Introduction
Vincent Ariel Tydeman
VINCENT ARIEL TYDEMAN was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883 to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who had come to America from England in 1878 with their nine children. Another child, Florence, was born just before the June 1880 census. Edmund Tydeman, the oldest son of a Baptist minister, was an optician who had brought his family to Camden from Pennsylvania after daughter Florence was born in April of 1880. The 1887–1888 Camden City Directory shows the family living at 1046 Cooper Street. The following year’s directory has them at 523 Spruce Street. The family lived at 512 Bailey Street when the census was taken in 1900. At home was older brother Herbert, sister Florence, and Vincent Tydeman, the youngest child.
Vincent Tydeman was a superb athlete, excelling at acrobatics, track and field, and baseball. He parlayed these skills into a successful career in vaudeville and professional baseball in the 1900s and 1910s. He was of a generation of North Camden children who went on to become notable stage performers. His contemporaries included dancer Ann Pennington and the Dooley Family. Vincent Tydeman teamed with Johnny Dooley for three years, their act, Tydeman & Dooley was very popular. The pair worked together for three years before parting ways.
His great-granddaughter, Maryann Foster, writes:
Vincent Tydeman learned his acrobatic routine from an ex-vaudeville clown named Charlie Sheldon who had moved to Camden from Wilmington in 1903. My great-grandfather practiced his routine of back flips and running leaps under Sheldon’s direction out at Old Coxey Farm near the State Street Bridge. It was during this time that he mastered his legendary trick of making a running dive over seven chairs into a handstand on a table and then a return leap over five more chairs. It was this trick that made him the most sensational and highest paid acrobat on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. He traveled for weeks at a time doing this act from coast to coast.
Vince won the Camden All-around Championship at the Camden YMCA in 1903, 1904, and 1905. He was also the Camden County Pole Vaulting Champion in 1905. In 1905 the Tydeman and Dooley act played at the Broadway Theatre on Broadway and Sycamore Streets to sold-out shows both matinees and evening performances. My great-grandfather was the straight man and originator of the act. His partner Johnny Dooley lived in Camden between North 2nd and North 3rd Street on Pearl Street. The act lasted for three years when they then parted professionally.
Vincent Tydeman married around 1906. He also was playing professional baseball that year, first with Savannah in the South Atlantic League, then with Valdosta GA in the Georgia State League. When the team folded in July of that year, he was assigned to the Orangeburg SC franchise. He signed a contract to play for the Paterson NJ franchise of the Union Baseball League in April of 1908.
By 1904 Edmund Tydeman had passed away. The family made its home at 228 Burns Street in the Poet’s Row section of North Camden in that year. Vincent Tydeman later made his home at 106 Elm Street in North Camden with his wife Jennie, daughter Alice, son Robert and his 70 year old mother.
During the fall and winter months of the 1910s, Vincent Tydeman played on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit, usually as part of the comedic acrobat team of Tydeman and Dooley. Another young North Camden neighbor, Dan McConnell was working for the Keith circuit as a publicist and breaking into journalism during these years.
The 1910 baseball season saw Vincent Tydeman playing for teams in Danville and Norfolk in the Virginia League. The following year he was with Johnstown PA and Erie PA Sailors in the Tri-State League. He returned to Erie the following year.
In 1911 the Erie Sailors moved to the Ohio-Pennsylvania League. Vincent Tydeman was managed by Billy Gilbert, former major leaguer and starter at second base on the 1905 New York Giants world series’ winning team. Erie joined the Central League the following year. After holding out for a better contract at the beginning of the 1912 season, Vincent Tydeman was dealt the Grand Rapids MI team in the Central League. Here he enjoyed great success. In his first year in the Central League he batted .287 and stole 30 bases in only 97 games.
1913 was a banner year for Vincent Tydeman. He hit .299 with 86 runs scored. His 51 stolen bases led the circuit, and he was second in the league in home runs, with 13, a good number in the dead ball era of baseball. He also led the league in total bases with 254. The Grand Rapids won the Central League pennant by 15 games. The team was owned by its star pitcher, Bill Essick, who would also manage it to Central League pennants in 1916 and 1917. Essick would remain in baseball as a minor league manager and scout until 1951, and is remembered as the scout who signed Joe DiMaggio. He also signed Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty Gomez, Frank Crosetti, Jimmie Reese, Lyn Lary, Myril Hoag, Joe Gordon, Johnny Lindell and Ralph Houk. Dimaggio, Lazzeri, and Gomez, are in baseball’s Hall of Fame, and a good argument can be made for Bob Meusel and Joe Gordon. A Grand Rapids teammate in 1913 was Jeff Pfeffer, who went on to win 158 games in the major leagues with Brooklyn, the St. Louis Cardinals, and Pittsburgh.
Great-granddaughter, Maryann Foster, writes:
My Great grandfather played the vaudeville circuits during the winter months and played baseball during the summer months. A professional baseball scout did come out once to see my great-grandfather play but he made Vince so nervous that he didn’t play his best game and never made it into the big leagues.
Vincent Tydeman returned to Grand Rapids in 1914, then spent 1915 and 1916 with the Topeka, Kansas team in the Western League. He returned to the Central League for the 1917 season with the South Bend, Indiana Benders, but hit only .201. He finished the season with the Scranton Miners of the New York State League.
Vincent Tydeman got off to a slow start at the plate in 1917. By mid-June he was only hitting .205, and it would appear that he was beginning to slow down. After the 1917 season the Central League disbanded, and Vincent Tydeman returned to Camden and got a job as a driller at the New York Shipbuilding Company Corporation on Broadway in South Camden.
Great-granddaughter, Maryann Foster, writes:
It was in 1918 that he gave up vaudeville, and baseball shortly afterwards to settle down to his own printing business. He held various jobs in his lifetime including being a truck driver and a chauffeur. He was also musically inclined. He played the accordion. He was married to Jennie for 69 years. They had seven children. They were Alice, Robert, Clifford, Doris, Harold, Douglas, and Joan.
When he returned to Camden for good, the Tydeman family resided at 909 York Street in North Camden. By January of 1919 Vincent Tydeman was working as a printer. Three more children had arrived by this time, Clifford, Doris, and Harold Vincent Tydeman. He did keep an interest in baseball. He played for the Newport News Shipbuilders of the Class B Virginia League in 1919 and for the Ludington Mariners of the Class C Central League in 1920, his final year of professional baseball. He stayed in the game playing semi-pro ball in and around Camden. Still effective at 38, Vince Tydeman played center field and batted clean-up for the 1921 Camden team that won the Camden County championship.
The Tydeman family purchased a home at 2116 Howell Street during the 1920s. Another child, Douglas, was born, and Joan would follow. When the Census was taken in April of 1930, Vincent Tydeman was working for the City of Camden as a truck driver. He was still residing at that address when the 1947 Camden City Directory was compiled.
Three of Vincent Tydeman’s sons served in the military during World War II. Staff Sergeant Harold V. Tydeman was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for his actions in the Pacific, fighting the Japanese. Douglas Tydeman dropped out of high school and lied about his age to enlist in the Army. Douglas Tydeman saw action on D-Day and was at the Battle of the Bulge. He was wounded three times, and was awarded the Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters. Douglas Tydeman served on the Camden police force for 28 years, retiring in 1981.
