Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-04
LAWMAKERS HOPE TO
MAKE S00NERS STEP
Team Slightly Crippled Yet
Determined to Make Trou-
BILE Next Saturday.
Special to The World.

special 10 Inc orld.
ENID, Okla, Oct. 3.-Coach John
Maulhetsch is driving his Phillips uni
versity gridsters thru a hard week of
practice, in preparation for the game
with Oklahoma university a; Norman
saturday.
Tho Sooner contest is one of the
most important on the Haymakers'
schedule, and "Maully" is anxious to
make good showing. The Phillips
mentor will probably rely mainly on
straight football with an occasional
pass. The Haymakcrs will probably
outweigh Oklahoma, and the plan OF
battle may be to attempt to rush the
crimson and cream warriors or their
feet. as line bucks and end runs are
the plays used in scIimmage.
Shifts Made in Lineup.
Several changes in the personnel
OF the team may be made J elsma
was running at right end in scrim-
mage with the high school Monday
aftarI,on, while Legg was used at
guard. Other men who did not play
in tho tilt with Southwestern also
were given an opportunity Of show
ing their worth Monday. So poorly
did come of the veterans play that
when the whistle blows Saturday the
lineup presented by Maulbetsch NAV
greatly differ with the one that
played last Saturday.
Maulbctsch is not satisfied with the
work of the linemen. Several OF the
veterans of whom much was eX-
pected. are not playing as good foot
fall this fall as in previous years,
| and IT may be that the Red and White
director may trust inexperienced
| men. who have been fighting the
| hardest, In place of veterans
Barring the possibility of injuries,
the backfield will remain intact
| Weatherly hurt his chest Saturday,
| hut gamely stuck the entire sixty
| minutes. In case he is not in con-
dition to play Saturday, tho he prob
ably viii be, Knight will go TO
| Quarterback, and Thompson to half.
Knight himself is not in good
shape. having & broken finger. but
this will not keep him out of the
game. Loving. the other halfback,
Is a promising man, despite his ex-
treme youth, but still has a tendency
to leave his interference-which will
be fatal unless corrected before meet
ing the Sooners-they get n guy often
enough when a man has interference,
much less when he tries to make 1t
alone.
Strauss Has BrOkpn Ribs.
Dutch Strauss, Saturdays hero, has
two broken ribs. but will start the
Sooner contest Dutch is place kick
ing from the forty-yard line with
ease and IL the red and white get
within striking distance OF the goal,
and are unable to make n touchdown,
Strauss may be depended upon to
win three points by hooting the oval
between the crossbars.
Phillips cohorts are not predicting
victory. They appreciate the handi-
caps that Maulbetsch Is laboring
under, and all that they ask IL that
the team fight all the time. Okla
! homa football Is entirely new to
the game itself. Then too, because
he was formerly all-American half
back, "Maully'' will he depended
upon to turn out u winner, which he
I is d Ding, hut a defeat at the hands OF
the Sooners should not hurt his pres
| tige in the least.
3ennie Owens teams are feared,
! for, no matter what the class of the
men, they will give the best OF them
battle-that is the opinion held OF
| the little mentor in Enid. He how
ever will not have to depend entirely
| on his own ability to pull thru this
season, but has seven letter men and
numerous freshmen of last years
eleven around whom nucleus for
an excellent team has been builded.