From the desk: DEM BARNSTORMERS
In a non-Eastern Colored League matchup, the Brooklyn Royal Giants ventured one hundred miles west to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Charlie Albert's Catasauqua A.A. team greeted them at Clearview Field.
Brooklyn took a one run lead in the second. But the home team countered in the fourth. Right-hander
Dick "Cannonball" Redding, rated as the greatest colored pitcher in the country, was easy pickin's for the Iron Borough batters. Two singles, two doubles and pitcher Ray Kepner's home run staked Catasauqua to a 5-1 lead from which the Royal Giants would not recover.
The locals added single runs in the fifth and eighth frames. Brooklyn fell short with one run in the sixth and two in the ninth. Both teams welded twelve hits. First baseman
Eddie Douglass finished 2 for 5, with a game-high ten putouts. The Royal Giants committed no errors, but stranded ten men on base. Right fielder
Irvin Brooks finished 3 for 5 with a home run.
Cannonball Redding walked two and struck out three in losing effort.
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