Thursday, June 15, 2023

North/South Carolina leagues

1934-12-30 NC sports chronological review - league news + no-hitters

1928-8-11 games scheduled for various leagues
1929-7-13 ditto

Albemarle League
    1934 7-22 standings good player names: Uzzle and Brogden 8-17 standings
    1948
    1949
    1950

    Bohonko, John 1948 Edenton Colonials
         1934-6-26 5 Ferebees on New Bern roster - newspapers garbled game account. It was little Billy, 122 lb. 2b, who hit the homer, not manager Bill. 
    Parker, William - Newton MG-1b 1948-50 Edenton Colonials
    Shaney, Bud p - 230 milb wins 1934 Edenton Colonials Says he has zero walks over 91 consecutive innings. 

    Gaddy, John p 2-0 0.69 1938 BRO 1934 Williamston

   
    1951-3-28 Parker managed Edenton Colonials to three straight pennants, 1948-50. League collapsed in 1950. Parker & Bohonko tied for 1948 HR lead with 14 apiece.
    
     1934-8-26 short preview of series
    1934-8-30 Williamstown 10, Edenton 1. 
    1934-8-31 Williamston 7, Edenton 6. Williamstown leads 3-1.

Blue Ridge League
    only year: 

    Hudson, Johnny football coach also in Florida State
 
    Douglas, Phil p 94 MLB W 1923 Forest City 1K+ ATT
    Holland, Dutch of vg 1923 Shelby 
    Shirley, Mule 1b vg 1923 Marion straight to Senators after 23  

    Herman Bryson 1923 pic pitcher for Carolina - also profile

    1923-8-22 box Spindale 2, Marion 1. 
    1923-8-28 w/box Marion 3, Spindale 1. Marion will play 3-game series with York, Palmetto League champions. 

Bright Leaf League
    1929 Williamston

    1929-6-20 Teams must post $100 bonds. To be eligible to play, players must have been residing in county for sixty days prior to beginning of season. Schedule given.
    "Work is now under way on the new playing field at Ahoskie. It will be on the graded school property. Stumps and trees have been removed since last week and road machines have been put to work grading, scraping and rolling the grounds, which are conveniently located near the center of the town, being easily reached from Main street." 
    1929-9-01 War is over. After being tied three-three in championship series Williamston beat Windsor 5-4 for crown. 
    "Hell hath no fury like two small towns fighting over a baseball championship." 
    The teams were led by Colonel Harry Stubbs & Judge Francis D. Winston. As season progressed they quit their law practices to focus on their teams. They are highly respected men, and normally on good terms with each other, but their rivalry made their relationship heated. 
    Windsor won 1st half championship. Williamston won 2nd half. 

Carolina League
    1934 Cooleemee
    1935

    Wilson, Rube p - SALL 1921-27 (27-33) 1928 Bessemer City

    Poole, Jim 1b-MG 1934 Cooleemee 1935 Cooleemee + Mooresville


    1934-9-23 Jim Poole tells how a grain of corn helped bring his team the pennant. Picks own league all-star team, placing himself at first base, in line with the consensus
    1935-4-26 Season preview + managers listed.
    1935-5-30 Jim Poole suspended by Cooleemee; after week he must either be reinstated or released

    1934-9-17 Cooleemee 5, Landis 3. Box. 
    1934-9-18 Landis 5, Cooleemee 2. Box. Cooleemee up 3-2.
    1934-9-20 Cooleemee 4, Landis 3. Box. 2K+ ATT.
        "The series games were moved to Landis this week due to the rather poor attendance at the Cooleemee park in the two games that were played there, and large crowds were on hand for all contests at Landis." 

    1935-5-23 boxes. Attendances listed of 1200 and 500.
    1935-8-15 boxes
    1936-7-08 Salisbury Post has all boxes.

    1935-8-25 (line) Cooleemee 5, Erwin (non-league) 2. 2K ATT. Erwin's thirteen-game winning streak shattered. Jim Poole returned to Cooleemee line-up after two months with Mooresville
    1935-9-13 (line) Cooleemee 3, Erwin 2. 1st of three game series.

