OTD 9/22/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Split Twin Bill With Glendale at Farmer's Oval, Queens

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

The Times Union (Brooklyn, NY), 

Monday, September 23, 1935

On Sunday, September 22, 1935, the Negro National League  Brooklyn Eagles and Glendale Farmers split games of a doubleheader at Farmer's Oval, Queens.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

BROOKLYN EAGLES

Playing before 5,700 fans at Farmer's Oval, the home team takes the opening game from the Eagles.  Brooklyn starter Terris McDuffie is knocked out of the box as the Farmers seize a 6-2 lead through five.  Right-hander Elbert Williams enters the game in relief of McDuffie, and Billy Nicholas tosses a scoreless ninth.  Farmer's first baseman Gene Rogers connects for a three-run home run, and third baseman Roy Tarr also homers for Queens.  Glendale starter Jack LaRocca holds Brooklyn to three runs on nine hits for the win.  Left fielder Fats Jenkins leads the Eagles with three hits, right fielder Ed Stone goes 2 for 4 with a triple, and third baseman Javier Perez accounts for two of Brooklyn's three runs scored.

The Times Union (Brooklyn, NY), Monday, September 23, 1935

Right-hander Leon Day holds Glendale to four runs on seven hits with four strikeouts in game two as the Eagles draw even with the Farmers for a twin bill split.  Brooklyn punishes Dominick Torpe's offerings to all corners of the yard for 17 hits resulting in six runs.  First baseman George Giles goes 4 for 5 with a triple and stolen base.  Catcher Clarence Palm also triples, and Ed Stone homers for Brooklyn.  The Eagles turn a key double-play in the eighth to help preserve the victory.

OTD 9/11/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Defeat Grover Cleveland Alexander's Western House of David in First-Ever Arc-Light Game at Ebbets Field

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 

Thursday, September 12, 1935

They tried this once before, on Monday, June 5, 1935, but the first-ever arclight game to be staged at Ebbets Field pitting the Brooklyn Eagles hosting the House of David Club was rained out with both parties unsure whether the game would ever be rescheduled.  

Well, herein, we have our answer.

On Wednesday, September 11, 1935, the Brooklyn Eagles host Grover Cleveland Alexander's western House of David in the first-ever arclight game staged at Ebbets Field.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

BROOKLYN EAGLES

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 

Thursday, September 12, 1935

The now 48-year old Pete Alexander pitches the first inning, yielding one hit against leadoff batter Fats Jenkins, then retires to the dugout to coach the team.  Walter Laufer takes over pitching duties in the second and surrenders six runs on ten hits and one walk with two strikeouts in a losing effort.

The Eagles open the scoring in the home fourth.  But in the visitor's sixth, House of David ties the game at one.  That is until Eagle shortstop Bill Sadler triples him the go-ahead run as part of a three-run rally in the home sixth.  Brooklyn adds two more in the eighth en route to a 6-1 final score.

Fats Jenkins goes 3 for 4 with a triple and a stolen base.  First baseman George Giles, right fielder Ed Stone, and catcher Tex Burnett who goes 2 for 3, also wield triples for the Eagles.

Brooklyn right-hander Terris McDuffie is the true star of the game, limiting the House of Davis to a lone run on six hits and two walks with ten strikeouts and a hit batsman for good measure.

Times Union (Brooklyn, NY), 

 Thursday, September 12, 1935

 

OTD Negro National League vs. Brooklyn Semipros 8/29/1937: Leon Day Wins Two as Newark Eagles Sweep Both Ends of Twin Bill Against Bay Parkways at Erasmus Field

From the desk: NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPRO

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, August 30, 1937

On Sunday, August 29, 1937, not more than two miles from where I presently live, the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League win games of a tightly contested doubleheader against the Bay Parkway Dukes at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line, Brooklyn.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

NEWARK EAGLES

GAME ONE - Starting for the Dukes, Phil Mooney is opposed by the familiar right-hander Terris McDuffie who was hurling for Brooklyn two years ago before the Manleys relocated the Eagles to Newark.  The two duel to a one-all tie through nine innings.  Newark scores their run in the second and the Bay Parkways in the fourth.  Afterwhich, the score remains unchanged for the next five innings, and into extra innings, they go at Erasmus Field.

