The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-28
OILERS AND BEARS
MEET HERE FRIDAY
IN SERIES OPENER

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|pluycd tune ON tho vorious fences
|u battling practice. Duo to tho hard
| Train wednesday morning tho iuuold
was not lu ohlpe rIr much fielding
/ practice.
L'uv,lt viii aoui tbc oilers 60
NusEoEo, Thursday afternoon Tor a.
practice gam" with % picked team
OF South HDUDlu league stars. Be-
cause Of the tact that tho Blk serics
iH 90 open Friday however. ana q
great deal of preparatory work must
ba done. tho DIIar skipper hlmHcr
expects To- stick nu tho job here, ana
the boys wiz have ." goi along us
bee, they can minus his guiding
hand ui Muatulsc.
Bochlcr or Dnufurth a. Open.
Now th1t The opening ut The series
s set. fans naturally begin 20 ponder
over the probable batteries flr tho
inaugural Friday ltR Cluuh that
other BUchlrr. Western leagues
leading pitcher with 3s victories 10
hi scrodlt. ON Daufurth. the circuits
best gouihpaw, viii De uu the firing
line for the Oilers. Both men nro iu
excellent shupo and roady to pitch.
Manager Lcliyclt probably viii be
governed IN his selection ot a pitcher
for tho opener by the boxman picked
by the Mobile manager. n "Dutch"
Henry. the Mobile southpaw, pitches.
then Bpchlcr is tho likely nominee
for Tulsa, while IL Fulton the Mobile
right hand star is the Southern as
gociation seiection. Danforth will be
tho probable Tulsa pitcher
Tulsa fans had rather hoped that
Fort worth would win the Dixie
series. because geographically Fort
Worth is moro OF u rival for Tulsa
than Is Mobile, located on the Gulf
OF MoXica In fnr-away Alabama. But
now that tho Bcurs have stUmpcd
tho life out OF the pcsky cate, they
loom up as formidable foemeu in
deed. Great viii be the houors TO
the Oilers if they are able TO take
the measure OF the Dixie champions.
ono important factor that must
not be- overlooked is that Tulsa will
not have to face the one thing that
was feared In "a series with Fort
worth spitball pitching. Tho spit.
ban is taboo In the Southern associa-
ton Just as IL In In the Western
league, the Texas league being the
only class 4 organization that tOlor-
ates tho moist delivery. In the
Bears tho oilers will meet q team
greatly OF their own kind, 2 slugging
always-fighting aggregation. The
Bears won tho Southern association
championship much as the oilers
won m tho Western. While st.
Joseph was forging far ahead in the
Western Spencer Ahbutt's Memphis
outfit was doing tho snmo In the
Southern, and Tulsa and Mobile
came up from bohind to knock off
the early pace makers and win going
away.
Fuhr n Lcilyclt Protege.
Fuhr, the loft handed pitcher
whose work was the biggest single
factor In Mobiles victory over Fort
Worth Is n former Western leaguor
and many Tulsa fans have seen him
In action. lie pitched under LellVelt
at Omaha In 1890 and was sold 10
the Chicago cubs At the end Of tho
season. Last year lac was with Kan
sas City lf the American association,
was recalled by the Cubs and sent to
Mobile this spring. He won three
out OF the four games the Bears took
from the Cats. ana pitched Mobile TO
its first victory In the dark ost hour
when Fort Worth had taken lead
OF Two games to none in the series.
Another player Tulsa will watch
with interest In Mobiles play Ia K,
| Williams. nutficldor, who was pur-
chased by Tulsa from Memphis last
spring, but couldn't he delivered be-
cause Mobile refused to waive. aud
| II was In that manner that he went
Ito Mobile. He has been IL big factor
| In Mobiles seasonal success.