Vincent A. Tydeman passed away in January of 1975. The Tydeman family was still living at 2116 Howell Street as late as the fall of 1977.
Tydeman & Dooley (Vincent Tydeman at left)
Tydeman & Dooley
Savannah Ready
Atlanta Constitution —
Savannah Is Ready.
Savannah, Ga., April 14.—(Special.)—Jacksonville will meet Savannah on the local diamond on Monday in the opening game of the season in the South Atlantic League, and it is expected that the crowd in attendance will be fully as large as the tremendous gatherings that have heretofore greeted the local boys on opening days. Added grand stand and bleacher accommodations will meet all demands, however, and none who attend will suffer from the inconvenience through lack of seating facilities.
Hoff and Curran will appear as the battery for Savannah in the opening game, while Ney and Robinson will umpire for Jacksonville. Matthews will umpire. Mace being in Charleston and Keefe in Macon for the opening games in those cities.
The others whom Savannah will present on the opening day are: Sadie, first; Logan, second; Sylvester, third; Hallman, rf. Johnson, lf. Howell, cf. and King or Tydeman, right. The management has canned a few of the try-outs lately. Smeltz, who goes to the Albany Crackers, was one of those who failed to make good as pitchers, and have sought other fields of effort. Lipp, Helsman, Hoff, Gearhardt and Watson constitute the pitching staff, but it is probable that one or two of these boys will soon bid the aggregation a sad farewell.
Valdosta 8, Americus 0
Atlanta Constitution —
Valdosta 8, Americus 0.
Valdosta, Ga., May 19.—(Special.)—Valdosta downed Americus this afternoon—8 to 0. The feature of the game was the pitching of Barber for the locals and the fielding and heavy hitting of Tydeman for the locals. Tydeman got two singles, one two-bagger and a home run.
Score:
R. H. E.
Valdosta….004 202 000—8 11 3
Americus….000 000 000—0 3 10
Batteries: Valdosta, Barber and Walters; Americus, Whalen and Stevens.
Americus 5, Valdosta 4
Atlanta Constitution —
Americus 5, Valdosta 4.
Valdosta, Ga., June 23.—(Special.)—Both sides played indifferent, careless ball today and Americus won an uninteresting game by a score of 5 to 4.
Score by Innings:
R.
Valdosta….020 002 000—4
Americus….100 100 003—5
Batteries—Tydeman and Walters; Sorrell and Stephens.
Georgia State League
Atlanta Constitution —
Georgia State League.
Brunswick 6, Valdosta 1.
Valdosta, Ga., June 28.—(Special.)—Brunswick won a very uninteresting and featureless game here this afternoon. Neither side exerted themselves in the least to make plays that should have been carried off with ease. They play again tomorrow.
Score:
R.H.E.
Valdosta….010 000 000—1 7 7
Brunswick….011 210 001—6 4 5
Batteries—Bagwell, Tydeman and Walters; Hessles and Cranston.
Valdosta Quits Ball League
Atlanta Constitution —
Valdosta Quits Ball League
Management Found It Impossible to Make Ends Meet.
Valdosta, Ga., July 5.—(Special.)—Valdosta is down and out of the Georgia State Baseball League, the franchise having been surrendered at a meeting of the directors here today. The management found it impossible to come out even on the games, having lost steadily since the beginning of the season. A. L. Starr, of Savannah, the original owner of the franchise, lost all he cared to in the game within the first few weeks, and surrendered it to a home company, which has fared almost as bad.
Barber, pitcher, is the only player left in town, the others having joined other teams. Kipp, Crowder and Tydeman will join the Orangeburg, S. C. team. Mitchell and Weakly are playing independent ball at Madison, Fla. An effort will be made to get up an independent here, and if so Barber will pitch for it. From information received here it is thought that Americus will also pull out of the league.
Contracts In for Trenton Men
Trenton Times —
Contracts in for Trenton Men
President A. W. Lawson, of the Union Baseball League, has promulgated the following contracts with the various clubs of his organization: Wilmington—Earnest Brickley, Frank N. Carmen, James Brady, Blanc McCreight. Philadelphia—James Burns, David Yerkes, Thomas Strager, Sid Goldstein, Walter Williams. Baltimore—William H. Westlake, Thomas Maher, Kid Hagen, George Clayton, Robert Tumbelston. Reading—R. C. Hoblitzell. Brooklyn—H. Bader, Augustin Molina. Elizabeth—James J. Kelly, David Creagan, Raymond W. Barrett, Frank J. King, William Luyster, William Serrie, William Phoenix, George Wolfe, F. W. Schipski, Frederick J. Gaiser, William Ross. Paterson—Joseph Sheridan, Harry Clayton, N. Brent, Vincent Tydeman, A. E. Pilling, W. H. Moreland, Charles B. Cole, James Hainsworth, Dick Murley, J. H. Brown, J. W. Smith, Walter Sommers, Thomas J. O’Brien, Charles E. Patterson, Frank J. Andres.
Richmond, 6; Danville, 3
Washington Post —
Richmond, 6; Danville, 3.
Special to The Washington Post.
Richmond, Va., April 23.—Danville went down in defeat today before Lawlor’s Richmond sluggers. The Danville team lost the game at the close of the sixth, when Bussey let the Richmond team make five runs.
Norfolk Wins Two Games
Washington Post —
Norfolk Wins Two Games.
Special to The Washington Post.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 5.—Norfolk took two from Petersburg today, the morning game, 10 to 2, and the afternoon, 8 to 2.
Cosmos—Vaudeville
Washington Post —
Cosmos—Vaudeville.
Counsel II, the feature of the Cosmos bill, did not prove a disappointment in last night’s performance, though, as a matter of fact, it will be hard for the uninitiated to say which was “Counsel,” as there are two monkeys that make a bid for popular favor in the circus, and no announcement is made from the stage as to which is which. Well-trained ponies and several dogs complete the miniature circus, which is one of the most successful animal acts seen here this season.
Herbert Williams and Hilda, billed as the “Crazy Pianist and the Gibson Girl;” the Most twins, boy and girl, in a singing and dancing act; Harry Rickrode, aerial acrobat; Corey Brothers, in a sharpshooting act with comedy features; Allen, May, and company in their travesty singing act, “Stranded;” Tydeman and Dooley, comedy acrobats and tumblers, and Lillian Murtin, the German girl, and moving pictures complete the bill.
Topham Pitched Jawns to Victory
Trenton Times —
Topham Pitched Jawns to Victory
Johnstown, PA., May 4.—Johnstown defeated Altoona in the opening game of the season yesterday, which was exciting from start to finish, and which was decided in the seventh inning, when Johnstown indulged in a batting fest at the expense of Pitcher Scott.
In this inning a base on balls to McClelland, a triple by Ketter, a base on balls to Jolly and his stolen base, a double by Topham and singles by Manning and Tydeman, gave the locals three runs, Johnstown winning by the score of 4 to 2.
Both pitchers were effective at critical stages of the game, with the exception of the seventh inning, when four of the six runs were scored by the two teams. Four thousand fans witnessed the opener.
