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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. Rube was about 5 feet 9 inches tall and Manager Nichols was cautious weighed only 155 pounds- not a erough to instruct "Wash" Wash­ lot of heft for a pitcher. But he ington, the Red Crown trainer, to had speed to burn when he was keep an eagle eye on Rube from fogging in the fast one with the the time they boarded the boat for three-inch hop. Detroit until the moment he step­ ped onto the mound in the series Ask "Major" Axtell about Rube's opener at Flint. "Wash" watched speed. When Axtell was catching him like a cat watches a mouse the Rube's fast ball, he had to Although the rest of the boys were squat forward to await its impact. given enough rein to enjoy them­ When the ball thundered into his selves and thus relieve the nervous glove it hit with such sledge­ tension that precedes every crucial hammer force that it knocked his game, "Wash" wouldn't even allow big 200-pound frame into an up­ Foster to stray into an innocent right position. poker game. It was Paul Berg, however, who Nichols' caution paid big divi­ was Rube Foster's regular battery dends. When Foster stepped onto mate. Berg caught Foster in 1917 the mound to face the first batter when, as members of the Klesch in the series opener, he was at a 12th Wards, they won the world's perfect pitching edge. There was amateur championship; and he \vas no doubt about it-he was "on." behind the. bat every time the And when the Rube was "on no Rube Foster today, Rube pitched in the Flint series. team could beat him .. 10 THE SOH lOA N for September. /937

Inning after inning the Flint fans watched with mingled awe and admiration while their champions were sending out easy infield grounders and pop flies. The fast hop ball was working like a charm In the very first inning Mackulin and Jackie McHugh were on base when Dutch Felske sent a hot grounder whirring between short and third. Sensenbach, the Fl int third-sacker, went out of his terri­ tory after the ball, dived and knocked it down, out of his hands. Before Harper could retrieve the ball, Mackulin and McHugh were already across the plate. Later in the game Felske got hold of one of Wright's baffling spit­ balls. The horsehide traveled far over Cuyler's head and into the crowd for a triple Then Flick sacrificed and the fighting Dutch­ man dashed across home plate for the final run. The box score of that game: RED CROWNS ABH 0 A Kalal, ef ______4 2 2 0 Al Nichols in 1919, when he was President of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball and Athletic Association, and Charles Mackulin, L ______3 0 3 2 Urbin. President. Cincinnati Amateur Baseball Association. McHugh, 2______4 2 4 3 L ______O'Dea, 4 0 9 0 CHEVROLET dash down the railroad tracks. He Felske, ss ______4 2 4 3 never stopped until he reached the Flick, IL ______3 I 0 0 AS H 0 A hotel. By the time the rest of the Harper, ss ______3 0 3 2 Baer, rL ______3 0 0 0 team arrived by bus, he met them Currie, IL ______3 0 I 0 at the entrance all dressed and Berg, C ______3 5 0 0 Kench,2______4 3 0 3 ready to do justice to a steak. Foster, p------3 I 0 2 Seiner, c ______3 0 8 3 Green, 1______4 II 0 That defeat almost took the Sensenbach, L _____ 2 1 3 2 starch right out of the Phiting Cuyler, ef______4 0 0 1 Phourninties The thing that Longendike, rL _____ 4 I 1 0 couldn't happen had happened. Wright, p ______4 0 0 6 The unbeaten Chevrolets had not only been beaten but-as if to add Red Crowns_2 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0-3 insult to injury-Rube Foster and ChevroleL __ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 the smooth fielding Red Crowns shut them out without a single After the game the crowd made run. Kiki Cuyler didn't even get one mad dash for Rube Foster. a hit off the Rube that day. They wanted to get a glimpse of this superman who could shut out A Championship at Stake their Phiting Phourninties. While HE second and third games a police escort resisted feebly, they Twere scheduled for Sunday, Sep­ even tried to tear bits of clothing tember 28, at Brookside Stadium off his uniform to keep as souve­ in Cleveland. Wilbur Schardt was nirs. selected to pitch the first game against Big Bill \Vright. Across the railroad tracks a bus was waiting to take the Red Crowns The Phiting Phourninties arrived back to their hotel. Rube realized in Cleveland that morning with a he could never reach the bus and thousand faithful rooters. There still be wearing a Standard Oil really should have been a feeling Harry Reitzman, uniform, so