The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-11
OILERS ALMOST
MISS FANS WHEN
THEY GET HOME
Big Crowd Of Followers at
Station to Welcome
Players on Return
Ry b. A. RRInGEWArER.

by B. A. BRIDGEWATER
The champion Oilers. heralded as
the greatest class A baseball club
| OF many season. are Just about the
| most modest aggregation eNtaut.
The shrinking violet becomes a
blatant braggar' when compared 10
| the doughty men of Lellyelt
The Oilers-w what's left OF EN-
after drop-outs here end there along
| the way--breezed into town Tues
day about 2:3O on a train that had
grown later all day. A great throng
had been on hand nearly all morn
ing waiting for the boys and big
crowd with a band was still there
despite the Likeness.
Waiting at Church.
But the crowd and the band had
waited over on Main street. The
Oilers, anxious 10 get to their re-
spective homes and hotels, quietly
slipped out the Boston avenue exit
at the Frisco station and literally
left the fans waiting at the church.
| Having no heroes TO serenade the
band and fans put on a little parade
| OF their own, anyway, moving up
Main street and through the bust
ness district. And the ball players
all had gone.
Mobile, latest and most important
victim OF the oilers might, was
prominent in the parade. in effigy. 4
character had been made up as u
ball player adm was labeled Mobile" :"
lie was sadly crippled. looked a tit
patient for the undertaken, indeed.
/ Much merriment was provoked when
| he was piloted through the down
town streets, the band all the while
playing cheer-o music
Cbecrcd Along Way.
All the way from Sapulpa to Tulsa
! the special Pullman car carrying the
| oilers was loudly cheered by those
who saw the train gy by. Great ban
ners on the side of the car pro-
claimed TO the world that II housed
| The Tulsa oilers. Worlds champion
Class A Baseball Team" The ban
ners which were ordered by tele-
graph by President Jim Crawford OF
the Oilers Monday while the team
was pounding along through Texas
were secured In Dallas. They were
put in place at Sapulpa Tuesday
| Just before the boys reached home.
The baseball team 80 capably led
, by Jack Lelivelt. which has brought
so much favorable attention 10 Tulsa
with its great feats this year. was
| badly broken when II reached home.
| only half OF the regular squad of 16
men remained In the players party
| The others had gone direct from
Mobile to their home. or had
dropped off en- route. Those corning
in Tuesday we're: Manager Lelivelt,
| Pitcher John Russell and Hollie Me-
Laughlin Shortstop McGlnnis, Third
Bnseman Thompson aud the grea,
outfield trio. Herschel Bennett, Ly-
| IN nH
ers Tex Crosby and Harold Witte
Pitchers John Russell and Hollle Nc
forth, Karl Black and Oscar Haug-
land, Second Baseman Paddy Bau.
man and Utility Luke Stuart had left
the party. Several OF the boys who
came In Yesterday will be In town
for several days before leaving fUi
their homes.
Crawford Voted "Princc."
| President j. *. Crawford was the
tolliest member OF the party that
accompanied the team He wa,
greatly elated at the success OF hi,
team and proud for Tulsa's sake
Although tho club itself lost money
on the series (the figures will b,
given out later) no one was so happy
as Crawford when the oilers wounc
up tho contest by winning last Sat
urday. Had the Bears won and &
1 SuUldy game nttn necessary
would have meant great deal &
the club owners, as the players haC
ceased sharing In the receipts anC
practically everything would hay,
gone TO the respective owners.
other Tulsans making tho ontir,
trip included Jack Ryan, oil mar
and friend OF Crawford; Bill Friel
business manager of the Oilers, anC
Mrs. Friel; Mrs. Ned Masterman
Friel's secretary: Mrs. Crawford
Mrs. Lelivelt and representatives o
the Tulsa newspapers. Presiden
Al Tearney of the Western league
Harry Burton OF Spalding's athleti,
house: Peoria Jack" RYAN. owne
OF the Terre Haute club of thu
Three-T league, were in the part!
until after the first game had beer
lplayed at Mobile, when they lef
for Chicago,
II WAS a trip never to be forgotten
by anyone who made It.