1920 Indianapolis ABCs

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• 1920 Chicago American Giants
• 1920 Detroit Stars
• 1920 Kansas City Monarchs
• 1920 Indianapolis ABCs
• 1920 Cuban Stars of Havana
• 1920 St. Louis Giants
• 1920 Dayton Marcos
• 1920 Chicago Giants
• 1920 Brooklyn Royal Giants
• 1920 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants
• 1920 Hilldale Club
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• 1920 New York Lincoln Giants
• 1920 Pennsylvania Red Caps
• 1920 New York Cuban Stars
• 1920 Cleveland Tate Stars
• 1920 Montgomery Grey Sox
• 1920 Atlanta Black Crackers
• 1920 New Orleans Ads
• 1920 Knoxville Giants
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• 1920 Pittsburgh Giants
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• 1920 Alexander Giants
• 1920 Fort Worth Black Panthers
• 1920 Beaumont Black Oilers
• 1920 Houston Black Buffaloes
• 1920 Dallas Black Giants
• 1920 Austin Black Senators
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• Known Roster
  Henry Blackmon
  J. Brown
  Oscar Charleston
  Morten Clark
  Davis
• Connie Day
  Samuel Dewitt
  Dizzy Dismukes
  Otis Francis
  Hay
  Bill Haynes
• Hill
  Tick Houston
  Robert Hudspeth
  Ralph Jefferson
  Jim Jeffries
  Dicta Johnson
• Biz Mackey
  Forrest Mashaw
  Boots McClain
  Bob McClure
  Mitchell Murray
  Russell Powell
• Herlen Ragland
  Ed Rile
  George Shively
  Ben Taylor
  C.I. Taylor
  Steel Arm Johnny Taylor
• Namon Washington
  Morris Williams

1920 Indianapolis ABCs Games

Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.

January 3, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Pitfalls of Baseball - Written Exclusively for the Chicago Defender by Andrew ('Rube') Foster, Manager of the Famous American Giants Baseball Team - In again taking up this subject I am going to touch on the disadvantage clubs have had to encounter to keep the game in front of the people. Some have had good intentions, meant well, many times hoping against hope that some unforseen miracle would happen to enlighten them on their way; that unforseen hand has no appeared. When it does come you will find that few Colored men will be interested in the clubs. When you scan the list of the past and present owners of Colored Clubs, you will find among them, men who are not due any success, with a few exceptions. To be successful in anything, one must pattern after systems and methods of men who have made success in the same line of busines. This you cannot put into the heads of those that want to promote the game. A practice among the various club owners has been to take men from different clubs, many times after they have drawn money from the club they are leaving. It has gotten so bad managers do not trust players, nor do the players trust the managers. It's folly for one to teach a player to jump and not pay the manager he leaves and expect that same player to be honest with him. When some one persuades the same man to leave him, disgusted, he will wire you, 'If you pay such a club, I will not play for you.' This stopped it for a while, but each club adopted the habit of taking each other's men until they have so complicated things they do not play each other. - Organized Baseball Great Pattern - In organized baseball each club secures men from different clubs. It must be an agreement between the club owners that a player is the property of the club who retains his services until released. There is no ball club in the country that can secure his services. Even the big leagues do not tamper with different clubs' players. With all the money invested in their clubs, they have deemed it necessary to form some agreement to work by protecting each other's rights. Yet our club owners laugh at such protection and have year after year done just the opposite. - Players Do Not Want Organization - I have talked with several players and they asked me, did I not think organization would hurt their chances as to salaries. When the club owners get together they will pay what they please; we do not want organizations. I said if you ever expect to really make any money out of baseball it will be done through organization. There are several players playing ball that get more to play one season than the salary list of any three Colored clubs at the present time. They play under organization. Has it hut them? Do you realize that if protection was given men there would be money put into baseball, parks would be built, that it would offer inducements to players to try and develop, knowing there was some future attached to their profession. - Assets of Our Clubs - The time has passed when you can camouflage the public. The public has been wised up to many things. Now it's up to the men who want to continue to give the people something besides bunk. There are not four Colored Clubs North that could not go out of the business today and lose nothing but the uniforms they had last season; yet they will parade around and tell you they own a ball club. Clubs like the A.B.C.s, Detroit, Kansas City, Royal Giants, and Cuban Stars have never had a dime invested beyond their uniforms and advance money. It is natural for them, with the expense of only salaries, to be in a position to do much damage to the clubs that are burdened with heavy overhead expense. Admitting that the clubs are important to the success of both parties, one would not expect the club with the heavy expense to compete with the clubs with apparently no expense; yet they must do more, and have. - Ball Parks Necessary - It is very necessary that we have parks to play in. Without them there would be no incentive for one to choose baseball as a profession. Yet these parks must not be burdened too heavy as when they go baseball North will pass along, as the building restrictions are such and real estate so high that you could not expect Colored owners to promote such an expensive plant just to be giving employment to a profession when it must be at a loss. Yet, you cannot get the men to come together and try to cement some plans for the betterment of the game. - Organization is Sure to Come - We cannot get along without organization. Neither will we have sufficient parks to play in to warrant paying greater salaries than we are at present unless we organize. There are thousands of dollars ready for such an organization. The money will naturally be supported better than the American Association, whose salary limit is $5,000 per month. Then will come the cry that it's a shame that all this money goes into the hands of the whites. Yet we will be the ones at fault. They can easily triple the present salaries and make money, as they will systemize it, build sufficient parks and give employment to many hundred Colored players. There is no hope to even maintain the standard that we have reached. Rentals of all parks have gone up. At any minute the leases of present parks can be terminated. Many Colored men with money have begged to get into the game, but they want it patterned after the way leagues are conducted. - Last Attempt to Get Owners Together - This will be the last time I will ever try and interest Colored club owners to get together on some working basis, I have so often been refused the necessary capital, not desiring to give to others the chance of monopolizing Colored baseball, but they are not going to continue, to wait on me with their money. They can do so and leave me where I am. I have made the effort, it's now up to the ones that expect to permanently figure in baseball to get together."

January 10, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Pitfalls of Baseball - Written Exclusively for the Chicago Defender by Andrew ('Rube') Foster, Manager of the Famous American Giants Baseball Team - In one of my previous articles I asked that the owners of clubs write for the plan of an organization or working agreement between the various clubs. In this plan we were to have a regular Western Circuit, composed of Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, the Eastern circuit to be composed of Pittsburg, Cleveland, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, both to be two separate organizations, the same as National and American Leagues, the winner of each circuit to meet the winner in a world's championship series. This would have been the salvation of baseball. But to date I have received but one letter that would be interesting, that letter came from Washington. - Fans Due Consideration - It would have been in keeping with the times for such a circuit as named above to do something concrete as a stepping stone to success; that would warrant the continuance of the patronage that they have enjoyed, based solely on their loyalty to the Race. This cannot be kept at the present stand; there is something the people want, that their patronage demands, something that would make them appreciate their children entering a profession that would equal the earning capacity of any other profession, and that thing can be done only as the 128 leagues operated by the whites, that have measured their efforts with permanent success, so much so that a graduate from Yale, Princeton and many large medical schools and colleges of law have laid aside their college professions to become ball players, merely because it paid them better to do so. We can do the same thing, but only in patterning after the system of success used by them. A better circuit could not be arraned than the one outlined, even if we only got the support of Colored people. The smallest Colored Population in either city is 50,000, running to 150,000. They would rally around any progressive move, the same as they have rallied around us, knowing we were doing nothing, with hopes for our advance from the old system of parading under false pretenses. - Nothing Invested in Baseball - I have made baseball a study. My ready knowledge of the things accomplished by the different clubs made it possible for me to write these articles. Did you know that Hilldale, Royal Giants, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Detroit, Chicago Giants, Dayton and hundreds of other ball clubs, wonderful investments as owners of clubs, have no assets that you can realized fifty dollars as a load; that the Lincoln Giants, St. Louis and Chicago were the only places with assets; that the assets of the American Giants cost an expenditure of more money than all the Colored parks combined; that it was built new from the ground at a cost greater than the combined cost of all the Negro parks? I want to speak some cold, hard facts to the men that refused to cooperate with such a move, knowing that they have permanently erased their chances to permanently figure in baseball, and very soon you will see these progressive owners of bunk baying their way to see baseball played by Colored clubs. Cost of ball parks and the advanced price of real estate in all large cities have doubled in price; the cost of materials, workers and everything necessary to operate a ball park or club has advanced 50 per cent. This will require many thousand dollars to even build a park. If such money could be secured, the building restrictions are such that in none of the large cities could a permit be secured. First you have to get consent to build from the property owners that surround the ground. As no Colored person owns any place, around any available space (north), this permit can only be had through the whites. Thus they are eliminated by circumstances. Even were such conditions eliminated, the amount of money necessary to operate a club, you would only find a man escaped from the insane asylum that would put money into such a proposition, not knowing where they were to get off. I have fought against delivering Colored baseball into the control of whites, thinking that with a show of patronage from the fans we would get together. The get-together efford has been a failure. In justice to myself and the many players that will eventually benefit by ownership with system money and parks, admitting that I cannot prevent it much longer, as in the past, I had better see that the snow does not stay in my yard after these many hard years of effort."

January 17, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Rube Foster Wants 'Get Together' Meet of All Baseball Owners. - 'Andy' says Organized Effort Is Our Only Salvation Magnates of the West Should Meet Owners of the East, Pick an Aribtration Board and From This Agreement Draw Up a Working Agreement for All to Abide By. - By Charles D. Marshall. - Organized baseball is on and Andrew Rube Foster is at the helm. Or, we might say that this great captain of the national game has started the ball to rolling to which I think the forming of a Colored baseball league may be the outcome. In an article published in a Chicago paper recently, Mr. Foster had the following to say: I am going to make the effort to arrange to have all the owners in the East to meet all the owners in the West, either at Chicago or New York, at a certain date, pick an arbitration board from experienced men of business, and from the agreement draw a working agreement for all of us to abide by, the signers of such an agreement to deposit $500 in good faith that they will live up to such an agreement. It is not a proposition to exchange players. Each club will be allowed to retain their players, but cement a partnership in working for the organized good of baseball. Conducted on the same identical plan as both big leagues and all minor leagues, even the semi-pro leagues, the outcome would be the East would be the same as National League, the West as American League, the winner of the majority of games in the East to meet the Western winners in a real world's championship. This will pave the way for such champion team eventually to play the winner among the whites. This is no more than possible. "Only in uniform strength is there permanent success. I invite all owners to write for information on this proposition. It is open to all." - Andy's Plan a Most Plausible One. - So far as the baseball fan is concerned, the above plan seems a most plausible one, for in my rounds I have discovered that nearly every lover of baseball, player and magnate is very enthusiastic over this brilliant idea of having organized baseball among the colored clubs, both East and West. There is no doubt of the fact that a new and greater interest will be taken in baseball. A guaranteed protection of money must be assured to the new owners of clubs these days, and some sort of a get-together must be brought about at once. Magnates are not going to take the risk on clubs and parks where there is no assets, as they have in the past. It is my opinion that a Western circuit or league of ball will shortly be formed comprising Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis and Kansas City, and an Eastern circuit to be composed of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, both to be two separate organizations, the same as a National and American League, the winner of each circuit to meet the winner in a world's championship series. If such a step is taken the salvation of baseball is assured. As I have always said, such a move will be the real stepping stone to success. There is no doubting the fact that nearly every colored ball park in the cities mentioned enjoy a large patronage each season, but the question is, will they continue if something is not done to strengthen the present interest? I say it will not stand unless organized baseball is put into action. So, when a great leader like Rube Foster offers to share his knowledge and costly experience for the betterment of each and every owner of baseball clubs, I think that there should be an enthusiastic rally to the support of the idea and have a meeting and make every possible effort to get organized ball on the go by the summer of 1920. - C.I. Taylor's Return to Great Game an Event. The return to the baseball world of C.I. Taylor, owner and manager of the famous Indianapolis A.B.C.'s next season, as announced by the scribes may do much toward the assurance of organized baseball during the season of 1920, as Taylor has long been known as a power and a great guidance in the national game. But some one has put the rumor on the rounds about the hot stove league that Taylor is much-opposed to organized ball, and others who claim to be on the inside track say that Taylor is always out for anything that is for the good of the sport. Being personally acquainted with the stellar magnate, I feel safe in saying that Taylor is always in favor of the thing that's fair and especially clean in sport, if it will tend to make the game progressive. But the return of C.I. to the diamonds will no doubt cause many a fan to become overjoyed and team with delight and expectation of a rousing season of baseball. You know when Taylor gets into the game, he always makes it interesting for Foster and the whole country, and everybody enjoys a real season of real baseball. There will be some hot battling between Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis, for Taylor will certainly give Pete Hill and Mr. Foster much to worry about."

Chicago, IL
"Pitfalls of Baseball - Written Exclusively for the Chicago Defender by Andrew ('Rube') Foster, Manager of the Famous American Giants Baseball Team - In my previous articles I have dealt with many things that to my way of thinking have hindered our progress; to all of this there can be no crime, without a reason for such, and in this article I will try and explain what has shown the caliber of men who want to bask in the limelight as progressive leaders of clubs. Lack of Cooperation a Disgrace - In the West we manager often disagree, yet we eventually come to an agreement, forgetting the differences where they affect the welfare fo the game, each time before any great wrong is done, that we will cooperate and stand by any plan agreed on, is a moral certainty, with our Eastern owners it is different. Can you imagine the benefits to be derived from such, to be such a hard task, those familiar with our troubles wonder why we cannot agree. No chain is stronger than its weakest link. Knowing this, I made efforts long before the articles were written, to try and get Nat C. Strong, Eastern booking agent, controlling all the available parks, to play in New York; to let's all meet together, East and West, formulate an agreement for better working conditions, salaries to remain, each club to retain its present players. He answered back, he wanted something done, but the men who are at present identified with the Eastern clubs are an IMPOSSIBILITY, that there were several owners, managers and players they would never do business with again. - Why such a Disagreement? This disagreement dates back to the existence of Colored clubs; it is deeply rooted; there will be no peace until the men now connected give way to different owners. The players question is the root of all the trouble. Managers have gone after the playing season and taken the main men of each other's club; these players oftimes owed the past owner money; naturally this broadened the feelings of the owners. Results, they would not play against each other. Even the Western clubs have done the same to Eastern clubs, yet they do not tamper with the Western players of Western clubs. This has got to such a condition that the leading clubs East do not meet, nor will the Western clubs meet any of the Eastern clubs. If you have taken your club East, win many games, the owner try to take the men away from you, bring about dissatisfaction between you and your men; so much so you avoid going there. - What Getting Together Would Mean - Had the Eastern men accepted the proposal, the bitter feelings that exist would have been eliminated, a working agreement respecting each other's right, a chance to see all the clubs meet, the securing of places fit to play, then the launching of a league. But they refused such, desiring to fight each other. Now it's the survival of the fittest. You kill my dog, I will kill your cat. One would not think such IGNORANCE existed in the MODERN AGE. - Ball Players vs. Owners - Ball players have had no respect for their word, contracts or moral obligations, yet they are not nearly as much to blame as the different owners of clubs. These owners baited the men away from the different clubs, telling them it's money that you want, you had better get it while getting is good. He raises the salary, and the player jumps. About one in every hundred pays the money back voluntarily. The players think better salaries should be paid, often saying: 'Well, if you played so and so you would have made money to pay more, or pay what you promised.' They do not realize that their actions in disrupting another club is the prime factor in not getting what they should, as one never knows how long he will have a club."

January 31, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"After A.B.C. Players Now - Big Demand for Taylor's Star Pitcher and Catcher. - The sporting editor of The Freeman is in receipt of a letter from Mr. John Chandler, 818 Old Wheat Street, Atlanta, Georgia, who accounts anxious to purchase some of the A.B.C. baseball club. Mr. Chandler has been informed that this club busted for good and so he wants the star players of the club especially the pitcher and catcher that was the battery in the thirteen-inning game played against Rube Foster's club in which the A.B.C.'s won out last season. Will anyone tell him how near to the equator he must go to find these two great men of last season. Mr. Chandler informs us that his association is going to have two teams in Atlanta next season, one to play independent and the other league ball. He says both clubs will have strong financial backing and that the best players are desired."

February 6, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Plan to Entertain League - Kansas City, Missouri, February 6 - Felix Payne, Clarence Houston and Attorney Calloway are planning to entertain the National Baseball League delegation which meets here February 13 and 14. A smoker and an auto drive is on the program."

"Southern Baseball Cancelled - New York, February 6. - Baseball, which has always been such a tremendous attraction at the Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida, was eliminated this season. The players who were to trim for the annual series were much disappointed when at the last moment the contracts were broken."

"Kansas City Selected for Meeting of Baseball Magnates - Baseball fans all over the country will watch with interest next week the meeting of the National Baseball League, which is meet at Kansas City, Missouri, February 13 and 14. A call has been issued and following directors of baseball clubs of the West will be present: Andrew "Rube" Foster, American Giants; C.I. Taylor, A.B.C.'s, Indianapolis, Indiana; John Matthews, Dayton Marcos, Dayton, Ohio; John (Tenny) Blount, Detroit Stars, Detroit, Michigan; J.L. Wilkinson, Kansas City; A. Mills, St. Louis, Missouri; Joe Green, Chicago Giants. Mr. Foster will also represent the Cuban Stars, having the proxy of Mr. Tinti Molina. Purpose of the Meeting - For a number of years the Chicago Defender has urged that the owners of the various baseball clubs of standing get together and formulate plans for a national league. The idea has had the endorsement of Andrew "Rube" Foster and no one has worked more faithful than the Chicago 'chief' to make the meeting possible. A tentative schedule will be drawn, a protective aggreement is signed, a working basis fair to each club will be originated. Not only will managers be present, but others interested in baseball and its success will have an opportunity to address the meeting at its open sessions. Cement Foundations for League - This meeting will likely develop the foundation for a league. With representation from Detroit, Dayton, St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Indianapolis it is thought that there is nothing to daunt the promoters. Such a league was not possible for this season, as not enough of the managers have long enough leases on their parks. Sports Writers to be Present. - Dave Wyatt, Indianapolis Ledger; Charles Marshall, Indianapolis Freeman, and Cary B. Lewis, Chicago Defender, will be present to represent their respective papers. Writers on the St. Louis and Kansas City papers will be present and act as hosts for the visitors. Felix Payne, one of the big fans of the West, will entertain the 'boys' from the Windy City. The managers of the clubs declare that no money will be spared this season to give the fans the best clubs in the history of their organization."

February 13, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Baseball Magnates Hold Conference - Sporting Editor of Defender Elected Secretary - Kansas City, Missouri, February 13. - Representatives of the baseball teams of the West arrived here today and went into session at the Y.M.C.A. with the following baseball baseball magnates present: J.T. Blount, Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Stars; W.A. Kelly, Washington, DC organized baseball of the national capital; L.S. Cobb, secretary of the St. Louis Giants baseball team; John Matthews, Dayton Marcos, Dayton, Ohio; Joe Green, Chicago Giants, Chicago, Illinois; C.I. Taylor, Indianapolis A.B.C.s, Indianapolis, Indiana; Elwood C. Knox of the Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana; Andrew 'Rube' Foster, American Giants, Chicago, Illinois; Charles Marshall, Indianapolis Ledger, Indianapolis, Indiana; J.L. Wilkinson, this city, and Cary B. Lewis, sporting editor of the Chicago Defender. - Temporary Officers Elected - On motion of 'Tenny' Blount, Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Foster was nominated and elected temporary President. Cary B. Lewis of the Defender was elected secretary. The aim and object of the meeting was discussed and the plan for a circuit for the season of 1921 came up for consideration. Every manager was very enthusiastic and said he would carry the same enthusiasm back to his home town. The outlook for 1921, they claim, would be the greatest history of baseball. - Foster Springs Big Surprise - One of the big surprises of the first day's meeting was when 'Rube' Foster uncovered the fact that he had a charter, incorporated, for a National Negro Baseball League. When 'Rube' displayed the charter the 'magnates' were dumbfounded. The league is incorporated in the states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland. Then, Mr. Foster and Mr. Blount discussed tentative plans for the circuit of 1921. Dr. Howard Smith met the delegations at the depot. A smoker and dinner has been arranged. The second day's meeting will be held tomorrow. The visitors are stopping at the 'Y.'"

February 14, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"That Meeting of Western Baseball Men At Kansas City. - Short Notice May Blank Get Together Bunch for Foster. - By Charles D. Marshall. - While we are busy going to press Western colored baseball magnets, fans, and newspaper men are busy making interesting baseball history out in Kansas City today, or at least they were expected to as Rube Foster and other great captains of the great national pastime, had called a meeting of Western baseball owners and manager of the various big cities of the West to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, for February 13 and 14, 1920. When the announcement was dispatched to this office the sporting editor of the Freeman became delighted from the fact that for years he had been working hard to "spur up" interest in such a move, but he felt a little dissapointed at what might be the outcome of such a meeting because of the short notice. But so much interest has been worked up in behalf of organized ball that it is thought a successful meeting could be had despite the short notice or the date being so close at hand. There is no doubt but what there will be many who will hang back just to see whether it is to be a "real go" or not, but the earnest fellow will be there to start the ball rolling as it should be. It is not intended that this meeting will see a league formed for the season of 1920 or anything like it, but it is to see if better understanding cannot be perfected in regards to stealing ball players, paying salaries and other matters that need better protection for the owner, manager and ball player, etc. In our next week's issue we hope to give an account of what took place at the supposed "get together" meeting of the colored baseball magnates of the Wesst at Kansas City, Missouri, February 14."

Colored Ball Team to Form League. - Kansas City, Missouri will be the meeting place of a group of colored manager February 13 and 14 to organize a circuit, including Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, and Kansas City, The meeting is called by Rube Foster of the Chicago American Giants, who plans to form a national league after the circuit has been perfected. The Cuban Stars will be the traveling team. - Who will be in the Game the Coming Season. - In the circuit, C.I. Taylor of the Indianapolis A.B.C.s, Elwood C. Knox, business manager of the Indianapolis Freeman and Arthur Williams of the Ledger left Thursday to attend the meeting."

February 20, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Baseball Men Write League Constitution - Western Circuit Organized; to Become Effective April 1, 1921 - Kansas City, Missouri, February 20. - A Western Circuit National Baseball League of the United States, was organized here last week in the rooms of the Community Center. Newspaper men and sports writers became the arbitrators for the baseball magnates. It was the first time in the history of a baseball meeting that there was exhibited so much harm(illegible) and good spirit. Andrew 'Rube' Foster was chosen as the temporary chairman and secretary. He stated the aim and purpose of the gathering and then said he would leave it to the newspaper men at the meeting to decide all questions, select players for the various teams and write the bylaws and constitution for the league. No sooner had he said this than C.I Taylor of the Indianapolis A.B.C.s assented, also 'Tenny' Blount of the Detroit Stars. - The Player Question - The player question was the first to come up for consideration. It is a well-known fact that some of the managers have been dickering with each others players which has caused a great deal of confusion during the past years. This was thrashed out and all agreed that the newspaper men should embody this question in the laws and constitution of the league. In the best judgement of the newspaper men all the players for the league were selected. - Writers of the Consititution - The writers of the consitituion and bylaws of the new league were Dave Wyatt, Indianapolis Ledger; Elwood C. Knox, Indianapolis Freeman; Cary B. Lewis, Chicago Defender, and Attorney Elisha Scott of Topeka, Kansas. These men were up all Friday night and part of Saturday morning, framing the 'baseball bill of rights' to guide the destiny of the future league. At noon Friday it was brought before the conference. The preamble was read and adopted. The constitution was ready by articles and sections. Correction after correction was made and finally it was approved by Attorney Elisha Scott. The consitution was signed by Andrew Foster, American Giants, Chicago; C.I. Taylor, A.B.C.s, Indianapolis, Indiana; 'Tenny' Blount, Detroit Stars, Detroit, Michigan; Chicago Giants Joe Green, Chicago; J.L. Wilkinson, Kansas City Monarchs, Kansas City, Missouri; Lorenzo Cobb, St. Louis Giants, St. Louis, Missouri. Each manager paid his $500 fee to bind them to the league and constitution. - Will Operate Next Season - The Western Circuit, National Baseball League, will not operate until next season. This meeting is the bundation for next year. The circuit will not officially operate until each city has a park, either leased or owned and this will undoubtedly be by April 1, 1921. Those who had no lease this year claimed they would have one next season. Mr. Mattews of the Dayton Marcos, who was ill with the 'flu,' sent a special delivery letter stating that he would be in perfect harmony with whatever was done at the meeting. He sent his per ratio to pay for the expense of the newspaper men who acted as arbitrators. Several road teams had representatives and paid their part of the fee to play in the circuit as per schedule. Nat C. Strong of the Nat C. Strong Amusement Company, New York City, sent a letter stating that he was ready to do anything that would promote the best interests of baseball all over the country. After the Western Circuit is put into operation successfully Mr. Foster will then call a meeting of the organization of a national Baseball League, taking in every large baseball city in the EAst. - Newspaper Men Select Players - The newspaper men had the day at the meeting. No manager had aught to say about players. They were selected on account of their RELATIVE STRENGTH to each team. The newspaper men will form an arbitration board to settle all disputes and act as publicity agents for games. The following players were selected for the teams in 1921: Detroit Stars - Pete Hill, Bruce Petway, Frank Warfield, Edgar Wesley, Joe Hewitt, Mack Eggleston, LeRoy Roberts, Henderson E. Boyd, Bill Holland, Richard Whitworth, Jimmie Lyons, Johnson Hill, Lefty Hill. - Kansas City, John Donaldson, Jose Mendez, Frank 'Bluekoi' Blattner, Jackson, Walter Muir, Rube Currie, Vicente Rodriguez, Bartolo Portuondo, Sam Crawford, Wilbur 'Bullet' Rogan, W. Harris, Bernardo Baro. - St. Louis Giants, Tullie McAdoo, Dan Kennard, Charles Brooks, Charles Scott, William Drake, Lunie Danage, Felix Wallace, Charles Blackwell, Eddie Holt, John Finner, Lee Hill. - American Giants, George Dixon, Jim Brown, Leroy Grant, Elwood 'Bingo' DeMoss, Robert Williams, Dave Malacher, John E. Reese, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Williams, Richard 'Dick' Lundy, Cristobal Torriente, Edward 'Judy' Gans. - Chicago Giants, Lawrence Simpson, Walter Ball, Lemuel McDougal, Edward Jones, John Beckwith, William Greene, Thurman Jennings, Frank Jefferies, Horace Jenkins, Joe Green, Clarence Winston, Tom Clark. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s - James 'Jim' Jeffries, 'Steel Arm' Johnny Taylor, Morten Clark, Russell Powell, Herlen Raglen, William Webster, Oscar Charleston, Ed Rile, Mitchell Murray, William 'Dizzy' Dismukes, Decatur Johnson."

