Sunday, October 6, 2024 Last Update: 12:52 PM ET
Chicago, IL
"Cuban Notes From Harry Daniels. - Munyon, second baseman of this year's Royal Giants, is playing the greatest game of his life in the Cuban League, with the Fea's team, at third base. Petway, the great receiver for Philadelphia Giants, who is receiving for the Fea's team, has proven to be the greatest throwing and running catcher ever seen in Cuba. The Cuban people are going wild about his wonderful throwing. Buckner has jumped the Fea's team and signed with the Havana team. Lloyd, of the Philadelphia Giants, joined the Havana team last week. This makes four colored players playing with the Havana team. Francis, who was with the Matanza team, was made a special offer to finish out the season with the Miami team, of the Florida Hotel League, which he has accepted, and joined them last Wednesday. Dunbar, of the Royal giants, and Pete Hill, of the Leland Giants, are having a great time fighting for batting honors in the Cuban League. At present Dunbar leads. Harris, second baseman of the Leland Gaints, is second in stolen bases."
Brooklyn, NY
"Fast Teams Want Booking. - The Brooklyn Royal Giants (colored champions season 1908) of Brooklyn, N.Y.; the Philadelphia Giants (colored champions seasons 19017-06-07) the famous Cuban Giants, the oldest colored organization in the United States, and the wonderful Cuban Stars of Havana, Cuba, the pick of the crack Cuban players from the National League of Cuba, are at present laying out their routes and arranging their schedules for the coming season and will be in your vicinity at different periods during the year. Should you desire to book any of these high-class attractions, apply immediately for dates and terms to Nat. C. Strong, World Bldg., New York City. Long distance telephones 3407 or 2475 Beekman."
Holyoke, MA
"Owner Winkler has been having a great deal of difficulty in procuring exhibition games. The opening game will be against the Brooklyn Royal Giants on April 10."
Hartford, CT
"Hartford defeated the Brooklyn Royal Giants yesterday for the second time. The score was 5 to 4."
West Haven, CT
"The weather permitting, the Royal Giants of Brooklyn will play this afternoon at Savin Rock. This will be the first exhibition game of the season, and as the Royal Giants are a fast aggregation, Bone's hopefuls will have to play some ball to beat them. The game will be called at 3 o'clock, and Behrendt and Reisigel will probably do the box work for New Haven, with Waters and Jope on the receiving end."
"The Cuban Royal Giants, those ebony hued ball tossers, may find in Behrendt and Resigl, who will oppose them today, the two best slant artists they have been up against on this tour of New England. That is, if the weather don't call it off."
West Haven, CT
"Tin Can is Chasing 'Em - Rain Gives Bone Chance to Fire Excess Baggage. - The rain saved somebody a beating at baseball yesterday, and whether that somebody would have been Manager Bone's recruits or the Broooklyn Royal Giants will have to remain a matter of debate as the Giants have a busy few weeks ahead of them and are unable to arrange another date with the locals. Nealon, a young outfielder from Brooklyn, was the first one to find it tagging along behind him, and he beat it for the land of trolley dodging right away. One less similng face above Cameron's mahogany, near or real, just as you want it."
Lynn, MA
"Other Baseball Results. - At Lynn, Massachusetts. - Lynn 4, Brooklyn Royal Giants 1."
Lawrence, MA
"Other Games. - At Lawrence - Brooklyn Royal Giants 8, Lawrence (N.E.) 0."
* similar article, from the Norwich Bulletin
Greenwich, NY
"The Democrat says: Hoosick Falls is to represent Greenwich during the centennial of that hustling village on August 16 and 17, and will play the Brooklyn Royal Giants. Manager Hughes will take the best team to Greenwich that ever played on the local diamond and if the boogies get away with it they will have to play better ball than they have been playing."
New Brunswick, NJ
"Games for Brunswicks - New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 15: - The games scheduled for this week for the Brunswicks are the Yonkers Field Club, at Yonkers on Saturday, and the Brooklyn Royal Giants on Sunday."
New Brunswick, NJ
"Brunswicks Win From Royal Giants - The New Brunswicks on their own grounds yesterday defeated the Brooklyn Royal Giants. Batteries - Doescher and Steiner; Earl and Bradley."