The game was preceded by a parade of both teams, and the pitching of the first ball by Mayor Alexander Wilson was as pretty a strike as any box-artist ever put over the plate.
Zinn, the first batter, was thrown out by Conn, but Clark singled, and he scored on a double by Crist. The latter reached third on McKenna’s out at first, but was left, when Himes fouled out to McClelland.
Johnstown tied the score in the same inning on singles by Manning and Tydeman, an error by Conners in dropping Clark’s throw to catch Manning going to third and a single by Geyer after Scott fanned Follansbee and Conn. Neither side tallied again until the seventh, when Altoona broke the tie on a base on balls to Hurley, an infield hit by Scott, a single by Zinn and Clark’s fly to Manning. Johnstown won in this inning.
Altoona looked dangerous in the seventh, when McKenna led off with a single, but Himes hit to Conn, and the latter touched second and completed a double play by throwing to Follansbee.
Runs scored—Manning, McClelland, Jolly, Topham, Clark, Hurley. Two-base hits—Crist, McKenna, Topham. Three-base hit—Kelter. Sacrifice fly—Clark. Stolen bases—Clark, Follansbee, Jolly. Double plays—Bates, Crist and Himes; Bates and Himes; Conn and Follansbee. Bases on balls—Off Scott, 3; off Topham, 1. Struck out—By Topham, 5; Scott, 7. Hit by pitcher—By Topham, 1; by Scott, 1. Time—2:00. Umpires—Alloway and Clatz.
“Chicks” Errors Lost in the Ninth
Trenton Times —
“Chicks” Errors Lost in the Ninth.
Wilmington, DEL., May 16.—Wilmington lost to Johnstown yesterday afternoon by the score of 5 to 2, and costly errors by the “chicks” was a contributory cause as Johnstown made two runs in the ninth without a hit.
Buscher pitched for Wilmington and Johnstown did not have much difficulty in connecting with him when hits were needed. Murphy, the local’s centerfielder, featured the game with a great running catch in the third, robbing Tydeman of a triple.
The “chicks” scored two of their runs the first time up. Murphy walked and Marhefka sacrificed. Kelster also walked, and Murphy scored on Wenck’s single. Bastian also got a pass, and when Shaw flied out. Kelster scored on the throw in. The locals were unable to send another runner across the plate until the eighth, when one more was gathered when Marhefka tripled to deep center and scored when Kelster flied to Geyer.
Johnstown scored once in the second. Conn singled and was forced at second by Geyer. Wenck went after McClelland’s fly with one hand and muffed it. Raub sacrificed and Geyer scored. In the sixth, another was scored on Tydeman’s single and Follansbee’s double. One more was gathered in the eighth when Ketter doubled safely and Follansbee singled.
Two errors by Buscher in the ninth let the visitors score as many runs. Runs scored—Murphy, Marhefka, Kelster, Ketter, Tydeman, Conn, Geyer, Stanley. Two-base hits—Follansbee, Ketter. Three-base hit—Marhefka. Sacrifice hits—Kelter, 2; Raub, Marhefka. Stolen bases—Tydeman, 2; Geyer, McClelland, Shaw. Struck out—By Stanley, 6; by Buscher, 4. First base on balls—Off Stanley, 7; off Buscher, 2. Hit by pitcher—Buscher, 2. Umpires—Alloway and Glatts. Time—2:06.
Eichberger Won Game for Senators
Trenton Times —
Eichberger Won Game for Senators
Harrisburg, PA., May 18.—The splendid base running and timely hitting of Eichberger gave the Senators a victory over Johnstown here yesterday afternoon by a score of 4 to 3. Eichberger drove in two runs in the opening inning and in the eighth singled and stole second and third bases, scoring the winning run. Bert Otis’s team is badly crippled and yesterday he was compelled to use Watts and Kurzeknabe, two loyal ‘amateur’ catchers, to help out man Raub and Ketter can return to the game. A great shift was caused in the Johnstown line-up, as McClelland at third is also out of the game.
From the first inning it looked as though Harrisburg would have an easy victory, but Kling went bad in the seventh, and Gus Dorner, who succeeded him, was out of form. Joe Myers took up the pitching at this juncture, and Eichberger captured Geyer’s fly and with a perfect throw to the plate cut off Follansbee. In the eighth with one out, Eichberger singled, stole second and third and scored on Conn’s hit. Myers took up the pitching at this juncture, and Eichberger captured Geyer’s fly and with a perfect throw to the plate cut off Follansbee. In the eighth with one out, Eichberger singled, stole second and third and scored on Conn’s hit.
In the opening inning Taaffe hit the first ball pitched to left centre for the circuit. Sundheim was an infield out, but Scanlon was hit by a pitched ball and Upp doubled to right field. Eichberger singled to right and Scanlon and Upp scored. Johnstown tied the score in the seventh, when, with one out, Pascoe walked and scored when Manning hit to deep centre for a home run. Dorner replaced Kling and walked, Tydeman and Follansbee, and Conn singled, Tydeman scoring on Conn’s hit.
During the third inning, Follansbee and Pascoe collided in going after an infield fly and the former was knocked out for some time, and his tongue and mouth badly cut.
Runs scored—Manning, Tydeman, Pascoe, Taaffe, Scanlon, Upp, Eichberger. Two-base hits—Topham, Upp. Sacrifice hits—Tydeman, Scanlon. Sacrifice fly—McCormick. Double play—Eichberger to Stroh. Struck out—By Pascoe 4, by Kling 3, by Myers 3. Bases on balls—Off Pascoe 2, off Kling 4, off Dorner 1. Left on bases—Johnstown 8, Harrisburg 6. Hit by pitcher—Scanlon 3, Rutherford 3, Eichberger 3. First base on errors—Johnstown 1. Passed ball—Watts. Innings pitched—Kling, 6 1-3; Dorner, none; Myers, 2 1-3. Hits—Off Kling 4, off Dorner 2, off Pascoe 7. Time—2:05. Umpire—Connor.
Stanley Puts It on Weigand’s Club
Trenton Times —
Stanley Puts It on Weigand’s Club
York, PA., May 20.—Pitcher Stanley held York safe every inning of yesterday’s game, and the Johnstown team walked away with a victory by the score of 7 to 3. Only two hits were made off the visiting twirler, while Bentley, twirler for the home team, was touched up for ten, five of which were made in the fourth inning, which scored four runs, enough to win the game. Had it not been for the errors back of him, Stanley would have scored a shut-out.
Clark’s single in the first inning, Manning’s sacrifice and a slow grounder to Bentley by Follansbee gave Johnstown its first run. In the fourth inning, singles were made by Follansbee, Conn, Stanley and Tasker, and Tydeman hit for three bases, which brought home three runners.
York scored two runs in the third inning. Abbott was given a base on balls, and went to second when Tasker fumbled Weigand’s bunt, the latter being safe at first base. Kauffman sacrificed, and a wild throw by Stanley threw second to second gave Weigand a chance to come home. The White Roses scored their third run in the sixth inning. Kauffman drew a base on balls and stole second. He went to third when Stanley threw wide to catch him napping at second and scored on a passed ball.
