OTD Negro National League vs. Brooklyn Semipros 9/10/1937: Leon Day Hurls Two-Hit Shutout; Newark Eagles Defeat Bushwick at Dexter Park

From the desk: NEGRO LEAGUES vs. BROOKLYN SEMIPROS

The Brooklyn Citizen, Saturday, September 11, 1937

On Friday, September 10, 1937, Newark's 20-year old right-hander and future Hall of Famer Leon Day leads the Eagles in victory over Bushwick at Dexter Park.

Newark's Leon Day limits the Dexters to a mere two hits and one walk with four strikeouts in a complete-game shutout effort.  Not one Bushwick baserunner reaches second base.  In fact, only four Bushwick players even reached first: two hits, a walk, and a hit by pitch.  Leon Day also finishes strong, retiring Bushwick in order in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings. 

This is not to say Bushwick starter Bernie Pearlman was ineffective, perhaps just unlucky.  Pearlman yields just two runs on ten hits and two walks with four strikeouts in the loss in an otherwise fine effort.

After six scoreless innings of play, Day comes to his own aid in the seventh inning.  Third baseman 

Ray Dandridge singles and Leon Day wallops a double off the right-field wall, scoring Dandridge.  Newark picked up an insurance run in the ninth when left fielder Lennie Pearson doubled and scored due to a misplay in right field.

Third baseman Al Reiss and shortstop Russell Bergman account for Bushwick's only hits.

Ray Dandridge with three hits and Lennie Pearson with two account for half of Newark's ten hits.  Shortstop Willie Wells wields the second of Newark's two extra-base hits, while first baseman 

Mule Suttles is held hitless in four trips.

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE

NEWARK EAGLES

The Brooklyn Citizen, 

Saturday, September 11, 1937

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 Negro National League 6/29/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Defeat Chicago American Giants at Cole's Park

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 

Sunday, June 30, 1935

On Saturday, June 29, 1935, in a Negro National League contest, the Brooklyn Eagles defeated the Chicago American Giants at Cole's Park, Chicago, Illinois.

After three scoreless frames, the Eagles and Giants trade single runs in the fourth and sixth innings.  Chicago then pushes across the go-ahead run in the eighth.  Nursing a 3-2 lead in the top half of the ninth, Chicago's first baseman Steel Arm Davis fails to secure a throw from second baseman Jack Marshall thus clearing the way for Brooklyn to muster four unanswered runs and secure a come-from-behind 6-3 victory.  

All but center fielder Willie Ward hits safely for the Eagles.  First baseman George Giles leads Brooklyn with two hits, including a double, two stolen bases, two runs scored, and right fielder Ed Stone delivers two runs batted in.  Fats Jenkins, catcher Clarence Palm, third sacker Javier Perez, and Bill Yancey drive home a run apiece.  Starter Will Jackman allows three runs on seven hits and four walks through nine innings for the win.

Giants' starter Ossie Brown walks one and strikes out three and is relieved in the ninth but not before yielding six runs on nine hits in a losing effort.  Right-hander Melvin Powell finishes the game in relief of Brown.  Shortstop Willie Wells is held hitless; Turkey Stearns, a hit and a run scored.  Steel Arm Davis leads Chicago with three hits, including two doubles and two runs batted in.  Left fielder Mule Suttles accounts for the Giants' third run batted in.

The Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana), 

Sunday, June 30, 1935

OTD 5/26/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Turn The Tables on Chicago American Giants With Twin Bill Sweep at Ebbets Field

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 27, 1935

NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE II

Chicago American Giants

vs.

Brooklyn Eagles

FROM

EBBETS FIELD

 

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), May 27, 1935

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 27, 1935

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), May 27, 1935

On Sunday, May 26, 1935, in a Negro National League match-up, the Brooklyn Eagles exact a measure of revenge after Saturday's doubleheader loss to the Chicago American Giants, with a sweep of today's twin bill before a crowd of 5,000 on hand at Ebbets Field. 

