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SOHIO SANDLOT STARS Tell Tales of Triumph THE SOH /0 A N Jor September, /937 7 SOHIO SANDLOT STARS Tell Tales of Triumph By Leo Trefzger HOUSANDS of lines have This is the second and con­ After Wilbur Schardt had lost to been written and hundreds of cluding part of the article written the Peerless Motors (the Red praises have been heaped on by Leo Trefzger, occasional So­ Crowns' first defeat in eighteen T hioan, recalling the hey day of the shoulders of the Standard Oil games) Manager A. B. Nichols Red Crowns who brought the industrial baseball, The author gave him an opportunity to redeem world's industrial baseball cham­ has caught the exciting fever of himself by sending the former pionship to Cleveland. the spirit that won for The Stand­ Brooklyn twirler in against the ard Oil Team the 1919 A,A.A. Humdingers They are called a fighting team. Championship.-Editor. They aresaid to have been a squad As highly as the steel workers that played its best brand of ball were touted, it was already evident when the odds were greatest against after the second inning that they them. But they were also a team were no match for the superior that possessed versatility and even section so antagonistic that they Standard Oil Team. While Schardt a whimsical sense of humor. could almost scare a visiting team was pitching masterfully, the Red off the field. Like the Humdingers Crowns hopped on the Humdingers The Red Crowns were slugging themsel ves, the fans were men who for four runs in the first three fools. One afternoon while Norb toiled in the coal mines and steel innings. Anthony and Norm Glaser were mills too. Their insignia was the holding the American Multigraph lead pipe and the brass knuckle. Much to the chagrin or the hard­ outfit to a paltry four hits, the Red ened coal miners and steel workers CrO\vn Murderers' Row stepped who fumed and rumbled and shout­ out and shoved twenty runs across ed hoarse threats at the Red the plate. CrO\vns, theil' local prides were dying a gallant death; and as each Defensively they were fielding Standard Oil run came traipsing wizards who played air-tight ball. across the plate the atmosphere be­ With Rube Foster in the pilot came more tense. house in a city championship game against the Peerless Motors, their Jackie McHugh, the Red Crowns' fielding was so smooth and precise star second sacker, was coaching that they allowed only three men at first base during part of that to get as far as first base. game, and directly behind him in the grar.dstand sat a grizzled By the time they were ready to Johnstown rooter who, Iike many move on to Johnstown for the sec­ others, carried his dinner pail tional championship round, almost along to the game, previous to his every baseball fan in the Flood departure for the night shift at City had heard of their pro\vess at the Cambria steel mill. bat and in the field. They awaited \vith intense interest the arrival About the fifth inning, while of a team that was heralded as a Jackie was whooping it up near squad that could hold its own a­ first base, a dinner pail came gainst some of the better minor Aying onto the field. It missed league professional clubs. McHugh's head by inches. Undis­ mayed, Jackie chased after the TheJohnstown Humdingers were pail, opened it and treated himself no pikers themselves. Composed of to coffee and doughnuts at the steel hard-muscled, rugged, square-jawed worker's expense. men who worked in the Cambria steel plant at Johnstown, they were True to the traditions of small­ blessed with two valuable assets. town baseball in the steel mill They \vere a fighting ball club district, a near-riot broke out at that refused to take a back step the end of the game. Scores of for any foe-especially the Red steel workers, heartbroken at the Crowns-and they had a cheering Rube Foster shut them all out. spectacle of seeing their home 8 T [-{ E SOH / 0 A IV for September, /937 This is the Standard Oil Team that won the World Champion- prides humbled in a championship Toward the end of the season and that his name was Noneck. He game, but none the less furious, rumors were rife that the Flint was a Bay City professional and charged out onto the neld and the team was loading up with "ringers" hadn't even played for Flint until Red Crowns had to be escorted -former minor and major league the Indianapolis series. from the diamond by a cordon of professional stars-but as yet noth­ That Longendike was a "ringer" police. The nnal score was 6 to I, ing had been proved against them. from Detroit who had only