A base on balls to Stanley, Manning’s sacrifice and Follansbee’s single gave the visitors their sixth run in the seventh inning. Geyer’s two-bagger and Weigand’s muff of Jolly’s fly brought in Johnstown’s last run in the eighth inning.
York….0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—3
Johnstown….1 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 0—7
Runs scored—Tydeman, 2; Clark, Follansbee, Conn, Stanley, Abbott, Weigand, Kauffman. Stolen bases—Abbott, Weigand, Kauffman, Carter, Tydeman. Sacrifice hits—Weigand, Stump, Clark, Manning. Two-base hit—Geyer. Three-base hit—Tydeman. Bases on balls—Off Bentley, 1; Off Stanley, 4; Stanley, 5. Struck out—By Bentley, 4; by Stanley, 5. Passed ball—Tasker. Left on bases—York, 5; Johnstown, 5. Hit by pitcher—Clark. First base on errors—York, 2; Johnstown, 2. Time—Two hours. Umpire—Connor.
Bases on Balls Defeat Tigers
Trenton Times —
Bases on Balls Defeat Tigers
Johnstown, PA., June 10.—Trenton outbatted Johnstown today, but in the fourth inning Johnstown mixed two of her hits with three bases on balls, making three runs and obtaining a lead that yielded victory by a score of 6 to 4.
Johnstown scored one in the first inning on a base on balls to Clark, a single by Fink, Clark’s force out at third, a hit by Conn and an error by Girard. Two more came in the second on singles by Manning and McClelland and a single by Clark. Three came in the fourth on bases on balls to Tydeman, Clark and Conn, singles by Raub and Fink, a later hit by McClelland. Clark and Conn, singles by Raub and Fink, a later hit by McClelland. At first when second base was left uncovered, a sure double play being in sight.
Moriarity’s double, Heist’s sacrifice and Duggan’s hit with Girard’s life gave the Tigers one in the second. Another came in the third on Davis’s single and steal, Clary’s out and a single by A. Kerr. Another once in the fourth, from a single by Girard, Goettel’s error and a single by Damrau. The last run for Trenton was scored in the fifth on J. Kerr’s single, Moriarity’s life on a force play at third, an out and a double by Heist.
Two-base hits—Moriarity, Fink, Heist. Stolen bases—Clark, Conn, Manning, Clay, Davis. Sacrifice hits—Tydeman, Mannning, Clay, Davis. Double plays—McConnaghey, Dietz and Davis. Sacrifice Flies—Biery, Texter. Bases on balls—Duffy 2, McConnaughey 3. Struck out—McConnaughey 2. Time—1:50. Umpire—Walker.
Run of Defeats Remains Unchecked
Mansfield, Ohio News —
Run of Defeats Remains Unchecked
Erie Wins First Game of Series With Mansfield and Brownies Now Have Thirteen Successive Defeats to Their Credit—Crystall Holds Mansfield to Four Hits, While Clark Is Batted Out In Seventh Inning.
No relief appears to be in sight for the Mansfield baseball club for the Brownies added another to the list of successive defeats which they have been receiving when the first game of the series with Erie was played at League park on Thursday afternoon. The Sailors hit the ball hard before the last half of the game was completed and the runs began to roll across with astonishing rapidity. Mansfield’s efforts were confined to the early sessions and they resulted in only a small supply. Score: Mansfield 1, Erie 7.
For five innings it was a very closely contested game of ball, the one run scored by the Brownies in the opening session being the only counter made. A questionable decision assisted the Sailors in scoring their first run in the sixth, while the opposition was deprived of another run by an equally bad decision. It was a case of evening up, but it was a bad time to do so. Hard and consecutive hitting gave the opposition more than enough runs to win in the seventh inning.
Four hits, two of which were not entirely clean ones, were credited to the Brownies off the delivery of Crystall, the southpaw of the Sailors. He was in good form and had the Brownies at his mercy during the greater part of the fray. Some sensational fielding helped him in the early sessions, but he was complete master of the situation in the latter innings. In five of the nine innings only three batters faced him in each session, while the one base on balls which he gave counted for nothing.
Mansfield’s lone score came in the first when Lamy beat out a roller, and pilfered second. Channel drove one to left center which Nixon touched, and Dailey drove one against the right center field fence by Tydeman. Dailey drove one against the fence near the score board for three bases. He was left stranded, however, as Clark grounded to short.
Nixon made a sensational catch of Lamy’s drive to left center in the third, and was able to double up Reynolds who had singled. Biery pulled off a great catch of a line drive off Duell’s bat in the fourth, while Dailey got two bases on Nield’s wild throw and reached third on Clark’s out in the fifth. The necessary blow was not forthcoming, and he was left stranded for the second time. A base on balls to Reynolds as a starter in the ninth was the only other time Mansfield had a runner on first.
“Ginger” Clark was on the hill for the Brownies and for five innings he was going good. The Sailors were able to get on, but the three blows and a base on balls which they secured were of no avail. It was different, however, in the sixth session, for at that time trouble began. Two hits helped to count for as many runs, and they began to come with such rapidity in the seventh that the derrick was used.
In the sixth with one gone, Nixon singled and was given credit for a steal of second when he was really out. Duell helped the Sailors along by making a mess of Biery’s grounder. Dietz was permitted to steal, and then Tydeman drove one to right upon which Nixon registered. Biery walked and stole second, and when Gilbert walked the bases were choked. O’Leary singled, but Biery was thrown out at the plate on a questionable decision.
Pitcher Crystall started the fusillade against Clark in the seventh by driving one through Channel for two bases. Nield and Nixon followed with successive blows. It was at this stage that Clark was jerked and without being warmed up Masters went to the hill. A single and a drive over the wall assisted the new twirler to break in right.
While the young twirler got into some bad holes in the last two innings, he showed that he has something and is worthy of a better trial.
The Scoring
Mansfield.
First Inning—Lamy beat out a roller, stole second, and scored on Channell’s drive over Nixon’s head.
Erie.
Sixth Inning—Nixon singled and stole second. Duell’s error advanced him to third, and Tydeman scored him on an outfield fly. After two bases on balls had filled bases, O’Leary’s single scored Dietz.
Seventh Inning—Crystall hit for two bases, scoring on Nield’s hit. Nixon and Dietz singled, scoring Nield. Tydeman cleaned up with a home run.
Left on bases—Mansfield 4, Erie 7. Home runs—Tydeman. Three base hits—Dailey. Two base hits—Channell, Crystall. Stolen bases—Lamy, Nixon, Dietz, Biery. Double plays—Nixon, Gilbert and Biery; Masters, Texter and Dailey. Sacrifice Flies—Tydeman. Bases on balls—Clark 3, Crystall 1. Struck out—Clark 3, Crystall 2, Masters 1. Pitching record—7 hits and 26 times at bat off Clark in 6 1-3 innings; 3 hits and 11 times at bat off Masters in 2 2-3 innings. Hit by pitcher—Nixon. Time 1:48. Umpire—Piper.
Slow Fielding Contributes to Defeat
Mansfield, Ohio News —
Slow Fielding Contributes to Defeat
Mansfield Fails to Show Good Work In the Field and With Opportune Hitting By Sailors Assists Erie In Winning 6 to 3—Brownies Make Large Number of Assists—Tydeman’s Batting and Dietz’s Fielding Are Features.
