Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-05
TENNIS dope" GOES
ASTRAY IN TOURNEY
Surprising Plays and CoolhcadcdDess
shown In Tightest Witches
of Season.
TRACK TEAM PROVES ITSELF
with Insufficient Training, Tulsa
Boys Take High Places mt Nor
man Track Meet.

That dope" can be upset was
shown emphatioally la the high
school tennis tournament. Begin
ming with the first round, dope ran
true to form, and likewise In the
second round matches. The victors
Of the second round were Roops
wood, Dickeusou, l.. kennedy, j,
Wheeler. Nicholson, Avery and Vor-
non. OF these Wood. Wheeler ana
Kennedy were counted on to place
again In the third round Roop de-
feated Wood OIL, 60, causing an up
set in dope, the first OF tho tourna-
ment. In the next match Dicken-
son sprung n surprise In his defeat
Of Kennedy, 81, Us. Nicholson, BY
good steady tennis, easily won from
heeier, B-6. go; Vernon won from
Avery, rs, 6-3, In tifo semi-flnai
Roop had an easy time OF II with
Dickenson. winning 6-i, SO. Nichel-
son won from Vernon, 7-5. s-2, with
out forcing himself In the least
In the finals Nicholson and Roop
furnished the only real exhibition
Of tennis displayed In the tourhA-
mcnt. Nicholson playing the same
steady play that featured all hH
matches won the first set. s-3. hoop
came back In the next two sets, both
being deuce sets, and won 7-b, los.
with the score 81 against him.
Nicholson gave fine exhibit Of his 4
nerve and Erit. Winning steadily on
his own nerve, and breaking through
Roop's serve, he walked away with
tho fourth set, 60. and won tho fIfth
set and also tho championship At
o..
Throughout the tournament Mich
olson served but seven doubles, two
OF these coming In the fifth set OF
the finals. Not considered as q con-
tender the youngster surprised every
one by his consistent play. Nichol- &
son ~ a getter. lie has no featured
stroke, winning by his dogged nerve
and GOODNESS In tight places. fits
comeback against Koop In tia finals
was 30 unexpected that 1t completely
threw Roop off his game, resulting In
an easy win for Nicholson In the last
match set.
Track Team Proves Iitssis.
Last Friday and Saturday tho stats /,
meet was held at Norman. The track
team OF Talsa Central higf, entered
for the first time in eight years. The Z
boys, due to insufficient training.
were unable to win tho meet, but
should he commended highly uyon
the showing they made there any
how. The team showed that they
could deliver tho goods and showed
that with more training the score :.
would have been altogether dlkfef-
lent '7-''sN
Tulsa was fifth In the meet for
point-getting. Wimbish ran tho milo
and captured third place. Captain
Howell was recond In the running /
high jump. and also took third 10 Z
the pole vault. Dale Carter won
lthird In the 440-yard dash. Dale
showed good form and everyone u ,
satisfied that he win be a very yalu-
able man In track next year.
The relay team failed TO place st
the meet because of two Of the
members being sick. but those who Z
saw tho race will say that the boyy
put up u splendid fight even II they
did lose. Wandling was chief polnt.
getter for the Tulsa team. He waA
ilfst In the pole vault, and third In
the running high j-mp. The pole
vault did not go as high as II would
nave In Glass A, had II not been
Tor the sand storm and high wind.
Sweaters Awarded.
Friday morning at assembly the
pasketball team which made such 8
splendid record this year, were given
their sweaters. They are similar TO
those received by the football team
except they have only eight-inch T-s
on them instead of twelve. Those
VINO received sweaters were Dale
carter. Herman Wlenicke, william
mcNut Gerald Barney and Harold
Wandling. Captain Woods and
Claude Brownfield both played In
games, and SO they are entitled 10
sweater but owing to a clause IN
the constitution Of the Athletic as
ISOLATION, which states that no boy
can receive more than one, sweater a
year. they were excluded. Every
one would like TO have seen y..,oas
gei another one because OF the spien-
did work he did this year. Bat II
We are TO have constitution we
must abide by Il.