OTD Negro National League vs. Brooklyn Semipros 8/20/1935: Bushwicks Defeat Philadelphia Stars at Pennsylvania Railroad Y.M.C.A. Field

From the desk: NEGRO LEAGUES vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPROS

The Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, 

Wednesday, August 21, 1935

Max Rosner's Bushwick club packed their suitcases and traveled to the City of Brotherly Love, where on Tuesday, August 20, 1935, they took on Ed Bolden's Philadelphia Stars of the Negro National League at the Pennsylvania Railroad Y.M.C.A. Field, 44th Street, and Parkside Avenue.

"DEXTERS TOP PHILLY STARS"

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), 

Wednesday, August 21, 1935

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

PHILADELPHIA STARS

Toeing the slab for Bushwich, Rube Chambers is opposed by southpaw Lefty Holmes twirling for the Stars.  Philly opens the scoring with three in the second.  But Bushwick answers back in the fourth with three of their own.  The score remains unchanged through the sixth.  The Stars then seize a 4-3 lead in the seventh.

Lefty Holmes issues a walk to Bushwick second baseman Dutch Woerner with two outs in the top of the eighth, then hits right fielder Sol Mishkin with a pitch.  Third baseman Willie Batch singles driving home Woerner, and Eppie Barnes follows with a double plating Mishkin and Batch for a 6-4 lead and the final margin of victory.

Lefty Holmes takes the loss, allowing all six runs on eight hits and five walks with seven strikeouts.  Rube Chambers yields four runs on ten hits and five walks with four strikeouts for the win.

Stars' third baseman Dewey Creacy homers and drives home two.  Right fielder Ted Page and second baseman Dick Seay drive home a run apiece.  Center fielder Lloyd Davenport leads Philly with three hits, including a double with two runs scored.  Catcher Biz Mackey goes 1 for 2 with a run scored, and first baseman Jud Wilson wields a double in three trips to the plate.

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), 

Wednesday, August 21, 1935

OTD Brooklyn Semipros 7/20/1934: Bay Parkway Dukes Outlast Bushwick at Dexter Park

From the desk: BROOKLYN SEMIPROS 

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York),

Saturday, July 21, 1934

On Sunday, July 20, 1934, in a battle between brothers, Joe Rosner's Bay Parkway Dukes outslug Max Rosner's Bushwicks at Dexter Park, Woodhaven.

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York),

Saturday, July 21, 1934

In a back and forth affair, Bay Parkway starter Big Ike Gould outlasts both Bushwick starter Mike DeMucchio and reliever Art Smith for the win.  Gould also flashes his leather skills, initially snaring two potential Bushwick hits laced back through the box.  With Bushwick trailing 10-8 in the ninth, Gould snatches yet another comebacker off the bat of third baseman Buck Lai.  Afterwhich, Bushwick shortstop Dutch Woerner triples, bringing to the plate recent center field acquisition Frank Schreich representing the tying run.  With two outs, Gould offers, and Schreich sends a fly deep to center field where George Andrews cradles the ball for the final out.  

Big Ike Gould yields eight runs on eleven hits and two walks with five strikeouts in a winning effort.  Bushwick right fielder Ed Boland poses Gould's biggest threat, going 3 for 4 with a home run; Dutch Woerner and Eppie Barnes also wield multiple hits for the visiting Dexters.

Bushwick's Mike DeMucchio surrenders seven runs on nine hits, and a walk with three strikeouts in just five innings pitched but escapes with a no-decision.  Smith allows three late runs for the loss.  Duke shortstop Roy Tarr goes 3 for 5 with a home run, and right fielder Bruce Caldwell likewise goes 3 for 5 with a double.  The two team up to drive in seven runs for Joe Rosner's Dukes.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle,

Saturday, July 21, 1934

OTD 6/23/1935: Bushwick Splits Games of Twin Bill With Homestead Grays at Dexter Park

From the desk: NEGRO LEAGUES vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPROS

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York),

Monday, June 24, 1935

On Sunday, June 23, 1935, Max Rosner's Bushwick nine split games of a doubleheader with Cum Posey's Homestead Grays at Dexter Park.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

HOMESTEAD GRAYS

vs.

BUSHWICK

GAME ONE - Facing Homestead Grays right-hander Ray Brown, Bushwick musters seven runs on 13 hits and two walks.  The Grays open the scoring in the first, but Bushwick scores twice in the second, highlighted by right fielder Solly Mishkin's home run, and would never trail again.  Four more runs cross the plate in the sixth as Mishkin, second baseman Dutch Woerner, third baseman Jimmy Calleran all hit safely, and catcher Emil Gall smashes a two-run home run.  Mishkin and Woerner lead Bushwick with three hits apiece, and Jimmy Calleran goes 1 for 3 with two runs batted in.  Starter Charley Perkins yields five runs on nine hits and one walk with four strikeouts for the win.  Homestead third baseman  George Scales leads the Grays with three runs batted in.  He, along with center fielder Jerry Benjamin and second baseman Matt Carlisle wield two hits apiece.  However, first baseman Buck Leonard is held hitless in three at-bats.

GAME TWO - Grays starter Joe Strong limits Bushwick to just one run on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts for the win.  Native Brooklynite and former big leaguer of 30 games with the New York Giants Al Moore drives home, Emil Gall, with Bushwick's only run in the sixth.  In a losing effort, starter Art Smith yields two runs on eight hits and four walks over six innings pitched.  Jim Duffy allows three runs on four hits over two innings in relief of Smith.  Matt Carlisle goes 4 for 5, giving him six hits in the twin bill.  George Scales and shortstop Jelly Jackson hit for extra bases.  Buck Leonard is again held hitless in four at-bats, making him 0 for 7 for the day.  Jerry Benjamin and catcher Tommy Dukes post multiple hits.

"In 16 games with colored teams this season the Dexters have won twelve and lost four.  Against Negro National League teams they have won three out of five.  Aginst white clubs they have won eleven out of twelve, making their record to date 23 victories against five defeats." - Times Union, Brooklyn