For the fourteenth successive time the Mansfield baseball team went down in defeat, the last addition to the list being a 6 to 3 victory scored by Erie at League park on Friday afternoon. The Brownies were out-lucked to a great extent, but some miserable work in the field more than assisted the opposition in making the greater number of runs. There was a fighting chance in the early innings, but the chance became very much smaller when that poor fielding cropped out.
Time and again during the game the opportunity presented itself to make the game close and interesting, but on each occasion some poor work in the field resulted. While the score shows that eleven hits were made off Duffy, five or almost half of them, were the result of the miserable work in the field. Grounders and fly balls that should have resulted in easy outs went for hits either because of a player failing to cover the base or a genuine case of slow fielding.
The score shows that Mansfield made twenty-four assists, almost a league record, in the game, but it does not show some other plays that might be placed on record. The Mansfield infield, Reynolds excluded, had a total of twenty-eight chances and only one error. Dailey pulled off some brilliant fielding plays, but he also slipped up on an easy grounder in the fifth when there were two out that permitted the opposition to score a run.
As has been stated before, it was not such poor pitching on the part of Duffy as the fielding behind him that resulted in the Sailors securing eleven hits. The Toledo recruit was going in good style during the first four innings, when he was backed up in good form, but when all three of the hits which the Sailors secured in the fifth were scratches and assisted the opposition in scoring a run it was enough to dishearten a pitcher. It was even more disheartening in the sixth when a fly ball that should have been caught easily resulted in a double.
Duffy had good control, passing only two batters, and backed up with the right kind of support he would have held the Sailors safe during the game.
While Duffy was being given such poor support, there was a different story to tell concerning McConnaughey, who was on the hill for the opposition. While several slipups are recorded, they all came at one time and resulted in only one run. Seven hits were secured off him, but they were pretty widely scattered for the most part. While he gave three bases on balls, only one of them was turned to account and he struck out two batters. At no stage of the game was he in any great trouble.
From the very start the Sailors were dangerous, but a swell fielding play by Dailey helped Duffy out of a bad place. Both Swayne and Nixon had singled, but the Mansfield shortstop got Dietz’s effort and just managed to force Swayne at third.
No one covered first in the third inning when Reynolds attempted to field Swayne’s grounder, and it caused some trouble. Nield’s out put Swayne on second, while Swayne went to second while Nixon was being run down. Then, Dietz came along with that drive over the wall that registered two runs.
Swayne’s roller down the line was not fielded properly and Duffy was placed in another bad place. Swayne was on second with two gone, when Nixon hit an easy grounder towards Dailey. The shortstop never touched the ball and another run was scored. Channell should have pulled down Tydeman’s drive to left with ease, but it went through him for two bases. Biery’s fly to right advanced him, and then Gilbert walked. Dailey’s throw to the plate on O’Leary’s grounder was too high and Tydeman counted. Swayne’s Texas leaguer in center scored Gilbert after two were out.
In the eighth, no one covered first when Reynolds got Gilbert’s grounder, and it came after Biery had singled. A doubel steal was attempted, but Biery was nipped at third. O’Leary slapped one for two bases that counted Gilbert, but was caught napping off second base.
Score of Fourteenth Straight Defeat
Mansfield….0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2—3
Erie….0 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0—6
Left on bases—Mansfield 6, Erie 5. Home run—Dietz. Two base hits—Tydeman, O’Leary, Dailey. Double plays—McConnaughey, Dietz and Biery. Sacrifice hits—R. Collins, Duffy. Sacrifice Flies—Biery, Texter. Bases on balls—Duffy 2, McConnaughey 3. Struck out—McConnaughey 2. Time—1:33. Umpire—Piper.
The Scoring
Mansfield.
Second inning—Channell walked. Collins sacrificed. Stroud singled, scoring Channell.
Fifth inning—Strood got life on Dietz’s fumble and wild throw, scoring from second on Texter’s bunt and O’Leary’s bad throw to first.
Ninth inning—Collins’ single, Dailey’s double and Texter’s long fly counted Collins.
Erie.
Third inning—Nixon reached second on force play with two out and Dietz lifted ball over fence.
Fifth inning—Swayne singled and went to second on Nield’s out and scored on Nixon’s grounder which went through Dailey.
Sixth inning—Slow fielding gave Tydeman a double and Biery’s fly advanced him. Dailey’s throw to the plate on O’Leary’s grounder was high, scoring Tydeman. Swayne’s single scored Gilbert from second.
Eighth inning—Gilbert’s single due to slow fielding and O’Leary’s double produced final run.
Hold Out for Sailors
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Hold Out for Sailors.
Erie, Pa., March 2.—Jenkins, Biery, Tydeman and O’Leary, members of the local baseball team, have not sent in their contracts for the season and are classed as holdouts as each is asking for more money. The local management says it has offered all it can afford to pay under the salary limit clause.
Rogers at Best in the Pinches
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Rogers at Best in the Pinches
Generally Misses a Couple Before He Lands for Base Hits.
Took Final Combat
Ever notice that Ed “Lefty” Rogers, chief caretaker of the Billiken left field, hits best with two strikes and three balls on him?
It’s a fact. Pitchers in the Central league have so far been unable to get a line on his weakness and that they have failed is evidenced by the fact that he is hitting the ball around the .400 mark.
In the final conflict of the Grand Rapids series in which the Central league leaders staged a line of batting that routed big Ed Pfeffer and made Vincent Bill Essick look like a bush league hurler, Rogersgarnered four safe drives and three of them were made when the pitcher and he were both in the hole.
Both of the home runs that he hit over the right field fence were in the last series picked off when he had just one more chance and the fact that he scooped one up that was right over the plate and down at his knees and hit the other close up to his hands and about waist-high, indicates that he can hit about any sort.
Carl Vandagrift carried off the hitting honors of the combat. He had a brother here to watch him expound the national pastime and how it should be played and he picked off five clean singles in as many times at bat, stole a base and played a good game around second base.
He generally plays a good game at second, but he does not always get five hits in five times up and neither does anybody else for that matter. Ed Pfeffer didn’t last long against his old pards and he handicapped himself with a popular jinx when he struck Curl Bloom out. It was bad luck to breeze the first man to face them.
Vandagrift, one of his most cherished chums when he belonged to the Billiken brigade, started him badly when he plinked a drive to center field in the first. Shaughnessy followed with an in-field grounder that he beat to first, but Groeshow counted him out. Clancy hit for a single. Rogers followed with a double and Fabrique with another single before the side was finally retired. Another fusillade in the second compelled Ben Koehler to get out the grappler and remove his hurler.
Bil Essick didn’t check the leaders and when it was all over there was an accumulation of twenty-two hits.
The team left last night and will play Springfield and Terre Haute and return here for a series with the Reapers.
Notes of the Game.
Bert Annis got out on the coaching line for one inning, but he couldn’t stand it any longer. He gave way to Pat Lindsay, who can stand most anything.
Claude Varnell was chased off his own bench again and had to do his rooting just like the other people.
Marcus A. McLafferty did grand piece of fielding when he grabbed Hadley’s grounder in the second and threw the runner out at first. He also batted in three runs.
