The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-09
TULSA MAKES IT
2FOR 3 AFTER
UPHILL BATTLE
All Sorts of Happenings
Dished to Fans-Luke
in Rare Form
By II. A. BRIDCEwATTR.


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by II. A. BRIDGEWATTR
The Oilers concluded the
first series of their long home
4 stand auspiciously Thursday
afternoon by anneXing the
rub game from Omaha, 6 to
5 in an exciting battle that
was settled in the ninth by n
base on balls to Yank Davis,
a wild pitch by Okrie and
Luke Stuart's booming double
against the fence in deep left
center.
All Kinds Of Excitement
Before this happy ending the fans
had witnessed nearly everything
I. that could happen In a baseball
game, with fist fight between
pitcher Carl Black of tho oilers
F.. and Pitcher CoaCher Coffindaffer Of
tho Bluffs thrown In for good meas
ure. Black and tho Omaha boy
! with the long name mixed after the
! first half OF the first Inning as
. BLACK WIS kOllk IIuUl INV p'N w
the bench and Confirmation from the
coaching line on third to his own
dugout Police separated them and
Coffndaffcr was chased from the
field and Black put out OF tho game
! Tulsa won the deciding game only
after an uphill fight. After the vis-
itors had taken three-run lead In
, tho first two innings. the oilers
camo back and evened It up In the
fifth and sixth. then took a two
run margin In the eighth, But
omaha tied II again In the ninth
and the last minute finith by DAVIS
and Stuart was mode necessary.
Three home runs were high spots.
Benefits long C"'ve over the center
field wall In the fifth broke the
scoring Ice for Tulsa. Crosby count
ing ahead on the blow Lambs
four-baEger In the eighth put the
locals run ahead and Wilders
similar clout In the ninth, with "A
runner on base, brought Omaha up
TO tie with Tulsa.
I4ukanovic In Rare Form
From n Tulsa standpoint one or
the brightest features OF tho after
noon was the pitching performance
of Tom Lukanovic who went to the
mound In the second inning after
Black had been chased. Omaha had
touched Black for pair OF runs
on five hits, two OF them scratches.
Lukanovic walked the first man up
and he scored later on n double.
From then on until the ninth the
Bluffs got IA couple of badly sep-
arated singles off Tom. In the
ninth O'Connor's single and Wild
er's pop-fly home run over the right
field fence completed tho damage
off Tom. II was ono OF Lukano-
/. vic's good days, and when he Is
right he looks like IA big Lacquer.
Ho had speed, control. curves
everything. In the eight innings
he pitched only three Omaha run
ners were left stranded on the bags
and that without Il single Tulsa
double play.
IL Was Dark Start.
In the FIRST inning 1t looked Ike
big day for Omaha. Gislason
opened by bouncing single Off
Stuart's glove, Stuart being at first
base where no took the place or
Manager Lelivelt who was Ill. He
went to second when Davis booted
the ball. Snedccor popped to Stuart.
but Griffin smashed a one-baser to
left scoring Gislason. Manush beat
out an infleld hit. Grantham al
most knocked Black down with a
liner that went for another hit and
Wilcox then singled cleanly to right
for Omahas fifth blow OF the in
ming. scoring Griffin. Davis shot the
bali In the direction of the plate
and Black intercepted the throw
and tossed to Stuart, catching VIII
cox flat off the bag. 1t was n pretty
play by Black and stopped menac'
ing attack, as O'Connor ended the
inning by grounding to stuart.
1t was at this stage that Black
and Coffindaffer got into the row
that resulted In their retirement b,
the arbiters. Coffindaffer had beef
coaching at third AID Black tool
exception to some OF his iibes an'
jeers during the omaha rally. A
the two started mixing PRACTICAL!
all the players of both teams rushed
out to separate them, along will
several officers and spectators witt
could get TO the field.
Daily n Puzzle Until Fifth.
Omaha increased the lead q
three by scoring one on LukanoVlc
who relieved Black in tho second
Daley. who essayed to hurl TO
Burch's clan, was big puzzle Until
the fifth. Bennett opened the firs
for Tulsa with double. but hi
mates couldn't get him around
stuart did the same thing In thu
fourth and the result was ditto.
The fifth, however. proved Daley
undoing. Crosby led off with sin
gle. and, after Lukanovic had skieC
TO Manush. Bennett smashed a ter
rifle line drive over the centerfielC
fence, bringing the oilers to within
one run OF the visitors. Thompson
followed with a double TO right hu
the next two men wero out on flloi
10 the outficld
This long-range bombardmen
was Just about enough for Daley
though, and when Lamb inaugurateC
the home half of the sixth with 8
crashing double to deep center