he broke away from of timidity in their ranks In the Sensational Centerfielder the police escort and made a mad first place, they were aware of the THE SO l-f lOA N for September, 19]7 11 fact that they were locking horns frame of mind during the second Paul Berg promptly paid his with the only team that had proved game. respects to the former big leaguer by leading off with a single and to be their masters. Then, too, Jake Harper, the first batter to they had heard and believed wild face Foster in the final game, Rube Foster sacrificed him to rumors that a multitude of 200,000 knocked a triple into the crowd and second. people would be watching them in scored an instant later on a sacrifice Then Emil Kalal strode up and the natural amphitheater at Brook­ grounder. The Red Crowns evened side Stadium. rapped his bat on the plate. Man­ the score in the fourth inning when ager Nichols almost moaned Now, For the first time in the series Dutch Felske knocked in Red this is a fact-during that season they played like the professionals O'Dea from second base. Kalal wasn't even hitting the size they were. With Wright holding With Wise, of Flint, pitching of his hat. Everyone on the Stand­ the Red Crowns to five hits, they two-hit ball, the Red Crowns went ard Oil bench expected him to take slugged their way to a 6 to 1 victory into their last half of the ninth his three strikes and head for the over Schardt in the first game. inning with the score of 2 to I showers. Each man on the Flint team had against them. been promised a new Chevrolet if Then the charm of Wise's fast Wright wound up and shot in they brought the championship in-shoots was suddenly broken. what was supposed to be the first back to Flint, and this may have Jackie McHugh rapped a single to strike. It sped right down the been the necessary incentive that left field and took second when alley and Kalal met it with every­ produced the victory. Red O'Dea sacrificed. That brought thing he had. Bill Currie of the Again it was up to Rube Foster Felske to the plate, The battling Flint ,team watched the horsehide to pull the team through. All dur­ Dutchman, who never failed to soaring far and high out toward ing that second game he had been deliver in the pinches, knocked a left field. He took one look at the sitting on the bench working his screeching liner to the outfield to ba]] as it Aew over his head and nerves to a frazzle while he saw send McHugh in with the tying into the crowd, and then started his team losing. To make matters run. for the bench. worse, the Phourninties had gone That was all for Wise. In the on a slugging spree in the first tenth inning they sent in Big Bill The series was over, and the game, and whenever a team does Wright to save them from an Red Crowns were champions of the this it invariably continues in that almost inevitable defeat. world.

These Trophies attest the quality of the Standard Oil Team, Today they decorate A. B. Nichol's office. 12 THE SOH /0 A IV for September, /937 'Round About Sohioland

part of his house during all of his vacation Vacation Days SOLAR REFINERY -at least some painting was done. P. FELDER and family spent a Thomas T. Seelye Don Myers is recovering slowly from a W • pleasant vacarion in South Ca rolina, serious operation that has incapacitated with relatives. They visited Norris Dam, R. L. Bartholomew Dies him for some time. and Chimney Rock, N. C, enroute, and while in CharlestOn, enjoyed the surf HE refinerv and the entire Lima com­ bathing at the Isle of Palms and Folly w~re Dona!d F. Myers, William M. Seriff and Tmunity shocked by the tragic Charles O. Tracy of Solar Relinery re­ Beach. deaths of Mr and Mrs R. L. Bartfco:omew ceived E. M. B. A. sick benefits during Mr and Mrs. E. N. Richards visited in an autOmobile July Washington D. C, Atlantic City and New accident at Russell's *' York City, followed by a week in camp at Point in the earlv Frank LeFort, the popular Nova lee Mountain in the eastern panhandle of morning of August Scotian, was a recent appreciared visitor. West Virginia, with Mr. Richard's parents. fir·st. The automo­ Horace Graves and his twO little daugh­ bile in which they ters traveled 2100 miles through the south, '.'