Brooklyn, NY
"Says the Brooklyn Royal Giants are Champions. - Royals Beat Philadelphia Giants for the World's Colored Baseball Championship. - Nat C. Strong, business manager of the National Association of Colored Base Ball Clubs of the United States and Cuba, says that those teams who are claiming the World's Colored Baseball Championship by defeating the Leland Giants have no claim to the title. Strong Claims that the Chicagoans have never been the real world's colored champions and that the Brooklyn Royal Giants are the rightful claimants. He writes to us the following: Sporting Editor of The Freeman: Dear Sir - I note in an issue of your paper that the Colored Championship of the Worls for 1909 is claimed by the St. Paul Gophers, the Kansas City Giants and numerous others, but I desire to ask when and where the Leland Giants proclaimed the colored champions, and when did they acquire that title? The Philadelphia Giants have been the World's Champions for several years and have been recognized as such even by the Lelands, and to win that title from the Philadelphia Giants they journeyed to Chicago last summer, 1908. The series stood three game for each; the Lelands refused to play the tie off, therefore the Phillies cam East after playing the Lelands. They lost the title to the champion Brooklyn Royal Giants, and while the Philadelphia Giants beat the Lelands again in Detroit in a series, and also from the fact that the Lelands refused to play them in Chicago this year, this put the Lelands out of the race. Again, this season, 1909, the Brooklyn Royal Giants defeated the "Phillies" in the East in the usual series for the Championship which practically gives the Championship to the Brooklyn Royal Giants, notwithstanding any claim of the St. Paul Gophers or others. I can not see where there should be any dispute as to the real colored champions for 1909, and I may add that the Royals are ready to defend their title against any team who may dispute the same. I have no fear as to the outcome of such a series. The Brooklyn Royals and the Cuban Stars of Havana, Cuba, are winding up a series for the International Colored Championship and the Royals have, at this writing, have won the first two games in a series of five. Sincerely, A.C. Strong, Business Manager, World Building, New York City."
Brooklyn, NY
"The Brooklyn Royal Giants Are Champions, so Says Nat C. Strong. - Sporting Editor The Freeman: Dear Sir - In reference to the dispute between the East and West for the colored baseball championship, would say that the Cuban X Giants held that title for several seasons until the Philadelphia Giants played them a series of games and won the title from the Cuban X Giants, and the Philadelphia Giants have defended the title in both the East and the West since holding the same; in the West the Lelands in 1908 failed to win the title from the Philadelphia Giants, but in the East the Brooklyn Royal Giants won the series from the PHillies as well as the championship. The past season the Phillies went West, and at the Elks convention defeated the Lelands in the series of three games which were played, and after coming East were again defeated by the Brooklyn Royal Giants for the championship, which again made the Brooklyn Royal Giants the colored champions for 1909; and with this explanation there should be no trouble in showing what team are the real colored champions for both 1908 and 1909. Because Andrew Foster, Booker, Moore, Payne, George Wright and Harris left the Eastern clubs and went West, and most of them having played with the Philadelphia Giants, that did not take the championship West with them, as the season they left (1907) the Philadelphia Giants again won the colored championship in the East, and with the strong team the Lelands claimed to have in 1908 they could not wrest the laurels from the champion Philadelphia Giants, who went West purposely to meet the Lelands, even though the series may not have been advertised as a championship series, and the same this season, when the Phillies struck Chicago and the Lelands refused to meet the Easterners, feeling that the defeats received at the hands of the latter at Detroit were sufficient, and it appears to me that when a team from the East journeys as far as Detroit or Chicago to meet their opponents, it is certainly a championship series, if anything, and I claim that the Lelands never have any claim to the world's colored championship, which title is now held by the Brooklyn Royal Giants, who are willing and ready to defent it at all times, especially in the East, where the usual colored championship series will be played during the season of 1910. Trusting you will give the above space, I am, sincerely, Nat C. Strong, Business Manager National Association of Colored Professional Clubs of the United States and Cuba, New York City."
