1915 St. Louis Giants
Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.
January 23, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Giants Being Reorganized. - St. Louis is now assured of a first class baseball team this year. A deposit sufficient to cover preliminary expenses has been made and more money is available. Although Manager Mills has a big proposition before him in attempting to secure star players he is confident of success. Ben Taylor, Mongin, McAdoo, Moore, Shiveley and good players wishing a tryout should address Charles A. Mills, Keystone Cafe, Compton and Lawton, St. Louis, Missouri."
February 6, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Giants Organize. - Manager Mills Keeping a Sharp Lookout For Star Players. - St. Louis is now assured of a first class baseball team this year. A deposit sufficient to cover preliminary expenses has been made and more money is available. Although Manager Milles has a big proposition before him in attempting to secure star players he is confident of success. Ben Taylor, Mongin, Tully McAdoo, Moore, George Shivley and good players wishing a tryout should address Charles A. Mills, Keystone Cafe, Compton and Lawton Street, St. Louis, Missouri."
May 30, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"In Sunday's game the Giants beat the visitors (West Baden Sprudels) 5 to 2. The Sprudels made only 3 hits off Williams. About 7,000 persons witnessed two games."
May 31, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"West Baden Sprudels Break St. Louis Giants' Winning Streak. - St. Louis, Missouri, May 31. - The West Baden Sprudels shattered the Giants' winning streak by nosing out Charlie Mills' team 2 to 1 today. The Giants could not bunch hits on Casey, the Baden twirler. Smith, the new Giants pitcher, did well, allowing 6 hits."
August 15, 1915
Belleville, IL
"Ben Reissens to Meet the St. Louis Giants - The St. Louis Giants, the crack colored team, will on Sunday morning meet the Ben Reissens of the St. Clair County League at North End Park. The Reissens will have Hildebrandt and Martin as the battery, and the Giants will have Williams and Webster. The game will be called at 9 o'clock."
August 18, 1915
Indianapolis, IN
"Bowers' Easterns and St. Louis Giants will Play a Series of Games During K. or P. Encampment. - In connection with completed arrangements for the Supreme Lodge K. of P., the base ball contingent is also prepared. The famous St. Louis Giants and Bowers' Easterns, champions of the Ohio State Colored LEague, will entertain the many thousand visitors at the American Association Park August 18 and 19. The First and Fourth Regimental Bands of St. Louis will give band concerts prior to the opening of the two games also will give a street parade. Admirers of the two teams are loud in their praise of the arrangements for the greatest games ever indulged in by popular teams during this convention. Manager Bowers, of the Easterners, and his assistant, Billy Lewis, are daily putting their men through hard work, prior to the crucial test with the St. Louis boys. The promoters and originators of the baseball feature, Doc Fassett and King Hughes, have left no stone unturned for the success of the feature. Much secrecy is maintained as to what batteries will be in evidence for the two teams. The usual line up for the Easterns will no doubt prevail with the exception of a switch of the battery, while Manager Mills, of the St. Louis crowd, is mum on his plans. In the coming practice game Sunday, August 15, the Columbus team will cross bats with the Xenia All Stars. It will be remembered the Easterns once met their WAterloo at the hands of the Greene county boys. Realizing that the St. Louis contingent is one of the strongest aggregations of ball players they have yet went against, the coming game with Xenia will probably serve as an elimination test. This being the first opportunity that colored professional ball players have been permitted to play at the American Association Park, thousands of patrons will take advantage of the occasion to witness the two games on this fast field, Neil Park."
September 5, 1915
Chicago, IL
"Sunday's Game. - The American Giants proved conclusively they could play in the cold, hot, or rainy weather. Last Sunday it drizzled and in spite of the rain, the game went the limit. Whitworth, who has not lost a game in several months, was at the mound. It seemed hard for him to get the pill under control. The trouble began in the sixth inning when he passed the first two men up, then let Lyons fill the bases by failing to field his bunt. Singles by Wallace and Kimbro cleared up three tallies. The contest was closed 4 to 2 in favor of the visitors."