-,ere riding with stOpping at Birmingham, Atlanta, Gads­ four other people den, and the Mllscle Shoals development plunged through a LATONIA in Tennessee. guard rail into the REFINERY Eugene Porter and his family started to water', drowning Florida, but his children became ill when five of the six oc­ Lee Bruce they reached Atlanta, Georgia, and they cupants. were forced to return home. However, Bob Ba rtholomew George J. Hall Dies their trip over the Smoky Mountains is a was born in Cleve­ pleasant memory, and the children have land in 1905, at­ EORGE J. Hall, boilermaker, died nOw recovered. tended Lakewood High School and G August 5, from injuries received when Adria Brown really put his new Willys then was graduated from Ohio \Ves­ he fell as he was preparing to paint the to the test when he arrived in Oklahoma leyan University in 1926. After working smokestack on a boiler at Latonia Re­ in time co eat breakfast, had dinner in for a time, he resumed his studies at finery. After being raised approximately 65 Texas, supper and breakfast in Arkansas, \Vestern Reserve University to get a feet from the roof dinner in Tennessee and supper in old Master's Degree in chemistry and biology. of the boiler house, Kentucky. He even had time while in He moved to Lima with his par'ents hve the cable support­ Oklahoma co hunt jack rabbits and prairie years ago and was hired as a chemist by ing the bosun's dogs. the relinery in 1934. The same year he chair gave way. He John Anderson vacationed in Savannah, married Miss Frances Mead, the onlv was immediately Georgia, where he fished in the ocean. daughter of one of the town's oldest and given first aid by The largest catch was a twO pound sea most respected families. Ma ry Sprouse, re­ bass. Bob has a host of friends in Lima and finerv nurse and Leslie Poeeter had an enjoyable time at was one of the best liked men at the re­ fello~' workers, then Indian Lake even though he caught ver'y finery. rushed to St. Eliza­ few lish. *' *' * beth Hospital. He Lawrence Bailey spent a fe\v days with R. C Neuman is one of the color guards died shorrly after. Edward Taylor, a former employee, and of the local American Legion POSt's crack He was buried at tells several scories of fishing and hunting. drum corps. In this capacity he will be the Mother of God For those who enjoy good roads, rugged among those present at the state conven­ Cemetery in LatOnia. ]. H. Mondiek, G. scener'v and beautil'ul farm COllntrV, For­ tion at Columbus and the nationa Iconven­ L. Petzinger, Ed Collopy, J Pollard, J rest Brown recommends a trip through tion in New York City. Bob should do Kunkle and Oscar Cole served as pall Tennessee and North Carolina, over the bearers. well at these tWO affa·irs. Smokies. Forrest visited the Cherokee George was employed at LatOnia on Indian Reservation, where the people are .:: February 12, 1930, as a laborer and has ser'ved continuously in the capacity of living very much as their anceSCOrs did, Vacationers laborer, boilermaker helper and rigger and then he continued on through North until the time of his death. Carolina and Virginia via the Seminole AROLD E\VJ"-!G and his wife drove He made his home with his mother-in­ Trail, lying parallel co the Blue Ridge H up to Callander, Ontario, during his law, Mr·s. R. A. Biegel' at 2309 Herman Mountains, then co the seashore. He also vacation. He is completely sold on quin­ Avenue, Covington. He is survived by visited the home of the fortner Mrs. tuplets and heartily recommends a set to his widow, AntOinette Hall and three Wallace Simpson in Baltimore, and en­ anyone. children-George Richard, 7, Ralph An­ joyed a half day at Annapolis, watching H. Sandifer, cracking coil stillman, t. thony, 5 and Mary Ann, 3; as well as his the cadets. vacationed in the south. Art Hitchner, father, George S. Hall, and five brothers, Reading in the newspaper that the home­ gas plant engineer', has just returned from Edward J., Charles David, William R., a vacation jaunt in the Carolinas at the Paul L., and a sister, Mrs. Florence Hull cown boys were getting pretey tough, Shu'­ wheel of a new Chevrolet. -all of Covington except Charles David ley Green went down co Barbourville, near W. A. Dunahay, number one pumper, of California and Edward who is in the Harlan Countv line, to investigate. He and family, likewise in a brand new U. S. Navy, stationed on the baccleship savs he saw a woman shoot her husband Chevrolet, drove east via Pittsburgh and S. S. Lexington, which is in Honolulu at bl;t the bovs are not as bad as reported Philadelphis. present. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Bergen went Glen Howards, assistant ~tillman at the Being of a quiet friendly disposition, through three cloudbursts, a heat wave coking stills, left his car at home and tOok George Hall not only enjoyed the friend­ and a Aood on their trip co Estes Park, a r'ailroad excursion uip to \Vashington ship of his fellow workers and supervi­ Colorado. They brought back a \'ery in­ and New York and Atlantic Citv. sors, but had a la rge ci rcle of friends teresting collection of snapshots and a Bob Hall, Herman Steiger, and Harry throughout the northern part of Kentucky. Baxter had a very successful fishing trip \Ve cannot speak tOO highly of him; he thrillina scorv of mountain climbing. in the upper peninsula of Michigan. was numbered among the best liked em­ Orin"Sollcf';er's first aid training enabled Charlie Cleveland, popular and en­ ployees in our organization, and his un­ him co be of real service during his vaca­ ergetic stock desk boss, painted his house fortunate death is a distinct loss to the tion at Indian Lake. When a car plunged ci'lring a part of his vacation or painted refinery as well as his family. into the lake, the doctor who was called THE SOH lOA N for September, 1937 13

w the scene put him w work on one of came acquainted with Mrs. LeFort when ends, accompanied by one or tWO pals. the victims. By artificial respiration, she was a little girl, and the friendship was About two years ago, he built himself a Souther was successful in reswring con­ COntinued by correspondence a I'tel' he left row boat out of scrap lumber and used sciousness. home. Before taking the job at Toledo, Sohio Asphalt to make it water-proof. Joe Kunkel's car was overrurned on a Frank and she were married. The boat has withstood a great amount of new gravel road while rerurning from a Mr. LeFort has many hobbies, his favor­ b.lffeting about without serious damage. visit in Lexington. Although none of the ite being ping-pong, wrestling matches, John is a real fisherman and often pulls family was seriously injured, it took the and automobile trips with his wife and them in even though others nearby get remainder of Joe's vacation to straighten two little daughters, to whom he is de­ nary a bite. Next to actually fishing, out his machine. voted. He dislikes boat trips and the John enjoys spinning yarns about his Wilbur Moran should now qualify as in­ clipper ride at Coney Island. fishing exploits, and his associates will no terior decorator in view of the experience He is 5'8" tall, has brown eyes, black doubt miss his stories exceedingly. gained during his first week off. The hair and a 'dark complexion. His firm John haseleven children and it is hoped second week included a chicken dinner at belief in morning exercises keeps him that with his well-earned leisure, he will Dover, Indiana, and some camping at physically fit and a lerr. He is bashful, now be able to spend many happy hours Morning View, where he didn't catch sincere and loyal, and exerts all his energy with them. anything and no big ones gOt away. on everything he attempts. Other disappointed fishermen were Oscar Cole, Alex Bishop, and Charles * *" * On the Fairways and the Highways Steers, who tried his luck at Cumberland Falls and caught some "little" ones about N a recent match game of golf. played twO feet long. I at Moreland Hills, C. L. \Veisend and Stanley Rice went to the Exposition in Cameron Brethauer defeated James Lau­ Cleveland, to Louisville, Ky., and caught renson and C. A. Murfey. brim and sunfish in Boon Lake, Walton. Liz Weisend was in trouble from the Richard McKenney and Julius Nie­ sta r·t and did not play his usua I bri 1­ hauser just stayed at home and rested. Iiant game. However, he was paired up with Cameron Brethauer, a par-shooting stylist., who put on an exhibition of how golf should be played In spite of Wei­ Let's Get Acquainted send's poor shOWing, he and Brethauer won the match on the last hole. The N July 8, 1898, one of Latonia's most Laurenson-Murfey combination is capable O colorful personalities was born on a of rurning in an enviable card when they little farm near Pt. Cross, Nova Scotia. settle down and play in eamest. They One of a family of thirteen children, Frank Bryant is recovering a I'tel' an both hit terrific power drives down the Frank LeFort, our master mechanic, appendicitis oper-ation. fairway and are up near the greens in ·T·. learned the value of hard work at an earlv ror the first time since Harry Lytle However, they are in need of more.practice age. In the long evenings, when the became ill in January, the doctor reports with their short irons to compete with mercury hovered about J) degrees below a general improvement in his condition. Brethauer. zero, the children learned to weave cloth He received E. M. B. A. sick benefits On the way home, Weisend was driving from thread, spun fwm wool. The boys during July. along at a reasonable speed when an auto­ tanned leather for the family shoes, and