Sports Review in a 1 to 1 Tie Score

team is Jerry Galbreath, clever No. 3 from Tulsa. Galbreath has hit 62 goals this year, 39 last fall and 23 so far this spring, and lacks only eight of equaling the com- bined total of all Oklahoma's opponents . He was hottest last fall when he scored eight goals in one game against Clare- more here. The individual scoring table to date : I aLL SPICING '1'OT'AC . Jerry Galbreath 39 23 62 Harry Hill 10 16 26 Jim Hester 14 10 24 Tommy AN-cock 8 9 17 Alex Cheek 10 0 10 Ray Mavhall 0 6 6 Ed Ramsey 3 0 3 Basil McCampbcll 0 2 2 Frank Noe 2 0 2 Two additional Oklahoma goals were accidentally kicked by ponies and in one of the New Mexico games last fall, a Ros- well player accidentally hit one in for the Sooners . Longest baseball game Capt . L . R . 1! Ingfield, coach of the outstanding 1939 Sooner polo team What is the longest baseball game a University of Oklahoma team ever played? Several old-timers probably recall it, the 20-inning contest played between the Sooner and Oklahoma Aggie teams on old Boyd Field on April 25, 1912, and ending Sports Review in a 1 to 1 tie score. Here is the way the line score of this famous battle looked : AGGiES R . It . F . By Harold Keith 000 000 000 010 000 0011 00 1 6 8 soONFRS R . n. E . 000 000 000 010 000 0011 00 1 9 5 Batteries : Aggies, Billings and Smiser ; LTHOUGH it still had two victories this spring . This record looms Sooners, Courtright and Clark . games toA play at this writing, both with impressive when it is considered that 12 the Oklahoma Academy four of Clare- of the 19 games were played on foreign I wrote Ray "Corky" Courtright, the more May 18 and 20 at Norman, Capt . fields with the Sooner players riding Sooner pitcher that day who is now a Lindsey R. Wingfield's University of Ok- strange ponies. member of the University of Michigan lahoma polo team already has established The complete record for 1938-39 : athletic coaching staff, and asked him itself as the finest aggregation developed FAIL what he remembered about the game and at the University in the last seven years . *Oklahoma 11, "Texas A,ggies 4 his reply is interesting . *Oklahoma 4, Texas Aggies 3 Back in 1931 the University had a polo "Some of the spectators went home to *Oklahoma 2, New Mexico M . L 7 supper and then came hack and saw sev- team, coached by Capt. J. J . Waters, that 6 *Oklahoma New Mexico, M . L 7 eral innings," Ray recalls . went to the finals of the National Collegi- Oklahoma 9, Missouri 5 ate tournament at Woodmere, Long Is- Oklahoma 11, Missouri 3 "Billings, the Aggie pitcher, was also a land, losing to Army, 9 to 6 . Oklahoma 12 Claremore Cadets 3 good hitter and I remember that in the Oklahoma 11, Claremore Cadets I 20th inning, when it was quite dark, he The Sooner team that year was com- *Oklahoma 10, Claremore Cadets 0 posed of Clyde Watts at No. 1, hard- *Oklahoulla 12, Claremore Cadets 3 hit a line drive right at my head . I had riding, hard-hitting J . Brac McKinley at only a glimpse of the ball and just time 88 36 to put my gloved hand in front of my No. 2, Clyde Chastain at 3 and Joe Barn- SPRING face . The ball stuck in the glove and hill, an excellent long-hitting back, at 4 . Oklahoma I0, 0 Texas Aggies very few of the players or spectators knew Oklahoma attracted wide attention from *Oklahoma 5, Claremore Cadets 4 the trip, even shipping a string of 18 *Oklahoma 7, Claremore Cadets 6 where the ball was." Oklahoma 4, New Mexico M . L 3 In the Sooner limp that day was Claude ponies across the continent . Oklahoma 4, New Mexico M . 1. 3 In 1932, the following year, the same *Oklahoma 13, Iowa State 5 Reeds at first base, Glen Swanson at fec- Oklahoma team with the exception of the *Oklahoma 9, Iowa State 5 ond, Renshaw at third and Neil Johnson No. I position in which Bob Hert re- *Oklahoma 8, Missouri 7 at short. The outfield consisted of Charley *Oklahoma 7, Missouri 2 placed Watts who had graduated, swept Orr, Morrison Toomer and Jim Bailey . its fall and spring intercollegiate schedule, 67 35 Glenn "Shorty" Clark was the catcher . winning twenty consecutive games, but In the 11th inning Coach Bennie Owen had to pass up the national because of *Away from Norman games . substituted Winn for Swanson and Mor- prohibitive cost . The Sooner riders have doubled the gan for Bailey . This year's squad probably ranks close score on their opponents over the span The Aggie lineup included Perdue, cen- to the 1931 and 1932 aggregations . So of both the fall and spring