The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-07-30
Pertains 10 Score Of Norman-chlek.
asha Game at University City
Yesterday; "Nothlno to
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CORRESPONDENT TELLS
ALL HORRIBLE DETAILS
chlckasha Club Comedies Victory
With Returns .stiIl Out; Audit
ors Work on Score; Re.
turn Game Soon.
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Norman. okla. July 29.-There ~
popular belief that In Rotary. there
are no secrets. that the doings OF the
clubs are as an open book. There
Is one secret In Rotary now. with re.
gard 10 the chIckasha club. which
IA tho score In the Norman. Chlcka.
hha Rotary ball team here this AFT.
ernoon.
As far as the Chickasha club
would commit itself after the
game was to concede the victory to
the home Rotarlans This conces.
sion was made by Clint Steinberger.
manager OF the Chlekasha hall club.
before the returns OF the game wers
hll In. The auditors worked TO
late hour in an effort TO arrive
at an accurate total.
The Norman club started in to
emulate the name of Rotary in the
first inning. That is to say, the
Norman players rotated around the
first inning to such an extent that
the diamond appeared like a twelve.
lap track during Marathon. Along
In the latter innings the Norman
players fell exhausted on the paths
and loving handg-had to pour ice
water down the reck Of the over
worked official scorer.
Louis IIensley, selected by Mana.
ger Steinberger as moundman for
the visitors. promptly qualified as a
sniper Out of the first ten men to
face him, he knocked seven of them
flat. II got so 1t was as much as a
Norman players life was worth to toe
the rubber The mortality rate grew
TO such an extent that IIensley.
through compassion, quit the mound
in favor OF Ralph Bowyer.
This hurler had an out curve that
was as wide as country lane. While
he. was long OIL curves, Bowyer was
shy the control and he was as apt
TO curve one around the granstand
as to get II over the plate. During
his reign on the mound, which was
three innings, he whitfield five.
AT the end of the sixth, Bowyer
was relieved by Olin Brasher, Stein
berger's rangy second baseman, who
was successful in stopping the Nor
man attack. The official scorer esti.
mated that during the three innings
Brasher pitched, the Norman tribe
garnered only 18 to 20 hits and not
TO exceed Is runs.
Roy Jones, the, Chickasha receiver
who started behind the rubber was
voted the most overworked man on
the lot and with Brasher in the box,
was relieved by Hensley, who demon
strated that If he lacked control in
the box, he was there with bells on
az catcher.
But friends, don't place all the
blame on the Chickasha pitchers.
Aside from the battery, there wer9
seven other men on the visiting club
WHO contributed liberally to the Nor
man victory. They all played prac!
tically errorless ball, because every
smash was base hit They couldn't
get to the offerings.
Steinberger, Leeds, SGaow, Suder..
man, lively and Pool played steady
consistent games, which is equival-
ent to saying that they were uniform
in being unable to tell other than
the general direction in which the
drives went These parties were all
good runners, that is, they were will
ing runners. They ran. when occa-
sion demanded, mighty hard, but not
very fast, too muchI in the same
place, as it were 1t took two base
drive to get any one of them life
at first.
When interviewed after the game,
manager Steinberger said: ITS
lovely day, triffle warm. so to
speak, but a nice day, withal.'
"But what's your alibi?" persisted
the correspondent.
"Alibi, oh yes. alibi. I hadn't
though Of that. Well, just tell the