mobil.e overtook him and streaked by like Frank claims he can knit as neat a pair of Hortonspheroid at Latonia a comet. \Veisend found out who it was socks as anvone could wish for. In the a few minutes later' when he came upon summer, they fished, gathered wild rasp­ N this issue there appears a photograph Brethauer, who was parked on the side of berries, climbing barefooted up the steep I of the Hortonspheroid, which has been the road, listening to a lecture by a traffic rocky mountainside. constructed at the Latonia Refinery. The officer. No ticket was issued, however, After the death of his father, little Hortonspheroid is similar to that recently and Brethauer gOt by with a warning. thirteen-year-o:d Frank packed his pos­ installed at No. I Works, but is of smaller His desire for speed somewhat cooled, sessions in a pillow slip, donned his first capacity, and is designed for the storage he contented himself with traiiing behind pair of trousers and a new pair of button of butane, which is recovered at the gas \Veisend all the rest of the way home. shoes, and started on a forty mile walk to absorption and stabilizing plant. It is the nearest coal mine. After the first hoped that the installation of this piece Frank Mucha recentlv ordered a box of twenty miles his new shoes hurt, so he of equipment will result in the conserva­ Sohio golf balls. He feels that his game finished the walk ba rerooted. tion of a very desi rable product, which "S'--#"1I l\jUS' (jOES Fr-ank's job in the mine called for 14 during the summer season is now wasted ->' " 'I L' To SHOW wns of coa I for each eight hour day. At or consumed in the form of gas. the end of nine months he had saved $50 L>&$~_,/DUiil and he rerurned home in grand style in a $9 suit of clothes, a rubber collar, red necktie No. 1 REFINERY and a hair cut. As he was now a man of D. means, he rode back to his home town George Smith II ~f~ with the mailman. John Fredericy Goes on Pension There followed in rapid succession a ~,~~~~ job in a lobster canning factory: work on OHN "Jammer" Fredericy's name has must be improvll1g a, ne does not lose as a section gang, \v'here he learned to eat Jbeen added to the long list of Sohio an­ many balls as he did before. garlic, a job as waiter in a hotel, which nuitants. On September 1st, his 65th came to an abrupt end when he slipped birthday, John became eligible for re­ The Big Four at Golf and fell with a tray of dishes; a place in tirement under the Sohio Retirement Plan. the labor gang during the construction It was on September I, 1872 that John HE big four of golf at No. I Works of the new Standard Oil of New Jerse/ was born in the viliage of Williamsport, Tjoumeyed to Akron on Saturday, Aug­ plant at Halifa.' and later at Sarnia. Pa. He staIted with our company on ust 14, to give the natives of the rubber Mr. LeFort came to the U. S. in 1919 September 2, 1919, and worked in the city a few lessons on golf. and worked as upholsterer in a Ford plant. Boiler Shop for several years On May Members of the formidable foresome, When he swallowed a mouthful of tacks, I, 1932, he was transferred w the position who a re pictured elsewher'e in this issue, he decided this work was too hazardous of guard, which job he held at the time of are: Rudy Kalfas, No. I Works' Ace and obtained employment with the Stand­ his retirement. Golfer, who shoots golf with the accuracy ard Oil Company at Toledo, as a pipe­ His favorite pastime, as almost every­ of an expert rifleman. John Bonko whose fitter's helper. In 1929 he was trans­ One at No. I Works knows, is fishing, and ability with a golf club is almost uncanny. ferred w Latonia as pipefitter foreman; John spends most of his spare time with He can hook around a curved fairway at he went to Sola I' Refinery for twO yea rs, rod and reel. Down along Sandusky Bay will. Another feature of his splendid and rerurned to Latonia in 1933. is a srurdilv built cabin that he constructed game is the way he blasts with his irons, Frank managed to find time in his busy of corrugated iron, with cardboard for getting a surprisingly long distance with­ life for both study and romance. He be- insulation. Here John spends his week- out apparent effort. Gordon Jedd, the 14 slugging Jimmy Thompson of No. I Retinery, who puts all the power of his 6 foot 2 inch body into his stroke. And your reporter. The foursome left Cleveland early Sat­ urday morning and played 18 holes at the Firestone course at Akron. After time Out ror refreshments, 18 more holes were played. The day was extremely hot and the golrers were plenty tired at the finish.