campaign, 155 terfield, Smiser (who later carne to the far this season it has won 17 of 19 games, goals to 71 goals. University) catcher, Wells shortstop, San- including a string of nine consecutive Leading scorer of Captain Wingfield's tee left field, Woodson right field, Camp- 14 THE SOONER MAGAZINE bell first base, Billings pitcher, Allen Coach Tom Stidham's third base and Merry second base . Sooner football team will Charley Wantland, a back on Bennie probably have the biggest Owen's powerful football team of 1908, blocking back in the na- was the umpire . tion next fall in Ralph "Fats" Harris, 240-pound Coaches golf team (in trim) sophomore from Courtright, who also played football Stroud. He blocks and and basketball at the university, is coach backs the line and is sur- of the Michigan golf team and shoots a prisingly speedy for his mean round himself upon the few oc- heft. In the Oklahoma casions he comes to Norman for a visit . spring practice, Harris "We use to call it `cow pasture pool' looked very useful . when Peavine Trout and Daddy O'Hern had three holes out in Peavine's cow pasture in the old days there at Norman," Courtright reveals, "Since learning to play and being associated with the team here at Michigan, I believe it is the best sport of them all ." Football Officially, Sooner football has suspended until September 10, when Big Six rules permit fall practice to start . But Sooner fans keep talking about it . In the final Spring scrimmage it became evident that the Sooners will have three outstanding running backs to go with the veteran Howard "Red" McCarty from the tailback position . They are Beryl Clark of Cherokee, Jack Jacobs of Muskogee and Orville Matthews of Chickasha . Clark, a little 165-pound fellow who do lots of walking this summer to strength- cause he could play basketball like all get-out; played only in a few fourth quarters last en their legs ." he kept it because he had been a good student in O . U .'s College of Business Administration . year, has made astonishing improvement . Jennings rated sixth in the entire nation In fact, Bud slid so well in his fulltime job He ran the opening kickoff back almost to last season in receiving forward passes, midfield, nearly getting away, and with that the company advised him to drop his part- with a total of 23 . Sam Boyd, Baylor end, time basketball altogether, despite the fact he runs of 14, 12 and 17 yards, lugged the ball was national leader with 32 . McCarty was zipping them in with the same old zest for to the two-yard line where it was an easy was one of the outstanding hacks of last the Phillips Oilers . matter for Jack Steele, freshman from Lone season until he received serious leg in- Fred Wallace, who burned up the league in 1924, a law student while Soonering, is now a Wolf, to play across for the touchdown . juries in the Sooner-Aggie game at Still- During this drive Clark also pegged a pass prominent barrister in Los Angeles. Over in water . El Reno last week they hanged a man for saying to Marvin Whited, Hollis freshman, and The Sooner football schedule for 1939 Wallace wasn't the greatest basketball player kicked the point after touchdown . was still not definitely complete as this that ever lived . Apparently he is doing almost as well with his law books . Jacobs,favoring a sore arch, confined him- magazine goes to press . Athletic Direc- self to forward passing and completed two Vie Holt, 1928, has been going up and up tor Stidham was trying to schedule an- for an Ohio rubber company, just as he used to clever throws, one to J . S. Munsey, Norman other in December, to make the home go up to slap in those rebounds . Vic went into freshman, for 30 yards and the other to Paul slate more attractive . the sales department, is now sales manager for Woodson, Oklahoma City freshman, for 10 the entire United States in peddling his com- yards. pany's favorite tubes . Former cagers find success Bruce Drake, 1927-29, is coaching O. U ., as Matthews got loose for runs of 14 and 22 you've doubtless gathered for yourself if you've yards around end and hurled a pass to Lyle Arthur Edson, sports writer for the Oklahoma City Times, been within ten feet of a sports page at any Smith, Fairview freshman, for 45 yards and recently selected time this winter. It's a little too early to say all-time basketball a touchdown that was called back because an unofficial team that Bruce will whiz at coaching as he once from O .

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