The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-16
.BIXBY HI CLAN
TRIMS TULSANS
IN FIRST CLASH
Fleet Visiting Team Out
plays Crimson and Gold
in Every Department

Bixby high schools football eleven
mpletely played the Tulsa high
team off It's feet in the first clash
" the 1922 gridiron season and held
Tulsa scoreless until the last quar-
ter. winning 10 to 10.
After tagging along behind the
fleet-footed visitors and backing
down the field before their attack.
Tulsa took life in the final quarter
and scored two touchdowus In rapid
succession. Tulsas first touchdown
came Just after the opening OF the
quarter, when bedford and Goforth
carried the bail through the Bixby
line and Ledford skirted the right
end for the first counter. on the try
ior- goal from scrimmage on the five
yard line, Ledford PLACED a pretty
drop kick between the rights for an.
other point.
Winecke Is Star.
with five minutes 10 go, Winecke
was sent into quarter and Grimes
was shifted TO half and Tulsa began
TO look Ike a football team. Wiuecke
went around the left end and barely
missed 40-foOt pass. on the next
play he tossed the ball to Ledford
for a 20-yard gain and then went
behind the goal posts and caught
a beautiful 20-yard heave for Tulsa s
second touchdown.
Tulsa charged onto the field with
q grand flourish up and down the
field and did anything but frighten
the Bixby clan. with the odds of
number, weight and support against
them Blxby received the ball from
the kickoff and gained through the
line and around the ends at will,
for a touchdown in the first few
minutes Of play. Bemore drop kicked
FOR the point and made It.
Coach Rau's men were unable 10
complete passes. gain through the
line and kept punting the ball down
tho field. Never once. until the
final quarter. did Tulsa make first
down. Tho speedy visitors snagged
all Of Tulsa's passes The imposing
Tulsa line wilted before the attack
and Newlin, Malcolm, Cocker and
Bemore ran rings around the locals
ana seldom were carried from their
feet by the tackles
Let Game Drag Along.
old sol was heating down on the
grid and the players slowed up after
the first brisk encounter. Time out
was taken every few minutes and
the game dragged along nearly three
hours. The referee warned the Blk
by team in the final quarter about
"stalllng."
Ledford's punting saved Tulsa
from more one-sded defeat, when
he kicked repeatedly during the
first half and averaged nearly fifty
yards for the game.
Bixby scored again I'm the second
quarter. when Malcolm repeatedly
broke through the line for long
gains, finally carrying the ball
around right end IS yards for
touchdown. Bemore missed the try
for point.
Tulsa kicked to the Bixby 25-yard
line and BiSby punted back TO Tul-
sa's 60-yard line. Tulsa tried long
pass which fell Into the arms OF
Bixby lad. The boys pushed the
bali up and down the middle OF the
field and the half ended wlin the
ball on BiXby's 3O-yard line. Score:
BiXby i3; tulsa 0.
After Rau had little conference
with the Tulsa boys. business began
10 pick up in the second half.
Goforth and Ledford began carrying
the ball through the Bixby line and
they gained. Gained time after time.
In the late part or the third period
Tulsa began fighting and carried
the ball within l2 yards of touch
down. The whistle stopped the
boys, they changed ends Of the field
and Ledford went through for
touchdown. Then WineCke went into
the game and Tulsa speeded up,
counting again in the next three
minutes of play.
Coach Rau will take his huskies
70 Ramona today for the second
scheduled game OF the season. He
announced last night that Winecks
would start the game at quarter
against the Ramona club.