OTD in Barnstorming 8/31/1920: Brooklyn Royal Giants and Parkesburg (PA) Iron Company Duel to a Fifteen Inning Three-All Tie

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Lancaster (PA) New Era, Wednesday, September 1, 1920

On Tuesday, August 31, 1920, the Brooklyn Royal Giants trek to Pennsylvania where they duel the Parkesburg Iron Company to a three-all tie after fifteen innings.  The game is called due to darkness.

Lancaster (PA) New Era, Wednesday, September 1, 1920

BROOKLYN ROYAL GIANTS

Starting for Parkesburg, Olsen goes the distance allowing three runs on six hits and just one walk with eleven strikeouts.  For Brooklyn, right-hander Jessie Hubbard yields three runs on seven hits and six walks with 13 strikeouts.

The Royal Giants open with a run in the first, but the Iron Company ties in the second.  The score then remains unchanged through the seventh inning.  Parkesburg plates a pair in the eighth, but the Giants respond with two of their own in the ninth, sending the game into extra innings.  After six more scoreless innings, darkness thwarts further play.

First baseman Eddie Douglass wields a double and scores.  Third baseman Louis Miller also hits safely, and scores and center fielder Tom Fiall accounts for Brooklyn's third run.

OTD 6/16/1922: Brooklyn Royal Giants Defeat Asbury Park Meadowbrooks

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Asbury Park Press, Saturday, June 17, 1922

On Friday, June 16, 1921, the Brooklyn Royal Giants, with a 7-2 victory, spoil the Asbury Park Meadowbrooks season opener at Athletic Grounds, New Jersey.

Brooklyn starter Otis Starks limits the Meadowbrooks to a pair of runs on just four hits and six walks with four strikeouts in a winning effort.  Ashbury Park's scoring comes on a two-run inside the park home run by Heath, the first baseman, in the fifth.

On the mound for the Meadowbrooks, Huntley yields seven runs on twelve hits.  Second baseman Irvin Brooks accounts for Brooklyn's lone extra-base hit.  Otherwise, Huntley walks three and strikes out one in a losing effort.  Royal Giants' left fielder Bob Scott goes 3 for 4 with a run scored, and first baseman and manager Eddie Douglas likewise wields three hits in four at-bats, with three runs scored.  Third baseman Johnson Hill and right fielder Jesse Hubbard account for two his each.  

OTD 6/12/1923: Jesse Hubbard Hurls Shutout As Brooklyn Royal Giants Defeat Burlington

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On Tuesday, June 12, 1923, Burlington limits the Brooklyn Royal Giants to just two hits but bow to the visitors, 1 to 0, at Centennial Field, Vermont.  The lone run of the game is scored in the fifth.  Royal Giants catcher Charlie Spearman leads off with a double, advances to third on a bunt, then scored on third baseman Johnson Hill's sacrifice fly to right field.  

First baseman and captain Eddie Douglass tripled in the sixth but was left stranded.  

Burlington starter Doc Newton is the hard-luck loser, yielding just one run on two hits, both for extra bases, with three strikeouts.  Brooklyn right-hander Jesse Hubbard allows seven hits, one for extra bases, with seven strikeouts for the win.

Sources:

• The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont), Wednesday, June 13, 1923
• 1923 Brooklynn Royal Giants, Seamheads.com

OTD 5/19/1924: Brooklyn Royal Giants Defeat Tonawanda All-Stars in Snowy Erie County

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Buffalo Courier (Buffalo, New York) 

May 20, 1924

Erie County, N.Y. - On a frigid Monday, May 19, 1924, the Brooklyn Royal Giants defeat the Tonawanda All-Stars.  In between Eastern Colored League games, barnstorming Western New York, manager Eddie Douglass delegates mound responsibilities between three twirlers who limit Tonawanda to four runs on six hits.  Catcher John Cason completes the battery.  Right-hander Jesse Hubbard throws a scoreless first inning.  Next in, Smokey Joe Williams yields three runs in the second, then tosses a scoreless third.  Southpaw Willis "Jack" Flournoy tosses the final six innings, allowing just one run for the victory.  Brooklyn knocks their hosts off-kilter with a four-run outburst in the first.  First baseman Eddie Douglass himself wields four hits in five trips to the plate.  The only lake effect phenomena going on around here is a Brooklyn Royal Giants win.

OTD in Eastern Colored League History 5/17/1926: Brooklyn Royal Giants Defeat Oscar Charleston Managed Harrisburg Giants

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Delaware County Daily Times

On Monday, May 17, 1926, in a game featuring Eastern Colored League members, the Brooklyn Royal Giants defeat the Oscar Charleston managed Harrisburgh Giants on their grounds by the final score, 10 to 6.  Heavy rain delayed the game in the sixth, and in the eighth, ended it.  

