(Deceased)

Started playing Dartball around 1945 and played until 1998. He played in the Catholic Blue & Gold League, and was a .550 average player, batting lead off for many years. He was also the league secretary for almost 40 years. Jack was remembered for his promotion of Dartball. He could never park his car in his one stall garage, because it was always filled with dartboards and darts that he sold to teams. 

Jack was one of the original 3 members enshrined into the Dartball Hall of Fame when he received a plaque in 1989 from the State Committee for promoting Dartball.

Information provided by Mark Stieber.

His family was at the state tournament to accept his plaque on his behalf in 2010.   

Lives in West Allis.

He started playing Dartball in 1943 at the age of 14 in the West Allis Classic League, which he still plays in (66+years). He has also played in the WELS Lutheran Church League (8 years), the Senior League (16 years), the Milwaukee Industrial League (6 years) and the Milwaukee Muni League (4 years). Between 1943 and 2005 he averaged between .420 and .575, many of those years were over .500, including his personal best .575 season in 1946. He was on many league champion teams, the last in 2006-07 season in the West Allis 4 man League. Jerry has played in too many tournaments to count, and in over 60 state tournaments. He has been the manager for 3 state champions: Play Shop (1952), Kuchta's Beer Depot (1961), and Van’s Shop Rite (1965). In addition to serving on the State

Committee since 1970, he helped draft the original Wisconsin Dartball rule book. Jerry has always encouraged “younger blood” to join in and carry on the Dartball game. In 1973, he helped his son Steve form a team consisting of all the kids that came down to watch their fathers play Dartball on Thursday nights; many of those “kids” are still playing today. Jerry has many Dartball files dating back to the 1950’s. He also sold darts and boards for many years for little profit, just to help promote the game.

Jerry was one of the original 3 members enshrined into the Dartball Hall of Fame when he received a plaque in 1989 from the State Committee for promoting Dartball.

He was nominated by his son, Steve Mathwig.

Lives in St. Francis.

Jim began playing Dartball in 1959 at the age of 15 in a Milwaukee CYO grade school team. He soon became the team manager, and his love of Dartball was born. 

A few years later he played in the 400 Classic League as well as the West Allis Classic League, where he was dubbed "The West Allis Kid" by Gordy Wendorf, manager of the five-time State Champion Allen-Bradley Company team from Milwaukee. Starting in 1966, Jim began a 16 year streak of a .507 or higher league batting average, including 6 seasons over .580, two of them over .600. His best league season was 1968 when he hit .627 and was the league batting champion. In 1965, Jim played for the Van's Shop-Rite team of West Allis that won the State Championship in Eau Claire, edging local powerhouse McFadden's Trucking in the final. He has also managed State Championship teams in 1968 (Panzer's Service), in 1971 (The Panzer Division), 1978 (Binder Plumbing) and 1982 (The Dartball News). He was on the StateTournament Committee in West Allis in 1970 and served as statistician for the West Allis Classic League for a number of years. Almost from his first days as a player, Jim enjoyed recording the results of games, and so the Dartball News was born in 1959. 

Jim created a mailing list of Dartball players, and through his mailings and work, he helped Wisconsin become the only Dartball state with uniform rules and one State Committee, representing all areas of Wisconsin!

His Dartball News went online in 2001 and currently reaches over 150 players in at least eight States! Jim has played in numerous tournaments around the State, backing a number of teams with the non-profit Dartball News. He started the Clutch 2-Person Tournament in South Milwaukee and later New Berlin, which is still conducted Milwaukee each year.

Jim was one of the original 3 members enshrined into the Dartball Hall of Fame when he received a plaque in 1989 from the State Committee for promoting Dartball.