February 21, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Negro Base Ball League Assured. - The Peace Dove Soared Over Camp of the Organizers and Harmony Prevailed. - (By Dave Wyatt.) - Kansas City, Missouri - The much heralded Negro Base Ball League was launched into actual being when a three-day deliberation by the high statesites of the diamond pasttime ended one of the most successful and (illegigle) gatherings ever witnessed among our people; most especially so when the interests involved, sacrifices made, financial considerations and many other features, any one of which is enough to cast one into deep depression, is taken into account. The initial efforts, prior to the real formation of a league, was a grand success. In order not to misguide our followers, it can safely be said that the league is not as yet in existence. The parent body of the organization was put into activity at the Kansas City session, from it will spring the real league. The clubs that are members of this tentative organization and that were represented at the meeting were: Chicago Giants - Joe Green; Detroit Start - Tenny Blount; Indianapolis A.B.C.'s - C.I. Taylor; St. Louis Giants - Charlie Mills; Dayton Marcos - J. Matthews; Gilkerson's Union Giants - Attorney Scott; Kansas City Monarchs - J.L. Wilkinson; American Giants - Andrew Foster; Cuban Stars - A. Molina. These clubs are the foundation upon which the league will be built. This present association of clubs is known as the Western Circuit of Negro National Base Ball League. Affiliated with this circuit are clubs extending from Omaha, Nebrask a to and including Nat C. Strong's New York Base Ball enterprises. Fans, who are fortunate to be in the cities which form this circuit will, beyond the shadow of a doubt, witness the grandest exhibition of the national pasttime among our people that has been observed since the Negro took this form of athletic endeavor. The old rule of things as heretofore existed, ahs been waived aside. Each and every manager was forced to give up valuable players, when who, if placed upon the base ball market would bring thousands of dollars. These valuable assets were given up without the exchange of a penny and all for the good of this organization. The idea was to have all clubs composing this circuit to be just as evenly balanced in playing strength as could be. Fro the lineups comprising the various clubs it will be seen that the idea has been carried out to the complete satisfaction of all the owners and manager and no doubt exists over the manner in which this new turn of affairs will be viewed by the fan public who support the game. The biggest sensation ever experianced in the history of baseball was hurled into the opening meeting the first day. Andrew "Rube" Foster, who perhaps has more at stake than any fifty men in baseball that could be named, hurled a huge boom into the magnate's camp, when he arose and declared, "Gentlemen, the assets of the baseball club which I represent is more than all the Negro baseball clubs in existence, still if it pleases you all, I am willing to throw all these assets upon the mercy of the decision of this body of newspapermen who are present." The news writers then were unanimously chosen to settle all questions arising disputes over players, disposition of players and many other vexatious problems. The news men present were Elwood Knox, Indiana Freeman; Dave Wyatt, Indiana Ledger; Carry Lewis, Chicago Defender; A.D. Williams, Indiana Ledger."

February 28, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Way is Clearing For Baseball to Enjoy Its Greatest Boom - Game's Fate is UP to Magnates, Aided, of Course, by the Fans. - (By Dave Wyatt.) - That was certainly a mighty fine pre-lenten affair that the baseball magnates handed to the fans. One month ago it looked as though peace in baseball would be as hard to bring about as for the League of Nations pact to do any good. The plans of the factions were kept so well guarded that it was not until just three weeks ago that things began to come ot a head. That was when the western club owners and the Nat C. Strong enterprises held their initial confab, and later all the moguls of the middle-west held their historical love feast as the guest of Kansas City's foundation for peace before and at the banquet is shown by the fact it required only three session of peace conferences, one at Detroit, one at Chicago, and one at Kansas City, before the peace pact was signed and the storm wave was wiped out of existence It must be recognized by this time that the recalcitrant ones surrendered and that the vicory belongs to organized ball. After all, the fans will care little about who got licked and who did the licking. The thing is, baseball is once more in for an uplift. Now the time has arrived when the good old national game should get back to its feet with a rush. The baseball skies as well as the financial skies have cleared. If the people really want baseball as much as circumstances would indicate, they should soon notify the magnates after the playing season starts in 1920. Prosperity has put the dollar into circulation, and the plain fan has all share of the dollars. If he stays away from the box office in 1920 it will be because he has lost his love for the game, and not becaus ehe is unable to qualify for a ticket of admission by putting down the price. The situation is put to order for the club owner and the players. They are in for a new deal. How they cut the cards will play a big part in the future development of the game. There will doubtless be some bickering and heart burnings over certain star players. It probably will not be until the actual opening of the season that it will be known what clubs will get the cream of the playing talent. In any case, the acquiring of these stars and probable trades among the cubs should stir the interest of the fans during the remainder of the winter and put them on edge for the opening of the now league race and the fight for the international championship. The fans wanted new faces in some cities and they are going to get them, both as regards magnates and players. Will the magnates and the players, however, profit by experiences of the past? They will undoubtedly endeavor to so shape their affairs that another attempt to float another warfare will not be made for years. In the meantime, the A.B.C.'s can be expected to play the same smooth article of ball that they reeled off in 1916. A large part of Taylor's work will be to instill into the minds of his men that the team has not irreparably shot to pieces by the absence of some of the once familiar faces. The American Giants, too, will have missing links. The title holders got some great pitching last year and they are likely to get lots more of it this season, even if Dick Whitworth will not be there to electrify and even if "Beans" Williams sticks in the East. Dave Brown is just about ready to step up and take his regular turn in the box. Detroit looks good to me. Whitworth is bound to win as many games for Detroit, and he will have an able box assistant in Roberts, the eastern crack. St. Louis will be dangerous at times, though that team lacks the punch that the others have. Many of the fans pick Kansas City for first honors. If the Kaws don't win out, they should be close. The Chicago Giants ought to give fierce battle. The way they showed up during the 1919 campaign causes them to be conceded as a formidable foe for all. Dayton is expected to have a team of youngsters that will make all sit up and take notice. In all, 1920 should be a grand and glorious season."

"National Negro Baseball League is Formed - Western Managers Meeting at Kansas City a Great Success. - (By Charles D. Marshall.) - Wouldn't the late Frank Leland rejoice were he alive today and informed ofhte fact that a real, live Negro base ball league had been formed by colored base ball magnates of the West. This noted base ball man (once owner of the famous Leland Giants of Chicago) had for year labored hard to induce colored owners and managers to come together and play organized ball, but to no avail. He died with the proposition far from becoming a reality. But today the plan almost a surety for when the umpire shouts "play ball" May 1, 1920 it will be under a new heading for eight clubs of the West and that will be organized ball. That will mean much to thousands of colored fans as well as hundreds of ball players all over the country. Just what they have been arguing about for the past 15 to 20 years is at last to be a realization. It was bound to happen when such strong men as Rube Foster, C.I. Taylor, John T. Blount, Charles A. Mills, J.L. Wilkerson, John Matthews, Carey B. Lewis and Elwood C. Knox, got behind the movement and made effort to see it through. Rube Foster slipped the cog and selected the place and time to hold the meeting and out came these noble stalwarts and like magic a league was formed, officers elected, and in other words the ball started rolling by these live leaders of the great game. Of course it is nto be understood that their work is not really started but an attempt has been made and the best part of it is they have come together with an understanding. Now they are to get busy and make rules and regulation that each must abide by for the protection of all. A franchise for each club is to be made; the salary basis and limits are to be considered for the player as well as the umpires. A playing schedule is to be made and park admission prices should be made for the protection of the poor fan, with the understanding that the public is paying for professional major league palying and not outlaw or semi-professional pastime. No better selection could have been made than Andrew "Rube" Foster for president of the league for this wily old master of the great game is best suited for guiding the organization safely past all of the pit falls and loop holes that it is certain to encounter in base ball. Mr. Foster and the rest will have much to do to get everything in readiness for real organized ball playing by May 1, 1920. But it can be done very easily if every official will give it their earnest attention. A commission should be selected to prepare rules and regulations that should be enforced. But of all things, let this be one race organization of clean ruling with officials of no selfish motives or unfairness to hand out, to one another. Give the players a square deal and in turn let the player be square and fair. Make it possible that every player in the league be given a salary according to his worth and by that let us eliminate the "tramp ball tosser." Colored baseball will always have good financial support from both races, and even better when clean, professional games are played. Give us more men like C.I. Taylor, Tenny Blount, Foster and J.L. Wilkinson who urge the playing of clean ball."

Kansas City, MO
"Coming Baseball Season - Since the proposed baseball league out West, headed by Rube Foster, Tenny Blount, and others, which got under way recently, and who held a session at Kansas City, all the baseball bugs out this way have awakened from their slumber and are making preparations for the biggest season in the history of baseball. John Henry Lloyed has falled in line with the Royal Giants, while Santop, the well-known catcher of last leason is below the Mason and Dixon line digging up material to present to New Yorkers. Guy Empey sends us word that he more than likely will have a Race team this season, while Brooklyn will have several representative teams. Joe Williams has shown himself on the horizon and predicts a great season for himself.

"Baseball Writers and Managers are Royally Entertained - The baseball managers and newspaper men were royally entertained. The officers of the Community Center, where the league met, were very courteous. They wanted for nothing to make the meeting a success. On Friday night, J.L. Wilkinson, manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, entertained with a ten-course dinner at the DeLuxe cafe. Saturday night, Q.J. Gilmore, exalted ruler of the Elks, and the Elks of the city gave a banquet and smoker at the De Luxe cafe. Among the speakers were C.I. Taylor, 'Rube' Foster, Cary B. Lewis, 'Tenny' Blount, Dave Wyatt, Lorenzo Cobb, C.D. Williams, Dr. Howard Smith, Undertaker Watkins, Q.J. Gilmore, Attorney Elisha Scott, J.L. Wilkerson and others. Sunday, Mrs. Felix Payne entertained the visiting gentlemen. Mr. Payne, who is at Detroit, Michigan, with an automobile invention, telegraphed Mr. Snell to act as host for him. Mrs. Payne served a delicious dinner. Felix Payne Jr assisted in the service. Later in the evening, Dr. and Mrs. Howard Smith served dinner for 'Rube' Foster, 'Tenny' Blount, Dave Wyatt, and Elwood C. Knox. Mr. Foster remained over a few days to talk baseball matters over with the manager of this city."

March 6, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Dave Wyatt, dean of Sporting Writers and Authority on base ball. He will furnish articles weekly for The Freeman. - The Lost Pticher. - (Poem by Dave Wyatt about Dick Whitworth)"

March 27, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Chairman Foster's View on Grave Subjects - The Big Chief On Umpires and Players Not Quite in Accord with Effectual systems in Vogue of Disciplining Unruly Players - By Dave Wyatt. - The following extract is from an interview with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Western Circuit of the Proposed Negro National League. - As this, the coming season, will perhaps mark an epoch in the government of Colored Baseball, the public no doubt will be greatly interested in knowing what system will prevail in the handling of all that important subject, umpire controversy. I am a firm believer in preserving the utmost good order on the ball field. I am strict disciplinarian, but far from a martinet. The only person who can preserve order on a ball field is the umpire, and in matters of discretion and judgement, where he is not specifically guided by rule, he should be supreme. I do not wish to be understood as meaning that an umpire should be a law unto himself; that his manner should be dictatorial, his attitude arrogant and his entire demeanor evince a self-satisfied air that would brook no argument or intercession. Right the contrary, I think an umpire should be pacific but firm, positive but polite, quick but unshowy, strict but reasonble. I have seen arguments on the field where I considered the umpire at fault. "A mild answer turneth away wrath." In my judgement, many a scene on the diamond could be prevented by a little - Discretion and Deliberation - on the part of the umpire, who frequently uses his authority in an arbitrary manner. One of my principal alms will be to instill into the umpires a spirit of peace and discretion. You ask me whether I believe in at once disciplining the player, immediately on receipt of umpire's statement of the facts in the case. I could answer that question with one word, but I am going to adduce some reason to show why I am opposed to the general practice employed in meeting out punichsment to players for offenses committed on the ball field. In the first place, I was a ball player myself and naturally believe in them as a class. As a rule they are reasonable, honorable, clean-living class of men, and this thought should be considered in all dealings with them. In the second place, one of the Cardinal Principles of Justice is that ever man should have an opportunity to be heard, to present his side of the case. If the player is guilty of the charges submitted by the umpire and has no reasonable defense, the end of justice and the morale of discipline can be served just as well by suspending the player some days after the violation has occurred, and all the evidence received and investigated, as by immediate suspension following the report of the umpire. Then there is another view of the question, namely, that the club owner is really the one who suffers most by a player's suspension. If we fine the player, true he may loose a small sum as a result of his infraction of the rules, and his salary goes on while he is out of the game. But his absence weakens the team and in the long run the club is the real sufferer. Therefore, if the effect of discipline can be preserved and at the same time the interest of the owner conserved, there is no reason why such cases should not be considered in the most lenient attitude possible, and by all means obtain the facts in the case from both sides before the player is punished by suspension."

Indianapolis, IN
"Will Colored Umpires Be Given a Tryout? - Will Colored Umpires Be Given a Tryout in Organized Ball. - Baseball Authorities Say They Will, But It Is To Be a Real Go - Who Knows? - (By Charles D. Marshall) - Several days ago a communication came to me from an enthusiasic fan who wanted to know "Whether Colored Umpires would be given a tryout this season over the Western circuit of the Negro National Baseball League." Of course I got busy and tried to find out from the powers that be in organized ball but as yet have been unable to get enlightened further than to say that they will be given a trial and that much came from an uncertain party. But to answer the question from my point of view I should think that, without a doubt colored umpires should be given a trial. Of course we know that some players as well as some managers and fans alike feel that the white umpire's decision carries more weight and generally comes closer to the right decision than the colored official. In most cases just because he is white. On the other hand the white umpire can be easily bluffed into deciding in favor of the losing side than can our own brother. Often the case is that a white umpire is secured who will easily decide in favor of the club who is paying him for his services. To my mind I have always felt that the white umpire looked much out of place in a game of ball played by two colored clubs. It may be that the white umpire has a better knowledge of the latest rules in baseball and that he is not easily shaken up by a broiling crowd of hot headed fans in calling a strike, but there are any number of students of the game in our race who would make good umpires. The commission of the Negro National Baseball League should make it a rule to employ nothing but colored umpires throughout the Western circuit, as we have any number of efficient men for the position. We must establish confidence in our men if we are to have organized ball. In either the major or minor leagues, they have not found room for us, no even as mascots. Why can't we manage and play the game ourselves without the aid of the other race, for certainly we know how."

Indianapolis, IN
"Taylor Takes Ready View - C.I. Taylor, owner of the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis, will do his own managing, while the duties of captain undoubtedly will fall in the lot of his brother Ben, who has just signed to play first base. Taylor has a wealth of material on hand, according to reports that have been sent out from Hoosierville. Taylor believes in getting players with affable dispositions and that is what he has done. Speaking of his training trip, he says: 'I now have had the pleasure of preparing a bunch of players who were more gentlemanly, more quiet, or who more readily abosrbed the all important things required of baseball players. I think our prospects look as bright as those of any club in the circuit. And unless some unforseen calamity befalls us, we ought to be in the race all the way.' Taylor is basing his hopes on the fact that his pitching and catching staffs look unusually strong, and upon the prospects of a heavy hitting outfield."

March 29, 1920

Birmingham, AL
"A.B.C.'s To Train In Birmingham, Alabama - Indianapolis A.B.C.'s Baseball Club Will Begin Spring Training. - Team Goes to Birmingham, Alabama, Monday, March 29. - On Monday, March 29, the Indianapolis A.B.C. baseball club will hike out for Birmingham, Alabama, where they will begin their spring training, so announces C.I. Taylor, owner and manager of the club. After taking several weeks of hard grinding, Mr. Taylor and his bunch will return home, playing games on the way. It is up to Manager Taylor to organize a club for fast company, as the Negro National Baseball League will be composed of clubs, of top speed, who will play a great argument of ball from the start in order to win the pennant. - Stars With the A.'s - Some of the best colored ball players in the country will be seen in the line-up of the C.I.'s this year. The club this year will be boasting of the strongest colored outfield in the country. Oscar Charleston, the black Ty Cobb, will hold down center for the A.'s. George Shively, left, and Owens, a hard-hitting player from Pittsburgh, right. In Dizzy Dismukes, Dicta Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Ed Rile, Dickson and Herlen Ragland the local colored club will be well taken care of in the pitching end, of the game, while Russell Powell, Webster and Mitchell Murray can more than do their share behind the bat. C.I Taylor has a swarm of infielders in line. Ben Taylor will probably hold down first, Tick Houston looks like the second sacker, and Morten Clark is expected to be seen at short. Connie Day, Forrest Mashaw, Samuel Dewitt, and Alonzo Longware are out for third base. All of these players will make the trip South. The A.B.C.'s will play their home games at Washington Park when the Indians are on the road."

April 3, 1920

Chicago, IL
"A.B.C.'s Off For 'Bam' - C.I. Taylor, Indiana baseball 'mag,' and a squad of 19 aspiring diamond athletes, grabbed a deluxe special this week and are Alabama bound. The Hoosier leader is carting this immense bulk of athletic humanity southward in hope that when the weeding-out process is finished he may be able to trot out upon the long green an aggregation of ball tossers who can well take care of themselves in the elite circles of the new baseball circuit just formed, and thus cause the Indianapolis leader's name to be heralded broadcast as the greatest 'come back' of the age. The men who entrained at the Hoosier capital were C.I and Ben Taylor, George Shively, Jim Jeffries, Connie Day, Herlen Raglen, Dizzy Dismukes, Oscar Charleston, Dicta Johnson, William Webster, Tick Houston, George Dixon and Morten Clark. Those swinging the rattler at the boundary line, Louisville, are Owens, a 'Smoky City' phenom; Forrest Mashaw, Russell Powell, vet maskman; Ed Rile, a heavy heaver, of Columbus, Ohio; Mitchell Murray, fire-brand receiver, and Samuel Dewitt, worthy guardian of the hot corner station. C.I. Taylor's regulars look good for a continuation of their former class of play. With the hard-hitting Ben Taylor at fist, the old, reliable 'Glass-Eye' Morten Clark at short and Catcher Russell Powell on deck. If C.I. Taylor is lucky in whipping some of the new material into such form so that it will be safe to trust second and third base, two important positions, into their care, then look out, as we all know something of Oscar Charleston, and that boy George Shively does not have to take a back seat in the out garden for any of them. We are also told that Owens will bear close inspections. The pitching staff of Dizzy Dismukes, Ed Rile and Herlen Raglen looks good to hold, and supplemented with Jim Jeffries, Dicta Johnson, and George Dixon, undoubtedly, so would it seem, gives C.I. Taylor an even break, if not the odds, over all his adversaries in the new circuit."

April 6, 1920

Montgomery, AL
"A.B.C.'s Win. - Montgomery, Alabama, April 6. - The A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis, Indiana defeated the Montgomery Gray Sox, of the Colored Southern League Sunday by a score of 11 to 5. For the A.B.C.'s, Dizzy Dismukes, Ed Rile, Russell Powell and Mitchell Murray; Grey Sox, Brothers, Moss and Williams."

April 9, 1920

Birmingham, AL
"A.B.C.'s Schedule - Birmingham, Alabama, April 9. - Early training reports from Birmingham have Taylor's crew in the most strenuous preparatory work ever undergone by a team of our Race. The boys are out every morning by eight, hike to the park, trot around the enclosure several times, and then are taken through a grueling two hour baseball workout, egged on by the Hoosier leader. Then the gang foot it back to the hotel, grab the eats, dance under the shower, rest a bit and by 2 p.m. are ready for the game, recruits against the regulars. Many of the new ones are displaying real form, according to C.I. Taylor's version, and the prospects for a winning combination look excessingly bright. The bookings of the A's in the Southland calls for games as New Orleans, Montgomery, Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, and Louisville will the schedule at Birmingham. The Hoosiers open their home lot May 2 with Joe Green's Chicago Giants as opponents; then they launch out into a schedule of the new circuit that should serve as a serious test of the class of their baseball wares. - Proposed Schedule - At Indianapolis - Chicago Giants; May 2 (double header), Cuban Stars; May 9, 10, 11, 12, Kansas City Monarchs, May 16, 17, 18, 19, Dayton Marcos, May 23, 24. - Traveling - On the circuit - At Kansas City; May 29 (5 games), At Omaha, Nebraska; Jun 5-6. At Chicago, Illinois; June 13 (double header), at Detroit, Michigan; June 19 (5 games). The A's are doing quite a bit of traveling and playing an unusual number of double bills; so it looks as if C.I.Taylor will need nearly all the crew that he has in training in the Southland."

April 10, 1920

New Orleans, LA
"Eight Cities Enter Negro Southern League - Plans for the Negro Southern League have finally matured and the organization will be operated under a regular schedule beginning April 29 and ending September 5. This is the information that Fred Caulfield, local negro backer of the Caulfield Ads, brought back from the Montgomery meeting. Eight cities are represented, as follows: New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, Montgomery, Knoxville, Pensacola, and Jacksonville, Florida. Games will be played every Saturday and Sunday. The Caulfield Ads which will represent New Orleans in the league, play a series with the Indianapolis negro team Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at Heinemann Park."

New Orleans, LA
"Indianapolis Star is "Black Hal Chase" - The Indianapolis negro team, which plays the Caulfield Ads at Heinemann Park Saturday, Sunday and Monday will bring to New Orleans a player they claim is the best negro player in his position in the country. He is Ben Taylor, first baseman. As a fool-shifter and contortionist, Taylor has been called the "Black Hal Chase." The Indianapolis team is now training at Birmingham. It is the only one of the northern negro teams that came south for Spring Training."

Chicago, IL
"Giants Pitching to Be Big Factor - Rube Foster Believes it Strong Enough to Win. - (By Dave Wyatt.) - Unless I am very much mistaken the American Giants four first -string pitchers this year will be Tom Williams, Lieutenant Tom Johnson, Dave Lefty Brown, and Jack Marshall. The latter is a Kansas City product, and early spring lampings on the lad undoubtedly gives him a place with the first four. Nothing definite as yet can be said of "Blaus" Williams, and should he luckily show up, he has a bright chance of being headed Detroitward or in some other direction where high class services are needed. Not that "Blaus" is not alright, but it looks as if the Giants have annexed the class of the pitching field and "Blaus" with the present staff would look like a corner on the pitching market. Yes, Marshall is a most promising looking heaver, right hander, a world of speed, and he brings up his offering with a kick that is bound to play havoc with many an aspiring batter's average. Buck Ewing, a high school lad from Massilon, Ohio, has displayed some real class behind the bat, and he looks good to be detained for complete and expert inspection. Several of the newcomers look good and may land a berth with some of the clubs. It is certain that many hopes trying out here cannot be retained, therefore it is barely possible that by chance some team may pick up a diamond in the rough. One thing is certain, there is a fellow named Wiggins, a coal miner from down state, there is not a chance of anyone landing him. If the lad can bat anything like up to his class of fielding there he will be a grey old man when Rube Foster turns him loose. He is a shortstop and we vouce for the statement, he looks like a fixture. At any rate the Giants are going to size up awful strong. Buck Ewing, Riggins and Jack Marshall, with Jim Brown to jump in and help out the established regulars of George Dixon, Leroy Grant, Bingo DeMoss, Bobby Williams, Dave Malarcher, Judy Gans, Cristobal Torriente, and John Reese, with a hurling string of Tom Williams, Tom Johnson and Dave Brown, we opine that the going is bound to be mighty rough for the other fellows. True we haven't heard from Uncle C. I. Taylor and Tenny Blount hasn't sent us any world fair reports. Mills says absolutely nothing and K.C. does not connect. Dayton is beginning to perk up and Rube Foster's new talent interests Joe Green. It looks like a case of hurry brother magnets or the windy city crew have landed another one best bet team. Sunday, April 11, the Giants open the season with Rogers Park, a Chicago League team, so we can get a real line on Foster's gang. But no matter what transpires within the next few days we have given you the lineup that you can just about look to wear the Chicago colors for the season of 1920."