While Oscar Charleston patrolled center field, the Harrisburgh Giants also featured outfielders Rap Dixon and Fats Jenkins and third baseman John Beckwith.  The 1926 Royal Giants are managed by Jock Waters.  They are being headlined by Jesse Hubbard, Bill Holland, Charlie Smith, and of course, Dick "Cannonball" Redding.

The Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware

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OTD 5/15/1921: Bushwicks Sweep Doubleheader From Brooklyn Royal Giants at Dexter Park

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MAY 15, 1921

DOUBLE-HEADER

BROOKLYN ROYAL GIANTS

vs.

BUSHWICKS

FROM

DEXTER PARK

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l - The Brooklyn Citizen, May 14, 1921

r - The Standard Union, Brooklyn, May 14, 1921

 Times Union, Brooklyn, May 16, 1921

The largest-ever crowd being reported for a baseball game at Dexter Park witnesses Max Rosner's Bushwicks sweep a double-header from the rival Eddie Johnson-managed Brooklyn Royal Giants.

GAME ONE

Royal Giants   2

BUSHWICK     3

FINAL

Game one is a tightly contested affair.  Ralph Carlstrom toes the slab for Bushwick, opposed by the Royal Giants right-hander Jesse "Mountain" Hubbard, who strikes out the first three batters he faces.  The pitchers trade zeroes until the fourth.  A double to center by left fielder Bob Scott and a single by Eddie Johnson stake the Royal Giants to a 1-0 lead, but it is short-lived.  An error by shortstop Irvin Brooks ultimately results in an unearned run and a tie game in the bottom half of the frame.  Until the sixth, when second baseman and Bushwicks captain Joe Weiss connects off Mountain Hubbard on a two-run home run hit deep into the overflow crowd stationed in straightaway center field.  The Royal Giants generate a late run in the eighth on singles by third baseman Louis Miller, Bob Scott, and Brooks.  But it's too little too late.  A stellar catch in left field by Johnny Menzel is key in quelling any further threat; the large crowd uproariously expressed their appreciation.  Winning pitcher Ralph Carlstrom issues just one walk and five hits through nine.  Jesse Hubbard takes the loss upon yielding three runs on eight hits (one home run), no walks, and eight strikeouts.

BOXSCORES: Times Union, Brooklyn

May 16, 1921

GAME TWO

Royal Giants    2

BUSHWICK    10

FINAL

Bushwick romps to victory in game two.  John Harris starts for the Royal Giants and is treated rather roughly.  He yields ten runs on twelve hits, three going for extra bases, six walks, and four strikeouts through eight innings pitched.  Harris also hits his mound opponent with a pitch which does little to hinder winning pitcher Jimmy Clinton from limiting the Giants to a pair of late runs on just six hits and one walk with two strikeouts.  Five Bushwick batters post multiple hits.  Only Harris of the Giants registers two hits; left fielder Bob Scott scores both Giants runs.

OTD 5/14/1921: Brooklyn Royal Giants Fall to Farmers at Glendale's New Field

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The Brooklyn Citizen, May 14, 1921

On Saturday, May 14, 1921, the Brooklyn Royal Giants are defeated by the Farmers nine of Glendale, Long Island.  Twirling for the hosts, newly signed Harry Hagermann yields to Brooklyn three runs on ten hits and no walks with five strikeouts for the victory.

The Farmers take an early 1-0 lead when first baseman Dahncke homers to deep left; it's the first home run hit at Glendale's new field.  But Brooklyn answers with a run in the third.  Second baseman John Cason singles, advances to second, then scored on third baseman Louis Miller's base hit.  However, with three runs in the fourth, Glendale takes a 4-3 lead they would not concede.

• Game Account: The Standard Union (Brooklyn), May 15, 1921

Brooklyn Royal Giants starter Henry Howell issues four walks, and fans three before 1B/manager Eddie Douglas brings in reliever Jesse Hubbard.  The two hurlers join together in surrendering six runs on twelve hits.  

Center fielder Tom Fiall in the sixth singles and scores on Eddie Douglass' hit.  Farmers' shortstop Blank errs in the seventh, leading to Brooklyn's third run.  But any Royal Giants designs for a comeback are short-circuited; in the bottom of the seventh, Glendale scores twice more en route to a 6-3 final score at Farmer Oval.  Brooklyn third baseman Louis Miller accounts for three of Brooklyn's ten hits.

l: The Brooklyn Citizen, May 15, 1921

r: The Standard Union (Brooklyn), May 15, 1921