Mooney allows the lone run on just five hits through nine.  After the second, he hurls seven scoreless innings but exits to a no-decision.  He is relieved in the tenth inning by Eddie Bell.  Meanwhile, Terris McDuffie lasts through the twelfth inning, and like Mooney, walks off to a no-decision.  McDuffie, after the fourth twirls eight scoreless innings.  

After enduring another four scoreless frames, the Eagles finally get to Eddie Bell for three runs in the top of the fourteenth inning.  Second baseman Dick Seay doubles, and after a walk issued to shortstop Willie Wells, first baseman Mule Suttles doubles to right field, plating Seay with the game's decisive run.  

Right-hander Leon Day, who entered the game in the thirteenth, tosses two scoreless innings for the win.  Right fielder Ed Stone leads the Eagles with three hits, and third baseman Ray Dandridge

wields two.

The Brooklyn Citizen, Monday, August 30, 1937

GAME TWO - A seven-inning contest is agreed upon.  Newark promptly scores three runs on four hits against Bay Parkway starter Johnny Ubinski in the first inning.  Afterwhich, Ubinski settles in with help from Teddy Wronewic's stellar play in left field, allowing no runs on just three scattered hits over the final six innings.  

However, Leon Day makes Newark's lead stand.  The Dukes manage two runs in the fourth and not much else.  After his relief stint in game one, Leon Day holds Bay Parkway to six hits with three strikeouts over seven innings for the win.  Ed Stone leads the Eagles with two hits, while Mule Suttles, Dick Seay, and center fielder Jimmie Crutchfield crossed home for Newark.  Despite seven strikeouts, Johnny Ubinski takes the hard-luck loss.

OTD 6/23/1935: Bay Parkway Dukes Split Twin Bill With New York Black Yankees at Erasmus Field

From the desk: NEGRO LEAGUES vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPROS

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York),

Monday, June 24, 1935

On Sunday, June 23, 1935, not more than two miles from where I presently live, the Bay Parkway Dukes split games of a doubleheader with the New York Black Yankees at Erasmus Field, McDonald Avenue at the Avenue M station along the Culver Line. 

⚾ 1935 New York Black Yankees ⚾

GAME ONE - Bay Parkway starter Al Morris limits the Yankees to just one run on eight hits and two walks with seven strikeouts for the win.  Second baseman Henry Spearman leads the visitors with four hits, including a double in four at-bats.  Catcher Bob Clarke is the only other Yankee with multiple hits.  Left fielder Crush Holloway and shortstop Walter Cannady account for the Yankees' other two hits.  But the New York Black Yankees leave nine men on base.  Starter Barney Brown yields two runs on just four hits and four walks with seven strikeouts in a hard-luck loss.  Both teams traded runs in the first inning, Spearman scoring for the Yankees and Goldstein for the Dukes.  The score remains unchanged through the fifth.  However, in the home sixth, Yankees' first baseman Dave Thomas drops a throw from third baseman Bill Riggins allowing Mac Posnack to score the game's decisive run.

GAME TWO - The Dukes twice hold the lead, each time relinquishing it to the Yankees, who finally pull away with single runs in the sixth and eighth innings en route to a tightly contested 6-5 victory and a split of Sunday's twin bill at Erasmus Field.  The Yankees' pitching duties are shared by Connie Rector and  Terris McDuffie joining together to win.  They allow nine hits, with four going for extra bases, including a triple by Dukes' second baseman, Rodrigues.  McDuffie walks one and strikeouts out four, and Rector walks one and hits a batter.  Making up for his game one misplay, first baseman Dave Thomas leads the Yankees with a double, triple, and two runs scored.  Center fielder Thad Christopher also goes 2 for 5 with a double and a run scored.