Bunny Fabrique is becoming a finished ball player. He is hitting and showing a lot of speed on the bases and fielding like a house afire.
That Tydeman is a good outfielder. He climbed the bank and made a one-handed catch of Fabrique’s drive in the second that robbed the batter of a double. Blount crossed the outfield when he shot a drive into left for a double. The outfield was laying over toward right for him.
Billy Goldrick got himself into an awful mess in the fifth and was lucky to get out with only two runs against him. He passed three men, let loose of a wild pitch, made a bad throw to first and was further handicapped by McLafferty’s first wild heave of the afternoon.
Bill Schneider got a chance to catch a couple of innings. He was at bat once and struck out. Harden was sent out to warm up when Goldrick slipped in the fifth, but was not needed. Harry Martin looks better than he ever looked in the Central league. He is a dangerous man on the bases and generally outguesses the opposition.
Central League Standing
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Central League.
Clubs. Won. Lost. Pct.
Fort Wayne….53 33 .616
Erie….49 35 .583
Youngstown….49 35 .583
Springfield….46 35 .568
Wheeling….44 39 .530
Canton….38 42 .475
Grand Rapids….38 43 .469
Terre Haute….40 47 .460
Akron….35 48 .422
South Bend….30 54 .357
Zanesville….29 53 .354
Annis Gives Up Managerial End
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Annis Gives Up Managerial End
Will Look After Finances and Let Smith and Koehler Do Rest.
Team Disappoints
Bert Annis, who donned the spangles here and announced that he would manage his club from the bench, has turned in his uniform and will give his attention in future to the financial end of the game. Ed Smith is managing his club and Ben Koehler is field captain.
Koehler’s return has restored confidence among the players and they are putting up a better article of baseball.
Failure of the pitchers to live up to past form has been responsible for the disappointing showing of the team this year. Last season Essick won sixteen and lost seven games for Grand Rapids, Smith won thirteen and lost eleven, Myers won thirteen and lost six and for Fort Wayne Pfeffer won sixteen and lost five. This season Smith is just above the .500 mark. Lindsay and Essick just rode it out and the rest are way below. During the time Annis’ team players, their best pitcher last season looked to be the equal of any first-rate pitcher in the league. This year he has only shown flashes of his old-time form until recently.
Smith has pitched good ball all season, but has seemed to do little hitting on drive he worked hard, making his efforts on drive he worked hard, making his efforts often fruitless, due to the fact that opposing teams have sent their best twirlers in to oppose him as the prize package of the local staff. Pfeffer was regarded as one of the best, if not the best, pitcher in the league last season. He was so good his release was purchased by the Western League club of the clubs he has not entirely regained his strength. Since he joined the Grand Rapids team he has looked good, but nothing like the Pfeffer of 1911.
The infield and Myers have been in and outers, but have pitched very fair ball all the time. Walter Miller played too long; enough to lose several games and it took a few games to find that Abe Bowman needed more experience. Bucky Holmes has caught good ball all season and Weeks is a promising understudy. Those who have worked in his place have played fair ball on second base during Koehler’s absence, but neither classes with him. Ben Barkwell who has played a good fielding game on third and batted fair, Hadley on third better than average, fielding guns on third and batted timely if not to a high average.
Lejeune has won fully one-fourth the games the team has won this year in both his batting and holding. He has been the team’s most consistent batsman and as a thrower has no superior. His play has given some suspicions of being short of major league caliber, but he surely is a king in the minors. Kroy has fielded well in splendid form all season and batted good at times, but had a bad slump just when everything else in connection with the team was breaking bad. Tydeman had seemed to improve with every game until the team at times when little things are needed. In addition he is a fair fielder and a strong thrower.
All hope of a high position in the race is now ended, but it is barely possible to break into the first division and every man on the team is consumed by that desire. The unlucky luck in the weather and with the team has been pretty tough on the man taking the business, there is in backing a league team, but the weather has hurt almost every line of business except raincoat and umbrella manufacturing. Annis, however, is not about it, but looking forward to another season.
Batted for Smith
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Batted for Smith.
Umpire Geisel batted for Ed Smith in the ninth inning of the last game at Zanesville and Jack Gilbert struck him out. Tydeman hit the bull sign in the final game and earned $50.
Pitcher Offers Money for Club
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Pitcher Offers Money for Club
Bill Essick Willing to Pay Nice Sum for Grand Rapids Club.
Is Able to Swing It
Grand Rapids, Mich., March 21.—Pitcher W. E. (Vinegar Bill) Essick, of the Grand Rapids Central league team, has reached the conclusion that the club here is a good business risk if rightly handled, and has made Owner Annis an offer for his franchise, park and players, the deal to be made at once if agreeable.
If accepted, more will be paid for the franchise than ever before paid for a Grand Rapids baseball holding, not even excepting the several times in modern league days that Grand Rapids franchises were peddled. Essick, has about made up his mind to retire from baseball as a player. He is regarded as one of the best pitchers in the league.
He is possessed of ample means to swing the deal without asking outside aid. Essick is ready to close at once if Owner Annis accepts his proposition. A number of times the South Bend owner of the Grand Rapids team has expressed a desire to dispose of it, a deal being almost made last fall for the sale of his holdings to Joe McGinnity, the former major league pitching star.
Manager Ed Smith and Pitcher Essick are warm personal friends, and if the deal is made there will be no change made in that respect. Essick is planning on pitching in 1913 and looking after the business and Smith managing the team on the field. He also expects to expend several thousand dollars in the purchase of desirable players and make every effort to make the team a winner.
Essick wintered in Chicago, where he owns some property, and is employed in the music department of a big department store. He is a graduate of a leading western college in music and is the son of wealthy parents, as is also Mrs. Essick. He plans to make his home here if the deal is made.
Pitchers—Ed Smith, of South Bend. manager; Charles Nuddleman, Chicago. Pitchers—Joe Murphy, of Indianapolis; Jeff Pfeffer, of Champaign, Ill.; Abe Bowman, of Greenup, Ill.; Joe Murphy, of Indianapolis, and George Moore, of Altoona, Pa. First Baseman—Doc Schmick, of Grand Haven; Cal Sabre, of Charleston, S. C.; Ike Mautner, Chicago; Harvey De Long, of Antwep, O. Second Baseman—Ben Koehler, of Greenup, Ill., and Clifford Austin, of Cleveland. Third Basemen—Johnny Barkwell, of Greenup, Ill., and Clifford Austin, of Cleveland. Shortstop—Bowen, of Newberry, B. C., and one other. Outfielders—Vincent Tydeman, Camden, N. J.; Toddy Kroy, Milwaukee; Larry LeJeune, Grand Haven; Gider Lane, Toledo.
Above is the list of players announced by Manager Ed Smith. He says that if the weather conditions continue as favorable for the balance of the week as they have been, within a few days the battery workers and the young players of the team will be ordered to report a week from today, the veterans on the Tuesday following. Tydeman has accepted terms, but has not signed. LeJeune is a holdout, but is expected to be on hand early. Essick has not signed. None will be permitted from practice until the contracts they have signed. All of the new men come well recommended. A deal is on whereby First Baseman Bill Clancey, last year with Fort Wayne, may come here. Manager Smith says he is satisfied he will have a winner. Barkwell is training now at West Baden. All the other players will start their training here. Groundskeeper Bill Silvers will make every effort to have the grounds fit when the men begin reporting. Two weeks from next Saturday and Sunday the Grand Rapids Brass team may play the Chicago Black Sox.
