Elmer “Ty” Lober was a long-time minor league player, manager in the Wisconsin State League, served in the Army in WWI and was a central figure in a scandal that briefly rocked the Pacific Coast League in 1914.
In September of 1914 police in Portland, Oregon announced the arrest of four men, and issued a warrant for a fifth. The men were charged with “Wholesale traffic in school girls between the age of 14 and 16.”
Two of the men arrested were Portland outfielder Lober and third baseman Bobby Davis. Also arrested were a local jeweler and an actor named Bert Roach (Roach would go on to appear in more than 300 films). The warrant was issued for Mission Wolves and former Major League pitcher Frank Arellanes.
Early reports indicated that the players had confessed and that there would be several more arrests. But the “open and shut case” described by West Coast newspapers seemed to quickly fall apart, and concerns about wide spread human trafficking among Pacific Coast League players quickly faded.
Just three weeks after the arrests the grand jury came back with indictments for only two of those arrested; Davis and Arellanes. The cases against these two quickly fell apart also and all three players were in uniform at the beginning of 1915, Lober and Davis with Portland and Arellanes with Denver in the Western League.
Lober went on to play with Lincoln in the Western League before entering the service in 1918. He spent 1920 with an independent team in Zanesville, Ohio and was signed to play with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American Association in 1921. He finished his career with the Little Rock Travelers of the Southern Association in 1925 (he’s misidentified as “Lobar” on Baseball Reference).
Elmer “Ty” Lober
Lober managed and occasionally played for Two Rivers in the Wisconsin State League into the early 30s
He passed away on November 6, 1946 in Two Rivers.
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Ty is my great uncle. Would love to get one of his trading cards if anyone has one.