Annuitant Granger Visits the Plant LD-TIMERS at No I Works wel­ O comed Joseph A Granger, annuiwnt, wnen he recently visited the plant. Joe looks well and is enjoying good health. He spends most or his time look­ ing arter his lawn and garden, and is look­ ing rorward to receiving his 50-year service pin early in October. He wishes to be remembered to any or his old associates he may have missed on his recent trip to the plant. * * * Births Oswald Price reports the arrival or a baby girl - Noreen Rolason Price. And Mirko Debevic announces the ar­ rival of a baby boy.

No. 1 Works Personalities "JE or the outstanding pe~sonalities O at No. I Works is James W. Lauren­ son, roreman or the Pipe Shop. Jim has everything it takes ror success - he is handsome, well-educated, has a splendid physique, poise, a pleasing personality coupled with the ability to do well any job to which he may be assigned. Born in Cleveland on May 8. 1909, Jim led the happy, carefree life of the average boy. He attended Glenville High School and upon graduation he went to Case School of Applied Science, where he studied Civil Engineering. Following his gradu­ ation fl'Om Case School in 1931, he secured a job designing gears and speed­ reducers. On September 24, 1934, he started work­ ing for Sohio as a draftsman in the Engi­ neering Department at No. I Works. This position he held for about tWO years when he was made foreman of the Pipe Shop. ' Last fall, Jim capably conducted an evening cour'se in engineering ror all No. I Works employees who desired to attend As to hobbies, Jim enjoys playing golf and attending football games. He plays golf exceptionally well and derives much enjoyment over the week-ends roaming the fairways. An occasional game of bridge with friends also appeals to him and keeps him mentally alert. Jim is happily mar'­ ried and lives in Shaker Heights. You will find a picture of him elsewhere in this issue. *' * These No. I Works employees received E. M. B. A. sick benefits during July: Glenn A. Baker, Omar L. Edwards, John Pavlak, Walter A. Sanders, Leo Bauk­ necht, John Kasper and John Wendell.

Heavy Stranger (returning to theatre be­ tween the acts): "Did 1 tread on your toes as we went out.''' Seated Man (grimly); "Yau did, sir.' Heavy Stranger (to wife): "That's right. Mabel, this is our place." THE SOH lOA 1\1 for September, /937 15

Lake, August II. Her good luck was a TOLEDO REFINERY No.2 REFINERY check for $27.50. H. E. Mersereau John Esson * Ray Mlckovsky, who plays 2nd base for Four Hundred Attend Annual Picnic E wish a speedy recovery to Mrs. A. the Poschke Barbecue Amateur Baseball WKruszynski and to Mrs. H. C. Botzen­ Team, works at No.2 Works during the N Sawrday, August 7, Toledo Re­ hart, wife of NO.2 Works Safety Super­ week as a wax molder. This team is man­ O nnery held their annual picnic at visor, who have been very ill for the last aoed by Laddie Placek, brother of George Gem Beach where excellent bathing is to severaI months. P~acek, No.2 Works tank car loader, and be had, along with roller skating, dancing Mrs. E. Rowe, wife of Ed Rowe, an­ they have won their last (our games. We and other amusements. Some four hun­ nuitant of NO.2 Works, is convalescing wish them COntinued good luck for the dr'ed employees and their families enjoyed from a broken a rm which she suffered remainder 01 the season. this event. when she fell from the running board of In cha rge of the COntests were Chai r­ her car. We hope for her a speedy re­ man N. S. Bickel, S. P. Gerlach, and Glenn covery. Draper, who did a splendid job of careful Herb Botzenha rt, sa (ety supervisor, has planning beforehand. All prizes were aareed to be a Roving Reporter (or No.2 useful and worthwhile. Works Sohioan news. Let's have a lot o( Walter Osiecki, who has an interest in news, Herb. The largest family registered at the the Garneld Heights Dahlia Gardens, picnic was Mr. and Mrs. Burl T urne: and expects to go to Indianapolis the first part their eleven children. A picture 01 thiS of September to enter some of his stock The No.2 Works Laboratory large family is promised for the next issue in the Indianapolis Dahlia Show. Good of The Sohioan. On the opposite page are luck, we say. He must have high hopes -R-R-RINGI goes the telephone at the several snapshots taken at the picnic. of getting first place as he has already RNo.2 Rennery