Player Tumbles in Winter Time
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Player Tumbles in Winter Time
Tydeman Puts in His Off Season in an Acrobatic Act.
Players Getting In
Grand Rapids, Mich., April 5.—Vincent Tydeman, outfielder, who finished the season of 1912 with the Grand Rapids team, and who is scheduled for the outfield again in 1913, is a tumbler during the winter months and put in his time on an acrobatic act in the vaudeville houses.
This has not been generally known here but he wired for an extension of reporting time and declared that he wanted to finish his engagement with his partners.
Players are coming in and those who have so far reported are: Catchers—Arthur Watson, of South Bend; Charles Nudelman, of Chicago, and Borieski, of the University of Michigan. Pitchers—Joe Murphy, of Indianapolis; Jeff Pfeffer, of Champaign, Ill.; Abe Bowman, of Greenup, Ill., and Martin Richardson, of Pana, O. First Basemen—“Doc” Schmick, of Grand Haven; Harvey De Long, of Toledo, and Frank Mautner, of Chicago. Second Basemen—Clifford Austin, of Cleveland; Herr Ben Koehler, of South Bend, known as the German count. First Baseman Mautner is one of the four first basemen signed, so it was figured that one would have to go. He was sent word not to come, but beat the word, it reaching Chicago about the time he was looking over Grand Rapids. After looking him over Essick and Smith said they were glad he reported. Richardson is a tall youngster who signed to pitch for the South Bend club two years ago, got homesick and went back home. “Doc” Schmick says there will be but one first sacker on the job after the first few days of practice, for the reason that he is married now, has settled down to business and will hereafter have his whole mind on his work. He looks to be in good condition. “Doc” had few superiors in the league, if any, when the South Bend club was transferred two years ago.
Arthur Watson is the catcher secured from a Wisconsin-Illinois league club by trade of Infielder Hadley and Catcher Weeks. He was with the South Bend club the year it won the pennant. Manager Smith looks for him to prove one of the league’s best. Neudelman is a Chicago semi-pro who has been highly touted. Borieski bore the reputation of being one of the best college backstops in the country last season.
Herr Ben Koehler looks to be in mid-summer form now. He has recovered from the effects of the operation which kept him out of the game last season and is confident of being better than ever. Clifford Austin is a brother of Jimmy Austin, the former Central leaguer who is now performing brilliantly on third base for the St. Louis Browns. He is a dead marker for his older brother. He is the short member and Richardson the tall one of a long and short combination highly amusing as they stand side by side.
Toddy Kroy wintered at Baxter Springs, where he has relatives. Grimes, who is expected to report today, was signed upon the recommendation of Jay Parker, being a member of the Benton Harbor independents last season. Abe Bowman is having a great time looking at the tall buildings and dodging street cars, although not so scary of them now as he was last year, when he saw them for the first time. Jeff Pfeffer is a little overweight and looks much stronger than last year, when he was ill for several weeks in the early part of the season while with the Denver club, not being himself all season.
The grounds will be too wet to be played on for several days, but the infield may be used for practice after a little sunshine.
Core Signs for Season of 1913
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Core Signs for Season of 1913
He Will Play Outfield for Grand Rapids After Wedding Trip.
Lejeune Holding Out
Grand Rapids, Mich., April 7.—Just before he left the city on his wedding trip John “Lefty” Core signed a contract to play the outfield for the Grand Rapids club, and if Lejeune, who is a holdout, gets into line, the club will have a good quartet to pick its regulars from.
Core promised to return in a week and to do some practicing while home at Morgantown, W. Va., on his visit. His signing is the best word local fandom has received in some time. He was the timely hitter of the team two years ago. Last season he played in the Pacific Coast league and did not like the country and would have rather than return there. He had about given up baseball altogether but could not withstand the persuasion of his friend Manager Ed Smith. He and President Essick are also warm friends.
A student of the Grand Rapids veterinary college, and a lover of the city, Core agreed to play here when he would not have agreed to play in any other city. He is by no means dependent upon baseball. He loves the game, however, and also the prospect of again playing in a town that likes him as well as does Grand Rapids.
This gives the team three tried outfielders; four if Lejeune signs. The big fellow may be here to talk over matters. Toddy Kroy, who has few superiors in the league, either in batting or fielding when things are not breaking against him, arrived yesterday. Tydeman should get in today or tomorrow, winding up his theatrical season, and then Core, Kroy and Tydeman form an outfield not excelled in the league last season. It is hardly likely that any of the four will be released even if Lejeune falls in line, for Smith and Essick believe in being fortified against accidents to players.
Lejeune is expected to sign in a few days. Between Core and Lejeune the fans are divided as to which is the more valuable to the team. Lejeune is a higher average batsman than Core, but when Core is hitting with men on the bases Core is worth his weight in gold while Lejeune is not the driver in of runs Lefty is. In fielding honors are about even. As a thrower Core is a good thrower, but not an exceptional one like Lejeune. If Lejeune does not report he will have a worthy successor in Core.
Sixteen players are now on hand beside the pitcher-owners Essick and Smith. Kroy is the only outfielder here, four catchers are on hand, six in and six outfielders. Austin, Koehler, Schmick, Mautner, De Young, Barkwell and Steil are the infielders here. The shortstop is not expected for some time yet. Two more are expected today in Ed Sabrie, of Charleston, S. C., and Andy Bowen, of Newberry, N. C.
Pat Lindsay is the only left-handed pitcher on the team’s reserve list. Whether or not he will report is problematical. He has been offered his release that his release has been accepted. Messrs. Essick and Smith do not want any men on their team who do not want to play with their team.
Will Double in Vaudeville Act
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Will Double in Vaudeville Act
Ben Koehler and Vincent Tydeman Propose to Put on Turn.
Both Are Athletes
Grand Rapids, Mich., April 19.—Vincent Tydeman is a performer on the vaudeville stage, working a team acrobatic act that is good enough to give him full time each winter. Next winter he plans to spend in the middle west if he can get satisfactory bookings. He and Ben Koehler expect to pair off in an act and will rehearse it during the summer months while traveling with the Grand Rapids team.
Koehler has appeared on the stage, being a talking entertainer. Before he was a professional baseball player he was a high school and German Turner athlete good enough to be sent to several big meets. In one or of them he made a new record for 100 yards for high school runners. Another time he made a breast swimming record which stood for several years. The two figure that they can put in two months’ solid time in Central league cities and the rest of the winter in the central states. Koehler is much enthused over it, having long cherished a desire to find a partner to work with in just such an act.
Tydeman Hoping to Lead League
Fort Wayne Sentinel —
Tydeman Hoping to Lead League
Sends in Contract and Says He Will Steal More Bases This Year.
Willing to Return
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 7.—Vincent Tydeman, who led the Central league in number of bases stolen last season, has sent in his signed contract to the Grand Rapids club and in a letter accompanying it assured President Essick he is satisfied and would return with gladness. He also said that he expects to better his 1913 record of stolen bases to the number of fifty-one and expects to lead the league again. He will again hold down right field.