New Orleans, LA
"Local A.B.C. Ball Club Winner At New Orleans. - New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10 - The A.B.C. baseball team of Indianapolis had little trouble beating the Caulfield Ads of the Negro Southern League here today, 10 to 1. Oscar Charleston, center-fielder, with the visiting club, made a single, double and triple in five times at bat, while Ben Taylor, first baseman, pulled a number of star plays. Ragland and Owens pitched for the winners and both were in good form."

April 11, 1920

New Orleans, LA
"Indianapolis is Best Negro Nine Ever Here - The Caulfield Ads have one more chance to win a game from the negro team of Indianapolis. The last game of the series was scheduled for Monday afternoon and Fred Caulfield planned a shift in his lineup from which he expected better results than were obtained Saturday and Sunday. Though Indianapolis is decidedly the best negro squad that has ever been seen in action here, there are at least four ball players on the team who would class with any negro players in the business, the two real stars of the club are First Baseman Taylor and Outfielder Charleston. The shortstop Clark plays the game with glasses on and makes every hop of the ball look dead easy. The Caulfields Sunday were faced first by a chocolate colored Carl May, named Dismukes a southern negro. Dismukes flung the ball with an underhand swing and he kept the Ads guessing throughout the innings. He was relieved by a great name Rile, who was just as effective although the Ads got to him for one run in the ninth. The Ads did not play the game they were capable of. The team stacks up better with Lewis behind the bat, Wilson on first, and Welsh in the sun garden. Homer pitched good ball, but his support was poor. A large crowd saw Sunday's game, numbering more than 4,000."

New Orleans, LA
"A.B.C.s Show Well by Beating Southern Squad - New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11. - Before one of the largest crowds that ever attended a Colored ball game here, the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis won a hard-fought game today from the Caulfield Ads by the score of 6 to 1. The visitors again showed their class at bat and on the bases. Their fielding bordered on the sensational and would have done credit to a club in mid-season form. Ben Taylor, Morten Clark and Longwave, a recruit from Shreveport, Louisiana, who joined the club today, playing third base, carried off the fielding honors. Both Dizzy Dismukes and Ed Rile showed form."

April 12, 1920

New Orleans, LA
"Indiana Blacks Easily Defeat Caulfield Ads - The Caulfields tried a lefthanded pitcher against the Indianapolis negroes at Heineman Park yesterday, but could fare no better agains the "national leaguers." The score was 10 to 3. Indianapolis won all three games of the series. The locals outhit the visiting negroes, but stupidity on the baselines kept them from making their hits count. They were again out fielded. Two umpires were on the job when the game started, but the chief arbiter, Wilson, quit during the second inning under the fire of the home team."

New Orleans, LA
"Indianapolis Takes All From Caulfields - Indianapolis' negro team made a clean sweep of the series here with the Caulfield Ads by taking the final game Monday at Heinemann Park, score 10 to 2. The Ads tried a "left hander" against the visiting team but he fared no better than the rest. The game was featured by heavy hitting."

New Orleans, LA
"A.B.C.s Win Another One - New Orleans, Louisiana, April 12. - The A.B.C.s took the third straight game of the series from the New Orleans Caulfield Ads in a rather slow contest today by the score of 10 to 4. Dicta Johnson worked the first five innings for the visitors and Jim Jeffries finished the game. Both pitchers were effective."

April 16?, 1920

Montgomery, AL
"Round the Base Lines - Taylor's A.B.C.'s displayed too much class for the State Normal College lads at Montgomery, putting the Kayo on the rah rah crew to the tune of 10 to 0. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s are sending in some mighty fine reports from the Southland. They are wading through the Southern Leaguers with the ease that a knife passes through the cheese. C.I. Taylor has unearthed a few finds and has a real surprise in store for the fans when he hits the new circuit. Hinton, the new second baseman, has struck favor with the A.'s manager and C.I. Taylor calls him the find of the season, while Owens, the Smoky city recruit, acts and has the bearings of a veteran. The A.'s line this season will be: Russell Powell, Mitchell Murray, Webster, catchers: Owens, Ed Rile, Dizzy Dismukes, Herlen Raglen and Dicta Johnson, pitchers; Ben Taylor, first base; Tick Houston, second base; Morten Clark, shortstop; Connie Day, third base; Oscar Charleston, center field; George Shively, left field; Jim Jeffries, right field."

April 17, 1920

Mobile, AL
"A.B.C.s Win Another In South, Defeating Mobile. - Mobile, Alabama, April 17. - The A.B.C.s of Indianapolis, defeated the Mobile Athletics here yesterday afternoon, in a game featured by the fielding of Longware at third, and Morten Clark at short for the visitors and Williams the local shortfielder. Both Russell Powell and Oscar Charleston hit home runs. The game was played in one hour and fifteen minutes."

Chicago, IL
"Joe Green's Giants are working out daily with the American Giants, and the old heads are cutting some mighty pert capers. Joe has had an unusual string of good fortune in the fact that he did not have to worry over new material. Many of the players that Rube Foster is priming no doubt will revert to Green, and, as quite a few of them flash streaks of baseball class, Joe will be the beneficiary thereby. The Chicago Giants open at Indianapolis May 2, and they are carrying a team that is destined to give C.I. Taylor's gand a tussle for honors."

April 18, 1920

Mobile, AL
"A.B.C.s Easily Down Mobile Team, 12 to 1. - Mobile, Alabama, April 19. - The A.B.C.s defeated the Mobile Athletics again yesterday in a game featured by the great playing of both clubs for the first five innings, but the strain proved too great and the local pitcher's support cracked, the A.B.C.s scoring almost at will the remaining part of the game. Other features of the game were Ben Taylor's five hits out of that number of trips to the plate and three safe blows each by Russell Powell and George Shively, and Morten Clark's magnificent fielding. Ed Rile fanned fourteen of the seventeen men that faced him."

Pensacola, FL
"At Pensacola, Florida. - Sunday, April 18, A.B.C.s of Indianapolis vs. Pensacola, Florida of Sothern League - Games Called at 3:00 p.m."

April 20, 1920

Montgomery, AL
"Negro Southern League is Formed - Montgomery Team Will Play Exhibition Game With Crack Indianapolis Club - The local negro baseball team known as the Grex Sox will open the Negro Sourthern League season in Montgomery on Friday, April 30, May 1 and 2 with the Birmingham Giants. The league is composed of eight clubs, Knoxville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Pensacola, New Orleans, and Jacksonville. The opening dates are Birmingham at Montgomery, New Orleans at Pensacola, Knoxville at Nashville, Jacksonville at Atlanta. President Staples of the local club has gathered together one of the strongest aggregations of ball tossers in the South, having returned from a scouting trip Wednesday with three new pitchers. He assures the public of clean baseball and is out for the first pennant of the new league. No games will be played in any town when a Southern League team is playing. On Tuesday, April 20, the Grey Sox will entertain the strong A.B.C. club of Indianapolis, Indiana, the strongest negro club in the country. The game will give the local fans an opportunity of seeing just what kind of club the Grey Sox will be. The game will be played in Southside park on South Holt street, just one half block from the car line. The new park has a special grand stand for white patrons."

April 21, 1920

Atlanta, GA
"A.B.C.s Defeat Atlanta Team in Seesaw Game. - Atlanta, Georgia, April 21. - The A.B.C.s defeated the Atlanta University nine here today in an exciting game, 9 to 8. The game was a see-saw affair with each club continually forging to the front. Dizzy Dismukes was hit freely, the University Club hit two home runs and was relieved by Ed Rile. Hodges and Bitle drove one over the center field wall for the circuit."

April 22, 1920

Atlanta, GA
"A.B.C.s Win Again. - Atlanta, Georgia, April 22. - The A.B.C.'s won easily today from the Morehouse University Club, 19 to 3. The batting of the leaguers was the feature. Home runs were hit by Oscar Charleston, George Shively, Ben F. Taylor and Ed Rile."

April 23, 1920

Knoxville, TN
"A.B.C.'s Triumph - Knoxville, Tennessee, April 23. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s Indiana representatives in the newly formed league of the middle northwest, arrived here last night and they will endeavor to continue the winning streak against our local league entry and thus complete a continuous string of conquests that has marked their invasion of the Southern cities. The Hoosiers are a likly looking collection of athletes, having the bearings of seasoned performers, and appear to be trained to the minute. The team so far has broken all records as to straight wins, also as an attraction. They draw the largest crowd at New Orleans in a recent series of games that have ever watched a Race organization play. Three thousand whites and Colored watched their actions in a recent game, and all along the line at Pensacola, Montgomery, Birmingham and Atlanta they have played to capacity audiences. Taylor's regulars, as well as the most of the new material, have created favorable comment, and while they appear more finished in the fine or higher points of the game, the general opinion of the best informed is that our league material is but a whit removed from the class and general playing department of the boys from above the line. The playing of the Indianans has served to urge us on to higher fields of endeavor, and as the majority of the great players of the upper sections of the country originally came form these parts, including Taylor, and many of them needed but a little polishing, we see no real obstacle in the pathway to prevent us from advancing, and with such rapidity that the whole army of fans will at the end of the present season demand an intersectional baseball series to decide who is and who shall be the big I in the great national outdoor sport."

April 24, 1920

New Orleans, LA
"Negro Fans to Have Own Brand of Ball - Negro baseball fans, who have attended games at Heinemann Park this spring in larger numbers than ever before, are to have some baseball of their own brand and color for the next three days. The Indianapolis A.B.C. team, a member of the Negro Western League, will arrive here Saturday morning from Birmingham and play the Caulfield Ads at Heinemann Park Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The Caulfields, who play the A.B.C.'s, will represent New Orleans in the Negro Southern League."

Chicago, IL
"The A.B.C.s apparently have uncovered a find in Tick Houston, the rookie infielder covering the second base territory. Owens, a Smoky city pitch find, has worked a few games and has displayed rare form for a beginner. Longware, a boy grabbed from the Southland, joined the team and broke into the game with a bang. Dizzy Dismukes and Russell Powell, the veteran battery, are flashing championship form."

April 25, 1920

Louisville, KY
"Sunday, April 25, A.B.C.s of Indianapolis vs. Louisville, Kentucky at Louisville - Games calld at 3:00 p.m."

April 26, 1920

Chattanooga, TN
"A.B.C.s Grab Twin Bill From Knoxville Giants. - Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 26. - The A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis took a double header from the Knoxville Giants here today, 7 to 0 and 2 to 0. In the first tilt the Hoosiers had everything their way as the Southern Leaguers were completely helpless before the blinding speed of Ed Rile, the big 200-pound recruit of the A's. Both clubs played snappy ball although a part of both games was played in drizzling rain. The second contest was called at the end of the sixth frame by previous agreement. The A.B.C.'s made two earned runs in the last session. The game was featured by fast fielding on both sides."

May 1, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Opens Circuit at Indianapolis - Joe Green Paints Gloomy Picture for A.B.C.s, While Taylor is Confidence Personified - By Dave Wyatt - Indianapolis fans are preparing to give C.I. Taylor and his cohorts a rousing welcome when they pry the lid of the home season at Washington Park on Sunday, May 2. The work of the A.s to date has been such that baseball lovers at Hoosierville are of the opinion that they will be in the thick of the fight all the way, and the fans are keen to show their appreciation. Joe Green's Chicago Giants are the opponents of the A.B.C.s and as this, the first tilt under the new baseball government, will mark an epock in history, it is only reasonable to assume that this, the initial go, is going to be fought to a dizzy finish. Joe Green has a sort of life-size hunch that when he invades C.I. Taylor's native heath Sunday he and his gang are going to give the Hoosier tribe a trimming, and it is going to be accomplished in such a neat and concise manner that the victory will not only vibrate througout the circuit, but it will serve as a symbol that bodes no good for all comers. Joe Green bases his conclusions on the fact that, while all the other fellows were yelping and showing that great teams they had on paper, he has been quietly gathering players who can show how good they are on the baseball lot. Among the new ones that the Giants will spring, and clear out of the knowledge of all, is a big southpaw from up around Winnipeg, Canada. This fellow's work is bound to prove a revelation to the fans as his record has just been revealed. Brown, another classy pastimer from out in Iowa, is going to prove an eye-opener to the player hunters. As to just what men will constitute the front line of defense or offense, such as the case may be, is a matter of conjecture. We do know that with Peters at short, W. Green at third, Thurman Jennings at second, Harry Jeffries at first, John Beckwith catching, and if the old, reliable Walter Ball elects to start and has a day on, then shades of night will be falling fast for the Hoosier clan. - C.I. Taylor Ready - Taylor and his men have just returned from a tour of the South; reports have it that they encountered soft going, and were thus enabled to pile up an unbroken string of victories. To that the A.s boss says: 'I expect to find my softest picking right in the ranks of the circuit. With such men as Oscar Charleston, George Shively, and Jim Jeffries in the outfield, players who have always been at the top of the class as hitters, fielders and run getters, why go South in quest of lambs in the way of opponents? There is not an infield on the circuit that has it on us - that is, as far as speed, experience, hitting and all-around fielding goes. Our pitching staff will stack up with any of them. Of our new men, Ed Rile, a 210-pound heaver, is going to make life miserable for the batters; Owens, another find, can be depended upon to function in grand style. Herlen Ragland is a grand pitcher and will be heard from. Veterans like Dicta Johnson and Dizzy Dismukes, with their present form and wily as they are, are bound to make the going tough for the many new players that adorn the other line-ups and who as we learn have not as yet flashed any naming class with the bat. Our catching staff is all that we could wish for. Russell Powell, first string man, is acquainted with the particular methods in vogue on all the other clubs. We expect to have a very interesting canter with the Chicago Giants sunday, and the least it can possibly amount to will be a double win for our team. Then we expect to be the first club to beat the Cubans, which will be on the 9th, and by so doing we will thus establish a record with a sort of an international tinge to it which in the distant future should make interesting reading for the future greats of the next generation. Keep your eyes on the A.B.C.s this season."

May 2, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"New Baseball Circuit Opens Sunday. - Chicago Giants Will Tackle Team That Taylor Has Framed - Both Teams Are in Good Trim. - (By Dave Wyatt.) - Sunday, May 2, will mark an epoch in local baseball circles, for upon that date what is as near a national baseball league as conditions will allow, will be the offering for the baseball fans at Washington Park. C.I. Taylor has just returned from a tour with his team, and his training trip has taken him and his charges throughout the greater portions of the South, where, as reports have it, they tabbed up an unbroken string of victories. The A.B.C.'s team of this season is said to be of a class that will compare in a favorable manner with any aggregation that the Hoosier Mag has handled, and if such be the offering then the fans of Indianapolis are in for a conspicuous place in the baseball sun of the new circuit. All of the old guards of the A's have been flashing form significant of the old days' Ben Taylor has been hitting the old apple often and far away, while Oscar Charleston has been finding the Southern League parks too small for his slams; George Shively's playing has revealed class that bodes no good for his opponents this year, and Morten Clark at short has stood the fans on their heads all along the line. Dizzy Dismukes, the veteran hurler, was never in better form, while Russell Powell, his mate in the battery works, is displaying both on the defense and offense in a manner to excite alarm. Jim Jeffries is in grand condition and Dicta Johnson is undoubtedly is in for a grand year. C.I. Taylor has been extremely fortunate in assembling worthy youths, for in Tick Houston, the new second sacker, he has uncovered a real find, a body that can do everything and do it well. Alonzo Longware, the third base guardian, is ssaid to be all that the boss desires, and that within itself is a grand recommendation. The A's greatest hope is in the pitching staff; Big Ed Rile, a two-hundred and ten pound youngster is said to be the most promising moundsman on the new circuit. Herlen Ragland is a hurler that is going to give the other fellows a whole lot of trouble, while Owens, a pitcher and utility man, is said to be one of the most valuable men in the game. The Chicago Giants, the team that plays here Sunday, is a team put together in a manner that is going to make a whole lot of trouble for those clubs who are bent on front runner positions. It is practically an all-youth team, having just enough of the old heads to balance them evenly. Walter Ball, the dean of pitchers, was never in better form and he, no doubt, will pitch the opening game against the locals, while John Beckwith, perhaps the most efficient catcher in baseball today, will handle the offerings of the veteran. The Windy City team will show a short stop, Peters, whose work is bound to arouse the envy of all opposing manager, while young Harry Jeffries, a first baseman, is certain to electrify with his interpretation of first base play. Thurman Jennings and Willie Green are two well seasoned players on the infield and Horace Jenkins in center is set to give the best Hoosier batter an awful rub with the willow. Joe Green has a wealth of good playing material and he comes prepared to throw the weight of his entire aggregation against the locals and says he's going to win. There will be a double bill and the first game starts early. It is barely possible that big Ed Rile or Dizzy Dismukes will work in the main event for the local team. Russell Powell, no doubt, will do all the catching, or may be Mitchell Murray, the high grade youngster, will do one show. At any rate, there is going to be a ball game out at Washington Park."

Indianapolis, IN
"Washington Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, May 2, Two Games - Chicago Giants of Western Circuit, Negro National League vs. A.B.C.'s at Indianapolis, Indiana."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Opener - C.I. Taylor's gang got away to a flying start for the present season when they took the fast Chicago Giants into camp to the tune of 4-2 in a canter that sparkled with pep, good hitting and grand pitching by pitchers Walter Ball and Ed Rile. Walter Ball, although a loser, pitched the seadier of the two and was entitled to a much better account in the final. However, the boos and jibes of six thousand fans, ninety-nine percent of whom were frantically enthused over the new A.'s, made life miserable for the visitors, and many being young and lacking in practice as well as experience, went all to pieces in close places, allowing the Hoosiers to acquire runs where steadiness would have served to a good purpose. The Chicago team earned their two runs while the A.'s accepted the advantage given them mostly through errors at critical times, and profited to the extent of at least three of their runs. Ed Rile, the new pitcher that Taylor is depending upon for championship honors, displayed streaks of coming greatness, and will be a power in the defese of the Taylor gang. Walter Ball, the veteran, pitched one of the best games of his long career, coming out of some mighty tight holes with flying colores. Fred Goliah, Butler, Willie Green, and Horace Jenkins displayed hitting form that makes them look like dangerous men for the opposing pitchers this season. The Chicago Giants, in their present for, that is, without a chance for real practice this spring, would seem to have a team that is going to rank mighty high as batters. Joe Green has a pitching staff that is going to be heard from, and when he gets his youngsters all primed and polished no doubt whatever exists if they do not finish at the top, then they will push the leaders to an exciting finish. Many notables in the sport world witnessed the opening game. Ira Lewis, sport editor of the Phissburgh Courier, came all the way from the Smoky City to be present. Dave Wyatt, dean of sports writers, came from Chicago, Ed Lancaster, Big Smith and sport bugs from Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, and Dayton were on hand. The Cubans play the A.B.C.'s here next Sunday, while the visitors play in Chicago against the American Giants. - Taylor Has Fast Club. This year's club looks like the best team that Taylor has ever had and will no doubt make a great record. Next Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the famous Cuban All Stars from Havana, Cuba, will be seen here, playing a double-header Sunday."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s are Ready to Meet Chicago Giants in Big Double-Header - The A.B.C.'s are ready for their double header with the Chicago Giants tomorrow afternoon at Washington Park and C.I. Taylor, manager of the Indianapolis Club expects to get an early start in the Colored Baseball League by copping both contests. The first game will start at 3 o'clock. After spending three weeks in the south, the Indianapolis team is in first-class condition. While on their spring trip, the A's won seventeen, tied two and lost one game, defeating some of the best colored teams in the South. Tayor says he has the best club that has ever played under his management. The A.B.C.'s will be the attraction at Washington Park on the Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays that the Indians are on the road."

"A.B.C.'s Score Double Win Before Big Crowd. - With more than 6,000 fans shouting approval, C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s got away to a flying start at Washington Park Sunday afternoon by downing the Chicago Giants in a double-header, 4 to 2 and 11 to 4. Hard hitting and fast fielding marked both contests. Shortstop Morten Clark, of the Indianapolis Club, in particular contributing sensational plays. Ed Rile held the opposition to seven hits in the first game. On next Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the A.B.C.'s will play a series with the famous Cuban All Stars, a double-header being scheduled for Sunday."

Chicago, IL
"Teams Are Well Framed - Many Players Signed by Clubs will be Strangers to Fans on Western Circuit - By Dave Wyatt - Sunday, May 2, is the opening date of the new circuit, and if the organization gets off to a good start, under fair skies, with good crowds in evidence, and if there is anything in beginning right the season should be all the most optimistic have predicted, so far as material success goes. As to the other end of it - how the teams will run on the diamond - the seventh sons of the seventh sons have been on the job all spring doping out the winner, and it is generally conceded that Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Dayton, the Cubans and chicago Giants will win the gonfalon - it all depends where the home of the prophet is that you touch for the inside dope. Each of the clubs in the new circuit has some particular department in which it looks strong and yet no club stands out with a head and shoulders advantage over the other clubs that would threaten a runaway race. Kansas city is the only club in which the dopester cannot put his hand right on one department and point out exceptional strength. But Kansas City is working under a strange manager, whose methods are not generally known, and he has assembled a few players from the far West whose work is not familiar on the circuit, also a few Cubans, so it is hardly logical to attempt any judgement on the Kansas City club at this time. - Some Strong Features - Foster is strong on pitchers and infielders, and his outfield looks good. Detroit is strong in its infield combination. The Cubans are strong on pitchers and on hitting strength, but if they lose and Portuondo the Islanders have no longer what looked like the best club in the circuit. St. Louis should work into one of the best hitting clubs in the circuit, and the pitching staff looks strong. The A.B.C.s are out in front in its superiority in outfield material and the infield will rank close behind the American Giants. Through the conditions that prevailed at the time of the formation of the circuit nobody outside of Chicago is willing to give the Giants a tumble, but a little thing like that never worries the big chief. That bird was wise in his day and generation and never does any kicking before or during the season. If the team fails to cop he has no alibis to concoct, and if the boys romp home he can sit back with a wise look. Rube Foster has a whole raft of Roks in his camp and he retains quite a number of aspiring youngsters for further inspection. Bobby Williams, Bill Riggins, and Singer are battling for a place in the infield; two of them are sprinters and the latter has a 10 second record in the 100 yards. Williams has been with the team for a couple of seasons and the other two are grand prospects, but it appears that Captain Bingo DeMoss will have to select from the trio, about two, for young Ewing, the catcher, is looming up mighty strong, both as a receiver and hitter; he is also a grand thrower and ambitious. If Jim Brown flashes enough form to warrant his being placed in the outfield or on the infield, with the most likely looking youngster's retention, the Giants will be amply safeguarded against the injury to regulars and at the same time will be able to put a real team on the field at all stages. While the season is extremely young, some idea can be obtained of the number of finds. Detroiters are raving over Boyd, Hill and Mack Eggleston, youngsters who seem to be able to do everything. Chicago bugs opine that Jack Marshall is one of the best righthanders who ever made his temporary home at Schorling Park - and there have been a great group of North-Paws there. Indianapolis enthusiasts declare that Tick Houston is the best second baseman they have ever seen since the days of Bingo DeMoss. St. Louis fans cannot help but feel proud of their kid left-hander, Luther. Considering everything, the crop of 1920 youngsters is one of the best we have had in a long time."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C. Triumph in First Home Games - A Throng Estimated at More than Eight Thousand See First Games of the New Circuit - By Dave Wyatt - Indianapolis, Indiana, May 7. - One of the largest and most enthused gathering of baseball devotees who ever assempbled to do homage to the grand old national game witnessed the initial contests that ushered into being what is purported to be the most important and far-reaching step ever negotiated by the baseball promoters of our Race since the birth of the game more than fourty years ago. The opening tilt staged in this city last Sunday resulted in a victory for C.I. Taylor and the crew of athletes he has gathered to do battle under the Hoosiers' war paint. To use the language of the diamond, the breaks and other incidentals that often crop up to turn the seemingly defeated ones into the victorious weighed heavily upon the right side of the ledger for the Alphabetus clan. Joe Green's Chicago Giants, the team that opposed the A.B.C.s, coming as they did out of an atmosphere that would not permit of any great amount of practice this spring, annexed many admirers for the plucky manner in which they attacked the home team, who by the way, had stored away an advantage of a month's training in the Southland and appeared to be right on edge for any sort of a grueling fight. The rivals for first blood of the inaugural go in the pitchers' battle were the veteran Walter Ball for the Windy Citys, while Ed Rile, a husky 210-pound youth, carried within the sinews of his strong right arm the chief defense of the A.s. Despite the twenty or more years bedecked with hard pitching battles in which Walter Ball has been one of the central figured upon which thousands in the dismal past have based their hopes, the veteran, although supported by a team, 50 per cent of whom were inexperienced in grueling diamond battles, were untrained and lacked the polish so necessary, he nevertheless was as steady as the proverbial old clock and acquitted himself with the glory that by estimates of reasoning should have been accompanied by victory; as it was the defense of his comrades went woozy under the fierce panning of the frantic admirers of the new A.B.C. team, and the Chicago boys tabbed on the losing side of the ledger. - The A.s are Classy - C.I. Taylor's team had just returned from a month of conquests broken only by one lone defeat, and the Hoosiers displayed real benefits derived through their slog through the Southern country. Oscar Charleston, the great hitter and fielder, although playing in a crippled condition, revealed the streaks of his former greatness that made him the most feared man at the bat and on the base paths. Ben Taylor is hitting them often and far away, while George Shively shows that eagle eye, speed of limbs and patience that is going to make him an awful manace as a lead off man, Morten Clark at short is playing with new life and is running bases and slamming the ball with dire effect. Russell Powell, the veteran catcher, is winging in grand style, and Connie Day, the new third sacker, is efficient and show the gameness of a real fighter. The A.s have evidently picked up a most valuable man in Tick Houston, the guardian of the keystone station; so when the new men whom they selected from the material glimpsed in the South gets in, it would appear that the Hoosiers are going to have a team that will get off in front and stay there."

