The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18
Young Southpaw Invincible
In His Last Game of Season
Departs for College After
Pitching Shutout Game
Against the 500
TO PLAY PAIR TODAY
Sioux City in Last Appear
ance of Year Here; Monday
to BE an off Day
By - A.

a double In the first by Bill I"nrd.
an lnfhold hit In the fourth and a
clean single In tho eighth. both BY
Frank Metz, woro the only safe
biuglcs Sioux city could COLLECT yca-
tcrdny of the battling portsido dc
livery 81 Hubert Lefty" Pructt. and
the oilers continued I'm their win.
ming stride by taking tho first Of
the series from the Packers by the
shutout route. II 10 o.
N was pructt's last game this
year IN u Tulsa uniform. ns tho
brilliant young southpaw departed
last night FOR Columbia. Missouri.
to re-outer the University OF Mis-
souri, whore he Is studying TO be n
doctor. The %youngstcr certainly
hurled u magnificent getaway
game and II he wants to come back
next year he Will be mighty wei.
come as a member OF the Tulsa
squad.
Pructt Had Fine Control.
Control That was the grStt item.
Pruett IL inyincible whom he can
toss II over the plato. When hc Is
Wild tho opposition has no difficulty
lhmbasting him. for he has to put
nm right down the grOoVe. But
when he ran fling the old sphere
whore he wants TO they Just can't
hit him. Metz, who got two OF tho
three hits recorded Off pruett's de-
livery, also famed twice. Il was
sheer desperation that caused Big
Frank Ia hunt one In the fourth.
and, catching Thompson. off guard
he was able TO beat Il out.
The oilers kept Mp their heavy
hitting, timely blow coming ar
ter another throughout the game.
The major portion Of the eleven runs
: registered by BH CiyIncr's boys
came at various times with two u
Play y Couple To-day.
oilers and Packers meet at Nc
Nulty park this afternoon In a
double header. IL beiHg the last day
for them to- clash this year. II was
decided To move Mondays scheduled
game up and play II IA a part of Il
bargain bill Sunday afternoon, and
Monday Will he an off day. The
Oilers seem TO have discovered q
real winning stride. having annexed
four victories In the ftve games play
ed here since returning from the
last road trip. and they are deter
mined to continue the irroalstnhle
onslaught against the Packers this
afternoon. Tom Lukanoyic and Ray
Richmond who stopped oklahoma
CITY In both ends OF n double-headcI
Thursday afternoon are slated TO dc
the hurting for Tulsa today.
Packer Southpaw Bumped.
Another of the renowned Daven-
port family is cssaying TO play the
cole of pitcher. There are so many
OF the Davenport brothers now In
baseball hat you can hardly keep
~ with them. This one IL a south
paw and he was Manager Mot2's Sc
lection for mound duty against
Pruett.
Davenport managed to pull
through the first and second Innings
unscathed-but In the third, won,
that's something else again. Burke
opened the inning by reaching first
on an error by Loard and then. after
the g two battera had been re-
tired, a vollcy of singles by Spellman.
Brannon, HCGlunis, Todt and Con-
nelly nettcd IA quintet of runs.
"A mumcntary lapse by Jimmie
Burke, usually heady and depend
nhle on the paths. cost the Clymers
another run In the fourth. Burke
opened with n double and reached
third on an infiCld out. with one
out and Burke ncstling on third
stewart drove a fly 60 Bardor In deep
left and II looked like a ctnch that
Burke would score. Instead, he dal-
lied at the bag until Harbor throw
the bah to short and then started.
only to be nailed at the plate. Oi
course, the way the game stood II
didn't make any difference, but had
the score been close It would hav,
been very unfortunate.
a Continued Bombardmcnt,
With the ice thus broken, tn,
Oilers continued mauling the port,
side slants OF Davenport throughout
and rolled up runs almost at win
with Pruett nove for a momen
easing up on tho opposition. Every,
body In the line-up got one or NOR,
hits with the exception Of Stewart
and Lake cracked a couple on tn,
nose only TO sec the ball driven into
the hands OF a Waiting fielder Eddl,
Spellman continued In the role Of
ichief clouter with "A single. a doubt,
land a home run. His tour-base wal.
lop which came In the sixth witt
nobody on was a terrific drive thai
sailed over the sc%oreboard.