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

OTD Negro National League 6/17/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Fall To Homestead Grays at Altoona, Pa.

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Tuesday, June 18, 1935

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

Brooklyn Eagles

vs.

Homestead Grays

On this day, Monday, June 17, 1935, in a Negro National League game, the Brooklyn Eagles fall to the Homestead Grays at Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Brooklyn jumps out to a 1-0 lead in the first and takes a two-run lead in the top half of the second.  But the Grays knot the game in the bottom half of the frame.  The teams then traded runs in the third.  Homestead takes their first lead with two runs in the fifth, then scores the game's pivotal run in the home eighth, as Brooklyn tallies single runs in the eighth and ninth innings but falls one tally short.

Eagles starter Will Jackman allows six runs (five earned) on ten hits and two walks with one strikeout in a losing effort.  Homestead right-hander Joe "Baby Face" Strong yields three runs on five hits and three walks with four strikeouts through five innings.  In relief of Strong, C.D. Mosley surrenders two runs on four hits and one walk with two strikeouts for the win.

For Homestead, first baseman Buck Leonard goes 4 for 4 with three doubles, a home run, two runs batted in, three runs scored, and a stolen base, left fielder Vic Harris is 2 for 4 with a double, one run batted in, and a run scored, and center fielder Ray Brown goes 1 for 3 with a double, stolen base, and a run batted in.  Starter Joe Strong also helps his own cause with a hit and two runs batted in

Second basemen Harry Williams homers for Brooklyn.  Catcher Leon Ruffin leads the Eagles with three hits and two runs scored.  First baseman George Giles goes 2 for 5 with a double, triple, and run scored.  Third baseman Javier Perez also doubles and drives in a run.  Leon Day played right field and went hitless in four at-bats.