Indianapolis, IN
"Circuit Opening - Many potables in the sport world attended the opening games of the Western circuit of the proposed baseball league. The first games were played at Indianapolis, Indiana. Ira Lewis, sporting editor of the Pittsburg Courier, came all the way from the Smoky City to be present. Lewis is running some mighty good baseball stuff in the new magazine. The competitor, Dave Wyatt of the Chicago Defender showed up, as did "Big" Smith, Ed Lancaster of Louisville, and baseball men from New Orleans and other Southern League cities. "Wood" Knox of the Freeman chaperoned the gang and they had a rousing good time and incidentally enjoyed the opening game of the new circuit, yelling themselves hoarse as C.I. Taylor's team walked out with the lion's share of the honors."

Indianapolis, IN
"Washington Park, Indiana, Sunday, May 2. - Before more than ten thousand wildly enthusiastic baseball fans, C.I. Taylor's world famous A.B.C.s made their initial bow of the season here today to the home town folks after two years of pastiming on foreign fields. The Indianapolis fans were hungry for baseball; hungry for the kind and class of ball, characteristic of the well known efforts of their wizard manager. And the manager of the rousing reception tendered the re-entry of Taylor and his stalwarts spoke volumes for the success of colored baseball. Joe Green and his sturdy Chicago Giants were on hand to help the Taylorites pry off the lid in both games and lost them both."

May 9, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Great Playing Beats Cubans - A.B.C.s Take Double-Header Before Big Crowd - Charleston is Star. - A crowd estimated at 10,000 saw C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s win a double-header from the Cuban All Stars yesterday afteroon at Washington park, both games ending, 4 to 2, the 6 o'clock closing law halting the second scrap in the sixth. This is the largest crowd that the local colored stars have been played before in Indianapolis. It was centerfielder Charleston, the "Black Ty Cobb," who saved the day for the A.s in the first contest. Three sensational catches, one of them coming in the ninth inning with two men on and two outs, were made by teh speedy gardener of the local team. In this inning the Cubans started a rally that looked dangerous and it was Pitcher LeBlanc, one of the heavy hitters with the visitors, who drove a long fly to deep center with two on. Charleston, with his back to the sands, leaped high in the air to pull down the ball, and so delighted were a number of the A.B.C. followers that they ran out on the field and greeted him with hands full of money. Charleston also had a big day at the bat, getting two blows in each contest.
Fast Play by Clark. - Brilliant fielding plays by both clubs more than once brought the large crowd to its feet. Clark, shortstop with the Indianapolis team, pulled a fine play in the first game when he dove at a runner, tagging him out at second. Ben "Old Reliable" Taylor, first sacker, cut in with more of his flashy work around the initial corner. He scooped low throws out of the dirt, got three blows, one of them a ringing triple in the second game, and was "there" all the time. Dicta Johnson seemed to be the master of the All Stars with men on bases and once or twice when he did seem to throw a few over the plate to the liking of the Cubans some member of "C.I.'s" club would go to the rescue of Johnson with a speedy play. LeBlanc, visiting pitcher, not only twirled a good game, but connected with two hits. Dismukes was on the hill for the A's in the second scrap, setting the Islanders down with two blows in six innings. His underhanded delivery was hard for the Cubans to solve.
Play Again Today. - The Cubans will be the attraction at Washington park again this afternoon, tomorrow and Wednesday, today's contest being called at 3:15. Rile for the locals and Valdez for the visitors, will pitch today. Next Sunday, the Kansas City Monarchs will perform against Taylor's club in a doubl-header. Mendez, famous Cuban pitcher, and John Donaldson, formerly with the A's, will be in the lineup of the Monarchs."

Indianapolis, IN
"Sunday, May 9 - 2 - Games - 2 Cuban Stars vs. A.B.C.'s Games Called at 2:00 P.M."

Indianapolis, IN
"10,000 See A.B.C.'s Take Double Header From Cubans. - Oscar Charleston's Fielding a Sensation - First Game 4 to 2, Second Game 4 to 2. - When Oscar charleston, the flashy outfielder of the A's, with his back to the stands, leaped in the air and pulled down a long drive in the ninth inning, with two Cubans on, he saved the first game from going into extra innings and was also rewarded by the fans with a cap full of money. Old Reliable Ben Taylor's work at first base was out of the sensational order. Brother Ben saves the boys many errors by snagging them from all angles. Dicta Johnson held the enemy in charge and when they did threaten some A would come to the rescue with a fast play. William 'Dizzy' Dismukes, the smoker, was on the firing line in the second game and held the pesky Cubans to two hits in six innings. Dizzy's underhand delivery was a puzzle to the islanders."

Indianapolis, IN
"Cuban All-Stars Coming Sunday for Big Series - The Cuban All-Stars, direct from Havana, will meet the A.B.C.'s in a double-header at Washington Park Sunday, the first game starting at 2:30 o'clock. The Cubans also will perform against the A's Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. C.I. Taylor, manager of the local colored club, knows that in the Cuban aggregation, he will have some stiff opposition, so in order that his players will be in first class trim, he will send them through practice sessions each day this week. Dizzy Dismukes will work one of the games Sunday. A large crowd is expected to see these two colored teams in action."

"Cuban Stars Arrive For Contests With A.B.C.'s - Two strong rivals, the famous Cuban All-Stars, from Havana, Cuba, and C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s, will meet in a double-header tomorrow afternoon at Washington Park. The first game will start at 2:30. Dicta Johnson, who, while playing with another colored club last season did not lose a game to the islanders, is the choice to start on the mound for the local team in the first contest. Dizzy Dismukes will start the second. Facing Dicta Johnson will be Jose Leblanc, speed-ball artist. Prudencio Martinez is expected to open the second game for the visitors. The Cubans arrived in Indianapolis yesterday from Havana, not having played a game en route, but were scheduled to appear at Anderson, Indiana this afternoon. Manager Tinti Molina says his players are in first-class shape, having performed in the Cuban National League during the winter. Another large crowd is expected to watch the colored clubs in action. More than 6,000 were present when the A.B.C.'s opened the season last Sunday."

"A.B.C.'s and Cubans Get Together in Third Game - Oscar Charleston's great fielding in center field was one of the many features of the double-header at Washington Park Sunday afternoon, which was played before a crowd estimated at 10,000 and which the A.B.C.'s won from the Cuban All-Stars, both scores being 4 to 2. The flashy gardener, with his back to the stands, leaped into the air and pulled down a long drive in the ninth inning with two men on and saved the first game from going into extra innings. He also made two other good catches and was a big factorat the bat in both contests, getting four hits for the day. Fast fielding featured both games. The Cubans also cut in with some nice work in the field, their young shortstop playing particularly well. Dicta Johnson was on the hill for the winners. In the second game, Dizzy Dismukes threw them over the plate, allowing only two hits in six innings. The A.B.C.'s and Cubans play at Washington Park this afternoon, tomorrow and Wednesday. Games will be called at 3:15. Next Sunday the Kansas City Monarchs meet Taylor's club in a double-header."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s Win - Indianapolis, Indiana, May 14. - A crowd estimated at 10,000 saw C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s win from the Cuban All Stars at Washington Park, the 6 o'clock closing law halting the second scrap in the sixth. This is the larest crowd that the local Colored stars have ever played before in Indianapolis. It was the Centerfielder Oscar Charleston, the "Black Ty Cobb," who saved the day for the A.s. Three sensational catches, one of them coming in the ninth inning with two men on and two outs, were made by the speedy gardener of the local team. In the inning the Cubans started a rally that looked dangerous and it was Pitcher Jose LeBlanc, one of the heavy hitters with the visitors, who drove a long fly to deep center with two on. Oscar Charleston, with his back to the sands, leaped high in the air to pull down the ball, and so delighted were a number of the A.B.C. followers that they ran out on the field and greeted him with hands full of money. Charleston also had a big day at the bat, getting two blows in each contest. Brilliant fielding plays by both clubs more than once brought the large crowd to its feet. Dicta Johnson seemed to be the master of the All STars with men on bases and once or twice when he did seem to throw a few over the plate to the liking of the Cubans some member of the "C.I.s club would go to the rescue of Dicta Johnson with a speedy play. Jose LeBlanc, visiting pitcher, not only twirled a good game, but connected with two hits. Next Sunday, the Kansas City Monarchs will perform against Taylor's club in a double-header. Jose Menez, famous Cuban pitcher, and John Donaldson, formerly with the A.s, will be in the line-up of the Monarchs."

May 10, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Monday, May 10 - Cuban Stars vs. A.B.C.'s - Games Called at 2:00 P.M."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Monday's Game. - Although the All-Stars grabbed one more hit than the local colored club, they failed to bunch them and lost Monday's game, 7 to 3. C.I. Taylor's team counted six runs in the third inning and then played good ball to keep the Cubans from knotting the score. George Shively, left fielder, connected with a triple and single for the Indianapolis club. Ben Taylor, Jim Jeffries and Morten Clark accounted for the other six hits."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s and Cuban Stars Clash in Fourth Combat - The Cuban All-Stars and A.B.C.'s meet in the fourth game of their five game series this afternoon at Washington Park, the contest starting at 3 p.m. The islanders and A's hook up in the final scrap Wednesday afternoon. Although the All-Stars grabbed one more hit than the local colored club they failed to bunch them and lost Monday's game, 7 to 3. C.I. Taylor's team counted six runs in the third inning and then played good ball to keep the Cubans from knotting the score. George Shively, left fieldist, connected with a triple and single for the Indianapolis Club. Ben Taylor, Jim Jeffreies and Morten Clark accounted for the other six hits. Monday's win was the fifth straight for the A.B.c.'s They copped a double-header from the Chicago Giants in the season's opening and three from the islanders."

May 11, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Tuesday, May 11 - Cuban Stars vs. A.B.C.'s - Games Called at 2:00 P.M."

Indianapolis, IN
"Taylor's A.B.C.'s and the Cuban All-Stars, were scheduled to meet in the last game of the series at Washington Park this afternoon, yesterday's contest having been called off on a count of wet grounds. The local players were out to make a clean sweep of the series. Herlen Ragland, who finished Monday's game, was the probable pitching selection of the home club. Jose Leblanc was to take the mound for the visitors. Kansas City will be the next opponent of the Taylorites for a five-game series, starting with a double-header Sunday."

May 12, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Wednesday, May 12 - Cuban Stars vs. A.B.C.'s - Games Called at 2:00 P.M."

May 16, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Next Sunday, the Kansas City Monarchs will perform against Taylor's club in a double-header. Mendez, famous Cuban pitcher, and John Donaldson, formerly with the A's, will be in the lineup of the Monarchs."

"Monarchs Here for a Series of Games with A.s - The Kansas City Monarchs, a team rated as one of the hardest hitting colored clubs in the country, arrived in town yesterday and is scheduled to go through a light practice this afternoon in preparation for the double-header with the A.B.C.s at Washington park tomorrow, the first game starting at 2:30. Stars, and plenty of them, are with the Monarchs aggregation. Mendez, one time rated as the best all-round Cuban in this class of ball, is managed and playing short, while Portuondo, last year with the Cuban Stars, is holding down the hot corner, McNair, left field, formerly played with the American Giants and St. Louis Giants. The visitors are said to be fast and put up a scrappy game. C. I. Taylor says his team is in real shape to take on what he expects will be the hardest opposition of the season for the A.s. The local colored club went through a stiff workout yesterday at Washington park. Another large crowd is expected to witness the contests tomorrow."

"Monarchs Meet A.B.C.s in Two Contests Today - C. I. Taylor's fast flying A.B.C.'s are ready to hook up with the Kansas City Monarchs in a double-header this afternoon at Washington park. The A.'s are in first class shape for the scrap, and as they have not been beaten this season, are out to keep their slate clean. The first game will start at 2:30. The K.C. outfit, formerly the "All Nations," are rated as one of the hardest hitting colored aggregations in the country, and also boast of one of the best pitching staffs in this class of ball. Donaldson and Cunningham, two of the twirlers, are former A.B.C. pitchers.
Johnson and Dismukes will work the scraps this afternoon for the locals. Both boxmen are in trim and Taylor is expecting them to sail through with victories. Taylor has his club hitting the ball hard this season and with good pitching has thus far proven the best colored team to appear on the local diamonds for quite a number of years. Three Cubans are with the visiting team today. One at short, one at third and the other behind the bat. They have been playing great ball for the K.C. club. Manager Taylor expects the stiffest opposition so far this season from the Monarchs.
Another large crowd is expected to witness the scraps today. Reserve seat tickets have been selling fast. These two teams play single games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday."
Indianapolis, IN
*Same game, box score and line score
"Donaldson, Center Field."

Indianapolis, IN
"Sunday, May 16 - 2 Games - Kansas City Monarchs N.N.L. vs. A.B.C.'s"

Indianapolis, IN
"Kansas City Monarchs Down A.B.C.'s in Heart-Rendering Contest - Before a crowd of faithful fans that filled the stands at Washington Park, the Kansas City Monarchs with the scalps of the St. Paul (Louis) Giants dangling at their belts proceeded to win the big game last Sunday from our heroes in a ten-inning struggle, 5 to 4. Sensational fielding by the Monarchs kept the A.'s wrecking crew from routing the enemy's twirlers. Some were inclined to critisize Manger C.I. Taylor for sending brother Ben to his death at the plate on an infield hit, but that is the game and we are inclined to think that C.I. knows exactly what he is doing. Third Baseman Connie Day after making a fancy stop in the tenth threw wild to first, allowing the winning run to score."

Indianapolis, IN
"Kansas City Club Next to Clash with A.B.C.'s - Jose Mendez, playing shortstop with the Kansas City Mohawks, who appear at Washington Park Sunday in a double-header against the A.B.C.'s, is rated as one of the best colored Cuban baseball players appearing in the states. He has been clouting the ball hard, and is expected to swing a big stick against the Indianapolis colored stars. The first contest Sunday will start at 2:30 o'clock. The Kansas City team is composed of a number of Cubans, all rated as fast in their class. Bartolo Portuondo, third baseman, along with Mendez, are both known by local followers of the A's. John Donaldson and Cunningham, pitchers, who formerly twirled for C.I. Taylor's club, are on the staff of the Monarchs. The Kansas City team will be here for five games, playing two Sunday and a single game Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday."

"Colored Clubs Set For Washington Park Games - Dicta Johnson, speed ball artist with the A.B.C.'s, will oppose John Donaldson, premier hurler of the Kansas City Monarchs in the first game of a double-header between these two star colored clubs tomorrow afternoon at Washington Park, the contest will start at 2:30 o'clock. Manager C.I. Taylor has his club in first class shape and he is out to keep a clean slate. The A's have played five home games, winning them all. The regular lineup of the local colored team will face the Monarchs aggregation. Another large crowd is expected to witness the twin bill. The two teams play single games Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon."

"A.B.C.'s Out to Win. - The A.B.C.'s and Kansas City Monarchs were scheduled to meet again this afternoon at Washington Park, the game starting at 3:15. Jim Jeffries or Dizzy Dismukes was Manager C.I. Taylor's choice for the mound work, with Russell Powell behind the bat. The Kansas City club won a ten-inning scrap Sunday, and Taylor is out to prove the A's the best team. These two clubs meet again tomorrow afternoon."

May 17, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
*Rained Out

Indianapolis, IN
"Kansas City Monarchs N.N.L. vs. A.B.C.'s - Monday 17."

May 18, 1920

Indianpolis, IN
*RAIN OUT "The A.B.C.s were cheated out of a chance to even the count with the Kansas City Monarchs, due to wet grounds."

Indianapolis, IN
"Kansas City Monarchs N.N.L. vs. A.B.C.'s - Tuesday 18."

May 19, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Monarchs Play A.B.C.s Today in Final Contest - The A.B.C.s were cheated out of a chance to even the count with the Kansas City Monarchs yesterday, due to wet grounds, but will get another opportunity to beat the speedy colored aggregation this afternoon at Washington park, the game starting at 3:15 o'clock. Dismukes or Jefferies will do the hurling for the local colored team. A good week-day crowd is expected to see these two clubs in action this afternoon. The K.C. outfit is the only one that has beaten C.I. Taylor's team here this season and then the Monarchs were forced to go ten innings in order to slip over a win. Tomorrow and Friday these same clubs will play exhibition games at Marion, Indiana and then meet in a single contest Saturday at Muncie. Following these games, the A.s will jump back here to meet the speedy Dayton Marcos, who have been setting a dizzy pace in the colored baseball circles. The Marcos are managed by Jim Taylor, brother of Manager Taylor. A doubleheader will be played Sunday, with a single contest on Monday, after which the A.B.C.s will take to the road returning June 27 for a series with the American Giants."

Indianapolis, IN
"Kansas City Monarchs N.N.L. vs. A.B.C.'s - Wednesday 19."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s Lose, 5 to 4 - Indianapolis, May 21. - The Kansas City Monarchs defeated C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s 5 to 4, in a scrappy ten-inning battle yesterday afternoon at Washington Park, a wild throw to first by the A.s third sacker, after he made a pretty stop, allowing a man to score from third, sending the winning run over the plate for the Kansas City outfit. The second game was called early on account of the 6 o'clock closing law. The local colored aggregation played a nice uphill contest, but in the last few innings could not hit the ball in the pinches. Once or twice, when some member of Taylor's team would get a sound smack of the pill, a Monarch player would make a pretty play and stop the rally. Johnson started the game for the A.s but gave way to Jeffries, who held the visitors. In the eighth, with one run behind, the Indianapolis club tied the count when a pinch hitter drove a fly to center, DeWitt scoring from third on the play, making a pretty slide to safety."

May 20, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"DAY'S TRIPLE WINS FOR A.s AGAINST MONARCHS - Marion, Indiana, May 20 - C. I. Taylor's A.B.C.s defeated the Kansas City Monarchs this afternoon at Booster park, 6 to 4. The Indianapolis team started the game with two runs adding one in the third and one in the fifth. The Monarchs, however came back strong in the fifth, when Donaldson hit a home run, scoring Washington and McNair. They ran in another tally in the sixth tying the score. Day's three base hit in the eighth, scoring Dewitt and Taylor, however, gave the A.B.C.s a safe lead. Currie replaced Blackburn in the sixth inning for the Monarchs, but was poorly supported."

May 21, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s HAVE IT EASY AGAINST K.C. MONARCHS - MARION, Indiana, May 21 - Taylor's A.B.C.'s easily defeated the Kansas City Monarchs in the second game of the series this afternoon, 9 to 5. Numberous errors and poor judgement on the part of the Kansas City colored men cost them several runs. Three runs were tallied against them without hits in the seventh inning, when Marshall, their catcher, allowed two passed balls, and also threw wild to second. Both teams will go to Muncie tomorrow, where they will play the third game of the series. Donaldson pitching for the Kansas City team allowed nine hits and struck out eight men, but the support was lacking throughout the game."

*Same Game, account from a different newspaper
"Johnny Donaldson, touted as the best colored pitcher in the world, and his followers in the rands of the Kansas City Monarch, went down to defeat yesterday for the second time in two days at the hands of C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s. The game ended with the scoreboard showing 9 to 5 in favor of the Indianapolis club after the Monarchs had rushed three men across the home plate in the ninth inning. The game was a good exhibition of baseball, and fans are urging C.I. Taylor to bring his dusky warriors to Marion for other games during the season.
The line-ups: A.B.C.s - Shively, left field; Clark, short stop; Charleston, center field; Ben Taylor, 1st base; Jeffries, pitcher; DeWitt, 2nd base; Murray, catcher; Day, 3rd Base; Mashaw, Right Field.
Monarchs - Portuondo, 3rd Base; McNair, Center Field; Donaldson, Pitcher; Carr, Left Field; Washington, 1st Base; Mendez, Short Stop; Houston, 2nd Base; Mothell, Catcher; Blackburn, Right Field."

May 22, 1920

Muncie, IN
"Kansas City 16, A.B.C.s 7. Stolen bases - MCNair, Donaldson (2)."

May 23, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.s and Marcos in Two Scraps Here Tomorrow - Two games will be on the schedule at Washington park tomorrow afternoon, the Indianapolis A.B.C.s meeting the Dayton Marcos in what promises to be a couple of hot clashes. The Marcos, managed by Jim Taylor, brother of the local pilot, is rated along with the best colored clubs in the country, and has a good record to show for. Already this season the Dayton outfit beat Rube Foster's American Giants of Chicago. Dismukes will twirl for the A.s in one of the contests tomorrow, and Johnson may be the other pitcher for the local team Thursday Dismukes turned back the strong Kansas City Monarchs in a game at Marion, Indiana. The Marcos will also play here Monday afternoon, after which C.I. Taylor's team will go on the road, not returning until June 27. Monday's game will start at 3:15."

Indianapolis, IN
"Sunday, May 23 - Dayton Marcos vs. A.B.C.'s 2-Games-2 - Monday, May 24"

Indianapolis, IN
"Dayton Marcos Drop Two to A's - The Dayton Marcos lost two games to the A.B.C.'s Sunday, the locals batting the sensational George Britt hard. Manager Jim Taylor kicked himself out of the second game."

Indianapolis, IN
"Dayton Marcos Sunday. - Two games to which some flashy baseball is expected will take place at Washington Park tomorrow afternoon, when the Dayton Marcos, fresh from their victory over the famous American Gaints of Chicago, the team managed by Rube Foster, meets the Indianapolis A.B.C.s in a double-header, the first scrap starting at 2:30 o'clock. The two clubs will meet again Monday. The visiting team is managed by Jim Taylor, brother of the Indianapolis manager, it is said to be one of the hardest hitting colored clubs in the country. The Marcos are tied to the leadership in the Colored Professional Baseball League, not Dayton's (illegible) game. Dizzy Dismukes, who Thursday turned back the Kansas City Monarchs at Marion, probably will start the first game tomorrow. The A's again defeated the Kansas City outfit at Marion yesterday and meet them today at Muncie."

"A.B.C.'s Win Two - After defeateing the Dayton Marcos in a double-header at Washington Park Sunday, 10 to 8 and 11 to 2, the A.B.C.'s will take the visitors on in a third game scheduled for this afternoon. A sensational one-hand catch by Center Fielder Oscar Charleston saved the first game for the home team."

Indianapolis, IN
"Marcos Against A.B.C.s - A big clash in the Taylor family will occur at Indianapolis Sunday when Jim Taylor, fresh from a big win over the American Giants, takes his team to Hoosierville, where he confidently expects to down his famous brother, C.I. in the first games of the circuit between the Marcos of Dayton and a clan. The Marcos under Jim Taylor, although carrying many faces new to the fans, undoubtedly are the one of the classiest aggregations on the circuit and a big surprise is in store for all teams whom they tackle. George Britt is one of the most versatile players in the game, a player who can go out and pitch a star game today and then catch with equal form the next day. There does not appear to be a weak worker on the entire pitching staff. Wilson, the lad who worked against the American Giants Sunday, displayed form that rates him with the best, while Lane, the other heaver who does efficient outfield duty as well as pitch, is one of the most valued players in the game. The Marco infield is experienced and compares favorably with any on the circuit. The Ohio boy can clout the ball with the best; having as they do six slashing left-hand batters, they are certain to make life miserable for the many right-hand pitchers who encounter difficulty with batters who slash from the south side of the plate. The Marcos are destined to prove the sensation of the new circuit, and the clash on Sunday with Jim Taylor opposed by Brother C.I. and Ben, is bound to furnish fan fodder that will put the bugs to buzzing at Hoosierville and may incidentally upse the great hopes that A.s cherish, that is, of beating all comers on the home grounds."

May 24, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Dayton Marcos vs. A.B.C.'s 2-Games-2 - Monday, May 24"

Chicago, IL
"Marcos Lose Monday 3 to 1. - The A.B.C.'s won the third and final game from the Dayton Marcos, Monday 3 to 1. The A's left Wednesday for a swing around the Western half of the circuit."

Chicago, IL
"A.B.C.'s Sweep Series - Taylor's A.B.C.'s won the third straight game from the Dayton, Ohio Marcos yesterday at Washington Park, 3 to 1. Dicta Johnson was on the mound for the locals, and with perfect support would not have been scored upon. George Brown of the visitors, scored their lone run in the third when he reached first on Morten Clark's error and completed the circuit when Herlen Ragland booted Jim Taylor's hit to center. The local team left last night for a swing around the Western half of the Negro National League, playing aseries with the St. Louis Giants at the start and will not appear here again until June 27."