    1935-8-16 Action shot
    1936-7-09 Action shot

    MG:
    1934
    Cooleemee: Jim Poole
    Landis: Ginger Watts

Carolina League

    league on BR 1936 league is listed but no rosters - played about 100 games a year
    wiki league played from 1936 to 1938
    1936 Valdese Textiles  8-27 standings


    Palmisano, Joe see SABR bio - played as "Joseph Palm" 1938 Lenoir Finishers - .314-287 AB

    1936 championship series 9-8 Concord 1-0 9-10 Concord 7-5 


    1936-7-09 Jim Poole resigns as manager of Mooresville, but will continue to play first. Byron Hagger will succeed him at the reins.

Carolina Textile League
    1928
    
Catawba League
        1933 final 2nd half standings
        1934 8-5 standings

    Cross, Ed also him 1933 Aragon
    Hollifield, Eugene 1933 Aragon
    Suggs, Chick 1933 Aragon 1934 Baldwin

    Fowler, Pete 1933 Baldwin ART FOWLER'S BROTHER (how....) 
    Roy, Luther 1933 Aragon

    1933-4-06 league structure - opening day is 4-22
    1933-9-01 All-Star Carolinas team
    
    REALLY GOOD 1933 Aragon w/ pictures and bios of all
    1933-9-18 Aragon Mills w/pics of all after they had become champions of the Carolinas'
    
    1933-7-29 Charlie Horne wins 18-0 no-hitter

    MG:
    1933
    Baldwin: Rhinehardt

Catawba Valley League
    1933

    1933-8-29 Manager Tel Bumgarner of Valdese believes his team won the 2nd half with a 5-1 record.
    1933-8-31 Hickory Whisnants, 1st half winners,  will play Rhodhiss, 2nd half winners, for championship. Winners will play Western Carolina League champions. Whisnants have had to play most of games on road.

Central Carolina League


Coastal Plain League (semi-pro 1933-36, class D 1937-52)
    1933 Greenville
    1935 8-26 standings
    1936

    Knowles, Worlise - "Worley" two-way -mostly outfielder in minors1934 Ayden

    Rogers, Buck-Orlin-Lefty  1934 Kinston 1935 Kinston

    1934-7-22 Greenville is protesting the nine games Kinston won in which Guy Fletcher was pitching for the Lenoir club. They charge that Guy Fletcher pitched for Winston-Salem in 1933 Piedmont League.
    "Under league rules, each team is entitled to one player who has engaged in professional baseball within the last three years but he may not pitch. Kinston's pro is manager Bunn Hearn, who also is baseball coach at Carolina. Fletcher pitched for the freshmen team at the Hill [University of North Carolina] last spring."
    If it is proved Fletcher pitched in pro ball, his college career will be over.
    This week, Worley Knowles, Ayden of-p, was 15 for 20 with five homers. Hit three homers in one game. On 7-21 he hit homer, triple, and two doubles.
    1934-7-29 Umpires have a hard time in league - they don't often last long. Fans take their baseball very seriously, and squawk louder than Huey Long.
    1934-8-25 Game between Kinston and Snow Hill will be played at Kinston instead of Snow Hill because the government " 'dumped three carloads of cows in the ballpark.' "
    1934-8-29 Lofty Greenville batting averages enumerated
    1934-9-07 Coastal Plain League financial breakdown of play-off series. A total of $3,132.05 was collected from gate receipts. The receipts of the first four games went to the players, and the receipts of the last two to the clubs. The winning players of Greenville received 60%, and those of Kinston received 40%. Greenville players got $57.54 each after all expenses were deducted - Kinston players received similar sums as team had built up surplus over summer. 
    1934-9-13 Jim "Ox" Tatum, 200 lb. Carolina senior football player, caught for Kinston this summer. Hit sixteen homers, second to league-leading seventeen, and acquired new nickname: "Casey at the Bat."
    1934-9-21 Orlin Rogers, elected captain of Virginia baseball team, had great season for Kinston. In regular season, won 20 of 21 games - won 16 in a row - struck out 15 in only loss. 
    1934-9-23 (Salisbury Post)
    " 'Lefty' Jarrell, formerly a member of the Cartex mill and Oakdale pitching staffs of this vicinity and more lately a member of the Rockingham Co-En Cubs pitching staff, has signed a contract to play with Kinston in the Costal [sic] Plains [sic] League for next season it is learned here.
    "Jarrell, who is spending the early fall months at Wrightsville Beach, was offered a contract with the Wilmington Pirates, to be farmed out to a team in Virginia but refused this contract, stating that he would rather be confined to his own responsibilities to work up rather than to be dependant [sic] upon a farm system."
    1934-9-25 League was home to many Southern Conference college players - lists many. Gene Zaiser, future NYC semi-pro, played in league.
   1934-10-01 Wings Shipp, who was voted most colorful baseballer in league this year, says there will be no pro football in New Bern this winter. He had organized it the last two years.