GAME ONE - Twice, the American Giants mount a lead, and each time the Eagles answered.  After scoring once in the second and twice in the top half of the third, Brooklyn strikes back with three runs in the bottom of the frame.  When Chicago established a 5-3 lead after eight, the Eagles again respond with two runs in the bottom of the ninth, sending the game into extra innings.  With no outs in the home tenth and Harry Williams on base, center fielder Rap Dixon doubles home Williams with the game-winning run.  Dixon leads the Eagles with three hits in five trips with a stolen base, while shortstop Dennis Gilchrist is 2 for 3 with a double and run scored.  Chicago shortstop Willie Wells goes 2 for 5 with a double, and left fielder Turkey Stearns is similarly 2 for 4 with a triple.  Brooklyn right-hander Will Jackman earns the victory in relief of starter Elbert Williams, who escapes with a no-decision.  Chicago right-hander Ted Trent takes the loss.

GAME TWO - Brooklyn Eagles starter Sleeky Reese faces just two batters, surrendering a base hit and a walk.  Manager George Giles promptly replaces him with right-hander Will Jackman who allows four runs on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts over the ensuing nine innings for the win.  In fact, Jackman helps his own cause with a double and triple in three trips to the plate.  Chicago starter  Ossie Brown is knocked out of the box and relieved by Melvin Powell; together, they surrender nine runs on eight hits in the first inning alone.  Brooklyn totals 14 runs on 17 hits, including extra bases from Tex Burnett, Fats Jenkins, Dennis Gilchrist, Jackman, and a home run off the bat of captain Giles.  Jenkins, Gilchrist, and right fielder Ed Stone finish with three hits apiece.  The game ends after seven innings by agreement.  

• ICYMI  OTD: 5/25/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Drop Doubleheader to Chicago American Giants at Ebbets Field

OTD 5/25/1935: Brooklyn Eagles Drop Double-Header to Chicago American Giants at Ebbets Field

From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY

The Brooklyn Citizen (Brooklyn, New York)

May 24, 1935

The soon-to-be 36-year old infielder Dick Lundy is traded from the Newark Dodgers to the Brooklyn Eagles in exchange for pitcher Bun Hayes, and third baseman Eugene White.  Lundy is best known for his days with the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants for whom he batted .322 in over 500 games, and more recently the Baltimore Black Sox where he batted .336 in over 200 games.  He made his professional debut in 1916 with Atlantic City and for the Brooklyn Royal Giants.  Lundy enters his twentieth season with a career batting average above .300 and more than 100 stolen bases.  

 

The Brooklyn Citizen (Brooklyn, New York), May 25, 1935

After posting a 5-5 record in Negro National League play, Ben Taylor is out as Brooklyn Eagles manager, replaced by the 26-year old first baseman, George Giles, who becomes the youngest manager in the league.

  

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NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE II

Chicago American Giants

vs.

BROOKLYN EAGLES

FROM
EBBETS FIELD

The Brooklyn Citizen (Brooklyn, New York), May 25, 1935

GAME ONE:

Saturday, May 25, 1935

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York)

May 25, 1935

Game One features the matchup of left-hander Willie Foster for Chicago opposed by Brooklyn right-hander Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe.  The American Giants jump out to a 3-0 lead in the first, and Foster makes it stand.  He limits Brooklyn to a pair of runs on six hits, including a double from Rap Dixon and a triple from newly named manager George Giles.  Shortstop Bill Yancy drives home both Brooklyn runs.  Otherwise, Foster walks four and strikes out one for the win.  Ted Radcliffe takes the loss.  He settles down after the first, yielding just one run over the next seven innings.  But Chicago erupts for four more runs in the final frame en route to an 8-2 victory.  All told, Double Duty allows eight runs on 13 hits, including home runs off the bats of left fielder Mule Suttles and shortstop Willie Wells.  Center fielder Turkey Stearns goes 2 for 5 with two runs batted in.

GAME TWO: 

Saturday, May 25, 1935

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York)

May 26, 1935

Brooklyn ties the Chicago American Giants in the home ninth to send this game into extra innings.  But with the bases loaded in the top of the twelfth inning, left fielder Mule Suttles connects for a grand slam home run.  Brooklyn bows to Chicago, 9-5, at Ebbets Field.

The Chicago American Giants sweep both Saturday games.  The teams will play a doubleheader again on Sunday. 

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York)