June 6, 1912
Newark, NJ
"The Smart Set, of Paterson, New Jersey, composed of several members of the Lincoln Giants, will be down at Parkview Oval Sunday morning against the Ironside F.C."
Newark, NJ
"The biggest attraction staged at Parkview Oval this season will take place tomorrow morning when Dick Cogan's Smart Set Club, of Paterson, will appear against the Ironside Field Club. The Smart Set aggregation is composed chiefly of Cuban and Lincoln Giant players and have beaten some of the best semi-pro combinations in the East. Their manager, Dick Cogan, was once a member of the old Ironsides. Then again he managed the old Paterson Hudson River League Club and says he has a team that can take the measure of the Ironers, who have not tasted defeat on its home grounds this season."
Newark, NJ
"A one-handed stop by 'Kid' Kull, shortstop of the Ironside F.C., in the ninth inning probably saved defeat for that team against Cogan's crack Smart Set nine, of Paterson, on Parkview Oval yesterday morning. With two on the bases in the final round and the score 8 to 6, favoring the Ironers, Gans of the Passaic county team, smashed a wicked one between short and second. Kull on a dead run jumped over in the course of the pill, grabbed it with his gloved hand and threw it to first in time to get the runner. Had the little youngster slipped up on the play the score would have surely been tied. Thus the final score, 8 to 6, in favor of the home team. Hans Stoll, too, figured in the big victory. Time and again he received a hand from the 5,000 fans who lined the field, for his clever work around the busy corner. Next on the honor roll came Harry Olde, the pitcher. Olde was touched up rather freely but kept the hits well scattered. The game was won by the Ironsides in the third inning, when they netted six runs. Timely batting, coupled with errors, did the trick. Danny McClelland, formerly of the big Lincoln Giants, was on the firing line for the visitors. With the exception of the third and fourth innings, in which rounds the locals tallied all their runs, he was a complete puzzle. His teammates, too, showed some good parts of the game, helping to keep the score down. The coaching of the big negro lads was amusing throughout. It was the biggest crowd that has witnessed a game at Park View Oval this season. The Patersonians brought with them a host of admirers, and when they started the ninth round, scoring three runs, the colored aggregation went wild. They were sore, however, after Kull had made his sensational stop."
June 23, 1912
Paterson, NJ
"Two big games are carded for the Ironside F.C. tomorrow at Parkview Oval. In the afternoon, the Kloss team will jog to Paterson, where it will battle with another negro nine, the Smart Set. The Ironsides met the 'Smartys' in this city two weeks ago and won."
"Ironside F.C. vs. Cogan's Smart Set, at Paterson, afternoon."
Paterson, NJ
"The Ironers broke even in their double bill yesterday, walloping Moorman's Colored Giants in the morning by a score of 10 to 6 and losing to the Smart Set at Paterson in the afternoon, 10 to 3. The locals were unable to hit Emerey, the Smart Set heaver, in the afternoon, the Silk City lad holding Kloss's team to five hits and fanning seven."
July 28, 1912
New York, NY
"Sunday Baseball Put Under the Ban - New Yorkers Who Tried to Play Catch Arrested by the Police - Those poor New Yorkers. Las Vegans have it on them in respect to baseball. The latter can play catch on their vacant lots on Sunday. Here is what happened to the baseballists in New York Sunday, according to the World of Monday morning. Baseball? It was a dangerous game yesterday, the day being the Sabbath and the game being very sinful, according to the law. More than 200 twirlers of the ball and pounders of the mitt and wielders of the bat - not to mention less privileged participants - must be in court this morning to answer for the deeds done on the Sabbath. They were advised yesterday that the magistrates would expect them. They were advised by those very serious looking documents which policement sometimes deliver called summonses. As reported in the World yesterday orders went forth a few days ago that the back alley leagues would have to abide by the Sunday law. Yesterday was appointed the day on which the crusade should begin. Inspector Sweeney assigned four policement from the East One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth street station to take note of Harlem baseball exploits. The four proceeded to Olympic Field at One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Street and Fifth Avenue, a place conducted by the McMahon brothers. The Smart Set team was battling with the Lincoln Giants, both colored aggregations, and an intensely interested crowd was looking on and making a noise. A play by a Giants had just been greeted uproariously when in came the bluecoats, with their full assortment of summonses. First thing the Giants knew the Smart Setters were receiving papers commanding them to appear in the Harlem police court at 9 a.m. Monday morning. And before the Giants could get over the surprise, they were getting similar documents. Then more summonses were served on the numerous score card peddlers. Altogether, including the vendors, the players and the substitutes, 40 were ordered to court. The police say the score-card is just a substitute for an admission ticket. At a quarter a piece the score-cards bring in much money. The Metropolitans and the New Brunswicks were engaged in diamond combat at Lenox Oval, when two policement appeared and delivered 41 summonses. When the bluecoats pushed in spectators jeered at them. Hey you! somebody yelled. Why d'you butt in on a decent game like this? Go and catch the Rosenthal merderers! The Sunday baseball views of Magistrate McQuaid, who will hear the cases today, are unknown to the baseball players, who wonder what he will do. Some magistrates fine ball players; others discharge them. At a game between the Emeralds and the Royal Giants on the Catholic Protectory grounds in the Bronx, Patrolman Zankel served summonses on the players and managers. Then he withdrew and the game continued to its end. In Brooklyn 150 summonses were served. The Fifth Avenue precinct did the banner business, with 40 summonses. The Brooklyn method differed from that in Harlem. In Brooklyn summonses were given to patrolmen on post, and they were instructed to serve them on any persons playing ball. A number of amateur baseball games were played on Staten Island yesterday and were not interfered with by the police."