recently with Schardt holding the enraged signed up with Flint. Humdingers to four hits. With a brilliant display of power­ house hitting that was character­ That Catcher Sceiner, according You can bet the Red Crowns istic of a group of ball players who to his own statement had received were glad to get out of Johnstown. should have been playing minor $75 for catching the three games Easy as their victory had been, the league professional ball, the Phiting against Indianapolis. wracking experience of witnessing Phourninties walloped the Bell ovenvhelming numbers of hostile Telephone team of Indianapolis When all the facts in the case steel workers charging out at them to a fare-thee-well in the quali­ had been uncovered, it was found was just a touch too trying for fying round. They made it a clean that Kiki Cuyler and one other their nerves. sweep by defeating the Paige­ player on the Flint team were the Detroit outnt two straight games, only members who had not pre­ One Scalp to Go thereby earning the right to meet viously played professional ball. OW there was only one more the Red Crowns for the Champion­ This, then, was the Simon-pure Nteam that barred their path to ship. the world's industrial champion­ Then the bombshell exploded ship. This was the Chevrolet team In a letter that fairly bristled of Flint, Michigan-rightly nick­ with indignation, James H. Lowry named the Phiting Phourninties of of Indianapolis, revealed the fol­ Flint. lowing lurid details to Tom Nokes, In their nrst season in the in­ secretary of the National Baseball dustrial league, the Flint aggrega­ Federation: tion established a remarkable rec­ That Big Bill Wright, Flint's ord- too glaringly remarkable for ace pitcher, was a former member a team that was supposed to be of the St. Louis Browns and played (according to inter-league rules) during 1919 Linder contract to the amateur in spirit and in fact. Jersey City International League Playing in a league that included team. the best amateur teams in Michi­ gan, Indiana and Illinois, they had That Catcher Sceiner played pro­ compiled an even more imposing fessional baseball in Brazil, Indi­ record than the Standard Oil club ana. by going through the season unde­ That Wise, a pitcher, was play­ feated. By the time they completed ing under an assumed name. His their regular season's schedule the real name was Voss and he was a town of Flint had gone baseball professional ball player. mad. They were out to win the Carl Baer was the "hot corner" world's championship at all costs That Murphy, shortstop, was not marvel in 1919 when he was only in their nrst year in the league. qu ite as Irish as the name impl ied 18 years of age. THE SOH lOA N jor September, /937 9 ship in 1919. They lost only two games in the entire season outfit that was supposed to meet There is no doubt but that the On Sunday, Secember 21-the the Standard Oil Red Crowns for Phiting Phourninties and the town day on which the first game was the world's industrial amateur of Flint were overconfident. With scheduled-a heavy downpour of championship. their group of profeSSionals they rain fell. causing postponement for Flint Closed Down expected to win the world's cham­ one day. On Monday every auto­ for the Game pionship in two straight games. mobile factory and nearly every To make them still more confi­ store in Flint was closed to allow ITH the first of a three-game the employees to attend the game. Wseries scheduled for Sunday, dent, the team had hit a "hot" September 21, the town of Flint streak. Kiki Cuyler had poled An army of 10,000 fans-double was in a state of baseball hysteria. three homers against Indianapolis the previous record crowd at the People talked about it on the and one against Detroit. And ac­ Flint ball park-turned out to streets, in stores, in beer taverns cording to the Flint Journal of witness what was described by a and on the \vay to work at the September 20, 1919, "Wright, hero Flint)ournal spores writer as .'the Buick, Dort and Chevrolet auto­ of the Chevrolet ... said after his greatest sporting event in the his­ mobile factories. The town was three victories in the Indianapolis tory of the city." This was a tense \vith the kind of tenseness and Paige-Detroit series that he titanic struggle between two un­ that awaits confidently a smashing has not yet begun to pitch ," beaten pitchers-Rube Foster of triumph by the home prides. The Red Crowns rested their the Red Crowns and Big Bill hopes on the bronzed, hairy right Wright, the pride of Flint arm of Rube Foster.
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