New York, NY
"The Base Ball Spirit in the East. - Writer Names a New Bunch For Colored All-American Base Ball Team. - By Harry Daniels (Eastern Correspondent). - New York City, December 23. - Having seen Mr. Smith's choice of an all-American colored base ball club, myself along with fair-minded and considerate followers of colored players throughout the country, and not a few players, Mr. Smith by chance has seen. To pick a team of ball players one must not overlook one end of the country where a man must posess every quality; moreover, superabundance of gray matter to start off with, closely follow with hitting, fielding speed, and last but not least, to take advantage of every error of his opponents. So, if you can spare space, I will give my reasons for the East having a greater portion of the modern and scienfific ball players. The first thing to do is to engage a manager, so my choice for such an important position is without a question of a doubt - the base ball world will admit - the grand old master, Sol White, the peerless leader of the Philadelphia and Cuban Giants. As for my captain, Grant Johnson, who for sixteen years has been a star and great all around handler of plays and players, having greater experience than any active player in colored base ball of the present day. Having my Captain and manager picked, I will present the names of the best players at present in colored base ball, throughout the field of colored base ball, without fear or favor. Catchers - Petway of the Philadelphia Giants, the greatest since Arthur Thomas's time. Petway at present time is the best throwing and base-running catcher colored base ball has seen. For second catcher, Phil Bradley of the Royals is easy the second best catcher in colored base ball. he is a better hitter than Petway, and has a head along with a true-snap throwing arm. I cannot see how Mr. Smith compares Booker as a great catcher, as the Philadelphia Giants stole seven bases on Mr. Booker in Detroit this past season. First base - Robinson, of the Royals, for mine, first, last and always, since Ray Wilson is out of the game. He is a good hitter and fielder, and there is no better as a base runner. Second base - Captain Johnson, of the Royals, always has been a hard, consistent hitter, fielder and base runner, and a great handler. Short stop - Lloyd, of the Philadelphia Giants, is one man who is a wonder at fielding and hitting, also a fair base runner. Third base - Gordon, of the Cuban Giants, the best man ever to play third base in colored base ball. He at present is without an equal as a hitter and fielder, and last, but not least, the peer of base-stealers. Outfielders: Left field - Earl, of the Royals is the best hitter in base ball; a sure fielder, going back or coming forward after a ball and as fast as they come as far as speed is concerned, both in the field or on the bases. Center field - Monroe, the great, fastest man in baseball, and the most wonderful base runner for the past ten years; also strong at the bat. Right field - Rebel Duncan, of the Philadelphia Giants. He is a good fielder and one of the most dangerous men at bat a pitcher can face, also a dare-devil base runner. Pitchers, the last and most important - MacCellan, Buckner, Gateswood, Green and Hayman. I would have picked Foster, but what is the use, everyone knows he is a wonder. How Mr. Smith ever picked Ball, people here in the East laught at him. There never was a pitcher from the West who came East with as little nerve as Ball. I wonder if Mr. Smith remembers as far back as 1904, when Ball, pitching the first game of the world's series against Foster, who was the Philadelphia Giant's choice against Ball for the Cuban Giants, when Ball quit like a whipped child and was relived by MacCellan. This was the game Foster made his world's record of striking out eighteen men, including Mr. Smith, in nine innings. The All-American Team: Harry Daniels: Petway c, Bradley c, Robinson 1b, Johnson (cpt) 2b, Lloyd ss, Gordon 3b, Monroe cf, Duncan rf, Earl lf, MacCellan p, Buckner p, Gatewood p, Green p, Hayman p. Jimmie Smith's picks: Petway c, Booker c, Moore 1b, Harris 2b, Lloyd ss, Wallace 3b Pete Hill cf, Payne rf, Duncan lf, Ball p, MacCellan p, Foster p, Dougherty p. - Rube Foster Will Invade the East. - In further reading Mr. Smith's article, referring to elevation of colored base ball, since one Mr. Frank Leland and Mr. Andrew (Rube) Foster, of Chicago, agreed to disagree, Mr. Smith goes wild about the series of games between the Lelands and the Chicago National Leauge, just because, no doubt, Foster sees his way clear to have a team of his own. He went on to state how a war right now would ruin base ball in the East; for one reason alone are the followers glad, for the very fact that Mr. Foster intends to invade the East next season to play all comers. It is a treat, indeed, for it will do away with newspaper championship as to which is the better team, the Lelands or the Royal Giants. The only game ever played between these two teams was played in Chicago, and won by the Royal Giants by the score of 3 to 2, in 1906. Mr. Smith refers to himself as the Captain of the 1905 Leland Giants team, and having the honors of not losing a game. However, the very same year, in 1905, the Philadelphia Giants, under the grand old master of colored base ball teams, Sol White, had the greatest colored team who ever appeared before the public playing base ball on the diamonds, and not in the newspapers. The lineup of the Philadelphia Giants in 1905 was as follows: Booker, catcher; Bob Gordon, first base; Charlie Grant, second base; Grant Home Run Johnson short stop; Monroe, the great, third base; Pete Hill, left field, Mike Moore, center field; Dan MacCellan, pitcher and right fielder; Bowman, pitcher and right fielder, Foster (Captain), pitcher. This was the team that was to play Washington and Philadelphia (American League), but after noting their record of winning sixty-five out of sixty-eight games against first-class teams (Mr. Smith understands only too well how strong the teams are in the East, as the season of 1904, when he was a member of the Cuban Giants, the followers roasted Ed. B. Lamar for signing him, as he could not stand the test. Referring to the American League, they refused to live up to their agreement to play the world's greatest colored team - the Philadelphia Giants of 1905.) The elevation in colored base ball is here given a slight history, and as how the East easily surpasses the West: In 1877 the National Giants organized in Washington, D.C.; 1883, through Frank Thompson, the Cuban Giants of New York City organized and played throughout the country; in 1887 George L. Williams now in Philadelphia in the detective department, organized the Orientals, but later went with the Cuban Giants, and in 1889 they played Detroit to a standstill in a ten-inning tie game, 4 to 4. Malone done the pitching for the Giants, and here is where elevation of colored clubs and players started, and not 1909 as claimed by the gentleman in the middle-West. Think of it, an eastern colored team playing a big league in 1889; and it was not until 1902, if I am correct, when for the first time, the middle-West seen the Columbus Giants play the Chicago White Socks, which game they won by a score of 9 to 5 or 9 to 6. Bert JOnes opposed Garvin of the White Socks, and it was just thirteen years after the great game in Detroit. In 1894 the Cuban Giants played the Cincinnati Reds, of the National League, two games, and although losing both games, the scores were very close. The scores being 3 to 2 and 1 to 0, respectively. Kid Carter and Shaw did the pitching for the Cuban Giants, while Berenstein was on the mound for the Reds, and no doubt followers of base ball know what a star he was. Carter holds a record of striking out Buck Freeman five times in one game; also he holds a record of catching ten men napping on the bases. In 1896 Ed. B. Lamar organized the famous Cuban Giants and played teams of every league where a chance was giving, barring, of course, big league teams, as they rule against colored teams after the Cuban Giants' showing in 1894.. The colored team's next chance against big league teams never came until the American League was organized, and in 1902 the Cuban Giants played the Philadelphia American League team to a standstill in an eleven inning game, the score being 4 to 4. Johnnie Nelson, the noted dope-ball artist, done the pitching for the Giants against Dunkle of the league team. It was plain to be seen that his great gray-matter was working overtime, for, with three men on the bases in the last inning, and none out, he did not allow a hit or a man to score. The fielding of Sol White, Frank Grant, and Big Smithy in this game is still the talk when anyone refers to the game. In 1906, under the management of Grant Home Run Johnson, the Royal Giants played a series of six games with the Philadelphia American League team and were returned winners, three out of five games, as one was an eleven inning (3 to 3) tie game. This game Bender opposed Holland for the Royals. The winnings scores were 5 to 4, 2 to 0, and 2 to 1, for the Royals; the Philadelphia team, 2 to 1 and 6 to 3. The 2 to 1 game in which the Giants lost, was pitched by Kid Carter. He allowed but one hit, the game being lost on errors. One should have seen John W. Conner after the last (he, by the way, is owner of the Royals). A banquet, street parade, and fireworks was what he ordered for the boys. In 1907, at Philadelphia, with Harry E. (Goat Head) Buckner in the box we played the Philadelphia team again, losing through errors of Ed. Wilson, who played right field in this game. Buckner had only allowed one hit when Wilson made the error that caused Buckner's defeat. Buckner cried for a week. This past season the Philadelphia Giants and Philadelphia Americans played again, the Americans winning games by the following scores, 5 to 3 and 11 to 2. The Royal Giants then went the middle-West one better by defeating the second big league team, the New York American Leauge team, by the score of 9 to 5. Buckner pitched seven innings and Earl two for the Royals. Buckner retired, owing to the fact that he had ran so often. He lead with the stick for the Royals, getting a single, a three-bagger and a home run out of three times at bat. (Box Score) This is what the East has done to elevate colored base ball; there are records for all these statements. Not desiring to cast any reflections on the middle-West, and trusting you can spare space in your most valuable sporting column for the above article, I remain, Very respectfully yours, Harry Daniels, 310 West 97th Street, New York City."
Pittsfield, VT
"The Pittsfield team plays the Brooklyn Royal Giants."
"Out of Town Games - Pittsfield defeated the Brooklyn Royal Giants Saturday afternoon 6 to 5 in a sensational eight-inning batting rally. McHale was unsteady and was relieved in the fifth by Ferry, who held the colored men without a lift for the remaining innings. The batteries were McHale, Ferry and Meegan, Buckner and Bradley."