The Phoenix index., 1942-08-29

right after the World Series. MMM8S#M
Smokey Joe >Wlliams-toed the mound M
against Grover Cleveland Alexander Phila aaaM
dephias rgihthanded who 81 and - MaAM
lost 10 that year. Williams colored mates M M
gave him single run in their half of the saa'A z2
first inning. LUcIUs JONES
The Negro team went all the way down to the last
half of the ninth inning leading TO- but here Williams tenn
p0rariy lost control and walked three in row, load
ing the bases.
Things looked very bad indeed with Bert Niehoff,
George Bancroft and Dode Paskert the Pills three top
hitters coming up in that order But undsurbed Smokey
Joe Williams reared way back and fired in that lightning
fast ball. Nine straight strikes whsed past the three
dangerous batsmen-and that "all she wrote"
Haskell Cohen, crack white magazine writer tells the
s19 ss5y sov"s in the current (ssp'e"bsr issue Of
rN.
In 1929 after the Philadelphia Athletics had conquered
the Chicago Cubs in the World Series the AS transformed
and met an allNegro team in ninegame series. Mickey
with the AS at the time but they did have such stawars
Waly Schang Art Shres and Charley Jason in their
stead along with the other great Philadelphia stars George
Earnshaw Max Bishop, Joe Boey Jimmy Dykes, Bing Mil
ler Mule Haas, and company.
Naturally the AS fresh from their convincing win
the Cubs in the World Series, figured the Negro players
"easy pickings."
But believe it or not the colored players won the Sc
res, five games to four with George Herney big fast
ball pitcher turning in two of the wins He bested Earn
shaw who had won 25 and lost 12 in the stirring mound
duel which decided the series.
In 1894, after the ST. Louis Cardinals had wrecked
the Detroit Tigers and the World Series nucleus Of
the club featuring Jerome H. Dizzy Dean who won 80
and lost in regular and bagged Two wins in
the World Series took Leroy (Satche Paige and
asar personnel made up mostly of regulars of the Kan
sas City Monarchs in transforming series.
In the series, Dizzy Dean opposed Satchel Paige six
times but could win only twice Prior to their game in
Cleveland Satche took Dizzy aside and gave him the secret
of making his fast ball sail and then hop Deans smoke ball
didn't have much "take-off" before that
Even with those pointers however satchel beat Dean
in duel the same afternoon letting the big eaguers down
a G he rtad hat
Sachel Paige much better pitcher than he could
hope to be-and all his white teammates agreed.
Josh Gibson the great catcher of the Homestead Grays
has hit of the longest drives off major
league name" hrlers Carl Hubbel rates him tops Glib
son hit record blow - 540-foot drive at Monessen
Pa--off Dizzy Dean.
Pepper Martin all but ran the shirts off the backs of
the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1881 World Series For
that the ST. Louis Cardinals hero gives Negro ball players
the credit. He said he played with team white
who leading of the alsar coored outfits go
ing into the last half of the ninth back in $780,
Then, Pepper said the entire Negro began lay
ing the hall down and hoootng it to first When the
smoke had cleared the colOred boys won Sd
there still was only one out!
- From that day, the Card great" said he fashioned
his running after that of the gifted Cool Papa Bell ring
assault.
In 1889, Tom Wilson, Negro baseball pioneer had
club entered in Joe Prrones Winter Baseball League-ou
on the coast-under the of the Royal Giants This
club made of star players Philadelphia Stars
Washington Elite Giants Newark Eagles and Baltimore
Elite Giants.
The Royal Giants invariably beat the white teams of
present former major league stars they faced In one of
these witnessed at Gilmore Field made famous by
UCLA's immortal Kenny Washington, 10000 fans turned
out to see Boo Feer and his mates try to throttle the Ne
gro satellites.
The Negro team won 81 after sending Feler to the
showers in the fifth inning. The blows which put Bob
Queer Street were successive twobaggers Big Jim
frstbasing for the Philadelphia Stars, and Pepper
Bassett, who is currently featured with the Ethiopian
Clowns and whose forte is catching in rocking chair
William Harvey, unOrthOdox sOuthpaw of the Bal
tmore Elites was winning pitcher for the Royal Giants He
added insult to injury by tanning Feer when the kid sen
saton to the plate just before smashing uprs
ing.
The white team consisted of Ernie Orsat first base
Babe Adams, honored that the Pacific Coasts
Most Outstanding Player, third base Bill Cisse second
base; Herb Kress shortstop Frank Demaree, lefield
Fern Bell centerfield Lou Novkoff rightfied Cliff Mont
gomerv catcher Bob Feller and Henie Kline, pitchers.
The ROYALS had such stars as Mule SuttIes Wild Bill
Wright Bill HOskns, Pepper Bassett Jim West Bill Harvey
and cOmDanv.