The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-22
Derby Day Bills Dynamic
Leadership Spurs Oilers On
To Victory in Wild Battle
Team Comes From Behind 6-Run Des Moines Lead
to Win in 9Th. 49, as Darkness Arrives; Pott
Batted From Box and Lynch's Record of Scoreless
Innings Broken as He Tries to Stem Tide
by n. A. BRfDGEwATER.

Derby Day Bin Clymcr yoster-
day showed Tulsa baseball fans and
the Tulsa and Dcs Molnes teams
how ne earned that honorary handle
10 the name his parents gave him.
Fighting an uphill battle right up
to the finish, calling on four pitch
ers for service and keeping his team
ON its toes with his ver-say die
spi-it, Clymcr led his tailend clan
10 the seventh victory in the last
nine games by finally triumphing
over Des Molnes. IL to .. in The
second game OF the series. 1t was
.Clymcr's indumitable leadership
ana his dynamic gymnastics along
the third base line that imbued the
Tulsa athletes with the power TO
overcome a big early lead piled up
by the Booste ers and finally smashed
In the winning runs In the eighth
inning as darkness was rapidly set
Ting over the field.
with only scattering crowd IN
the stand. yesterdays game de-
voloped into ono os the most eNcit-
ing and bitterly fought diamond
battles of the year The turmoil
came in the late innings, when, after
Des Moines had piled up a siX-run
lead by timely hits off Lukanovic
and untimely errors by the oilers,
Clymer imbucd his henchmen with
determination to win and they
stepped out and battered Lefty
Pott off the mound, and then won
hy punching hits OF Adrian Lynch
who hadn't been scored on for Il
innings before he was sent in to
relieve Pott.
Some Noisy Crowd.
A visitor in the stands would have
thought Tulsa had a team up in
the race from the continuous yelling
and whistling kept up by the crowd.
h'or its size, that assembly of bugs
al MtNulty park certainly would
capture the worlds championship at
rioise- making. And it was old
'1erby Day Bill Clymer. back in
lSennant- winning form, who brought
The fans as well as the players TO
The proper key. His slam bang
work in the coaching box was not
TO be denied.
Clymer had more TO contend with
than the Des MOincs batsDlen and
crratic pitching by his own boxmen.
While he was out there try ng 10
start something TO offset siN-run
lead, two or three fans vino had
already given up attempted to ride
"Derby Bilr and some of his play
ers. Clymer paused long enough
TO fire telling shot or two at the
hecklers, and his retorts pleased the
rest Of the crowd 80 well that the
grandstand soon turned into a
happy party.
with the sun we'll on its way to
China and dusk enveloping the
field swiftly, the oilers came to bat
in the last OF the eighth with the
score tied at 9-all after tight base
ball and pinch pitching by Albanese
had retired the boosters scoreless
in their half though they got a
man as far as third with none out.
Frank Thompson was first up.
Frank had hit like a demon but
fielded lamentably all day, his errors
In the fifth having been responsible
for several Des Moines runs. II was
up to him to do something big.
And Tommy Delivered.
Tommy, II you ever did make
good in your life make good now"
Bill Clymer pleaded rs Frank went
to the plate. Frank did. He
smashed "A triple to the deepest
corner of right field, and then
scored what turned out to be the
winning run on OConnor's low
throY to third on the relay from
Mooner. Doubles by Davis and
Todt with two down brought in the
eleventh marker. and as the oilers
started TO take the field to let Des-
MOines bat in the first OF the ninth
Umpire Christian called the game