May 25, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Giants Victors Over Indianapolis, 7 to 3 - The first game of the Indianapolis series went to the Giants, 7 to 3. Bill Drake hurled well, striking out nine batters. George Shively lead the hitters with four hits out of five times up. The fielding of Charlie Blackwell and Connie Day were features. The second game will be played today."

May 26, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Indianapolis Shuts Out the Giants, 4-0 - Indianapolis defeated the St. Louis Giants yesterday. Dizzy Dismukes, pitching for the visitors, let the local boys down with four hits. George Shively and Connie Day lead the hitters with three out of five. The third game will be played today."

May 27, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Wayne Carr's Wildness Gives Indianapolis Victory - Wayne Carr, pitching for the Giants yesterday walked eight men, and this was largely responsible for Indianapolis' victory, 7 to 4. The series is now 2 to 1 in Indianapolis's favor. George Shively and Samuel DeWitt lead the hitters. The final game of the series will be played today."

May 28, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Negro Giants Lose to Indianapolis in 11th, 1-0 - The Indianapolis team defeated the negro Giants, 1 to 0, in eleven innings yesterday. Bill Drake pitched an excellent game and deserved a better fate, but his mates threw him down, errors scoring the winning run. Hill was the worse offender with three misplays. Ben Taylor hurled a good game, holding the locals to six hits. Dayton, Ohio will start a five-game series here Sunday."

St. Louis, MO
"A.B.C.'s Take Series. - St. Louis, May 29. - The A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis, made it three out of four by defeating the St. Louis Giants in an exciting eleven-inning struggle today, 1 to 0."

May 29, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Baseball! - Opening of the National Negro Baseball League. Indianapolis A.B.C.s with Kansas City Monarchs, at Association Park, Saturday, May 29, 30, 31, June 1, 2. Games called at 3 p.m."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Home Next Saturday. - Club in Negro League Will Open Season Here This Week. - The Kansas City Monarchs of the National Negro League are starting their last road series of the opening trip at Chicago today, after which they will return here and open their season next Saturday with the Indianapolis A.B.C. club. To date the Monarchs have played only three games out of eight games scheduled, the others being stopped on account of rain. The A.B.C. club, which opens here, has lost only one league game. They dropped a 10-inning game to the Monarchs. The Indianapolis club has won seven games. The opening of the league here next Saturday will be started off by a parade with a band, both ball clubs and local boosters in their automobiles. The clubs will play Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Decoration Day and June 1 and 2."

Kansas City, MO
"A.B.C.s and Monarchs - C.I. Taylor will cart his crew all the way to Kansas City for the specific purpose of downing the Monarchs and thus gain the lead that the chilly, wet atmosphere prevented him from taking last week on the Kansas City crowd. These two teams are about evenly matched in hitting and general ability, so the games at Kansas City opening day May 29 and Sunday, also Decoration Day, should be hard fought battles, with the edge resting with the lucky ones who get the breaks. The Elks of Kansas City are going to give baseball an awful boost and the A.B.C.s intend to give the Monarchs an awful setback. This series will be one of the hottest ever contested."

Kansas City, MO
"The Monarchs Play Here Today - Indianapolis Here for First Game in National Negro League. - The Kansas City Monarchs will return home from Chicago tomorrow. They play their final game of the series there today. The Monarchs open the Negro National League season at home tomorrow at Association Park, the visiting club being the Indianapolis A.B.C.s, who will be here for a 5 game series. The A.B.C.s have lost only two games this season losing those to the Monarchs in a 4 game series at Indianapolis. The Monarchs have played twelve games on their first road trip, losing seven and winning five. These games were against Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago. The club is coming home for a long series, with Mendez and Rodriguez both back in the game and Donaldson ready to take his regular turn on the mound. The opening today will be started off by a parade of rooters and a band."

Kansas City, MO
"C.I. TAYLOR, KING OF BASEBALL MANAGERS WILL BRING HIS TEAM OF STARS TO K.C. FOR SERIES OF GAMES, MAY 29. - All real "dyed in the wool" baseball fans, lovers of the grand old National game will have an opportunity of viewing the famous A.B.C. Club of Indianapolis, Indiana, who will play in Kansas City, MO., on May 29th. C.I. Taylor, the peerless leader of this Hoosier tribe will also be on hand and there is sure to be one of the greatest exhibitions of ball playing seen in this section for many moons. The Kansas City Club has the honor of dishing out the only defeat suffered by the Hoosier Alpha-betus aggregation this season, and we have it from C.I. himself that the Kansas City tribe deserved to win.
There are quite a few Topekans who will be on hand next Sunday to witness the double bill scheduled at Association Park for 3:30 P.M. You fans who have longed to see the justly famous Donaldson, whom McGraw of the New York Giants so fittingly said of him: "Worth $100,000 to any man's club." And too, there is the "King of Swat," Oscar Charleston, of Indianapolis, who hit one over the fence at the League park in Montgomery, Alabama in a game with the Southern League club that is said to be still going, so far as anyone is able to determine. But if you like pitching, the kind we often read of in the best sellers but never see well, that youngster Rile, of the A.B.C. Club, he's your bird - what?
Facing a Southern league team in the 5th inning recently at Mobile, Alabama, 17 men came to the plate, the first fourteen men were sent to the dugout with three strikes each, and the remaining three were out on infield pops to the pitcher. Just to be sure to earn his daily bread, this youngster, frequently poles out a homer, to see the fielders rave, as he explains. To cap the climax we mention the world's premier first-sacker, Ben Taylor, the graceful kid; "Dizzy" Dismukes, who is often callec by white papers, "The black Carl Mays of baseball" who has an under hand swing that has caused more real worry to batters of the opposition than perhaps any other pitcher; then right in K.C. we have with us Mendez, the Cuban, that wily boy of a thousand had fought battles, from the Isle of Sunshine and ball players.
He's worth the price of admission alone. You can't resist that Cuban, for he is the "Germany Shaffer" of Colored baseball. Run down Sunday, May 29th and see what progress the National Negro Baseball League is making along the lines of bigger, better baseball! You'll not regret the trip. Not in a million years. All Aboard!"

"A.s DOWN MONARCHS IN FOURTEEN INNINGS, 9-5 - KANSAS CITY, MO., May 29. - The A.B.C.s of Indianapolis won a hard-fought game from the Kansas City Monarchs today, after fourteen innings of spectacular baseball, 9 to 5. Jeffries pitched the entire game and finished strong. Crawford started the contest for the locals, but was relieved in the ninth for a pinch hitter with the score 5 to 5. Currie took up the burden and held the A.s safe until the fourteenth, when the visitors got to him for four singles and a double, which netted four runs. Charleston's sensational fielding was the outstanding feature. Day and B. Taylor played a great fielding game. The former made three doubles and two singles out at six attempts."

Kansas City, MO
*Same game, from another newspaper source
"Indianapolis A.B.C.s Won the Series Opener in Fourteenth, 8 to 5. - The Indianapolis A.B.C.s won the opening game of the Negro National Baseball league here yesterday afternoon from the Kansas City Monarchs in fourteen innings, 8 to 5. The game was played at Association park. The Monarchs were leading, 4 to 0 until the sixth inning, when the Indianapolis boys scored over three."

Kansas City, MO
"Indianapolis Defeats Monarchs 8-5 in Opener - By bunching hits in the fourteenth inning the Indianapolis A.B.C national negro baseball club won the opening game of the series with the Kansas City Monarchs at Association Park yesterday, 8 to 5. Sam Crawford, who started on the mound for the Monarchs, hurled steady ball for five frames, but weakened in the sixth and allowed the visitors to score three runs. Rube Currie, who replaced Sam Crawford on the mound, held the Indianapolis crowd to a pair of base knocks up until the fourteenth chapter, when the visitors staged their winning attack. Jim Jeffries, who pitched for the visitors, was nicked for a trio of runs in the second inning, but steadied himself and pitched splendid ball during the remainder of the contest. The game was preceded by a parade, while the first ball was heaved by Judge Miles Bulger. John Donaldson or Rube Currie will pitch for the Monarchs today, while Dizzy Dismukes or Dicta Johnson will take the firing line for Indianapolis."

Kansas City, MO
* Same game from the Indianapolis Freeman

Kansas City, MO
"Kansas City Opening Reaches the Crest - By Dave Wyatt - Kansas City, Missouri, June 4. - Smarting under the sting of the big noise over opening baseball events staged by other cities, Q.J. Gilmore and Harry St. Claire, boss boosters of this city, took hold of the opening blow-off carded here and nudged the affairs to a height that will stand for many a moon as a high water mark for a debut day tooters to shoot at. The long line of parade hopped off promptly at 1 p.m., and besides one of the very best bands ever heard in an event of this kind, there are exactly 150 gas, electric, and otherwise propelled carts in the line, every one owned by a Race man. Fully fifty more were picked up enroute. After a spin for the ball park, the blare of the band dragged fully several thousand wildly enthused baseball bugs along with it. It was some crowd for a Saturday, and they were treated to some ball game. The contest went fourteen innings, and there was a thrill for every inning. Aside from the pitching of Jim Jeffries, who stepped the full route for the Indiana crew, the playing of Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor and third baseman Connie Day stuck away out in front of the production of the thrill stuff. The Monarchs have taken a prominent part in three opening events, winning at St. Louis, at Indianapolis and setting a dizzy pace for eleven innings against the American Giants before they succumbed to the wily Foster crowd. In their home debut they made a strong bid for the honors, getting off three runs to the Jerry in the second canter, the result of three blows, one circuit clout by Vicente Rodriguez; they held the lead until the sixth, the Hoosiers being blanked all the way. However, in the sixth stanza, three hits and a few other things netted the C.I. Taylor crowd three runs. The Kansas City Monarchs boosted theirs one more run in the fifth, while in the seventh, the Indians annexed two and went into the lead. The K.C.s pulled up to even scores in the ninth and the game remained a deadlock affair until the fourteenth. In the meantime, Connie Day, for the visitors, gave out the greatest exhibition of third base play ever seen on any ball ground, while Oscar Charleston clearly demonstrated that he has a few skills as a fielder, pulling down two drives that were sensational in accomplishment, thereby saving the game upon each feat for the A.B.C.'s Ben Taylor secured five hits in six times at bat, but little Hurley McNair gave him a hot chase for the honors. Sam Crawford, who started for the home team, was lifted in the ninth frame and Rube Currie worked in grand style until the fourteenth, when an avalanche of hits netted the A's four runs and the game."

May 30, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"MONARCHS HIT DISMUKES HARD AND WIN SCRAP - KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 30. - Dismukes was hit hard in the fourth inning of today's game here and the Kansas City Monarchs piled up seven runs which were enough to win the contest from the A.B.C.s 10 to 3. McNair, local left fielder, played a great fielding game. A great crowd witnessed the contest at Association park."

Kansas City, MO
* Same article, from the Indianapolis Freeman

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Won in Big Rally. - Nine Thousand Persons Saw Kansas City Defeat Indianapolis, 10 to 3. - The Kansas City Monarchs evened up the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C.s yesterday by winning, 10 to 3, before a crowd of nine thousand. It was the second largest crowd that has assembled at Association Park this season. The celebrated John Donaldson worked for the Monarchs and kept the nine hits made by the Indianapolis club well scattered. Each club scored in the first inning. The score was 1 all until the fourth, when the Kansas City team hammered the offerings of Dismukes to all parts of the park and collected seven runs. Charleston relieved Dismukes after six runs had been scored, with a runner on second and none out. A single by Donaldson scored two of the runs and a swat by McNair (illegilble) in the fourth. The Monarchs made three double plays, and five of their eleven hits were 2 baggers. The teams will play this afternoon. "Rube" Currie will work for the Monarchs and "Dicta" Johnson for Indianapolis. When these heavers faced each other the last time it took ten innings to decide the winner, and Currie was the victor."

Kansas City, MO
"Colored National Baseball League Open Saturday - Teams Played to Crowd of 9,000 Sunday, the Home Team Winning Easily. - The opening in Kansas City of the Colored National Baseball League last Saturday was a huge affair, with band and banners and more than 150 autos met at the corner of Eighteenth street and The Paseo at 1 o'clock, with the band in a large truck, the two teams, Kansas City Monarchs and the Indianapolis A.B.C.'s following in autos, with the scores of decorated cars in line paraded through the colored districts to Independence avenue, and back through Vine and then to the Association Park, where the thousands of baseball fans witnessed one of the best games that has been seen for a time on this lot, it going to 14 innings in a pitchers' battle, the Indianapolis team winning out in the fourteenth frame, 8 to 5. Sunday these two teams played to 9,000, the home team winning in easy style. Monday, Decoration Day, another mammoth crowd saw the Monarchs whip Manager Taylor's Hoosiers for the second time. Tuesday's contest only went six innings on account of rain, when Taylor's sluggers came out with the long end on the score board. Wednesday finished the 5-game series, the home team copping the last game, giving them the long end of the series, winning three games and losing two. The champion Cuban Stars, of the Cuban League, come Saturday for five games."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Even Up Series; Beat Indianapolis 10-3 - The Monarchs evened up the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C. negro national league baseball club in the second game yesterday, by bunching hit in the fourth inning and piling up a lead which easily clinched them a 10 to 3 victory. A crowd of 9,000 witnessed the game. The Hoosier aggregation pushed a run across in the opening chapter, but the locals came right back and evened up the count in their half of the inning and a close battle was waked up until the fourth frame with John Donaldson and Dizzy Dismukes retiring the sides in regular order. In the fourt, however, the Monarchs leaned against the benders of Dizzy Dismukes and scored six runs before Oscar Charleston, a left hander, was sent in to the rescue. Another marker was netted off Charleston's delivery in the fourth, while the locals gathered two more in the fifth. Aside from the first and sixth stanzas, John Donaldson was never in danger and kept the visitors' blows well scattered. The third game of the series will be played this afternoon at 3 o'clock."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Win 2d - Kansas City, Missouri, June 4. - The Monarchs evened up the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C. Negro National League baseball club in the second game by bunching hits in the fourth inning and piling up a lead which easily clinched them a 10 to 3 victory. A crowd of 9,000 witnessed the game."

May 31, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"A.B.C.'s 7, Monarchs 8. Batteries - A.B.C.'s, Johnson, Jeffries, Powell. Monarchs - Currie, Blackburn, Crawford, Donaldson, Rodriguez."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Won, 8 to 7. - One Big Inning Gave Kansas City Team Victory Over Indianapolis - The Kansas City Monarchs had one big inning and won from the Indianapolis A.B.C.s yesterday afternoon at Association Park, 8 to 7. The Monarchs scored all their tallies in the sixth frame. 'Rube' Currie pitched six innings for the Monarchs and was invincible. He was taken sick when he came back to the bench. In the six rounds Rube Curred toosed he allowed only four hits and struck out two. The Indianapolis club staged a batting rally to the seventh, hammering the offerings of Hugh Blackburn and Sam Crawford for five runs. The visitors had a man on second, with two out in the eighth when John Donaldson went in to pitch. The first batter to face Donaldson singled, scoring the runner and making the score 8 to 7, the same as it ended. Indianapolis threw a scare into the Monarchs in the ninth, but a double play put their chances on the blink, Charleston, first up singled. The next batter flied out to center. Samuel DeWitt lined to Sam Crawford who touched first and doubled Oscar Charleston off first. Sensational catches and stops pleased the five thousand fans. The teams will play the fourth game of the series this afternoon. Zack Foreman will hurl for Kansas City and Jim Jeffries, who pitched three innings of yesterday's game, probably will twirl for Indianapolis."

Kansas City, MO
"Johnson Blows Up and Monarchs Cop Contest. - Kansas City, Missouri - May 31 - Dicta Johnson pitched a no-hit game up to the sixth inning here today and then blew up and the Monarchs scored eight runs, or enough to win the contest 8 to 7. In the 7th inning the A's scored 5 runs, but came one short of tying the count, Jim Jeffries finished the contest. Oscar Charleston played a great game in the field."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Win Again - Kansas City, Missouri, June 4. - The Kansas City Monarchs won the third game of the series against the A.B.C.s by the score of 8 to 7. Rube Currie held the visitors safe all the way. Dicta Johnson and Jim Jefferies worked for the A.B.C.s. The Monarchs are now one game in the lead in the series to date."

August 1, 1920

Dayton, OH
"A.B.C.'s 11, Dayton Marcos 5. - Batteries Dizzy Dismukes and Biz Mackey, Marcos George Britt, Slim Branham, and William Webster."

August 2, 1920

Cincinnati, OH
"Cubans Blank A.B.C.s at Cincinnati, 3 to 0 - Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2. - Jose Hernandez and Bob McClure fought a pitchers' duel today, the former having a shade the better of the argument, and the Cubans beat the A.B.C.s 3 to 0. McClure was wild in the opening round and the Cubans aided by Clark's error of a hard chance and a home run by Baro with two on in the first, after three runs, which proved enough to win, as neither side could score thereafter. Oscar Charleston tripled with one down in the ninth, but was stranded at that station. Matias Rios working at short for the Cubans featured."

August 3, 1920

Cincinnati, OH
"A.B.C.'s at Cincinnati. - At Cincinnati - Cubans 6, A.B.C. 5 - Batteries - Jose Leblanc, Jose Hernandez and Eufemio Abreu; Jim Jeffries and Bob McClure."

August 6, 1920

Dayton, OH
"A.B.C.s Trim Marcos - Dayton, Ohio, August 6. - The Dayton Marcos went down before C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s of Indianapolis in a league game this afternoon, the Hoosiers getting to George Britt in the fourth frame for six runs. The Marcos hit the road Tuesday night, playing in Springfided Wednesday and (Storay?) Thursday, opening up in St. Louis Saturday game series."

August 9, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Giant Wins From Indianapolis, 5-3 - The St. Louis Giants took the first game of the series from the Indianapolis A.B.C.s ysterday at the Giants' Park, 5 to 3. The visitors acquired an early lead by getting two runs in the second and another in the third, but this is all the further they got. The Giants chased over a couple in the fourth and tacked on three in the fifth."

August 10, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Indianapolis Shuts Out St. Louis Giants - Indianapolis A.B.C.s gave the St. Louis Giants a 4-to-0 trouncing yesterday afternoon. Dick Wallace got three of the seven hits allowed by Jim Jeffries, while Connie Day of the visitors excelled in the field."

August 11, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"St. Louis Giants Beat Indianapolis 3 to 0 - Wayne Carr's pitching was the feature of the Giants' 3 to 0 victory over Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. He allowed but five scattered hits and only one man reached third base. Russell Powell led the hitters, with three out of four. The final game of the series will be played today."

August 14, 1920

Muncie, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win at Muncie. - Muncie, Indiana - The Bacharach Giants, of Atlantic City, lost to the A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis, Saturday, by the following score."

"A.B.C.s Beat Bacharachs - Muncie, Indiana, August 14. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s of Indianapolis beat the famous Bacharach Giants of New York 4 to 3 here today. It was without quesiton the best game on the local field this year, and was taken by the Indianapolis club because of their slightly better batting, particularly with men on bases. That the winners were strong in the pinches is evidenced by the fact that they had only two men left on bases. Dizzy Dismukes pitched masterful ball for seven innings, not allowing a New Yorker to get beyond second, but he weakened in the eighth and was yanked after walking three men. Jim Jeffries relived him and walked another man, forcing in the first run. With the bases full, he fanned Bill Handy, but Namon Washington erred on Dick Redding's line drive to left and two more scored. The A.s opened with a run in the first. In the second, Henry Blackmon doulbed through short and scored on Namon Washington's single. The tying and winning runs came in the eighth. With two men down and Morten Clark on first, Biz Mackey, batting for Ralph Jefferson, tripled to left field fence and Oscar Charleston singled."

August 15, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"August 15, the Bacharach Giants were at Indianapolis for a shot at C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s but as the Hoosiers have been nibbling right at the heels of the leaders all season, and have recently added any new material, which has gained them much prestige, the Easterners found a formidable foe when they got to Hoosieri."

Indianapolis, IN
"Bacharach Giants Lose to A.B.C.'s - Indianapolis fans were disappointed when the manager of the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey announced that the team was forced to leave for the East after Sunday's game, which was won by the locals by 5 to 1."

Chicago, IL
"American Giants Leading League - The standing of the clubs to date, reveals the fact that the American Giants have a comfortable lead and it will probably endure until the close of the season. The Western Circuit leader recently won four games out of six over the Bacharach Giants, the Eastern Circuit representative, so the showing up to date gives the Western Circuit Runner, an edge as to who is who in championship flag fight for the season, 1920. The percentage table shows that there is a real battle on for the runner-up position, with the A.B.C.'s and Kansas City Monarchs, spouting over who shall take it from the Detroit Stars. The Detroiters are out for a string of games on foreign territory and may return in a lower position. Immediately upon their return from the far West, they tackle the American Giants and that meeting is bound to result into circumstances that will precipitate a fierce three-handed fight for second place. Through the fact that the Monarchs and A.B.C.'s were unable to retain a hold upon their grounds at opportune times, they no doubt have been up against the toughest fighting end of the schedule oftener than the leaders. It appears that the Hoosiers have tackled the stronger clubs 33 times and the weak sisters 30; not so bad. The Monarchs have faced the strong boys 41 times and the weak ones 23. The Detroit Stars have went 50-50 all around and only for playing so many home games, really would deserve the palm. They have went an even number against both the weak and the strong; one of the stellar clubs they have not played at all, and they have not locked horns with the leaders. The American Giants have pounced upon the underdogs 32 times and have won 15 of the 21 games played against their nearest rivals, the Kansas City Monarchs and the A.B.C.'s having yet to tackle the Detroit Stars. The Hoosiers standing seems to represent the average winning percentage, of the organization, and shows it to be quite an evenly balanced circuit from a playing standpoint, but with quite a margin for improvement, especially with the Dayton Marcos and the Chicago Giants."

Chicago, IL
* Same Article, From the Chicago Defender

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Here Sunday. - With the Indians out of town C.I. Taylor's colored A.B.C.'s will return and reopen their schedule at Washington Park Sunday with a double-header with the Bacharach Giants of New York. The New York outfit is recognized as one of the leaders in colored baseball and it will take high-class playing on the part of the A.B.C.'s to turn them back. Cannon Ball Dick Redding and String Bean Williams are among the stars of the Bacharach's pitching staff. String Bean Williams formerly hurled for the A.B.C.'s, while Dick Redding has performed here several times in the past. The first game Sunday will be called at 2 o'clock."

"Star Cubans to Play. - Two Cubans, Lico Mederos, Center Fielder and Julio Rojo, a catcher, are with the famous Bacharach Giants of New York, who oppose the A.B.c.'s in a double-header at Washington Park Sunday. Lico Mederos is said to be the equal of Cristobal Torriente, of the American Giants, and has a reputation of being one of the best players to leave the island and perform in this class of baseball. The first game Sunday will start at 2 o'clock. It is expected that Bob McClure of the A's will take the mound against the New Yorkers in the opener, while opposing him will be Cannon Ball Dick Redding, said to be the greatest colored twirler in the game. Stringbean Williams, who is well-known here having starred as a member of the local team, is expected to work the second scrap for the Bacharach Giants. Jim Jeffries or the local Williams, Morris Williams, may start for the A.B.C.'s. The largest crowd of the season is expected to see the games. A number of delegations from Anderson, Muncie, Kokomo and other nearby towns have purchased tickets in advance. These two clubs play at Muncie Saturday."

Giants Meet A.B.C.'s Here in Double Bill - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s will return to the home lot Sunday, after completing a successful road trip in which the local colored club beat some of the best teams in the Western Colored League. The A's and Bacharach Giants of New York met this afternoon at Muncie, Indiana. The famous colored aggregation from the East will clash with C.I. Taylor's team in a double bill at Washington Park, the first game starting at 2 o'clock. The Bacharach club is composed of some of the best negro ball tossers in the game and a big crowd is expected to see the two clubs in action. Dick Redding, known as Cannon Ball, is scheduled to work the first game on the mound for the visitors Sunday and opposing him will be Bob McClure, Stringbean Williams, former A.B.C. pitcher, is with the Giants and is expected to twirl the second scrap. These two teams play single games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday."

August 22, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win and Lose. - Indianapolis, Indiana, August 22, - Six thousand fans at Washington Park, today, saw the A.B.C.'s and Cuban Stars divide and doubleheader. The Islanders copped the first game, 6 to 1 and locals took the second, 10 to 3. Johnson of the locals, pitched great ball after the first inning of the second game. Jimenez, second baseman of the Cubans, featured with several wonderful fielding stunts."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Lose and Win. - The Cuban Stars and the A.B.C.'s split even on a double-header at Washington Park yesterday afternoon, the visitors winning the first, 6 to 1 and the colored team taking the second, 10 to 3, in seven innings. The A.B.C.'s used four pitchers in the first game."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s and Cubans Split in Twin Bill - Indianapoli, Indiana, Sunday. - By hitting the ball hard in the second game at Washington Park, the A.B.C.'s grabbed off honors in this scrap and were able to split even in a twin bill with the Cuban Stars. The Cuban outfit took the first contest, 6 to 1, while the local club won the second, 10 to 2. The A's came from behind to annex the second battle. The islanders got away to a three-run lead in the first inning and for a while it looked like a double defeat for Taylor's gang. However, the Indianapolis team soon started to hitting and chased a run over in the second and then five more in the third. Not contented, they brought their total to 9 in the fifth and then scored another in the seventh. The game was called at the end of the seventh on account of the early closing law. Jefferson Out of Line-Up. - Ralph Jefferson, regular right fielder, was not in the line-up with the A.'s yesterday. He was injured Saturday at Anderson. Dicta Johnson, after that first inning in the second scrap, pitched a neat game. He was aided by some good fielding. Bienvenido Jiminez, second baseman with the Cuban Stars, contributed the fielding features of the afternoon. He cut in with some classy playing."

