June 2, 1912
Chicago, IL
"Next Sunday, at Schorling's Park, the New Chicago Giants will play a game against the Royal Giants. Frank Leland has secured most of the players of last season and the boys have been practicing steadily, and a great game is promised on next Sunday. The Chicago Giants have a great number of admirers here, and also the Royals, and a good crowd will witness the battle. At this writing little of known of the players of batteries."
June 23, 1912
Ridgewood, Queens, NY
"The Giants easily defeated the Ridgewood Club Sunday. The Hoboken team will have a well-known twirler in the box, with Steve Lee behind the bat."
June 30, 1912
Hoboken, NJ
"Royal Giants at Hoboken Sunday - The Royal Giants will make their first appearance of the season at the St. George Cricket Grounds, Hoboken, Sunday afternoon. The Giants include Home Run Johnson, Poles, Earl, Webster, Andrews, Robinson and Alexander."
Brooklyn, NY
"New Lots vs. Royal Giants. - Tomorrow morning at New Lots Oval, New Lots road and Linwood street, Brooklyn, the Royal Giants, who defeated Ridgewood last Sunday, will be the attraction. Home Run Johnson, Spottswood Poles, Charles Earle and the regular team will appear on the field. Danny McClellan will pitch for the Giants while Hess and Blass will compose the New Lots' battery. Game called at 10:30 o'clock."
July 4, 1912
Millerville, MA
"Royal Giants Win. - National Athletic Club Nine Loses 10-Inning Game, 10 to 4, at Millerville. - The colored Royal Giants took a game from the National Athletic Club of the Inter-City League at Millerville yesterday afternoon, the contest going 10 innings and the score being 10 to 4. The negro performers batted around in the extra innings. Parent pitched a remarkable game for the Nationals, with the exception of three innings, including the 10th. He fanned 19 men in the regulation distance, retiring the side on strikes in four sessions. In the third, sixth and 10th rounds the colored clouters got to him, a number of their runs being earned. Collins and Johnson played fine ball for the visitors."
July 6, 1912
Plainfield, NJ
"The Suburban Athletic Club, which plays at Morris Park on Sunday afternoon, played at Plainfield Saturday and defeated the Royal Giants, 9 to 6. Freddie Schall, the Suburban's Sunday backstop, was on the mound and pitched great ball."
July 13, 1912
Washington, DC
"... the Washington Giants will play July 13 and 14, the Brooklyn Royal Giants..."
New York, NY
"the game with the Royal Giants being postponed."
Pittsfield, MA
"Wins Game in Ninth. - Brooklyn Royal Giants Tie Score Twice, But Finally Lose. - Pittsfield won a game in Pittsfield yesterday afternoon that was lost to the Brooklyn Royal Giants twice, but in the ninth inning came back and delivered the run which won the contest, 9 to 8. Bruggy's hit to center field was responsible for the victory, while McDonald's single in the eighth put the home boys on equal footing. J. Carroll followed McDonald with a timely bingle to right and put the locals two runs to the good. With this lead the home team gave an exhibition of heaving in the ninth, giving the visitors a chance to tie it up again. With Earl pitching and one down, Cummings and F. Carroll were walked, Noonan being thrown out on a grounder to the pitcher. Bruggy then delivered his good-night single. The lilting of Webster, Poles, McCarthy, F. Carroll, Bruggy, and J. Carrol featured."
Pittsfield, MA
"Gets Scare In Ninth. - Pittsfield Almost Hands Another to Brooklyn Royal Giants. - Pittsfield, July 13. - Pittsfield was nearly beaten by the Brooklyn Royals this afternoon, but by a hair-raising ninth inning finish defeated the visitors, 9 to 8, in a game that belonged to the Giants twice. Pittsfield played a fine game until the ninth and up to that time was leading by two runs. A series of wild throws cropped out then and the visitors collected two runs which tied up the game. Pitcher Andrews found it so warm in the eighth inning that he gave up in despair and asked Earl to help him out of the predicament. Earl went in and retired the first batter, but in the ninth was wild enough to pass two men and these were helped along by Bruggy's sharp single to left, which won the game."
July 14, 1912
Washington, DC
"... the Washington Giants will play July 13 and 14, the Brooklyn Royal Giants..."
New York, NY
"the game with the Royal Giants being postponed."
July 27, 1912
New York, NY
"Royal Giants Meet Lincolns - The Royal Giants and the Lincoln Giants will meet this afternoon in their second game this season in American League Park. In the opening game of the series two weeks ago the Royals handed the Lincolns an unexpected defeat, and the latter are out to get even. The series is to consist of six games, and the Lincolns say the Royals will not be successful again. In today's conflict on the Hilltop Dick Redding, the strikeout king; Cyclone Joe Williams or Ben Taylor will occupy the box for the Lincolns, while the Royals are likely to depend on Shipp or Andrews. Both teams have been strengthened since they met two weeks ago, and this afternoon's battle promises to be hard fought from start to finish. Play will be called at 3:30 P.M."
July 28, 1912
New York, NY
"Sunday Baseball Put Under the Ban - New Yorkers Who Tried to Play Catch Arrested by the Police - Those poor New Yorkers. Las Vegans have it on them in respect to baseball. The latter can play catch on their vacant lots on Sunday. Here is what happened to the baseballists in New York Sunday, according to the World of Monday morning. Baseball? It was a dangerous game yesterday, the day being the Sabbath and the game being very sinful, according to the law. More than 200 twirlers of the ball and pounders of the mitt and wielders of the bat - not to mention less privileged participants - must be in court this morning to answer for the deeds done on the Sabbath. They were advised yesterday that the magistrates would expect them. They were advised by those very serious looking documents which policement sometimes deliver called summonses. As reported in the World yesterday orders went forth a few days ago that the back alley leagues would have to abide by the Sunday law. Yesterday was appointed the day on which the crusade should begin. Inspector Sweeney assigned four policement from the East One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth street station to take note of Harlem baseball exploits. The four proceeded to Olympic Field at One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Street and Fifth Avenue, a place conducted by the McMahon brothers. The Smart Set team was battling with the Lincoln Giants, both colored aggregations, and an intensely interested crowd was looking on and making a noise. A play by a Giants had just been greeted uproariously when in came the bluecoats, with their full assortment of summonses. First thing the Giants knew the Smart Setters were receiving papers commanding them to appear in the Harlem police court at 9 a.m. Monday morning. And before the Giants could get over the surprise, they were getting similar documents. Then more summonses were served on the numerous score card peddlers. Altogether, including the vendors, the players and the substitutes, 40 were ordered to court. The police say the score-card is just a substitute for an admission ticket. At a quarter a piece the score-cards bring in much money. The Metropolitans and the New Brunswicks were engaged in diamond combat at Lenox Oval, when two policement appeared and delivered 41 summonses. When the bluecoats pushed in spectators jeered at them. Hey you! somebody yelled. Why d'you butt in on a decent game like this? Go and catch the Rosenthal merderers! The Sunday baseball views of Magistrate McQuaid, who will hear the cases today, are unknown to the baseball players, who wonder what he will do. Some magistrates fine ball players; others discharge them. At a game between the Emeralds and the Royal Giants on the Catholic Protectory grounds in the Bronx, Patrolman Zankel served summonses on the players and managers. Then he withdrew and the game continued to its end. In Brooklyn 150 summonses were served. The Fifth Avenue precinct did the banner business, with 40 summonses. The Brooklyn method differed from that in Harlem. In Brooklyn summonses were given to patrolmen on post, and they were instructed to serve them on any persons playing ball. A number of amateur baseball games were played on Staten Island yesterday and were not interfered with by the police."