British Columbia Leagues

 Vancouver Senior City League 

    1923 stats

    1926 6-26 standings

    1932 

    1935 Homes final standings game reports  7-09 top batting

        played touring Tokyo Giants  

    Isekite, Floyd 1935 Athletics took w/ him Tacoma c Padovan 

    Middendorf, Bert 1933 V.A.C.

    Padovan, Andrew 1932 V.A.C. 1933 V.A.C. 1935 Athletics

    Rasmussen, Conrad 1935

    Serventi, Marcel 1935 Athletics

    Weaver, Don Canadian - pitched two games for 1929 Mission  1935 United Distillers

    White, Harry PCL 1935 Homesters I think

    Lodigiani, Dario  1935 Athletics 
    Shea, Pat 1935 Uniteds

    McLarney, Art 1935 Uniteds 2 HRS 6-08 hit long homer last wk

    Wilkie, Lefty 1935 Athletics
    

    1935-6-01 A ton of misc. interesting info

    1935-6-01 also + misc. info - Pat Shea before 1st game only threw 4 warm-up pitches & walked 10

    1935-6-22 importations discussed

    1935-7-06 "Earl Lewis calls Ray O'Dell a 1:30 hitter" - a guy who hits well in batting practice
        but not in games - various stuff, including abt umpires

    1935-8-03 a recounting of screwy player antics

    1935-8-06 Ernie Paepke a manager

    1935-8-31 Lodi is writer's pick for MVP - "In fact, Mussolini will probably be sending for him soon to be squishing the Ethiopians out. He'd likely to do it single-handed." 'kay. Learned to bunt w/ Vancouver

    1935-9-04 misc.

    1935-9-10 misc. Where players are going after end of season    

        letter: "The enclosed is the left hind foot of a rabbit shot by a cross-eyed, red-headed, colored gentleman at the full of the moon, in a Mormon cemetery, at midnight of Friday the thirteenth, on the grave of a left-handed Swedish pitcher, who was clubbed to death by his manager for stealing second with the bases full. Wear this and you will go out and take four straight from the Homes." 

    1935-10-05 A pic with Daro Lodigiani ("Lodi") and Marcel Serventi with Oakland

    1935-11-05 pet quotes of varying people - including some from the league

    1923 pics
    1935 pics incl Dario Lodigiani, 

    1937 pics

    Ed Henry 1935-7-06

    Daro Lodi 1935-6-22

    Top hitters - Athletic infielders - Plouf+Hall+Lodi1935-6-29

    1935-6-01 Andy Padovan/ Hal Weinker 

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=78684 30s card mentioned (archived)

    https://thetyee.ca/Life/2013/02/07/Nat-Bailey-Baseball/?commentsfilter=1

    says Nat Bailey signed Lodigiani (& others) on CA scouting trip

    1943

    1944 6-19 standings

    1945 6-11 standings 8-08 batting

    1946 

    Barberis, Babe 1945 Norvans 2

    Clarkson, Reg good - not sure why his career was so short 1944 Arrows

    Edy, Roswell .346 1939WINT 1944 Arrows

    Faria, Joe 1945 Bellingham

    Gilday, Jim 1943 Bellingham Bells 1944 Bellingham 2 1945 Bellingham

    Hofeditz, Ty 1943 Bellingham Bells 1944 Bellingham 1945 Bellingham 1946 Bellingham

    Holden, Daniel started as p, became of - played till 1960 1944 St. Regis

    Holt, Gene 1945 Norvans

    Orteig, Ray 1939-58, mostly in PCL - as position player 1945 Norvans 2

    Padovan, Andrew 1943 Bellingham Bells 1944 Bellingham 1945 Bellingham 1946 Bellingham

    Plouf, Francis 1945 Norvans

    Zender, Bernie  1943 Bellingham Bells  

    Zender, Dick 1943 Bellingham Bells

    Torgeson, Earl 1943 Bellingham Bells

    White, Don 1944 Bellingham

    Clovechok, Andy pro hockey 1945 Norvans 2

 

    1943 Bellingham Bells

    

    1943-8-22 Long John Marshall & Lefty Bob Luckett

    1943-9-12 Torgeson has stolen home in 3 straight games Bells were 20-1-2 at home

      1944-6-19 Daniel Holden has complained that the left field fence at Girard street is too close

    1945-12-31 "lion-hearted throwing of rubber-armed Joe Faria" Zane Hickok hit in 15 straight

    Padovan, Andy 1944

        

    1944 

    Bellingham MG: Joe Martin 

    Play-offs:

    1945-9-11 Bellingham 9, A&Q 6

    Finals
    1945-9-12 Norvans 9, Bellingham 3. 
    1945-9-14 Norvans 9, Bellingham 0. In play-offs, Ray Orteig has 4 W, 64K, 38.1 IP, 9R, 24H - much better than Joe Faria

    1945-9-16 Norvans 8, Bellingham 3.  1500ATT

    Pics:

    1945-9-15 Casey Jones & Ray Orteig

Vancouver Terminal League

    1934 7-24 batting Asahis have more than 2x as many stolen bases as any other team

Pros:

    McQuade ss cup of coffee in PCL 1908 Victoria Wonders

    Surphlis, Charlie 1911 Victoria (Charlie Surplice)  1910 Victoria 2-hitter

    Wattelet, Leonard of  up of coffee in PCL 1908 Victoria Wonders 1910 Victoria

    1908-8-09 Charlie Surplice throws 15K 1-hitter v. Websters from Seattle. 

    1908-8-23 Victoria 7, Seattle Athletics 4. 

    1910-6-26 Murdock, Ballard centre fielder, acted like a duck. Recounts other interesting details. 

    1910 Victoria batting

    1909-6-02 Wattelet, Victoria manager, is not sure where to take team for road trip

    1910-10-22 Victoria had a pro team before 

    1910-11-03 Victoria joining Northwest.

        "Victoria was represented by President Leonard A. Wattelet, who has done much to make semi-professional ball popular in the island city...

    Victoria will get several players from other clubs." 

    1910-11-08 It is likely that today the Royal Athletic Park will "pass from the hands of the Royal Park Association into the control of the syndicate which is supporting the professional ball nine."

    The park has never been a financial success. 

    1910-12-06 Team has seven players sewn up. Two new additions signed by Eddie Householder who scouted in California for several weeks. 

    Wattelet has played with Victoria for three years and run the club for two. It is due to his efforts that Victoria has acquired "the advertising incident to baseball. That feature alone is worth thousands of dollars to a city." 

 

    Victoria has play by play for all games. 

    https://www.diamondsinthedusk.com/uploads/articles/575-ZJkiaGZ-1911_Victora_Bees.pdf  

    Northwest League did not have balanced scheduling - some teams spent 70% of games on road, some at home. 

    Pictures of all the players - Johnny Williams & Jack Roche. Very good resource.

    Both Surphlis and Wattelet died in WWI.