Arizona republican., 1920-03-28
OILERS DEFEAT U. IF \. TEAM
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Playing regular "big league ball on a diamond that a few hours before had seemed only fit for ducks, and with
 Duke" Cross serving up baffling curves that the enemy did not fathom ], The Standard Oil baseball club yester- day afternoon trimmed the undefeated C University of Arizona aggregation 1T, a l to game on the Oilers grounds at Nineteenth avenue and Fillmore IL was the university's last game and first defeat in the valley series, the var slty nine beat the Phoenix high school to l Thursday and the Evans school II to 0 Friday, the game with the Tempe Normal not materializing yes terday morning on account of wet grounds.
 The same circumstance of wet grounds nearly made the L. of A Standard Oil game impossible. yester- day afternoon, for at noon the grounds seemed hopeless for any use in the way Of ball game. Hard work and de- termined effort got the ground in trim by 3:30, however, shoveIs and sawdust doing away. with thesmud- When the game was called preparations were complete, and a crowd. of 800 had as- sembled to get its moneys worth over and over again.
 The game was a hard-fought DdIl1e, with fATOSS SelllHS tut edge of the cOllegian, Stewart. Both men seemed to have abundant speed and so effectively were their curves breaking that but three hits were reg istered by each side With men on bases both pitchers were effective, but in the fifth Stewart wavered just enough for Cross to bring in the games only run on a hit by Opden and two errors by the opposition.
 Until the fifth frame it looked as though the battle would go on till darkness without delay. Both teams were fielding in great shape. and the pitchers were sending the batters away with only an infield tap now and then. The improvised diamond had little ef feet on the work of the players and number of snappy plays were made by both sides.
 In the fifth. however Cross brought in one run for the Oilers, giving them a lead For the next two innings both sides were again held down. Tn the eighth. with the one run against them. the university men threatened to score when two players rapped out singles, with no outs. Cross put on the brakes successfully, howeevr, and retired the next three batters with strike e-outs and light flies that were kuickly gobbled in. The ninth inning proved on the one-two-t three order and the game was over.
 Aside from the brilliant work of the pitchers and the good fielding the fea- ture of the game was the work of Ross Lyall behind the plate for the Oilers.
 Yesterdays victory was the sixth straight for the Standard bunch, and gave them ample grounds to claim the top-notch position in the entire state. The Oilers have not been defeated since they came into being as a ball club The team has been under the coaching of Johnnie Hartnett, who several years ago was mentor at the University of California. and his work has been in- strumental in the success of the Oile-s.
 The university players are not quite convinced of the superiority of the Standard players, and said yesterday a return game in Tucson would be ar ranged in the near future. Coach Por- ter of the varsity was much e1ated at the performance of his men and said he believed they could turn the tables in the next encounter. The U. of A. team is planning on another raid into the valley territory in a few weeks and at that time will play the Mesa City team. the Phoenix White Sox, the Roamers and the Indian school. The colIegians showed fine form through ont their valley series, and expect to show even better stuff in the next in- cursion-
 The box score for yesterdays game fOl10yS