August 24, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Jeffries Checks Cubans and A.B.C.s Win, 3-2 - Indianapolis, Indiana, Tuesday. - Jim Jeffries replaced Morris Williams with the bases full in the eighth inning and after forcing in a run, checked a rally of the Cuban Stars and the A.B.C.'s came out on top, 3 to 2, in a snappy game at Washington Park. Morris Williams breezed along in good style until he became wild and walked three men in the eighth. Faustino Valdes pitched a nice game for the islanders, being replaced by Jose Leblanc in the same inning."

August 29, 1920

Columbus, OH
"Other Games - Cubans at Columbus - The Indianapolis A.B.C.s and the Cuban Stars will hook up in an exhibition game at Columbus, Ohio, Sunday. The game is promoted by the veteran player and manager, Sol White. White is best remembered for the great work done in the past in the development of such stars at Petway, Pete Hill, Lloyd, Frances, and a host of others. The vet has the baseball bees a buzzing in his bonnet and may try a plunge into the old game again, as there is an urgest demand for men and leaders of the calibre of the old master."

Columbus, OH
"A's Lose, 7-3. - Columbus, Ohio, August 29. - The A.B.C.s were again defeated by the Cuban Stars on a muddy field here today, 7 to 3. Both clubs put up a good game, considering the condition of the grounds, due to the half hour's downpour of rain, just at game time."

Columbus, OH
"Independent Games. - At Columbus, Ohio - A.B.C.s 3, Cubans 7. Batteries - Morris Williams, Jim Jeffries and Russell Powell; Jose Hernandez and Eufemio Abreu"

August 30, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.B.C.'s Drop First Game to Bacharach Giants - Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 30 - Poor base running cost the A.B.C.'s the first game in their series with the Bacharach Giants 7 to 5. Jim Jeffries started the game and proved effective. Bob McClure finished in good style, except when he let up and allowed Bill Pierce, Bacharach first baseman, to drive one over the left field fence for a home run. Both clubs played a great fielding game."

Atlantic City, NJ
* Same article, from the Chicago Defender

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs 7, A.B.C.s 5."

August 31, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"Dismukes Beats Williams In Pitching Duel, 3 to 1 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 31. - Dizzy Dismukes and Stringbean Williams staged a pitching duel here today, with the advantage in favor of the Hoosier hurler, the A.s winning the contest, 3 to 1. The A.s bunched their nine hits in two sessions with men on the bases, while the local club could not connect safely when hits meant runs. Robert Hudspeth, pinch hitter for Jim Jeffries, in the ninth with the bases full, and Dick Redding pitching instead of Stringbean Williams, singled over the shortstop's head driving in the winning run. The game was featured by the fielding of both clubs."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs 1, A.B.C.s 3"

September 1, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"Giants Nose Out A.B.C.s - Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 1. - The A.B.C.s and Bacharach Giants staged another great game today with the Giants on the long end of the score, 6 to 4. The A.B.C.s hit Dick Redding hard, but loose base running cost them the game."

September 2, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.s Even Series With 2-1 Victory Over Giants - Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 3. - The A.B.C.s evened up the series with the Bacharach Giants in a great pitching duel here today, between Dicta Johnson and Red Ryan, the Hoosiers winning 2 to 1. Both pitchers were hit rather freely, but sharp fielding held the score down. Namon Washington, left fielder for the A.B.C.s cut in with the feature catch of the afternoon, when he made a shoestring stab of a long drive in the seventh, with runners on second and third."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs 1, A.B.C.s 2"

September 3, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharach Get Enough In First to Beat A.B.C.s - Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 3. - The Bacharach Giants put over five runs in the first inning, which proved enough to win against the A.B.C.s, 5 to 3. Dizzy Dismukes started for the Hoosiers, but gave way to Bob McClure after two hands were out and five runs had scored. He never allowed a man to reach third base the remainder of the game. The A.B.C.s fought a great uphill game, and threatened on several occasions to tie the score. Oscar Charleston's fielding, hitting and base running were the features."

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.B.C.'s Lose Game. - At Atlantic City, New Jersey. - A.B.C.s 3, Bacharachs 5. - Batteries - Dizzy Dismukes, Bob McClure and Biz Mackey. Harold Treadwell and Julio Rojo."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs 5, A.B.C.s 3"

September 4, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.'s Play Uphill Game to Win From Bacharachs, 9 to 7 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 4. - After watching Manager Taylor take a flight in a big Curtiss airplane this morning at 500 to 700 feet above sea level and traveling for a distance of more than seven miles at this altitude, the A.B.C.'s got the high altitude spirit and put up the greatest uphill flight ever seen on the local field and won the deciding game of a five-game series here this afternoon, 9 to 7. The Bacharachs got away to a two-run lead in the first session and annexed three more in the fourth and two in the seventh, while the A's managed to put over two in the fourth. In the Hoosier half of the eighth, they drove in three runs and, fighting hard, came back in their half of the ninth and put over four more runs with some of the cleverest base running and batting ever seen here. Manager Taylor used his entire sixteen men in the game. Features were the playing of Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor and Biz Mackey's batting."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs 7, A.B.C.s 9."

September 5, 1920

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.B.C.s and Giants Battle Ten Innings to Draw. - Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 5. - The A.B.C.s and Bacharach Giants battled for ten innings here today, the game being called at the end of that session with the score knotted 4-4, to allow both clubs to catch a train for New York. Today's game was the most bitterly contested of the series."

Atlantic City, NJ
"A.B.C.'s In Tie Game - At Atlantic City, New Jersey - A.B.C.'s 4, Bacharachs 4. - Game called to catch train. Batteries - Dicta Johnson and Biz Mackey; String Bean Williams, Red Ryan, and Julio Rojo."

Atlantic City, NJ
"Bacharachs and A.B.C.s Split - Atlantic City, September 6. - The Bacharach Giants and the A.B.C.s split even in a seven game series here last week. The Bacharachs took the first game, the A.B.C.s the second, Bacharachs the third, A.B.C.s the fourth, Bacharachs the fifth, A.B.C.s the sixth, and the seventh was a ten inning tie, which was called on account of darkness. Last game September 5, Bacharachs 4, A.B.C.s 4."

September 6, 1920

Brooklyn, NY
"Semi-Pro Fans Have Treat Today at Ebbets Field - Brooklyn baseball fans will not have an idle afternoon at Ebbets Field today because of the absence of the Dodgers. Charley Ebbets, through J.W. Connors and Baron D. Wilkens, has arranged to have the famous Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City and the A.B.C. team of Indianapolis play the eighth and ninth games of their series for the colored championship. To date the Bacharachs have the edge, 5 to 4. The teams rank among the best in the country and two good games are assured. Cannon Ball Redding, Red Ryan, Stringbean Williams and Harold Treadwell will pitch for the Bacharachs, with Dizzy Dismukes and Dicta Johnson on the firing line for the visitors."

September 9, 1920

Pittsburg, PA
"McClure Gives Greys One Hit and A's Win. - Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 9 - McClure's great exhibition of pitching was the big feature in the downfall of the Pittsburg Grey Sox this afternoon. The Hoosier twirler had the locals completely buffaloed, allowing them only one safe blow in the seven innings, the game being called at the end of that session on account of darkness. The game was a twilight affair."

September 11, 1920

Muncie, IN
"The St. Louis boys won the game at Muncie, Indiana, Saturday, 10 to 5."

September 12, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"St. Louis Giants and A.B.C.'s Divide Sunday's Bill - The A.B.C.'s and St. Louis Giants divided a double bill at Washington Park, Sunday, this being the first appearance of the Giants this season."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s to Play Series With St. Louis Giants - One of the largest crowds of the season is expected to see the A.B.C.'s and St. Louis Giants clash in a double-header at Washington Park Sunday, which will open the final home series appearance of C.I. Taylor's club in the Western Colored League. Single games will be played Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The first contest Sunday is scheduled to start at 2 o'clock. After the series here, the A's take to the road, meeting the American Giants at Chicago and then open a series at Kansas City. It is probable that the local colored nine will play an all-professional team here October 10. Sunday will be the first appearance of the St. Louis Giants at Washington Park this season and it will give the local fans an opportunity to get a glimpse at this speedy aggregation of colored stars."

"A.B.C.'s Win and Lose. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s and the St. Louis Giants resumed their series at Washington Park this afternoon. The last game will be played tomorrow. Sunday's double bill was divided, the local team winning the first, 10 to 5, and the Giants taking the second, 4 to 3."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.s Split Even - Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday. - The A.B.C.s overcame a two run lead and defeated the St. Louis Giants in the opening game of today's double bill, only to lose the twilight one, which was cut short."

September 13, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Defeat Giants. - The A.B.C.'s defeated the St. Louis Giants, 1 to 0, Monday afternoon at Washington Park. Dizzy Dismukes, pitching for the local colored team, allowed only four hits. The game was a pitchers' battle, as Wayne Carr, the Giants pitcher, was touched for only five blows. The A's shoved over the winning tally in the eighth frame. This afternoon local fans will have a chance to see the two fast colored teams in action for the last time here this season. Manager C.I. Taylor is anxious to take honors and boost his team in the loop standing."

Indianapolis, IN
"Indianapolis, Monday. - The A.B.C.s took a 1 to 0 struggle from the St. Louis Giants, Dizzy Dismukes allowing only 4 hits."

September 14, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Final. - The A.B.C.'s defeated the St. Louis Giants again yesterday afternoon at Washington Park, 7 to 2. This was the final at-home game for the local colored boys this season. The A's won three out of the four-game series with the St. Louis club, which will greatly help their standing in the Western Colored League. Dicta Johnson pitched splendid ball in yesterday's game for the local club, allowing the visitors but six hits. The A's showed splendid team work, both in the way they backed their pitcher and in their heavy hitting. Morten Clark, Oscar Charleston and Ben Taylor furnished the big noise at the bat."

September 19, 1920

Fort Wayne, IN
"Bob McClure Will Pitch for Colored Team Sunday - Star Moundsman From Indianapolis A.B.C.s Will Pitch to Lifers. - Noell for Opposition - Bob McClure, one of the best slabmen on the staff of the Indianapolis A.B.C.s is the man picked to hold the Lifers hitless when the Fort Wayne Colored Giants oppose them at League park Sunday afternoon. Manager C.I. Taylor of the Indianapolis colored team, in sending McClure for the engagement here comments that he is one of his best men and will prove hard to beat. The Colored Giants' lineup now includes Bady Lima, one of the best backstops in this part of the country, Catcher; McClure, Indianapolis Pitcher; Selden Van Wert Star Shortstop; Riddles, ex-Chicago Giant, 1st Base; Petie Backer, local infielder, 2nd Base; Buggs, a talented player, 3rd Base; Snow, Kansas City Left Field; Cooper, a recent acquisition, Center Field; and Wells, Right Field. The insurance men will stick to their regular lineup with Noell doing the mound duty, and Hoffer receiving. Six straight victories have been given the Lincoln Lifes, a world of confidence and they are intending to finish the remainder of the season without a defeat."

Chicago, IL
"A.B.C.s Here Sunday - The Indianapolis A.B.C.s open a five game series with the American Giants Sunday afternoon, this being their final appearance at the American Giants' Park for the season. Dizzy Dismukes will probably oppose Tom Williams."

Chicago, IL
"Schorling's Park, Sunday. - The A.B.C.s of Indianapolis made their final appearances here before a large crowd and were defeated, 8 to 2."

September 25, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"OPENING GAME TO MONARCHS. - Indianapolis A.B.C.s Couldn't Hit Rogan in Pinches, Losing, 2 to 5. - Airtight pitching by Rogan gave the Monarchs the first game of the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C. club yesterday at Association park, 5 to 2. With men on bases Rogan was (illegible) and thirteen of the Indianapolis batters fanned. While Rogan was turning back the visitors the Monarchs solved the delivery of Dismukes and touched him for eleven hits and five runs. The game was marked by the fiery fielding of both teams. The Monarchs took the lead in the third when they scored two runs on hits by Day. Portuondo and Carr, a base on balls and no error. The visitors scored one in the fourth on a base on balls, an infield out and a safe hit by Mackey. In the sixth the Monarchs pounced on the offerings of Dismukes, scoring three runs. Moore and Ray hammered out doubles, which mixed in with a base on balls and an error accounted for the runs. After the sixth when the Indianapolis club scored its final run on a hit by Ben Taylor and errors by Rogan and Portuondo, the local pitcher, was invincible. John Donaldson, the left hander of the Monarchs, will pitch today."

* Same Game, different newspaper
"A.B.C.'S Lose to Monarchs. - Kansas City, MO, September 27. - The A.B.C.s lost a hard fought game Saturday 5 to 2. Both Rogan and Dismukes pitched good ball, the latter a shade the better in the pinches, but lost when his team mates made errors on easy chances. The fielding of the day was a feature."

Kansas City, MO
* Same Game, from Indianapolis Freeman

Kansas City, MO
"Food For Fans. - After the Monarchs finally wrestled the series from the little men from the Cuban Isle they had no time to get their breath ere the fighting Alphabets swooped down upon them for a grand tussle. However, the locals were on the job and politely, if not very warmly, received the visitors with open arms, or should we have said swinging arms? That is what happened at least in Saturday's game. While swinging, they connected with the ball and won the game, 5 to 2. Rogan pitched for the locals, Dismukes and Williams for the visitors."

September 26, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Play Second Game Today. (27 th) - Monarchs and Indianapolis A.B.C. Contest Postponed Yesterday. - The second game of the series between the Monarchs and the Indianapolis A.B.C. Club will be played today at Association park. Yesterday's game was postponed because of wet grounds and will be played tomorrow. Jeffries and Donaldson probably will be the opposing pitchers today."

Kansas City, MO
"Pluvious prevented a Sunday game."

September 27, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs in a 15 Inning Tie. - Indianapolis A.B.C.s and Kansas City Negroes Played a 1 to 1 Draw. - The Monarchs and the Indianapolis A.B.C. battled fifteen innings yesterday to a 1 to 1 tie in the second game of the series at Association Park. The game was called by Umpire Rue at the end of the fifteenth on account of darkness. It was a pitcher's battle between Currie and Johnson with honors about even. Johnson struck out thirteen batters while Currie turned back eleven from the plate as strikes. The Monarchs scored their counter in the first inning when Washington dropped Portuondo's drive. The runner advanced on Carr's infield out and (illegible) the plate on McNair's safe hit to left. The Bowsers (illegible) Clark doubled to left, went to third on Washington's infield out and scored on Charleston's sacrifice fly to Donaldson. Sunday's postponed game will be played off today. Donaldsonand Jeffries, left handed "aces" will be the opposing pitchers."

Kansas City, MO
"On Monday, however, these two teams pulled one of the best games that has ever been seen in the part. It was pitchers' duel from the first innings between Currie for the home boys and Johnson for the A.B.C.s. The marathon race extended into darkness with 13 periods at the clip of one and one on the scoring. Fans agree that it was the premier contest of the season, interesting features considered."

Kansas City, MO
"Kansas City, Missouri, September 27 - The A.B.C.'s and Kansas City fought to a fifteen-inning 1-to-1 draw here today in a fierce pitcher's battle between Dicta Johnson and Reuben Currie. Rube Currie allowed eight hits and whiffed ten. The game was called on account of darkness."

September 28, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"FINAL GAME TO MONARCHS. - Crawford Held Indianapolis A.B.C.s to Five Hits in 6 to 1 Contest. - Timely hitting by the Monarchs won the first game of the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C. club yesterday at Association Park, 6 to 1. Air-tight pitching by Crawford, who held the Hoosiers to five hits also (illegible) materially in the defeat of the visitors. Only three hits were made off Crawford until the ninth when he released and permitted two safe hits which accounted for the visitors' only run. The Monarchs netted three runs in the fouth on hits by Rogan, Arumi, Rodriguez and Portuondo and an error. The Indianapolis club left last night for St. Louis where they will play a short series returning to Kansas City Saturday for a three-game series. Two games will be played on Sunday."

Kansas City, MO
"The Monarchs annexed Tuesday's game by the score of 6 to 1. Crawford hurled for the locals and Williams and Taylor for the visitors. The teams are scheduled for a game today and a doubleheader for Sunday. Sunday's games have a special attraction in the fact that Currie will again oppose Johnson on the mound for supremacy in one of the games."

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Bunch Bingles on Williams to Win. - Kansas City, Missouri, September 28 - Effective pitching by Sam Crawford, coupled with bunched hits off Morris Williams in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings, caused the defeat of the A.B.C.'s here today. Ralph Jefferson pounded out three of the five hits made by the visiting team. Bob McClure, Indianapolis's pitcher, broke his arm while warming up to pitch today's game."

October 2, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Base Ball at the Association Park Saturday and Sunday October 2 and 3 - Double Header Sunday - Monarchs vs Indianapolis ABCs - Coming - October 9 and 10 The National and American League Stars vs. The Monarchs."

Kansas City, MO
"MONARCH RALLY FELL SHORT - An Early Lead Gave A.B.C.s a Victory, 7 to 6."

October 3, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Beat A.'s. - Kansas City, Missouri, October 3 - The A.B.C.'s and the Kansas City Monarchs battled ten innings before the locals won the first contest of a doubleheader, 5 to 4. The A.B.C.'s scored one in the tenth, but the Monarchs came back with two runs in their half. The second game ended in a tie score in 6 innings, it being 4 to 4."

October 4, 1920

St. Louis, MO
"Cardinals Lose First Contest to Giants, 5 to 4 - In the opening game of the series between the Cardinal barnstormers and the St. Louis negro Giants, the latter team was the victor in ten innings, 5 to 4. The winning run was scored when Verne Clemons dropped a throw to the home plate. Jimmy Lyons opened the inning with a single and took second on a wild pitch. Joe Hewitt bunted safely when A. Lyons fumbled. Oscar Charleston was purposely passed, to fill up the bases. Charlie Blackwell hit to A. Lyons and the latter threw home, but Verne Clemons dropped the ball and Jimmie Lyons scored, ending the game. The Giants got away to a lead of four runs in the first two innings. Oscar Charleston drove out a home run in the first session. In the second slow fielding, errors and hitting mixed in netted the negroes three runs. In the fifth, the Cardinals got one of the runs back on some hitting and a couple of force outs. In the sixth they got after Bill Drake and drove him off the slab. Some well-timed hitting, in which Doc Lavan featured with a double and Verne Clemons with a triple, turned the trick and also netted three runs, tying up the score. Another game of the series will be played today and the final one Sunday."

St. Louis, MO
"A.B.C. Players Help Giants Win From Leaguers. - St. Louis, Missouri, October 4 - The St. Louis Giants, members of the Western Circuit Negro League, defeated the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League, in a great ten-inning struggle here today, 5 to 4. More than 6,000 fans jammed the Giants park and yelled themselves hoarse at the great pleasing of both blubs. Oscar Charleston, Connie Day, and Biz Mackey of the Indianapolis A.B.C.'s played with the Giants. Oscar Charleston drove the ball over the right field wall in the initial inning for the first run of the game."

October 9, 1920

Anderson, IN
"All Pros Take Close Contest From A.B.C.'s - Anderson, Indiana, October 9 - Jack Hendrick's Indianapolis all-professionals defeated the C.I. Taylor A.B.C.'s 5 to 4, in a fast exhibition game here this afternoon. A feature was a home run over the right field fence by 'Pug' Cavet, in the fourth which scored three runs. Oscar Charleston of the A.B.C.'s lined out a two-bagger in the third, scoring two runs. Orme, center fielder for the all-professionals, made a beautiful running catch in the fourth. The playing feature was a running one-hand catch by Rob Russell, Indianapolis right fielder, in the seventh. Caven and Russell each registered two-baggers in the latter part of the game. The A.B.C.'s scored two runs in the ninth, almost tying the score. A long three-bagger was knocked by Connie Day, of the colored team. The A.B.C.'s got nine hits off Cavet, but good fielding of Hendrick's men helped out in the pinches."

October 10, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"The A.B.C.'s and an all star team, composed mostly of the Indianapolis Association club, under Jack Hendricks, will play Sunday at Washington Park."

Indianapolis, IN
"Defeat A.B.C.'s 7 to 2. - About 7,000 fans watched Jack Hendrick's all professionals beat the A.B.C.'s 7 to 2 at Washington Park Sunday, John Paul Jones held the A.B.C.'s to six scattered hits. Dicta Johnson was touched for a total of twelve hits. A base on balls and an error enabled the A.B.C.'s to score their runs in the first inning."

Indianapolis, IN
* Same article, from the Indianapolis News

Indianapolis, IN
"New York Giants Pitcher Loses to A.B.C.'s - Dicta Johnson Pitches Great Ball - Minus the services of the sensational Oscar Charleston, Connie Day, and Ralph Jefferson, the A.B.C.'s came back strong at the All-Pros, Sunday, defeating them 6 to 4. Art Nehf, the New York Giants port sider struck out five of the first six A's to face him and it looked dreary for our heroes until Brother Ben cleared the bases in the 8th with a triple to left field. - The Big Eighth. - Bill Holland opened the eighth inning rally with a single to center. Dicta Johnson laid down a bunt but it went between Nehf, Russell and French for a right field single sending Bill Holland to third. Morten Clark walked, filling the sacks. Namon Washington hit to Nehf who bobbled the ball long enough that he couldn't get the man at the plate. He then whipped it to first, but his throw pulled Russell off the bag. This put the tying run across and the bases were still loaded. Jimmie Lyons hit to Russell who threw to Kelley, forcing Dicta Johnson at the plate. Then Ben Taylor relieved the congestion on the bases with his triple to left. Joe Hewitt singled in Ben Taylor, Biz Mackey and Russell Powell sent flies to the outfield. - Errors Help Pros. - Orme opened the Pro's half with a single and Schriber fanned. Russell sent Morten Clark back to the right field fence for his hard smash. Rehg hit to Biz Mackey, who threw low to first. The ball bounded into right field and Orme scored. Morten Clark tried to get Rehg at second and threw the ball to the stands, Walter taking third. Mike Kelley sent a long single to left, scoring Rehg. Mike was out at second trying to stretch his blow into a double. An error allowed the first Pro player to reach first in the ninth, but nothing came of the rally."

October 17, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Giant Star to Pitch Against A.B.C.'s in Sunday's Game - Art Nehf. - Jack Hendricks's All Professional Team, with Art Nehf, the Giant Star, in the box and Mike Kelly, of the Senators, behind the bat, will mix again with C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s at Washington Park, Sunday afternoon. Nehf lives at Washington, Indiana. Formerly he played with the Terre Haute team of the Central League and in 1915 went to the Boston Braves. In 1919 the Braves sold the Hoosier to the Giants for $55,000. The A.B.C.'s will have a lineup of stars in the field and the fans are expecting a scrappy game. Hendricks's tea will be much the same as the one that defeated the colored stars last Sunday."

"A.B.C.'s Trim Pros. - Art Nehf, the Giants' $55,000 pitcher, breezed along in fine shape for seven innings in the game between Jack Hendricks's all professionals and the colored A.B.C.'s at Washington Park, Sunday. With one run in at the start of the eighth inning, the A.B.C.'s filled the bases, ready to be cleaned by Ben Taylor's triple. Taylor scored on Hewitt's single. The five runs were enough and the A.B.C.'s won, 6 to 4."

A.B.C.s Rally to Beat All Pros - Indianapolis, Indiana, October 18. - A starting rally in the eighth inning yesterday gave the A.B.C.s the decision over the All-Pros at Washington Park. Some wobbly baseball on the part of the All-Pros allowed the A.s to clog the sacks in this session without a man being retired. With one run across the pan in this round and the bases still full with one retired, Ben Taylor shot a triple to the left field fence, putting the contest in the box, Score 6 to 4. Until the eighth round Art Nehf was so much a master of the A.s it didn't seem possible they would menace the lead scored by the All-Pros in the first round at the expense of Dicta Johnson and his support. Five of the first six men to face the Giants' lefty were strike-out victims. Nehf let up in his work and the A.s began to drive the ball around the lot, but was able to get only three blows up to the fatal eighth."

