The Omaha morning bee., 1924-05-03
Tulsa Ballcrs
Amass Total of
Sixteen Safciics
Manager lclisrli tleuls oui
Homer. Triple stanton
Unable io i.ocaie Plate
ll,ppin Stars NJ short.
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1ul Omaha Friday afier'
AA neen and gave the
honr folks sample
- ~ ~ thu baseball thai n
XXX keeping his tram a.
the Top ~ The Western
ltzz-------ksJ league standings. N
was the firsi game Of a
ihreeTam series and the Oilers celc.
brsied iheir seasons debut In this
city by soching three Buffalo hurlers
Tor ~ Go ! victory.
There WIS plenty hitting going on
ali afternoon with TULSA doing mnst
of tho slamming. The Oilers hit n
rio Of Buffaloos for le hits and n
grand total of 81 bases. Among the
le hlnglcs were three home runs. a
l'iple and a quartet of doubles.
Jack Lelivelt. who at ono time in
his long baseball career played first
md managed the Omaha club. topped
The players in sluggng. Tho Oilers
Skipper clontod out a home run and
followed with n triple. The other
Tulsa homers were distributed among
casey. recruit from the Nebraska
state league, having playe dwith Nor
folk, and the veteran fence. .smasher.
Nank' Davis. The home run Of
''asey's was a fluke one. The former
Aebraskan knocked the ball against
The score board in left field The pei
let landed on the platform and re-
fused TO roll off. thus allowing Mr.
Casey to do double time around the
nfield.
From the time the first Oiler stepped
" bat there wasn't anything to the
f'rne but Tulsa. The runner-ups in
pa Tearney's circuit last year
payed bang-up hall in all departments.
The infield worked well, especially
flippin. shortstop. who Is trying to
fill Dudley Lees brogans. And, judg-
Ing from the way F'lippin played Fri
day. he will n1 Lees shoes very
ificely.
, Omaha didn't have any pitching TO
start with, but It got better as the
same progressed. Stanton arted and
was as wild as they make 'em. He
filled the bases on walks and then
schemanski took the hill. The latter
wasn't wild. but his offerings were
knocked to all corners of the lot.
Tulsa scored ~ runs OF schemansld
ln the four and one.third innings he
. tciled. The veteran. Mike Prender.
last. relieved schemanski and pitched
ctter ball. The oilers got three
It's off Mike IN the four and two.
thirds innings he pitched. each hit
aoing for extra bases. cnsey's fluke
iuner. Washburn's double and Leli-
dts triple were bounced off Prem.
hergast's deliveries.
Tulsa scored six runs In the first,
iwo IN the second and then didn't
core any more until the fourth, when
Unregistered two more. Davis' homer.
With Washbnrn on base. resulted In
Two scores in the fifth. and Casey's 's
circuit clout and Lelivelt's triple. fol-
owed by crosbys inficld out. were
gzponsible for another pair in the
fxth. Prcndergan then held Tnlsa
E InIess and TO one hit in the final
+ free innings.
F BOn0Witz scored Onahas first
atore In the fourth when he walked
nd scored on Davis muff of Wilcox's
lngle out in right field. Wilcox
freed Bonowitz at second in The
1ogenfh and scored when Wilder
i.noeked the ball against tie left field
enee for a double. Nick cullop,
Bnch hitting for Prendergast in the
"a. ~ L.
nler field fence for homer and
+ Dnaha's third and final score.
The same teams played again this
afternoon and Sunday. The contest
sunday II scheduled to start at 3.