[4] The Bacharach Giants' shortstop, Dick Lundy, was promoted to player-manager in his place, returning to the post he had held in 1923 before Lloyd's arrival.
"[15] Over the winter, Rube Foster, the co-owner and manager of the American Giants (as well as president of the Negro National League), engaged in a series of trades and transactions designed to overhaul and rebuild his aging team.
From the Memphis Red Sox, which had forfeited its NNL franchise, he picked up Sanford Jackson, Charlie Williams, and catcher Pythias Russ.
[18] A new franchise was approved for the Cleveland Elites, owned by Sam Shepard of St. Louis; Candy Jim Taylor was named as the team's manager.
[24][25] On May 18, however, the Monarchs suffered a tragic setback when their star shortstop, Dobie Moore, was shot in the leg by a girlfriend, resulting in compound fractures that would end his professional baseball career.
[31] In late August, American Giants manager Rube Foster experienced a nervous breakdown after several weeks of exhibiting erratic behavior.
If the American Giants won, the teams would play a second, five-inning game and the winner would board the train to Atlantic City for the World Series.
[2]: 211 As late as the beginning of September, Chicago Defender sportswriter Fay Young wrote that "there might not be any world series this year" because the Cuban Stars (East) were narrowly leading the Eastern Colored League pennant race.
He reached base on a fielder's choice hit to the pitcher; Henderson's throw home was high and wide allowing Hines to score with Chicago taking a 1–0 lead.
[44][45] The Bacharach Giants took the lead in the bottom of the fourth, when White, Lundy, and Farrell hit consecutive singles with two outs, driving in two runs.
Foster, who just two days earlier had pitched two shutouts in a doubleheader to clinch the championship, came in to relieve Curry and struck out Farrell.
After five singles, a walk, and a hit batter, the American Giants had taken a 4–1 lead and had the bases loaded with two outs when Hines came to bat for the second time in the inning.
The Chicago Defender said that Grier "deserves all the credit in the world, although we have to remind our readers that Marcell, Lundy and Garcia pulled off some of the most phenomenal fielding that we have seen..." The losing pitcher, McDonald, went 7 innings and was charged with all 10 runs, of which four were unearned.
Marcell grounded to shortstop, but Jackson made a wild throw to first base, allowing García to score and the runners to advance to second and third.
With two outs, Jackson attempted to steal home and scored when Henderson's pitch got past the catcher, which was ruled as a passed ball.
Jelly Gardner started the game with a walk by pitcher Alonzo Mitchell, and a passed ball by catcher Willie Jones meant he went to second base.
The next batter in Dave Malarcher would advance to first base on an error by first baseman Chance Cummings that gave Gardner enough time to score form second.
Chicago inched closer in the subsequent inning, starting with a hit by Malarcher and a walk to Sandy Thompson, and they went to third and second base on a sacrifice bunt.
A subsequent strikeout meant two outs for Jim Brown, but he would line a triple to right field to score two runs and narrow the deficit to 6–5.
A leadoff single by Ambrose Reid was followed by two outs but him on second base and Dick Lundy scored him hin with a double to the outfield to make it 1–0.
In the eighth inning, Oliver Marcell hit a leadoff single to right field, and Chaney White followed it with a triple to left to cut the game to 4–3.
Starter Hubert Lockhart had gotten the leadoff hitter to pop-out, but he was replaced after Dave Malarcher had hit a single and stole second base.
A wild pitch by starting pitcher George Harney meant that there was runners on third and second base, and Oliver Marcell was soon intentionally walked.
Chicago responded with a leadoff walk by Jelly Gardner, but a pop-out and a force-out meant that Sandy Thompson was at first base with two out, although a single by John Hines put the tying run at the plate in George Sweatt.
However, Sanford Jackson would line a triple to left field to score Sweatt, and Charlie Williams responded with a single to make it 2–0.
In the sixth inning, an error, a passed ball, and two walks meant the bases were loaded with no one out, and Jelly Gardner doubled to score two runs and close the game at 13–0.
With two outs, Dick Lundy and Chaney White each lobbed singles to center field, and Joe Lewis walked to load the bases.
Oliver Marcell walked to have runners on the corners, but Lundy grounded a ball to shortstop Sanford Jackson, who threw to first baseman George Sweatt to keep the game tied at 0.
In the bottom half of the frame, Jelly Gardner started it with a single to left, and he was advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Dave Malarcher.
With Sandy Thompson at bat, he would line a walk-off single to center field that left enough for Gardner to race to home plate and win the Series for Chicago.