Indianapolis, IN
"National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs, Second Annual Meeting a Great Success. - By Q.J. Gilmore, Special Representative of the Kansas City Sun. - Indianapolis, Indiana, December 4. - Promptly on the hour of 9 o'clock, Andrew Rube Foster, the President of the Association call the meeting to order. The meeting brought baseball magnates and newspaper men from every section of the country. The meeting was helf in the large assembly room of the Y.M.C.A., C.I. Taylor, the big baseball mogul of the Indiana Capitol assisted by the leading citizens of Indianapolis spared no pains to make the visiting magnets and Sporting Editors feel at home. The following cities and baseball clubs were represented: Kansas City Monarchs, by J.L. Wilkinson, American Giants by Andrew Rube Foster, The Detroit Stars, by Tenny Blount, Indianapolis A.B.C.'s by C.I. Taylor, the St. Louis Giants, by Charlie Mills, The Dayton Marcos, by John Mathias, The Chicago Giants, by Joe Green, The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, by John W. Connors of New York City, The Hilldales, by Edward Bolden of Philadelphia, The Cuban Stars, by Andrew Rube Foster, Cleveland by G.J. Tate and L.R. Williams, Columbus, Ohio, by Sol White, Pittsburg, by A.M. Williams, and Nate Harris. Dr. Howard M. Smith and Harry St. Clair of Kansas City, Missouri mingled with the magnets, hoping to buy a franchise in the league. The following Sporting Editors were present, Ira Lewis of the Pittsburg Courier, Dave Wyatt, of the Chicago Whip, Frank Young of the Chicago Defender, A.D. Williams of the Sport World, W. Knox of the Freeman, Jackson of the Ledger, and Q.J. Gilmore, Kansas City Sun. The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m. Friday so that the visitors could attend a banquet arranged by C.I. Taylor and the business men of the city, which was the greatest gathering of prominent men ever assembled around a table in the Hoosier Capitol It was 12:30 when Rube Foster informed the baseball magnets to return to the Y.M.C.A to finish some very important business which kept the magnets busy until 5 a.m. Saturday. Chief Foster issued orders to be on hands at 9 o'clock, and when the roll was called all answered present but Tenny Blount of Detroit, and a committee was sent to escort the Michigan Magnet to the meeting. Tenny was found sound asleep in a taxi and informed the committee that he was afraid to go to bed. The meeting adjourned Saturday evening to meet next year in Detroit as the guest of Tenny Blount the owner of the Detroit Stars. Several important changes were made in the league for the next season. The Dayton Marcos were transferred to Columbus, Ohio, and will be known as the Columbus Buckeyes. The Cuban Stars go to Cincinnati, and will be known as the Cincinnati Cuban Stars. The Bacharach Giants and the Hilldales, will be the Earstern representatives in the league. Cleveland and Pittsburg will be associate members of the league this year, and regular members the following season. Andrew Rube Foster was reelected President and a regular schedule will be followed the coming season. The past season was a great success, and the league played to more than 700,000 fans. The league has been fortunate in securing for the coming season the National League Parks, in Cininnati, and Brooklyn, New York, also the league parks in Philadelphia, Colored baseball men of Cleveland and Pittsburg, have secured grounds and have started the construction of model baseball plants. The Columbus, Ohio team will use Neil Park, the home of the Columbus American Association team. Charles Mills, and his legal adviser, Judge Homer Phillips ahve started to enlarge the grounds in St. Louis and will be able to take care of 10,000 fans next season. Several exchanges of players were made during the meeting, and most notable one being the transfer of Jimmy Lyons to the American Giants. - Sidelights on the Convention. - The O'possum supper which was scheduled for Friday night, was held on Thursday night when word was received that Q.J. Gilmore and Harry St. Clair were coming. They arrived Friday morning all smiles, thinking of the o'possum supper but when Dr. Howard M. Smith broke the sad news the Kansas City men started out to find Rube Foster and C.I. Taylor, who satisfied Gilmore and St. Clair by showing them where the supper was held. Dave Wyatt, the dean of Negro Sports Editors, was on hand early to greet the other scribes on their arrival. Frank Young of the Defender, and Ira Lewis of the Pittsburg Courier have started for Detroit so as to be there in time for the meeting next year. Friday afternoon the thermometer registered 125 degrees during a certain discussion, C.I. Taylor and Charlie Mills succumbed to the heat. Yes, we all got rather warm but the big Mogul himself. Col Knox, the Dean of Negro Newspaper men visited the meeting Friday afternoon but had to leave, it was too hot for him. A.D. Williams, the Editor of the Sport World was a rather busy man during the meeting, yes too busy to take notes. He spent some time on the front porch with a very prominent young lady of the City. J.W. Connors, the big noise in baseball of New York City, and Edward Bolden, the Philadelphia Magnet, who have fought each other for the past five years, not even being on speaking terms, arrived in the Convention City together, and not only stopped at the same hotel, but slept in the same bed. We just could not believe it, and to make sure, we had a flash light picture taken of the two big eastern magnets while they slept. The picture will be published in all the Eastern papers. Negro baseball in the East is now due a great boom. The Bacharach Giants are now playing ball in Cuba. Oscar Charleston, Connie Day, and Morten Clark of the A.B.C.'s are in the lineup. Dr. Ward, who served as major during the late war and was the ranking Negro Medical Officer acted as toast master during the banquet Friday night. Attorney Ranson, the General counsel and Manager for Madam C.J. Walker Company was one of the chief speakers. Mr. DeFrantz of the Y.M.C.A did everything in his power to make the visitors comfortable during the sessions which were held in the "Y" building. Yes, the boys had plenty of good cigars to smoke. Thanks to Mr. DeFrantz. The Negro Press was given the use of the Associated Press wires during the meeting. Rube Foster left immediately after the meeting for Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a much needed rest before taking his team to Palm Beach, Florida next month. John Mathias, the owner of the Dayton Marcos should have brought someone with him to look after his interest, as poor old John slept during most of the sessions. C.I.Taylor lived up to his reputation, it was C.I., that kept us up in the all night session. The Indianapolis Elks entertained Q.J. Gilmore the Scribe from Kansas city, at the Union League Club. Most of the visitors remained over Sunday. John Connors and Edward Bolden left Saturday afternoon for New York. Gilmore left Saturday night for Columbus, Ohio to spend Sunday with his mother. Late reports has it that Dr. Howard M. Smith and Harry (Wolf) St. Clair have obtained interest in the Columbus, Ohio franchise. Good luck, boys. Don't let it rain on you. Vicente Rodriguez, Otto Ray, Dink Mothell, John Donaldson, Sam Crawford, Rube Currie, Zack Foreman, Herbert Smith, George Carr, Jose Mendez, Bartolo Portuondo, Hurley McNair, Bullet Rogan, Chick Harper, Joaquin Arumis, Woods and Lemuel Hawkins will report to the Monarchs in California. Lemuel Hawkins, who is a former officer in the army is considered the greatest first baseman in the game. George Carr will be put on third, allowing Bartolo Portuondo to go to short, his regular position. Owner J.L. Wilkinson has several new men in view and the fans can rest assured that the Monarchs will be stronger than they were the past season. Bill Riggins and Jack Marshall will go to the American Giants in exchange for Jimmy Lyons. The Hilldales team which was outside of organized baseball last season will be a great asset to the League, and players from now on will have no place to jump to when dissatisfied with organized ball. List of baseball players under contract or held in reserve by managers or owners of clubs operating under the agreement of the National Associaton of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. Hilldale - Toussaint Allen, Otto Briggs, Elmer Brown, Phil Cockrell, John Cason, Bunny Downs, Bill Francis, Willis Flournoy, George Johnson, Connie Rector, Louis Santop, Chaney White, Dick Whitworth, Jim York, Robinson, Joseph, Jake Stephens. Detroit Stars - Johnson Hill, Bruce Petway, Edgar Wesley, Frank Warfield, Joe Hewitt, Bill Holland, Bill Gatewood, Chase, Andy Cooper, Morrison, Lawrence Simpson, Jimmy Lyons, Trumbo, Eugene Scott, Eugene Moore, George Mitchell, Roger Mitchell, Gifford McDonald. Columbus - Hooker, George Brown, Koke Alexander, Boots McClain, Lane Britton, Charley Wilson, Branahan, Arthur Coleman, Cunningham, Watson, David Wingfield, Mack Eggleston, Jim Taylor, Mitchell Murray, Samuel Dewitt, Brady. Kansas City Monarchs - Vicente Rodriguez, Otto Ray, Dink Mothell, John Donaldson, Sam Crawford, Rube Curry, Zack Foreman, Herbert Smith, George Carr, Jose Mendez, Dobie Moore, Bartolo Portunondo, Hurley McNair, Bullet Rogan, Chick Harper, Joaquin Arumis, Woods, Lemuel Hawkins. St. Louis Giants - Tullie McAdoo, Thompson, Sidney Brooks, Dick Wallace, Eddie Holtz, Louis Danage, Stewart, Doc Dudley, Charlie Blackwell, Jimmie Oldham, Bob Scott, Jelly. American Giants - George Dixon, James Brown, David Brown, Leroy Grant, Bingo DeMoss, Bobby Williams, Dave Malarcher, Judy Gans, Cristobal Torriente, Jelly Gardner, John Reese, Jack Marshall, Tom Johnson, Frank Wickware, Tom Williams, Orville Higins, J. Williams (South Carolina), William Force (South Carolina), O'Neil (Orlando, Florida). Bacharach Giants - Dick Redding, String Bean Williams, Harold Treadwell, George Shively, Julio Rojo, Yank Deas, Dick Lundy, Oliver Marcell, Jesse Barber, Mike Brown, Johnny Pugh, Lewis Means, Red Eagle Smith, Red Ryan, William Pierce. Indianapolis A.B.C. - Ben Harrison Taylor, Connie Day, Morten Clarke, Ralph Jefferson, Namon Washington, Oscar Charleston, Robert Hudspeth, Biz Mackey, Ed Rile, Dizzy Dismukes, Dicta Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Henry Blackmon, Morris Williams, Robert McClure. - Note - Chicago Giants and Cuban Stars lists are anavailable as we go to press, but will appear later."

June 1, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Rain Stops Game Lost by Monarchs 8 to 3 - Rain cut short the fourth game of the series with the Indianapolis A.B.C. club yesterday, the Monarchs dropping an 8 to 3 battle which lasted six rounds at Association Park. Zack Foreman, who took the firing line for the Monarchs, allowed the visitors only six hits, but his mates made several costly bobbles behind him, which aided the Hoosier City club to victory. With the exception of the fifth frame, when the Indianapolis crowd bunched for safe blows for a quartette of runs, Zack Foreman kept the visitors' base knocks well scattered. The Monarchs collected a run in the opening chapter when Bartolo Portuondo, who singled through second, counted on Hurley McNair's sacrifice fly to left. The visitors gained the lead in the third inning, a home run over the right field wall, along with walks to Dizzy Dismukes and George Shively, netting them a trio of markers. A triple by Samuel DeWitt and a costly error by Bartolo Portuondo in the fourth allowed the A.B.C. crew to score another run, while a double by Morten Clark, singles by Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor and Russell Powell and a pair of wild pitches by Zack Foreman, gave them four more runs in the fifth. The final game of the series with the Indianapolis club will be played this afternoon. John Donaldson likely will take the firing line for the Monarchs, while Dicta Johnson will do the hurling for the Indianapolis club. The Cuban Stars, from Havana, will come Saturday for a five game stand."

June 2, 1920

Kansas City, MO
"Monarchs Win Final Game with Indianapolis - With the score standing 5 to 1, in the eighth inning, the Kansas City Monarchs drove three Indianapolis hurlers from the firing line yesterday and copped the rubber game of the series with the Hoosier city national negro baseball club, 8 to 5. Jim Jeffries, who took the mound for the visitors, pitched a steady game up until the seventh round, then a trio of base knocks were collected off him which netted the locals a run. In the eighth the Monarchs started an attack which netted them seven runs, Jim Jeffries was driven from the hilltop, Ben Taylor coming to the rescue. Following Ben Taylor, who was hit hard, Dicta Johnson was sent in to face the storm, but his stay on the mound was short lived, Dicta Johnson winding up the chapter by retiring the Monarchs after an additional run had been collected off his fast ones. John Donaldson was nicked for twelve blows, but he kept them well scattered. Aside from the first, sixth and eighth stanzas, he was never in danger. The Cuban Stars, from Havana, will open a five-game stand here beginning Saturday."

Kansas City, MO
* Same article, from the Chicago Defender

June 5, 1920

Omaha, NE
"Armours Ready for Series With A.B.C.'s - The Armours are ready for their three-game series with the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis at Rourke park Saturday and Sunday. Sunday's game will be a double-header. The A.B.C.s are making a western tour and are at Kansas City now. They have lost but one game this season."

Omaha, NE
"Saturday, June 5 and Sunday June 6 - A.B.C.'s at Omaha, Nebraska -vs- Armours

Omaha, NE
"Armours to Play A.B.C.s. - The Armours will meet the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis at Rourke park this afternoon, in the first of their three-game series. The game is called for 3:15 o'clock. There will be a double-header tomorrow, starting at 2 p.m."

Omaha, NE
"Armours Win First From A.B.C.s, 3 to 2 - The Armours won the first game from the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis at Rourke park yesterday afternoon by a count of 3 to 2. Rabe of the Armours allowed the visitors six hits. These same teams will play a double header at the park this afternoon starting at 2 o'clock."

Kansas City, MO
"Kansas City Notes - Q.J. Gilmore, Sport Editor of the Kansas City Call and big gun in the Elks, and Harry St. Clair, formerly theatrical advance man for some of our big shows, are the boys who got behind the big opening noise at Kansas City. Owner J.L. Wilkinson has two valuable lieutenants in the pair; the monster parade went off without friction of any sort, motor cops covering the whole route, regulating traffic to a most satisfactory detail. C.I. Taylor's big pitcher, Ed Rile, blowed the team and has not been heard of in a couple of weeks; in the meantime Dizzy Dismukes, Jim Jefferies and occasionally Oscar Charleston, are holding the pitching line. Something like 20,000 persons witnessed the first two games played at Kansas City. The park is located right in the heart of the black belt; in spite of the short walk the enclosure and thoroughfares near the park were blocked with machines. It's a toss-up between the A.B.C.s and the Monarchs on heavy and certain batting. Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor, Russell Powell and Morten Clark are pasting the old apple with a vengeance, but little Hurley McNair of the Kansas Citys is fast forging to the front as the most timely and dangerous hitter on the circuit. John Donaldson, George Carr, and Edgar Washington also occupy front seats in the hit and run game. C.I. has picked up a classy college boy of the Atlanta University, Ralph Jefferson by name. He shapes up in grand style as a fielder, batter and base runner. The Monarchs are expecting a fellow soon, Bullet Rogan by name, and big leaguers who have seen him work pronounce him the best ever. He is with the 24th regiment and will report the middle of June. Dink Mothell, the Kansas City catcher, is playing the ball of his life at third base, but the team is sadly in need of a second baseman. The fans on the circuit have a rare, rare treat in store in the playing of Connie Day at third with the A.B.C.s. We doubt if his work can be surpassed in the real big leagues. Watch for him. He's a hummer."

Omaha, NE
"The A.B.C.s leave Kansas City Friday and journey on to Omaha, Nebraska, where they hook up with the Armours of the City League. The Indiana gang are one of the best road clubs on the circuit and with Oscar Charleston, Connie Day, Ben Taylor and other stars going good the A.B.C.s are drawing big everywhere. Omaha expects to break all attendance records Saturday and Sunday."

June 6, 1920

Omaha, NE
"Armours Lose Both Games to the A.B.C.s - Before a big Sunday crowd the Armours lost a double-header to the visiting A.B.C.s of Indianapolis at Rourke park Sunday. The first game was 8 to 0, and the second 10 to 2. The visitors tapped the Armour hurlers for twenty-eight safe hits in the double program. Three thousand fans witnessed the games."

"A.'s Win Double Bill From Armour Squad. - Omaha, Nebraska, June 6. - After losing the first game to the Armour team, here Saturday, the A.B.C.'s defeated the locals today in a double-header, 8 to 0 and 10 to 2. Jim Jeffries blanked the Armours in the first contest, while Dizzy Dismukes was effective in the second contest. The A's made four double plays and one triple killing during the afternoon. Day drove a ball over the left field wall in the 7th inning of the first game, for what was said to be the longest drive on the lot in years."

Omaha, NE
"Sunday, June 6 - A.B.C.'s at Omaha, Nebraska vs. Armours - Games Called at 3:00 P.M."

June 12, 1920

Gary, IN
"...they downed Gary, Indiana Saturday..."

Chicago, IL
"On the Circuit - All the circuit teams were up against each other sure on Decoration Day and they ran off some mighty good games, many going into extra innings. But the most satisfactory part of the whole affair is the fact that 66,000 persons paid to see the circuit teams perform. When the Taylor A.B.C.s show up in Chicago Sunday, June 13, all records for attendance are expected to be broken. With Oscar Charleston, perhaps the greatest player of the Race, going like a house afire, the A.s are drawing big everywhere. Taylor's gang holds the record for big drawing, or did until the Cubans drew out 16,000 here at their recent appearance. Taylor would have beaten that some years ago, but the fans broke down the fence and hundreds came in without the count. At that they played to 15,000. All previous records are expected to be smashed Sunday when the A.s show. If the St. Louis Giants have a leg to stand on when Rube and his gang are finished fighting them, they will jump over to Kansas City, where, starting Saturday the 12th, they play the Monarchs for five days. Needless to say, they will meet with stiff opposition, for the far west crowd is putting up a nifty game."

June 13, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Sunday, June 13, 1920 - A.B.C's vs. American Giants at Chicago, Illinois. Games called at 3:00 p.m."

Chicago, IL
"A.B.C.'s are Beaten as First Overflow Crowd Witnesses Trouncing of Indians. - Chicago, Illinois - After putting the works to St. Louis and holding their own at Kansas City, the A.B.C.'s jumped over to Omaha and won two, they downed Gary, Indiana Saturday, but they were pulled up with a terrific smash, Sunday, when they tackled the American Giants. The defeat reads 9 to 1; at that the A.'s looked better than the score indicates. Jim Jeffries pitched a fair game, but his support in the close places went woozy and the Hoosier bats failed to work when toll meant runs. Rube Foster's gang had blanket orders on Oscar Charleston, and the speed boy couldn't pull a thing. Day put on a good show at third. Morten Clark was at his best, and, despite the hoodoo that has been trailing the crew and the heartless manner that the American Giants have been slaughtering all comers, the A's look to hold their own if they get the pitching. The A.B.C's go to Detroit, Saturday and Sunday."

Chicago, IL
"Giants Victorious - Playing before one of the largest crowds of the season, the A.B.C.s of Indianapolis went down to defeat in their first game of a series of three against the American Giants. Tom Williams held the heavy hitting squadron of the A.'s safe all the way, the most dangerous batsmen being unable to negotiate his offerings with any effect. Jim Jeffries pitched fairly good ball for the Hoosiers, but his support was a little off color, the Giants taking advantage of every little slip and seemingly turning the same into scores. The feature of the contest was the batting of Cristobal Torriente, who released a fine exhibition of fielding, running and all round play. Connie Day for the visitors put up a highly pleasing game at third, but for some unknown reason the old A. machine did not function up to the standard of former years. However, the C.I. Taylor crew have been up against hard lines for some weeks, having either lost or released the pitchers of much class here of late. Big Ed Rile, Owens and Herlen Raglan put the A's up against a mighty tough position when their failure to ob(illegible) the proper deportment resulted in them casting their lot with others on the Taylor crowd. The club has been up against their regular second sackers, having already had three. The Hoosiers go to Detroit, where they open against the Detroit Stars on Saturday, play Sunday and a series. In the meantime the American Giants will try next Sunday to get on even terms with Rogers Parks, one of the Chicago League teams that dished out a beating to them earlier in the season. Rain prevented the second game of the series between the Giants and the A.B.C.'s scheduled for Monday."

June 14, 1920

Chicago, IL
"Rain prevented the second game of the series between the Giants and the A.B.C.s scheduled for Monday."

June 15, 1920

Chicago, IL
"A's Lose Two Games. - Chicago, Illinois, June 15 - The A.B.C.'s were defeated twice here this afternoon by the American Giants by the scores of 6 to 2 and 7 to 0. Dizzy Dismukes was wild in the first game and was succeeded by Dicta Johnson. Jim Jeffries went the route in the second game, but lost because of poor support."

June 19, 1920

Detroit, MI
"Stars Open Series With Indianapolis - Second Place in Colored Baseball Circuit at Stake. - Detroit Stars and A.B.C.s of Indianapolis will open a five-game series at Mack park Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and this engagement promises to be the hardest fought diamond series of the season at the east side ball lot. The Indianapolis club is third in the Colored National Baseball association's championship race, while the Stars are second and the outcome of the series will decide which club is to occupy the runner-up berth. The Stars now are a half game behind the American Giants of Chicago. There are a number of star players on the visiting team's roster, including the Jeffries brothers, Taylor, Johnson and Charleston, rated a second Ty Cobb.

"Stars Show Off Before A.B.C.'s - Detroit Nine Wins Opening Game of Series, 8 to 4. - Detroit Stars defeated the Indianapolis A.B.C. club at Mack Park, Saturday afternoon 8 to 4. The visitors obtained their four runs in the fourth session on five hits, while the locals, assisted by errors charged to Day, scored in the second and seventh. The same teams play again Sunday."

Detroit, MI
"A.B.C.'s Lose to Detroit Stars Saturday and Sunday. - Detroit, Michigan Special - Tenny Blount's fast going stars kept up their winning gait by defeating the Indianapolis A.B.C.'s Saturday and Sunday. The heavy hitters of the hoosiers were unable to hit safely."

Detroit, MI
"A.B.C.'s Lose Game. - Detroit, Michigan, June 21. - The A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis dropped the first of a five-game series to the Detroit Stars here Sunday, 8 to 4."

June 20, 1920

Fort Wayne, IN
"Colored Giants Lining Up Team of Stars for Sunday - Mart Cleary's Insurance Men Will Face Crack A.B.C. Battery, of Indianapolis. - Plan a Warm Reception - As the days roll by and bring in more dope as to the preparations of the famous Colored Giants to defeat the Lincoln Lifers next Sunday it presents a glowing fact that the insurance men are in for a real battle Sunday. though the game was booked with the Colored Giants, it begins to look as if the famous A.B.C. team of Indianapolis will be very well represented when the game is called Sunday. Manager Taylor, of the Indianapolis team, was in Fort Wayne yesterday and made the assertion that after next Sunday the Lincoln Lifers would be a defeated ball club. His team will play at Detroit on Saturday and will stop off here on their way home. Their crack battery will take care of the heavy work and it would not be a surprise to see several more of the Capital City stars in the lineup. That the colored battery will be able to hold its own against the Lifers is evedenced by the fact that the Indianapolis club is a member of the Leland Giants, of Chicago, the Cuban Stars, the St. Louis Giants, the Dayton Marcos and a number of other fast clubs. - Out to Win. - The backers of the colored team are out to put a crimp in the machine of the Lifers and are sparing no expense to build up a club that will turn the trick. Bee Seldon, the ligtning shortstop from Van Wert, will be on deck. Seldon formerly played with the Leland Gians and the Dayton marcos but returned to Van Wert to take care of his business. Demon Halthcock, of Lima and Riddles, of Defiance, will both grace the lineup. Little Pete Barker and Suggs, the latter formerly with the Louisville White Sox, will also be on hand with anumber of other imported stars. - Lifers All Ready. - The Lincoln Lifers expect a hard game but the boys have been hitting the ball hard during the past few weeks and will give the imported star battery an exceedingly warm reception."

Detroit, MI
"Stars Take Short Game From A.B.C.'s - Local Pastimers Make It Two Straight Over Hoosiers. - Detroit Stars defeated Indianapolis A.B.C.s Sunday at Mack Park in a short game, 3 to 1. The contest was called on account of rain after 4 and a half innings of play. Detroit scored twice in the opening inning. Lyon's pretty drive to center bringing home Warfield, who had strolled. Lyons stole second and third and tallied on C. Hill's hit. Warfield tripled in the third and scored on Lyon's drive to right, on which Jeffries made a wonderful shoe string catch. Holland handed the visitors their only run in the second inning. With two out, Powell walked, advancd to second on a balk and s cored on McClain's hit to right. Wesley retired the side in the fifth, getting Johnson's line drive and doubling Day off first. Indianapolis plays the Stars at Mack park Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday."

Detroit, MI
"Sunday's Game. - The contest was called on account of rain, after 4 1/2 innings of play. Detroit scored twice in the opening inning. Jimmie Lyons' pretty drive to center brought home Frank Warfield, who had strolled. Jimmie Lyons stole second and third and tallied on Charlie Hill's hit. Frank Warfield tripled in the third and scored on Jimmie Lyons's hit to right, which Jim Jeffries got in a wonderful shoe-string catch. Bill Holland handed the visitors their only run in the second inning. With two out, Russell Powell walked, went to second on a balk and scored on Boots McClain's hit to right. Edgar Wesley retired the site in the fifth, getting Dicta Johnson's line drive and doubling Connie Day off first."

June 21, 1920

Detroit, MI
"Stars Resume Play Tuesday - Detroit Stars and Indianapolis A.B.C.s did not play Monday due to the cold weather and wet conditions of the grounds but will renew hostilities in their series at Mack Park Tuesday, 3 p.m. Steel Arm Johnnie Taylor joined the Indianapolis club Monday and probably will pitch in one of the two remaining games to be played here. He is said to be a splendid moundsman and should strengthen the visitors in the pitching department. The Stars have the jump on their rivals, winning the first two games, and now are in a position where one victory in two of the other contests will give them the series. However, they are after a clean sweep and will use Holland and Gatewood in the final games. Lyons, the big edge on Charleston of the visitors in the series to date. He has made three hits in six times at bat, while the visitors star has gone hitless. Lyons had the satisfaction of fanning him twice when he pitched the last few innings of Saturday's game."