Control Laboratory. * * *" placed an order for a new Chrysler auto­ "Say, how's the Sohio 30r' asks a mobile. voice. Vacation Reports "Pump it awayl" is the answer (rom the D SMITHERMAN visited his laboratory and with those words another No.2 Works Again Wins batch' of oil is finished, up to specifica­ W• father and mother in Winston-Salem, No-Accident Plaque N. C. ... Ed Raney motored to MinnesOta, tions, and ready (or the market. but has nOt given us any details about the To insure the uniformity o( the products O.2 Works again led the Oil Refiners turned out at No.2 Works, (our men are trip ... j. L. Kane visited in his old home N State-Wide No-ACCident Campaign town of Lorain. constantly at work in the refinery's and won the plaque for the second con­ laboratory, checking and rechecking every * secutive time. This is the fourth time NO.2 H. Ladd is still annoyed about his batch o( oil and other products turned out. J Works have had the honor of winning the Besides checking finished products, all recently acquired traffic ticket, which plaque. Although other refineries had COSt him $10.80. raw materials coming intO the refinery are more man-hours, they also had accidents. tested. This insures a uniform starting * * ::.: 1f we continue through to September 14, We wish Tom Day, blacksmith, who material (or the manufacturing processes. without a lost-time accident, we will Products out in service are sampled at has been off duty because of sickness, a have completed four years without an hurried recovery. intervals and brought to the laboratory accident. (or "service analysis". This is o( material E. M. B. A. sick benefits were paid to *' '" >:< aid to the users o( our products. these Toledo Refinery employees during Mrs. M. Geczy, wife of Martin, old A careful study o( competitors' prod­ July: William D. Deveaux, John R. Dixon, time cooperer at NO.2 Works, was one of ucts is constantly being made. This aids 'Delmer C. Grant, and james L. Mc­ the lucky winners at the Broadway-East the company in keeping up with modern Connell. 55th Street Merchants picnic at Geauga trends and (urnishes a basis on which to better our productS. The laboratory is housed in a brick building facing East 65th Street and con­ sists of three rooms, covering an approxi­ mate Aoor area o( 1200 square (eet. The largest room, abour 30 (eet square, is where most of the physical testing is done, while the chemical work is concentrated Toledo Refinery Annual Picnic in the twO remaining smaller rooms. The (our men doing this work are: G. I-The bathing nymphs. W. Walters and Ernest Karoly, chemists; and George Koelliker and Eddie Thiel oil 2-"Come and get it." testers, and pictures of them appear in this issue. 3-W. E. "Tiny" Huson, left, and Walt Moring lent weight to the G. W. Walters is in charge o( the occasion. laboratory. Graduating (rom Case School o( Applied Science in 1926, Bill decided 4-Barbara Ann Cowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cowell, was to enter the petroleum field. Without the belle of the day. losing much time he started working (or 5-Georgann Lang, left, and Gladys Mooney enjoyed the beach. the ::;tandard Oil Company. Bill ac­ customed himsel ( to his new work and 6-Euchre attracted Homer Cowell, G. A. Mellor, W. Belkofer, and upon the retirement o( Chief Chemist Fred E. A. Boltz. Mertins in 1930, he took over the duties o( directing the operations of the labora­ 7-Balloon bursting contest for men. tory. The spOrt pages o( the local papers occupy most o( his reading time and when 8-N. S. Bickel, picnic chairman, in the foreground. it comes to spor"tS, Bill himsel( has an 9-Rolling pin contest for women, Glenn Draper supervising. active liking (or tennis and bowling. He can give anyone stiff competition in either lO-Waiting for the word "go" in the pie eating contest. o( these sports. He likes to see a good baseball game and can tell you a thing Il-A new way to put clothes pins on a line. or twO on the fine points 01 the game. He has been married twO years and will 12-The enterprising lass with the hat probably won the peanut hunt. not pass up a chance to tra vel by. auto­ 13-Not a football game, but rather, a mess of scrambled shoes. mobile, having a special fondness lor the Northeastern States (That's wher'e he 14-Cigar smokers doing their stuff for a prize. spent his honeymoon). Bill's duties at the