The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-21
Teams in City League Get Away to
Good Start; Day is Ideal; Stands
Packed With Frantic
Fans
TYPOS BEAT R. l.; OIL
ERS HUMBLE BARRIERS
Teams Deliver Good Bail in Opener !;
Oilers and BARRIERS Stage Hot
Battle; Chickasha Band
in Concert

With the stands packed with an an.
'nuslastic crowd Of the faithful. and
with perfect baseball day. except Ar
WIND that at time logged the diamond
with dust the official opening Of tia
CITY League baseball season was cel.,.
DRAFTED yesterday at University park
py band concert and double basE
pail Dill, In which latter part Of t;ha
program the Typos cleaned the Ronk
island 10 to and the Oilers took Ii q
BARRIERS into camp IA To 9.
1t was quite some show, all thin}s
considered and bids fair to send the
organization over. the course. franehf
with red-hot battles from start tc I'm.
lsh. The brand of bail was no. bic
league stuff, but all sane fans knou
that If the players were capable Of put.
ting up that brand of game. they
would be drawing fat salaries in ths
big show instead of playing ball "a
pastime and recreation At that con.
sidering the fact that the line-ao Of
every club was an experiment mainly
and the certainty that changes will b.
made from time to time as the men est
seasoned to the work, the exhibitions
were good.
First Game.
The Typos and Rock Island furnish.
ed the first exhibition on the baseball
menu, the former gettinlu away from
the tape in the first and never allow
ing their opponents to tie the score.
Goode, starting on the mound for the
Rock Island, got away badly and was
pulled before the inning was conclud-
ed, relinquishing to Wilmot. who went
the remainder of the distance. 1t does
not necessarily follow that Goode can
not deliver. Apparently he was not
warmed up TO the proper stage when
the game opened. and as a result he
was wild.
Errors and the squeeze play, sue
cessfulIy worked melted the Typos four
counters in the first. They came back
with three more in the second, and
three in the seventh. The Rock ISL
and got one man around I'm the first,
on errors, scored another by timely
hitting in the fourth, and coupling hits
with an error in the sixth registered
another counter.
Second Game.
While the score in the second game
between the Oilers and BARRIERS was
Of somewhat huge proportions, 1t was
by far the most hotly contested. The
BARRIERS started off with two in the
first, were passed by the Oilers in the
second when Siddons' followers gar
nered three, was tied up in the third
by the BARRIERS, who lost the lead again
only to tie It up in the seventh, the
last scheduled inning. But the eighth
was disastrous TO the BARRIERS. BY
a succession of hits, coupled with er-
rors. the Oilers piled up five in the
first of the eighth. proceeding then to
blank their opponents in the last half
winning as formerly set forth.
Turner for the Barbers. went strong
as horseradish for five innings. whit
fling ten men and allow four hits. His
arm is not yet seasoned to full game.
but he looks good and promises trouble
for his opponents If his arm gets
toughened to full nine inning game.
He was succeeded by Mccauley. who
allowed four bingles during his reign
on the mound.
| Caywood started for the Oilers and
in the seven innings he performed.
whitfield nine and allowed eight hits
He weakened in the seventh and was
succeeded by Raspberry, who was sue
cessful in getting away without a hit
charged again him during the final
round.
| The Chickasha Concert band deliy-
cred in good form on their part OF the
show and added much to the pro-
gram. 1t is probable that during the