It was thought Tydeman would surely be drafted last fall, but he was not while other players not nearly his equal went higher either by draft or purchase. Last season, however, was Tydeman’s first to look particularly fast on the bases. He has always been a speedy runner but did not get the hook slide down until last year, practicing it for weeks. He was made offers to play Federal league ball this year but turned them down coldly to come here, confident that he can this year show himself of major caliber.
Joe Grodick is an other of the 1913 team who have signed 1914 contracts. Manager George Hughes is expected in almost any time now and upon his arrival will be taken around and introduced to some of the most faithful among local fans. President Essick anticipates little trouble in getting together a winning team for this year and that he is confident he has one which will be up in the race all of the time.
It was thought that some of the players named have signed. Tydeman has accepted terms, but has not signed. LeJeune is a holdout, but is expected to be on hand early. Essick has not signed. None will be permitted from practice until the contracts they have signed. All of the new men come well recommended. A deal is on whereby First Baseman Bill Clancey, last year with Fort Wayne, may come here. Manager Smith says he is satisfied he will have a winner.
Baseball Decisions
Atlanta Constitution —
Auburn, N. Y., April 7.—Chairman John H. Farrell, of the national board of arbitration, today gave out the following baseball decisions: The Virginia Mountain league, embracing territory of Charlottesville, Clifton Forge, Covington and Staunton, Va., has qualified for membership in class D. The franchise and players of the Selma club, of the Cotton States league, have been transferred to the Georgia-Alabama league.
Services awarded: Munn and Pace to Macon; Hanley to Mobile; Harris to Selma.
Claims allowed: Great Bend against Wichita, in re Player Smith.
Claims disallowed: Tydeman against Valdosta, Ga.; Kuhn against Columbus, Miss. The matter of the Wausau franchise is dismissed.
Atkins Twirls Great Ball and Harry Martin’s Crowd Wins Opener at Rapids; Bilikens Hit Hard and Get Seven Runs
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette —
Atkins Twirls Great Ball and Harry Martin’s Crowd Wins Opener at Rapids; Bilikens Hit Hard and Get Seven Runs
Grand Rapids, Mich., April 30.—Grand Rapids opened the 1914 Central league season here to-day but it was a dreary blow-off for the eighteen hundred bugs who braved the cold. They saw their heroes, champions of a summer ago, humiliated in a seven-to-two fashion by Harry Martin’s Fort Wayne nine.
It was all Fort Wayne from the third on and with the local wallopers always helpless there was little to cheer for. The fans derived their only solace from the fact that the Bilikeners did not count a million runs instead of seven. The invaders were up and ‘em all the way and with the game safely tucked away they naturally became a trifle careless and threw away several openings where more runs would have been counted under other circumstances.
Chalk up that one for Tommy Atkins, some left-hander Ordinarily it is little short of suicide for a manager to pit a southpaw against the local right-handed wreckers, but that was not the case to-day. Smiling Tommy actually toyed with the home athletes and made them look ridiculous as they were making their wild attempts to connect with the fleeting play-thing. The locals secured but four hits during the nine long rounds, one-half of them coming in the fourth and producing a pair of markers. Atkins did more than pitch. He was there with the big stick and tied with Freddie Bratchi for the hitting honors. The hitting pitcher hit safely three times, one of these chasing across a pair of runs.
Big Robinson, the Western league recruit, was the chief victim of the mauling handed out by the Fort Wayne troupe. He fell for fourteen safeties among them a triple, several doubles and singles galore. What this fellow had no one can say but it certainly was to the liking of the visiting athletes, who proceeded to fatten up their batting marks. All but one of the visitors secured at least one safety off Robinson. Nespo was the exception to the rule.
Waste Three Hits.
Everything was lovely during the first three rounds but the men of Martin gave the home folks an inkling of what was to happen before very long in the third when Bratchi’s triple, Diem’s double and Brant’s single were pulled off at the expense of the Grand Rapids twirler without a run resulting. The first two were cut down at the plate, Diem by a pretty shot from left by Marshall.
The big blow-off came in the next inning, however, when the Bilikeners made up for what they did not get in the third. With one gone Atkins started the fireworks with a single. Martin walked and McLafferty’s single sent across the first run of the game. Bratchi and Holderman followed with timely singles, which, coupled with Manager Hughes’s wild heave, produced three more tallies.
The local champs got two of those back in the fourth when they enjoyed their only romp off Atkins. Schmick opened with a single and went to third when Grimes did likewise. A long fly to Welsh scored the doctor. When Grimes stole second, Martin pegged to center, the outfielder going to third, from whence he scored on an out at first.
Grand Rapids had a fighting chance until the sixth in which inning the invaders scored three more, chiefly through Atkins’s double, and cinched the contest. Diem doubled and was held at third on Brant’s single, both coming home on Atkins’ long wallop. This rap would have been good for three bases had Tommy been inclined to run a little more. Martin gave the pitcher a chase a few seconds later, however, when he scored him with a timely single.
A Hitting Pitcher!
Grand Rapids: Marshall, lf, 4 0 2 1 0; Schmick, 1b, 4 1 1 14 3 0; Grimes, cf, 4 0 0 0 0; Tydeman, rf, 4 0 1 0 0 0; Hughes, 2b, 3 0 0 1 6 1; Steil, ss, 3 0 0 0 4 2 0; Lake, c, 4 0 0 3 2 0; Robinson, p, 3 0 0 0 1 6 0; *Rapp, 1 0 0 0 0 0. Totals, 30 2 4 27 23 1. *Batted for Robinson in ninth.
World War I Draft Card
World War I Draft Registration Card for Vincent Ariel Tydeman. Serial No. 4301, Order No. 674. Address: 909 York St., Camden, Camden, N.J. Born Aug. 24, 1885. Occupation: Driller, New York Shipbuilding Co., South Camden. Nearest relative: Jane Tydeman, 909 York St., Camden, N.J.
Camden City in Eleven Inning Tie
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden City in Eleven Inning Tie
In one of the most sensational games ever staged at Third and Erie streets Camden City and Monmouth, of Gloucester, yesterday played an eleven-inning tie in what was to have been the deciding match for the championship of Camden county. Each side had seven runs when the game was halted by darkness.
County Title Goes to Camden City
Philadelphia Inquirer —
County Title Goes to Camden City
Camden City yesterday won the baseball championship of the county by defeating Monmouth, of Gloucester, in the deciding game of the series. The score was 9 to 3. Barless, formerly of Stetson, pitched for Camden and held the visitors runless until the eighth inning, when he eased up. Camden hit McVey hard. A pass and four hits gave the home team three runs in the first inning. They cinched the game in the sixth, when two errors, two passes and two hits produced four runs. A mid-summer crowd saw the game.
Photos
Jennie & Vincent Tydeman
Vincent A. Tydeman is holding the cat, in the backyard of 2116 Howell Street
Joan Tydeman, Harold Vincent Tydeman, Jennie Tydeman
Douglas Tydeman
Clifford Tydeman (banjo), Douglas Tydeman (guitar), Vincent A. Tydeman (accordion)