The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-29
|SOONER BASEBALL.
PRACTICE STARTS.
Indoor Battery Work Is
Inaugurated at Nor
(, man by Owen.
OUTDOOR WORK SOON
squad to Start Practice in
the Second Week of This
Month.
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En~ia 70 The World.
4 NORMAN, Okla, Feb. 2s.--Sooner
*ig2O varsity baseball has been
Esarted with battery work each aft
4 rnoon in the r. o. T. c. armory and
In good weather continues, outdoor
4 practice viii be started the second
week In March, Ben @. owen, OKLA
<homa baseball coach, announced this
week. Because of Oklahoma's entry
into the Missouri Valley conference
this year, and because all of the val
ley teams had already completed
,hei- schedules before Oklahoma on
,sred the conference, the Sooners
baseball schedule will not include
nsny games with valley teams.
~ owen goes to Lawrence March b
.and for two basketball games with
Ethe Joyhawker five. While there he
F will try to make arrangements for an
. Baster trip to Kansas, games to be
1played with Kansas and Kansas Ag-
/ gies.
A Eoodly number OF Ok1ahoma's 3
|1e1s baseball squad are ready for
Iwork again this year MS soon as ell
|RUibility rules are decided by the
Roouer faculty council w. T. Fears,
kEufauia, 1918 shortstop, is manager
|pf the 1920 team.
Letter Men OF 1918.
Other former letter mon incIude
|Criff Joseph, Waukomus. VINO played
|fhird base in 1918; Ollie Tolbert, Ell
dorado, third basenan In 1919; BY
|ron Little of Purcell, who hold down
.the first sack In 1918: Skivey Davis,
Norman. member OF last years pitch
+ hg staff; ]. Richard Gentry, Enid,
manager OF the 1919 team and
catcher on both the 1913 and 1919
teams.
Another member OF the 1919 team
Is Berry Cotton, Muskogee. second
Etase. while Gordon Bristow, Ard
[<nore, alternated between first and
sht field in 1919. Glenn Meadows.
n,mber of the 1918 pitching staff,
I'm not be eligible this year because
C work with Oklahoma City last
gunner.
Glenn Wright, Baird, and William
Risley, Hastings, members of the be-
fore the war 1917 team, are back in
he university this year and are
working out In battery practice every
Afternoon. They did not make their
letters because the baseball season
In Soonerland during 1917 was cut
short when all of the men either en-
tered the service or else started drill
work at the university. Albert Bris-
zoe, Hollis, Is another 1917 pitcher
and infield man who will report for
tho 1920 squad.
Two Southpaw Hurlers.
Two lcft-handed 1879 pitchers arc
T J. Woodmansee, Cherokee, and
Robert Bosworth, oklahoma city.
These men are already working daily
m the armory. Tom White. Wynne-
rood, outfielder on the Sooner squad
IN both 1918 and 1919: Sidney
Groom, Bristow. catcher on the 1915
team in one game. who broke his
ankle: and Dow Hamm, Muskogee'
are other candidates who have al
ready reported for practice.
As soon as outdoor practice Is
Z Sstarted many new men arc expected
SVAO report for practice daily. Okla
xhomn Is seemingly we'll supplied with
battery material and infield players
but will have to develop an outfield
in all probabilities. This year Is the
first time that oklahoma has had ar
opportunity to let her battery candi'
dates practice early indoors
More interest Is already being
shown in soonerland baseball actiT'
ties by sport followers here than ever
bsforf due. It Is supposed, TO the
fact ctat Oklahoma will participate
in Missouri Valley games for the frs
time In her baseball history as .
member OF the conference.