African Americans Baseball
Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 July 1919, page 13
WHITES AND NEGROES CLASH IN NEWPORT
Prompt action on the part of Newport police prevented a race riot
at the ball park, Tenth and Lowell streets, Newport, yesterday afternoon, when
partisans of a white team, the Covingtons and a negro team, Page's Tigers,
clashed at the end of a fourteen inning game. The score at the time stood
5 to 4, in favor of the negroes.
White and negro spectators engaged in a fight over the game, and eventually several players became involved. The players carried bats when they mingled with the disputants. Detective James Fuller succeeded in restoring peace for a time, but when the quarrel was renewed he sent in an emergency call. Lieutenant George Kirby responded with Detective Murphy and Officers Hamilton, Scheben, Flannelly, Verax, Mertes and Eviston.
The negroes, however, hurriedly left the ball
ground and the police dispersed the spectators.