    1934-8-29 Kinston 11, Greenville 1. 1700 ATT. Opening game. Rogers won 20th out of 21
    1934-8-30 Kinston 4, Greenville 1. 
    1934-8-31 Greenville 6, Kinston 4. Kinston went through entire season with same batting order - may be unique in baseball history. Team has .288 average. Gene Zaiser is from Long Island, and is formerly of the U. of N.C.
    1934-9-02 Greenville 6, Kinston 2. Box. 2K+ ATT. "Hundreds perched on the fence and sat on the ground on all sides of the field." Greenville now leads 3-2. 
    "The defeat took a lot of spunk out of Kinston fans. The town has been in amateur, semi-pro, outlaw, Class D and Class B leagues ever since baseball became the national pastime. Never has it taken a pennant. This year's club was so good it wound up the season in first place by two and a half games after forfeiting ten games, which were distributed among three clubs, including Greenville, because of an ineligible pitcher."
    1934-9-03 Greenville 5, Kinston 3. Greenville Greenies surprised all by winning pennant.
    
    1934-9-09 Greenville team pic
    

Davidson League
    1936


Eastern Carolina League
    1920 Williamstown

    1920-9-23 John B. Foster rules on freak play several weeks after the event - batter retreats down 3rd base line to avoid getting out

Eastern Carolina Textile League
    1934 Lyman

    Wilson, Rube long-time B 1934 
    Yeargin, Rush long-time A 

    1934-9-16 Rube Wilson given watch as MVP and Rush Yeargin giving suit as top batter. 

Granite Belt League (replaced by Carolina Textile League)
    1930-1933

Greenville Textile League
    1944

    Raines, John "Monk" p 1944 Monaghan has boxes for all teams
        1948 Presbyterian College (Clinton, SC)

Palmetto Textile League (also just Palmetto League)
    1923 York 
    1933 Ninety Six

Palmetto League
    1950 7-30 standings

    Graham, Zeke - Harold p - good in FLIN 1950 Lake City (I think)
    Raines, John "Monk" p - great in 1952 COPL 1950 Kingstree Royals  
    Templeton, Archie p-of  - longtime two-way in minors 1950 Kingstree Royals  800 ATT in other game 

Mid-State Textile League
    1933


    1933-9-29 rubber game between Monarch Mills and Clinton Mills will be played tomorrow. Some stars in line-up listed. 

Roanoke-Chowan League
    1935

    1935-8-25 First game of post-season series

Shoe Heel League
    1934

    Knowles, Worlise - "Worley" 1934 Raeford

    1934-8-30 Red Norris threw 16K for Raeford v. Bennetsville - Knowles, Raeford's hero last year, was in line-up. First no-hitter ever in Raeford. 
    1934-9-04 Worley Knowles will pitch for Raeford against Bennettsville in seventh and deciding game of championship series. 
 
