1926 Jimmy Dykes Day- Shibe Park - Artisans premium
 

For your viewing pleasure-

This (below) is an approximately 3 x 5 inch ad "card" on thin paper, put out in 1926 by the Artisans Company. It honored Jimmy (Good Sport) Dykes with a "Jimmy Dykes Day" diamond pin at Shibe Park, May 22, 1926. Here is something I cut and pasted from Archive.org.-



MAIN LINE ARTISANS
HONOR MEMBER ATHLETES

Dykes, of Ardmore Assembly, Given

Diamond Pin.
Jimmy Dykes, popular third base-
man of the Athletics, was one of the
reasons for Artisans' Day at Shibe
Park last Saturday when the order
honored their two baseball-playing
members, Dykes and Rommel, with
a special celebration.

Dykes is a member of the Main
Line Assembly, meeting at Ardmore,
which is one of the progressive sub-
ordinate bodies of the fraternity.

After the Artisans' band and the
string band, field music and patrol
of St. John's Assembly attending in
uniform, had paraded around the
field, Dykes and Rommel were
called to the home plate where
Charles H. Grakelow, Director of
Public AVelfare in Philadelphia and
a past most excellent master Artisan,
presented the Main Liner with a
diamond pin and the famous pitcher
with a set of silver.

Bertram Smith, most excellent
master Artisan : Allen P. Cox, most
excellent recorder ; John Lipsey,
chairman of the Artisans' extension
committee, and Victor I. Ridenour,
of Narberth, a past most excellent
master Artisan, were among the
prominent members of the order in
attendance.

With the overwhelming response to this thread does anyone have any Dykes cards to show? :)

Here is a tough one...

Very neat Leon! So is there a similar premium out there for Rommel who was also honored on Artisan's Day?

My small Dykes contribution to the thread ...

Rob
:)

Leon, That orient is a nice card as is that premium! Being an A's fan, items like these always interest me. I remember years ago (maybe 7 or 8) on ebay there was a card just like this Dykes that was for a Mike Powers Day and it was just after he died and they wanted to raise money for his family. I was the under bidder and I think it went for a little over $100, I could be wrong though as my memory gets foggier and foggier as the years go on.

Dan

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I would love to see the Mike Powers day item. These kinds of things are neat to me as they are not your every day baseball cards. Here is a 1925 Mulvey Day tag card...

http://luckeycards.com/phunc1925mulveydaytag.jpg

''James Dykes Chicago A.L.''
 

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/204295...SWORCH_NEW.JPG


The camera adds ten pounds ; I don't recall his being so ummm corpulent.

A very baby-faced young Jimmy Dykes
 

Hi Leon,
As you know with me no cards but a nice wards sporties pin!;)