9/22/1912: New York Lincoln Giants Sweep Twin Bill From Ridgewood Baseball Club at Wallace's Grounds

From the desk: THE KINGS OF HARLEM

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Monday, September 23, 1912

On Sunday, September 22, 1912, the Ridgewood Baseball Club hosted the New York Lincoln Giants at Wallace's Ridgewood Grounds, Halsey Street, and Irving Avenue.

NEW YORK LINCOLN GIANTS

GAME ONE features future Hall of Famer Joe "Cyclone" Williams for the Lincoln Giants pitted against Wilson for Ridgewood.  Smokey Joe holds the home team scoreless through the first five innings.  Then yields single runs late in the sixth and eighth innings on ten total hits (only one for extra bases) and no walks with five strikeouts for the win.  Leadoff batter and center fielder Spottswood Poles tops the Giants with three hits, including a triple. Left fielder Judy Gans and catcher Pete Booker collects two hits each, and first baseman Bill Pettus homers for the Giants.  Shortstop John Henry Lloyd singled and scored and kickstarted one of two double plays.  

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Monday, September 23, 1912

GAME TWO - New York knocks Ridgewood starter Doc Scanlan out of the box in the fifth after yielding ten runs on ten hits while further compromising his cause with seven walks and two wild pitches.  In relief of Scanlan, Smith allows three more runs on three hits over the final two innings of a seven-inning game.  The Lincoln Giants amass 13 hits.  Catcher Louis Santop and three others wield two each.  Judy Gans doubles, triples, and steals a base, and Spottswood Poles hit two home runs.  Ben Taylor enters the game as a late defensive replacement in right field.

The 1912 New York Lincoln Giants feature four future members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.