Tri-County League
    1935 Bossong Indians



Western Carolina League
    1928

        1929-4-06 league disbands 

Western Carolina League
    1935 6-12 standings

    Bell, Jack 1933 Hickory Rebels - 1934 non-league Forest City Owls
    Cook, Marion/Butler 15-4 in 1937 at 48 in 1st pro season 1933 Conover Blue Sox shutout Hickory
            1934 Conover Blue Sox
    Munday, Charlie "Bud" c - played to 1951 1933 Hickory Rebels
    Pitts, Ray 1937 NCSL 1933 Newton p-MG


    1933-7-14 Bumgarner family has seven sons, all bona-fide ballplayers 
    1933-7-27 Praise for Hickory Rebels' infield - particularly Phil Weaver, first baseman. 
    1933-7-28 Hickory Rebels have four players hurt
    1933-8-09 It was ruled that Conover forfeited last Friday's game to the Hickory Spinners for using a pitcher still officially on the roster of the Hickory Rebels. 
    1933-8-31 Conover will play Newton in five-game series for league championship. Winners will play champions of Catawba Valley League. 
    1934-6-02 ads for Hickory Rebels opening game - includes promises of products to 1st player to hit 2b etc. Very cool. 
    1934-6-22 description of new Brookford park
    1934-6-29 Hickory Rebels game ad
    1934-7-20 1st half play-off series evened
    1935-5-10 Valdese team now named Textiles instead of Brewers. Valdese roster listed. 
        Hickory Rebels will soon play first game. Reggie Baker, pitcher, is 6'3". Stumpy Culbreth, Rebels manager, thinks they have a good team. 
    1935-5-11 Valdese will open night-ball season tonight - will play Larkwoods from Charlotte. Valdese park has new & larger grandstand.   
    1935-5-31 Hickory Rebels game ad - 25 cents admission. 
    1935-6-04 Lindsay Deal will report to Knoxville upon graduation from college
    1935-6-12 part of bleachers fall during last night's game between Hickory and Forest City. 4 injured.
    1935-8-01 Hickory's pitchers are too young and Shelby's veterans are too old. 
    1935-8-28 3b Yearigan of the Rebels is an expert at the hidden ball trick. 
    1935-8-29 two Hickory Rebels placed on All-North Carolina semi-pro All-Star team - team listed.
 
    1933-8-31 Hickory Rebels batting for season. They played a lot of non-league games. Pinkie James hit .426 with 142 hits and 74 runs scored in 78 games. Sammy Bell hit .353 and Munday hit .313. 

    finals

    1935-8-28 Valdese 5, Hickory 3. No box. 
    1935-9-01 Hickory 6, Valdese 1. 3K ATT. 

Piedmont League
    1928 Southern Bleachery source
    1929 Southern Bleachery 
   
    1929-4-10 configuration other than 10 team wished for
    1929-4-16 league line-up

 
1929

1929-8-21 Concord Weavers took 18-game series from Kannapolis Towelers

1929-6-13 Concord 3, Kannapolis 0. First game since 1927 between the two teams. 750+ ATT
1929-6-15 Concord 9, Kannapolis 1. 2K ATT
1929-6-23 Kannapolis 13, Mooresville 2. 
1929-8-03 Kannapolis 5, Concord 2. 1K ATT
1929-8-22 Forest 5, Concord 2. Jinx Harris, Forest City, pitcher. 


Charlotte Observer Tournament

1933-7-25 Forest City 15, Tucapau 5. 
1933-7-28 Forest City 20, Hickory Rebels 11. 
1933-8-08 Forest City 6, Hickory Rebels 4. Rebels eliminated. 
1933-8-30 Forest City 5, Albemarle 3. 
1933-9-10 Forest City Owls 3, Aragon Mills 2. 3500 ATT - biggest crowd ever at park. 
        Son of Howie Camnitz at short for Forest City. 

1934-7-20 Hickory 4, Shelby 3. 
1934-8-28 Hickory Rebels 9, Forest City Owls 0. 3K+ ATT

1935-8-02 line scores from Charlotte Observer
 1935-8-13 Hickory 7, Elkin 0. Rube Wilson K'd 17. 

Pros:

Clemmer, Hazel c 1929 Mooresville Panthers
Duke, Willie of - vg -longtime SOUA 1929 Concord Weavers 1933 Snow Hill
Eatman, Charles c 1929 Kannapolis Towelers

MLB:

Camnitz, Harry 1916 Bishopville MG. Had 12-0-2 record in 15 games then were shutout three straight.
        (standings for league)
Shirley, Mule 1b vg 1923 Marion straight to Senators after 23 1933 Snow Hill

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