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JOSEPH J. "JOE" HYDE was an all around athlete, was well known in Camden as a a professional basketball player and also played minor league ball. In his later years he operated a bar at 203 Market Street. He is not to be confused with Joseph F. Hyde or Joseph F. Hyde Jr., who owned Hyde's Cafe (aka Hyde's Saloon) Saloon at 1600 South 6th Street from the 1900s into the 1950s.was a open for business as early as 1906, and was still trading under that name as late as 1947. Joseph J. "Joe" Hyde was born in 1897. He was the youngest of four children born to Richard Hyde Jr. and his wife, the former Eva Smith. coming after Elizabeth, George and Richard. His father worked as representative of a Philadelphia brewery. Richard Hyde had also worked as Camden policeman for a year in the 1890s. Joe Hyde's grandfather, Richard Hyde Sr., had been a constable and a Camden County freeholder from the Seventh Ward in the 1880s. His uncle, Joseph F. Hyde Sr., owned a bar at 1600 South 6th Street, Hyde's Cafe. Sadly, Richard Hyde died at the age of 50 in January of 1913, Joe Hyde played professional and semi-pro baseball in the 1910s and throughout the 1920s. After starring locally with semi-pro teams, Joe Hyde, broke into organized baseball as a catcher with the Jersey City Skeeters of the International League in 1919. He returned to Jersey City in 1920, but left the team after getting into a dispute with manager "Wild Bill" Donovan. Suspended from organized baseball, Joe Hyde played with the Lebanon Steel team of the Bethlehem Steel League, where he was the teammate of former major leaguers Eggie Lennox, Norman Plitt, and Earl Potteiger, who would go on to coach the New York Giants of the National Football league in the 1920s. Joe Hyde played for a series of semi-pro teams until 1928, when he was reinstated into the pro game at the behest of George Stallings, who also had managed at the major league level, taking the 1914 Boston Braves to the World Series, and sweeping Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in four games. Joe Hyde caught at least one game for Montreal of the International League that summer. He played for Allentown of the Eastern League in 1929. Joe Hyde made his professional basketball debut during the 1919-1920 season, with the Camden Crusaders of the Eastern Basketball League. The Crusaders were owned by Camden veterinarian Dr. Charles B. Helm and former Camden Counnty Sheriff W. Penn Corson. Other team members included brother Neil Deighan, Eddie Ferat, Sam Lennox, Jimmy "Soup" Campbell, Roy Steele, and another rookie, Rich Deighan. The Crusaders were the 1919-1920 Eastern Basketball League champions. He stayed in the game, although not at that level, then the pinnacle of pro hoops. Joe Hyde returned to the pro ranks with the Camden franchise of the 1928-29 Eastern Basketball league. The EBL was then a shadow of its former self, and must be considered a semi-pro league at best. The Camden roster as known included Joe Hyde, Rich Deighan, Sam Lennox, and two other players named Leach and Mulligan. The team lost all ten of the games it played before folding.
The 1930 Census shows Joe Hyde, his mother, brothers Richard and George and their wives, living at 1403 Kaighn Avenue. When the census was taken in 1940, Joe Hyde was living with his brother George in Collingswood and was working as a bartender. The Census also indicates that he had been living with his brother in Collingswood as early as 1935. His widowed mother also lived there. Joe Hyde married Mary Lind not long after the Census was taken. The couple made their home at 2713 Hayes Avenue in Cramer Hill. Joe Hyde was working as a bartender at Homo's at 227-229 Market Street as early as 1941. In the summer of 1943 Joe Hyde acquired the bar at 203 Market Street, which had been operating as the Delight Grille for the previous few years. Sadly, Joe Hyde died of a heart attack at his home 2713 Hayes Avenue, on December 31, 1943. His wife sold the bar after a fire in March of 1944. Last a resident of Maple Shade, Mary Lind Hyde died in January of 1986.
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BLACK YANKS HERE IN DOUBLE-HEADER Probably the greatest collection of colored talent in the country will perform before local fans tomorrow afternoon at the Fairview Athletic Field when the New York Black Yankees and Lou Schaub's Camden Club engage in a double-header. The opening game is slated to start promptly at 2 o'clock. This will be' the first appearance of the New Yorkers here this season. Schaub had originally scheduled them for the opening game of the season, but rain forced the cancellation of, the game Due to the fact that the Yankees, happened to have an open date for this Sunday,Schaub immediately grabbed the chance of bringing this fast-moving outfit here. The players comprising the New York ensemble are of the best in the country and is the finest collection of stars gathered in one team. They have a pitching staff that ranks with the best, namely, ”Reds" Ryan, Phil Rolland, Luther Farrell and Gandy. A number of other out-standing players who will be in the lineup are Yancey, Riggins, Smith, Rector, "Fat" Jenkins and George Scales, who also manages the club. The Yanks have taken on all kinds of opposition since the season started and have made the best bite the dirt. The most recent visit of the New Yorkers in the section was last Tuesday when they defeated the Mayfair Club of Philadelphia, a team which also bowed to the Schaubmen. Schaub announced that the pitching assignments will be turned over to the veteran Johnny "Rube" Chambers and Jack Kimble, Wildwood High athletic director, who has been twirling splendid ball for Camden this season. Tommy Naughton and Joe Hyde will take care of the receiving, with the former probably donning the mask and windpad in the opener. The local infield will be taken care of by Bill O'Donnell on first with Bill "Jigger" Black at second, and Joe Snyder at shortstop, while either Ernie Padgett or Fritz Schadel will hold down third base. In the outfield will be Dick Spalding, George Gilham and Bill Graupner, the latter having recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he captained the nine. |
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