June 22, 1920

Detroit, MI
"Stars Take Extra Inning Game, 8-7 - Tying Score in Ninth, Locals Go 2 More Sessions to Win. - Detroit Stars won an eleven inning game from the Indianapolis A.B.C. club at Mack Park, Tuesday afternoon, 8 to 7. The locals came from behind in the ninth, scoring four runs and Lyons peled cut a homer in the extra inning winning the contest. Dismukes allowed no hits for eight innings while Holland struck out 11 batters. The final game of the series will be played Wednesday afternoon."

June 23, 1920

Detroit, MI
"Detroit Stars Have Big Edge - Indianapolis Pitchers Unable to Stop Local Sluggers. - Detroit Stars took the fourth straight game from the Indianapolis A.B.C.'s Wednesday, 12 to 5. The locals landed on all their opposing pitchers in the third frame for a total of seven runs. Gatewood, for the locals, had the Indianapolis boys at his mercy. After his team had a big lead he eased up considerably."

June 26, 1920

Muncie, IN
"A's Drop Tough One. - Rube Foster's Club Beats Locals, 5-4, In a Fast Game. - Muncie, Indiana. - June 26 - The American Giants, of Chicago. leaders in the Western Colored League, took a hard fought game from C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s here this afternoon, 5 to 4. The Indianapolis club had opportunities to put the game away in the late innings, sensational fielding cutting off several hits and runs. Cristobal Torriente scored the winning run in the fifth on his hit, DeWitt's error on J. Brown, Judy Gans's infield out and Leroy Grant's sacrifice to left field. Hits by Powell, George Shively, Wesley Clark and Oscar Charleston, together with Day's walk, let four across for the A's in the third. The A's had a good chance to cop in the sixth, but the rally fizzled. Frank Wickware walked Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor and Brown, but George Shively forced Oscar Charleston at the plate and DeWitt fanned. George Shively's fielding and Ben Taylor's one-handed catch of a high line drive were the fielding features."

June 27, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Look Here Fans - Standing of the Clubs of the Western Circuit of the Proposed Negro National Base Ball League. - These figures are based on a percentage of won and lost and are for all game splayed up to week of June 27th:

Chicago, IL
* Same article, from the Chicago Defender

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s On Home Ground Win 2, Tie 2 and Lose 1 to Rube Foster's American Giants - Tenny Blount's Detroit Stars Here Sunday. - Big Crowd Sees A.B.C.'s Win 1-0. - Brace of Errors in the Tenth Give Locals the Game and End Fierce Pitching Duel Between Ed Rile and Dave Brown. - By Dave Wyatt. - Playing before one of the largest audiences ever assembled at a base ball game in this city, the American Giants of Chicago, and A.B.C.s, the local pets, went ten innings, every one being replete with thrills. Big Ed Rile, the main pitcher on the A. squad, to all appearances, pitched a sort of ragged game, giving out a whole string of base on balls; but the fact remains, the Chicago boys could only touch him safely about four times, so the undeniable fact that so many were able to reach a base and then the visitors were unable to cross the goal to scoredom, it must be admited that Ed Rile either knew his lines or the A.'s got him out of some mighty tough holes. Dave Brown, Rube's classy southpaw, pitched a game, which under ordinary conditions, should have brought a win; seemingly all the breaks went against the Giants' twirler, as his mates had glaring opportunities for pushing over markers, but just as the time appeared ripe for such a scene, and it was two or three, the batter was either outguessed, a sign went wrong, or a flashy play on the part of some A. cropped up to blast all hopes. The A's did not have the chances that the visitors did, as Brown held them to two hits for the ten innings, and that time but two of the locals had reached third; one advanced that far in the ninth and the A's looked to have a grand chance, but a pinch hiter could not produce the thrill stuff, and the opening was tossed to the discard. However, in the tenth the visitors began to show signs of wavering under the gruel of the fierce battling; when DeWitt came up, he hit towards Bingo DeMoss, the fielder intercepted the hit, handling it perfectly, but he wild-pegged to first and the runner was safe. Day, following, hit to Dave Brown, who also heaved to first in a manner that did not permit of a put-out. Big Ed Rile came up, he had been hitting them hard and far away and in tough luck; this time he caught hold of one of Brown's best offerings, slammed it straight at short-stop Bobby Williams, the latter fielded it in grand style, but unfortunately, the ball fell from his hands to the ground, and DeWill romped across, with the winning and only score of the ten inning affair."

Indianapolis, IN
"Foster's Giants, Color Loop Leaders, to Play A.B.C.'s Here Sunday. - Rube Foster's American Giants, of Chicago, said by many to be the fastest colored baseball club in the country, will be the attraction at Washington Park Sunday, meeting C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.s in a double-header, the first game starting at 2 o'clock. Foster's team has not been seen here for a number of seasons, and it is expected to prove a big drawing card. The famous Chicago aggregation is now leading all clubs in the Colored Baseball League and is putting up a real article of ball. The A.B.C.'s, who are ending their series at Detroit, with the Detroit colored club, are in third place in the colored loop standing. Since taking the long road trip, which comes to a close this week, Manager C.I. Taylor has run into plenty of bad luck. His second baseman, Samuel DeWitt, received a broken ankle in one of the road series and is now here. Then one of his pitchers, Ed Rile, jumped the club, and on top of this Oscar Charleston, star Center Fielder, injured his leg and was slowed up a great deal. To top things off, both of his catchers, Russell Powell and Mitchell Murray, were injured, and Taylor had to grab on to an inexperienced receiver."

"A.B.C.'s and American Giants Open Here Sunday. - After playing at Muncie tomorrow, C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s will return to Washington Park for a stay of five weeks and some of the fastest colored teams will be seen in action here. The Indianapolis club has been a month on the road, breaking a little better than even in games won and lost, but Manager C.I. Taylor lays a number of defeats to his crippled lineup and now that his team is almost in full fighting force again, he is ready to show the home folks how his club is up in the race for the Western Colored League championship. Two games will be staged Sunday, the A's meeting the famous American Gaints, of Chicago, the team that is setting the pace in the colored loop. Rube Foster's aggregation from the Windy City is rated as the best colored club in the country. Single contests will be played Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, The first Sunday scrap will start at 2 o'clock."

"A.B.C.'s Get New Pitcher for Game with Giants. - Manager Taylor, of the A.B.C.'s in order to attempt to take the coming series with Rube Foster's famous American Giants, of Chicago, was in New York yesterday after two players who would bolster the local colored club, and the As will trot out on the field Sunday with probably the strongest lineup they have had this season. Two contests will be staged Sunday, the first starting at 2 o'clock. C.I. Taylor landed Pitcher Ed Rile in New York, and stated that he would have another infielder when he got in town. Ed Rile will twirl the opening scrap. Samuel DeWitt, flashy second baseman, is still on the injured list. The speedy Windy City aggregation has not been seen in action in Indianapolis for four years and a great crowd is expected to turn out and witness the battles. Rube Foster's club is rated as the best colored team in the country and winning a series from the visitors is something to brag about. The A.B.C.s are now in full fighting force and will be working hard in order to show the home folks what they are made of."

"A.B.C.'s Defeat Giants. - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s defeated Rube Foster's American Giants, of Chicago, in a ten-inning scrap at Washington Park Sunday afternoon, 1 to 0, and the team tied 2-2 in a five-inning scrap that was stopped at 6 o'clock because of the Sunday law. More than 7,000 people saw the games. Ed Rile pitched both games for the A.B.C.'s and his hitting won the first game for the local club. The same teams play today, Tuesday, and Wednesday."

Indianapolis, IN
"Foster's Crew Blanked by A.B.C.s - By Dave Wyatt - Indianapolis, Indiana, July 2. - More than 8,000 persons witnessed the struggle for supremacy between the American Giants and the A.B.C.s of this city last Sunday, in which Pitchers Ed Rile and Dave Brown palmed out to be the dualists of the fray. After ten innings of the fiercest fighting ever witnessed on a baseball bield the unbiased fan would call honors even, both as to pitchers and general team play; in fact Ed Rile was up against the toughest going most of the way as Rube had his gang on their toes all the route, and with the big A's pitcher walking on an average of two men per inning and the Chicago crew running bases with reckless abandon, that strategy board of the Hoosiers was kept busy, as the Foster crowd pulled everything in the book. But the kind hand of Providence, according to the Indiana folks, seemed to away in the A.s behalf. Ed Rile was well entitled to the honors earned, for the Chicago boys had many chances for a knockout blow, but upon each attempt to put over a stopper to the doings some one either lost his lines, they were outguessed or the breaks went against them. At any rate, the As had no such openings for a win, as none of them were fortunate enough to reach third base until the ninth; then, with Oscar Charleston on third and apparently a grand chance to end the fight, C.I. Taylor elected to put over the big noise punch by acting as a pinch hitter. He didn't come close and, incidentally, caused much pain among his supporters. However, in the tenth, with no one out, the strain began to show on the Chicagoans. Samuel Dewitt hit to Bingo DeMoss, who threw wild to Leroy Grant at first, the runner acquiring the base; Connie Day hit to Dave Brown; the pitcher also threw wild. With two on the hassocks, Big Ed Rile, who had been smashing them hard all day, but in some waiting hands, took hold of one of Dave Brown's shoots. It went straight to Bobby Williams at shortstop, but proved too hot for the little fellow, so the blow let down the bars to victory for the Hoosier crew. Big Ed Rile pitched the second game also, but the closing law stopped what looked like another duel between him and Tom Johnson. The second game ended in a deadlock, 2-2."

June 28, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Monday's Thriller - The A.B.C.'s and Rube Foster's American Giants staged an unsatisfactory 10-inning tie game, Monday. In the abscense of the regular umpire, C.I. Taylor officiated, and being confronted with many close decisions, brought forth kicking from both sides. However, his work pleased many."

Indianapolis, IN
"Giants and A.B.C.'s Tie - After battling ten long innings the American Giants and the A.B.C.'s ended their third game at Washington Park Monday afternoon in an 8-8 tie. The same teams play again this afternoon. To date, in the present series, the A.B.C.'s have won one game, and two games have been ties."

June 29, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Rube's American Giants Fall in Tuesday's Game. Giants 5, A.B.C.'s 6."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Again. - The A.B.C.'s again trounced Rube Foster's American Giants at Washington Park yesterday afternoon. The score was 6 to 5. The windup of the series was to be played this afternoon provided rain did not interfere and the local team was confident of making a sweep of the series. Four games have been played and the A.B.C.'s have won two and tied two. The Chicago stars were outclassed at the bat yesterday."

June 30, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"American Giants Cop the Final Game From A's 6 to 2. - Rube Foster's American Giants took the final game of the series with C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s at Washington Park Wednesday afternoon, 6 to 2. It was the only contest of the series that the Widy City aggregation was able to cop. Taylor's club grabbed one scrap Sunday and took Tuesday's affair, while two of the games were tied. Dizzy Dismukes and Jim Jeffries were the pitchers used by Taylor in an attempt to halt the Giants. Although getting but seven blows, Foster's team harched them and got the "breaks" of the contest. The A's gathered nine safeties in all, but they were good for only two runs. The Indianapolis colored stars started right off in the 1st inning with a run, but Foster's team grabbed one in the second, and three in the fourth. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, the Detroit Stars, who are resting in second place in the Western Colored Base Ball League, will be seen in action here against the A's. Some more classy baseball is expected. A single contest will be staged Sunday, with two scraps Monday and a single game Tuesday."

July 3, 1920

Muncie, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win From Detroit Stars at Muncie, Indiana - Muncie, Indiana - The A.B.C.'s of Indianapolis defeated the Detroit Stars of Detroit, Michigan Saturday, July 3 by the score of 3 to 1. Southpaw Jim Jeffries of the A.'s was in rare form. Gunboat Thompson pitched for the Stars."

July 4, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Detroit Stars and A.B.C.'s In a 50-50 Series, Both Teams Winning 2 Games - Washington Park, Indianapolis, Indiana - Tenny Blount's slugging Stars from Detroit, Michigan hit Ed Rile and Jim Jeffries hard, Sunday, and easily defeated the A.B.C.'s before a crowd of 6,000. Bill Holland, the Indianapolis boy and the Stars' pitching ace, held the locals to three blows. Oscar Charleston's fielding was a feature, while Joe Hewitt's work at short was of sensational order."

Indianapolis, IN
"Detroit Stars to Start Series With A.B.C.'s Sunday - The Detroit Stars and the A.B.C.'s will hook up in a series here at Washington Park. The teams will meet Sunday in a single contest, starting at 3 o'clock, while Monday two games will be staged, the first ones starting at 2 o'clock. A single contest will take place Tuesday. C.I. Taylor's speedy A's have a chance to go into second place in the standing of the Western Colored League. The Stars are at present in second position, but can drop back if the local colored club wins the series. Rube Foster's American Giants, of Chicago, who dropped two out of three contests played here, are leading the loop."

"Detroit Stars Win. - More than 6,000 people saw the Detroit Stars defeated the A.B.C.'s 9 to 2, at Washington Park Sunday. Bill Holland held the local batters to three hits while the Stars worked on Ed Rile and Jim Jeffries for fourteen."

July 5, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Divide Honors Monday. - Big Bill Gatewood pitched both games for the Detroit Stars, Monday, and the daring base running of left fielder George Shively, of the A.B.C.s kept him from winning both. The Stars hit Ed Rile and Jim Jeffries hard in the first and second innings, but Dicta Johnson held them safe afterwards. Smiling Dizzy Dismukes pitched good ball in the second game."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Split Even In Double-Header - By a splendid ninth inning finish, the A.B.C.'s won the second game of the double-header with the Detroit Stars and gained an even split in the holiday affair at Washington Park Monday afternoon. The visitors won the first game 7 to 3 and the A.B.C.'s took the second 4 to 3 as a result of daring base running by George Shively, who beat out an infield hit in the ninth, stole second and third and came rambling home on a wild throw to third to catch him. Bill Gatewood, former pitcher for the A.B.C.'s, hurled splendid ball for the Detroit team, working all the way in both contests."

July 6, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Rain Stops Tuesday's Game - Tuesday's game between the A.B.C.'s and Detroit Stars was called off on account of rain. Each club has won two games. The Cuban Stars come Sunday for a double header."

July 10, 1920

Muncie, IN
"A.B.C.'s and Cubans in Second Series - The A.B.C.'s and Cubans opened up their second series at Muncie, Indiana last Saturday, the Cubans winning 8 to 7. Ben Taylor and Oscar Charleston pitching for the locals."

July 11, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s and Cubans in Second Series - Sunday, at Indianapolis, rain ended first game after five innings had been played, the Cubans winning, 5 to 1."

Indianapolis, IN
"Cubans Here Sunday for Series with A.B.C.'s - Two games, the first one starting at 2 o'clock, will be staged between the Indianapolis A.B.C.'s and Cuban Stars at Washington Park Sunday afternoon. These two clubs also meet in single contests Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, the games starting at 3 o'clock. A new second baseman is expected to be in the lineup of the local colored team when it takes the field. Manager C.I. Taylor has been on the lookout for one ever since Samuel DeWitt was injured and the A.B.C. pilot expects to have him in line. The Cuban outfie has been strengthened a great deal since its last appearance here."

"Cubans Beat A.B.C.'s - The Cuban Stars beat C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s 5 to 1, in a five inning game Sunday, when rain interfered with the playing of a double bill. The Cubans have a fast team of heavy hitters. The same teams will play today, Tuesday and Wednesday, the games to be called at 3 o'clock."

July 12, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s and Cubans in Second Series - Monday, smiling Dizzy Dismukes, had his underhand ball working to perfection, letting the pesky Islanders down with five singles and no runs."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Victory. - The A.B.C.'s and the Cubans were to get together today with the game score tied. Yesterday the A's beat the islanders 3 to 0 because of the effective pitching of Dizzy Dismukes, who held the Cubans to five scattered hits. The series will end Wednesday."

July 14, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win Windup - The A.B.C.'s took the final game from the Cubans yesterday, 1 to 0, the single tally being made in the ninth inning on a double by Biz Mackey and a single by Ralph Jefferson. It was a splendid pitching duel between Jose Leblanc and Bob McClure. The A's will take on the Monarchs Friday for a six-game series, the second game of which will be played in Muncie on Saturday, the clubs returning here Sunday."

July 17, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Ed Rile Jumps A.B.C.'s - Ed Rile, the pitching Ace of the A.B.C.'s, who started the season with the A's, then jumped to a New York Team, and was again secured by the locals, like the Arab, has folded his tent, also one of the team's suits and other things and left for parts unknown. Under the League rules, Ed Rile is ineligible to play with any other Club in the Circuit. Outfielder, George Shively is also out of the line-up. Manager C.I. Taylor has signed five players from San Antonio, Texas."

July 18, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Food for Fans - By Charles A. Starks. - The Monarchs continue to satisfy the optimistic demands and hopes of the local fans here in Kansas City. After leaving Detroit with highest honors they went to do battle with the ever formidable alphabetical nine - the A.B.C.'s. Batteries - Crawford and Ray functioned for the Monarchs, while Williams, Johnson and Biz Mackey worked for the A.B.C.'s. - Sunday's Games - First Game. - There were about 7,000 fans watching the first of a pair of struggles between the two fast teams. The manager of the A.B.C.'s put in a new mound acquisition hailing from Texas. The southern gent got down to business after the first round and the heavy hitting Monarchs failed to land on the ball by way of hits and scores. Mackey, the local's back stop starred in several feature plays. The A.B.C.s cinched the game in the first round when they piled up a quartet of runs. They also scored one in the second and one in the fifth. Monarchs 2, A.B.C. 6. Batteries - Donaldson, Rogan and Rodriguez; McClure, Mackey.
Second Game. - In the second game things went opposite. Currie hurled for the Monarchs, and except for the third round the locals could not make out what he was, whether he was a cyclone or some strange wary performer that defeated all their attempts at solving the riddle. On the other side despite the fast fielding of the locals, they could not apprehend the hitting bee that the Monarchs were featuring, so Currie won his game, 6 to 3. Monarchs 6, A.B.C.s 3."

Indianapolis, IN
"7,000 Fans Watch A.B.C.'s Win and Lose With Monarchs - The Kansas City Monarchs and A.B.C.'s split even in a double header at Washington Park, Sunday afternoon. The local colored club grabbed the first encounter Sunday, 6 to 2 when Bob McClure twirled in real style for the Biz Mackey's catching was the big feature A.'s. He was given dandy support of the afternoon. The playing of Ralph Jefferson, outfielder with the Indianapolis club, went a long way toward siding the A.'s to grab the scrap. Ralph Jefferson also cut in with some classy playing in the second game. Dizzy Dismukes was on the mound against the Kansas City outfit in the second contest. All the breaks of the game went against this veteran and the A.'s lost, 6 to 3. A catch by Connie Day of a high liner over second brouht the big hand from the crowd of 7,000."

July 19, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"The A.B.C.s came back Monday and took the game away from the Monarchs at the close rating of 5 to 4. This fellow McClure, from Texas, must be some pipkin to hold the K.C. boys down to such straits. It doesn't read natural, that's all. Crawford pitched a nice even game for the Monarchs. He struck out four men while Jeffries only caused 1 to whiff the air. McClure relieved Jeffries in the ninth when there were two on base and none out, and won out for the locals. Monarchs 4, A.B.C.s 5."

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s Best Monarchs. - After winning by a 5 to 4 count in ten innings yesterday, the A.B.C.'s were out to clinch the series with the Kansas City Monarchs this afternoon at Washington Park. By dividing a double-header Sunday and copping yesterday's game, the local colored club needs but one more contest to clinch the series as these teams end their meetings here tomorrow. Pitcher Bob McClure and Catcher Biz Mackey, both recently secured from San Antonio, Texas, were the stars for the A's Monday. Bob McClure took the mound in the ninth inning with two on and no outs, holding the slugging Kansas City outfit scoreless. The Indianapolis team was trailing, 4 to 3, when it went to bat in the ninth. C.I. Taylor's club tied the score and then won out in the extra inning."

July 20, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"Monarchs 4, A.B.C.s 2."

Indianapolis, IN
A.B.C.'s Cop In Twelfth Inning - Dicta Johnson, the spit ball artist of the A.B.C.'s, showed his worth Tuesday, when he held the slugging Kansas City Monarchs to eight blows in twelve innings, the locals winning, 4 to 3."

Indianapolis, IN
"Out for Leadership of Colored League - C.I. Taylor's A.B.C.'s were out to take another step in the direction of the leadership of the Western Colored Leauge this afternoon in their game with the Kansas City Monarchs. The Indianapolis colored club is now in second place, only three games behind the leading Chicago American Giants, the famous aggregation of Rube Foster. The Monarchs are third in the race. By winning yesterday's scrap, 4 to 3, the A's clinched the series with the Kansas City team. Plenty of action was promised for this afternoon as two of the four games played so far went to extra innings. Dicta Johnson twirled for the A.B.C.'s yesterday, and turned a victory in twelve innings. Namon Washington's single to center with Blackmon on (illegible) the winner. Connie Day and Morten Clark cut in with some nice fielding for the locals, while the base running of Morten Clark was one of the features. Next Sunday the Chicago Giants, a club that has been going at a fast pace recently, will open a series here."

July 21, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
A.B.C.s 6, Kansas City Monarchs 7.

July 23, 1920

Chicago, IL
"League Standings, as of Friday, July 23."

July 25, 1920

Indianapolis, IN
"A.B.C.'s to Hit Road After Present Series - The A.B.C.'s, after meeting the fast climbing Chicago Giants in a double-header Sunday and a single game Monday, at Washington Park, will be on the road to (illegible) fight for the (illegible) of the Western Colored League. At (illegible) the local colored team is in second palce, just three game behind the Chicago American Giants, Rube Foster's team. Manager C.I. Taylor expects to come back home in first place. The Chicago Giants have been going at a rapid pace for several weeks, and the Windy City aggregation is giving to make a lot of the other members of the loop stop some in order to finish up in the race. Manager Joe Green, of the visitors, has added a number of new players to his team since it last played here, and it is said to be a (illegible) club than it was early in the season. It has just finished playing some of the strong teams in the circuit. The first game Sunday will start at 3 o'clock."

"Chicago Giants and A.B.C.'s in Double Bill - A capacity crowd is expected to see the A.B.C.'s take on the speedy Chicago Giants in a double-header at Washington Park Sunday afternoon. The first contest starts at 2 o'clock. This will be the last home appearance of the local colored club until the Indians take to the road again. The series with the Chicago team will wind up Monday with a single game. The Chicago Giants have been gaining ground in the race for the Western Colored League title and are expected to make the A's step some in order to grab the series. The Windy City team has won seventeen out of the last twenty-five games played, most of the scraps being against the strong clubs in the loop."

"A.B.C.'s Go On Round. - The A.B.C.'s played their last game in Indianapolis, before hitting the road, at Washington Park this afternoon. The closing contest of the long home stay was with the Chicago Giants, who broke even with the A.B.C.'s in the double-header Sunday afternoon. The feature of Sunday's game was the spectacular running catch by Oscar Charleston, the Indianapolis team's Center Fielder."

Indianapolis, IN
"Charleston's Catch Features Chicago Giants A.B.C. Game - Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday. - After taking the first game at Washington Park, 7 to 4, Taylor's A.B.C.'s could not hit the ball hard enough to win the second, losing, 6 to 4, in seven innings, the Sunday closing law putting a halt to things. The Chicago Giants furnished opposition, and the visitors looked to be a far better club than the first time they were here. Oscar Charleston's running catch of a hard hit drive, directly over his head, was the big feature of the afternoon. It was truly one of the best catches ever made by an outfielder at Washington Park. This speedy center fielder has made quite a few great catches this season, but this was the best he has ever pulled. Bob McClure pitched the first game for the A's and was never in real danger. His fast ball seemed to puzzle the Chicago Club. John Taylor pitched for the Giants and with better support would have held the local club to a better score. In the second scrap the Giants hit Dicta Johnson in the pinches, and aided by two errors counted enough runs to win."

July 29, 1920

Marion, IN
"A.B.C.'s Win in Tenth. - Marion, Indiana, July 30. - The Indianapolis A.B.C.'s had to go ten innings to trim the Chicago Giants here yesterday, 4 to 3, at Booster Park. Both Chase, of the Giants, and Jim Jeffries, of C.I. Taylor's team, pitched good ball. A second game between these clubs is played today."

July 30, 1920

Marion, IN
"Chicago Giants vs. A.B.C.s"

July 31, 1920

Dayton, OH
"A.B.C.s Lose to Cubans In Triangular Double Bill - Dayton, Ohio, July 31 - The A.B.C.s lost to the Cubans here today, 7 to 2, In a triangular double-header, the winner of the first contest playing the winner of the first contest with the Dayton Marcos in the second contest. Dicta Johnson, in the A.B.C. game, pitched loose ball and was relieved in the sixth by Jim Jeffries, who pitched good ball and held the Cubans scoreless the remainder of the game. The Marcos defeated the Cubans in the second game, which lasted five innings, 6 to 3."