September 6, 1915
Chicago, IL
"American Giants Win Series From St. Louis Giants. - Rube Foster's Team Takes Double-Header Labor Day - Petway Back in the Game - Lloyd and Gans Show Well. - (By Cary B. Lewis.) - Chicago, Illinois, September 7. - Mr. Foster told the public that he was going to have a winning team at the end of the season and this was demonstrated by the fast and timely playing of the American Giants in the series of the St. Louis Giants. The visitors won the first game on Sunday, which was a drizzly day, but the home boys came back on Labor Day and took two straights, winning the series. Lloyd, the famous shortstop, came across with a timely two-base hit and McNair with a three-bagger, Lord Crawford was in the box in the first game and he kept the hits scattered. He sent three men to the bench and allowed only two men to walk. He was ably supported, in fact, the team was in fine form. Jones caught in the first game and Whitworth and Petway were the batteries in the second. Petway was given many hands, it being his first game of the season. The visitors found Whitworth in the first part of the game, but was saved by defeat from a fine running catch by McNair. The scores for both games were the same, 4 to 1, in favor of the American Giants."
September 13, 1915
Indianapolis, IN
"American Giants and St. Louis Giants in Four-Game Series. - Break Even in First Two Games - Both Games Exciting - Chicago Used Four Pitchers in One Inning Sunday. - (By Herbert T. Meadows.) - The American Giants won one of the most exciting games ever seen here, Monday from Charlie Mills' St. Louis Giants. When St. Louis went to bat in the last half of the seventh the score stood 9 to 0 against them. At this stage of the game they pulled off one of the most sensational batting rallies ever seen here, putting nine runs over the plate, tying the score, on two passes and 8 hits, one being a homer by Cobb. Foster used four pitchers in this inning. St. Louis counted two more in the eighth and looked to have the game sewed up, but the Chicagoans won out in the ninth, making three runs on a hit by Barber, a pass by Francis and a home run by Hill. This last inning was played in the dark."
September 14, 1915
Indianapolis, IN
"Tuesday's game was hard fought all through, St. Louis winning 5 to 4. Umpire Dailey ejected Fracis from the game. W. Webster, St. Louis's catcher, sustained a broken finger. Petway, Chicago catcher, was injured in the first game. The same teams play Wednesday and Thursday."
September 20, 1915
Chicago, IL
"Rube Foster Wins Two Games at Schorlings Park Last Sunday. - Champion Ball Players Team Win From the Chicago Giants and the St. Louis Giants, Whitworth Refusing Hit From Chicago Giants - Sprudels Coming Next Sunday - Foster and His Team to Leave About October 21 for the West. - (By Cary B. Lewis.) - Chicago, Illinois, September 20. - Rube Foster, manager of the American Giants, pulled off a double header on last Sunday at Schorling's Park and it was a big day for the fans. The fans were given an opportunity to shout themselves hoarse for Mr. Whitworth climbed into fame by pitching a no-hit no run game against the Chicago Giants with Dixon in the box. Had not Mr. Lloyd fumbled a ball off Jackson's easy bounder in the fifth inning it would have been an errorless game for the celebrated Giants, who are playing some wonderful ball prior to their leave for the west which will be about October 12. Mr. Whitworth was in great form. His nerve was steady and had good control of the pill. A pass, one or two issues by Whitworth and a sacrifice put the men at second and third, the only time any passed first base. It was three hits in a row in the third which gave the Giants two runs and put them in the lead. They made another score in the sixth and eighth. The outfield, including Mr. Gans, Mr. McNair and Mr. Hill, did some great work with palm going to Ganzy, who seemed to have a great deal of pep. The St. Louis Giants started in for the second half but the home team had a rally and brought in six scores, one in the second half but the home team had a rally and brought in six scores, one in the second another in the third. Crawford was on the mound for the American Giants and struck out six men and pitched a shutout game. The series will continue until Thursday."
"Second Game American Giants 8, St. Louis Giants 0."
June 6, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"Memphis Giants vs St. Louis Giants."
June 7, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"Memphis Giants vs St. Louis Giants."
June 8, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"Memphis Giants vs St. Louis Giants."
July 4, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"The St. Louis aggregation defeated the Union Giants, July 4, in a close game, score: St. Louis 3, Union Giants 2. Battery for St. Louis; Steele and Adams, for Union Giants; Jones and Cansler."
July 25, 1915
St. Louis, MO
"Carlinville vs. St. Louis Giants at Kiebler's Park, St. Louis."