As early as Monday, the week of the society's first nauonal convention, the local papers started building up the event. There were already several quartets in town staying at the Mayo and Tulsa Hotels. Tulsa really got on the bandwagon and just about every organization in town who had a luncheon wanted a quartet. Most of them got one.
The papers went ahead and "picked" the winner and runners up several days before the contest. The Capital City Four from Springfield, Illinois was picked to win and the Flat Foot Four of Oklahoma City was to be second.
The Barflies didn't even decide to compete until the last minute. On Friday afternoon they headed for Tulsa and sang in the semi-finals.
George said "I can't recall that we broke into the charmed circle that night. . . we were hoping for third."
One of their contest songs was the well known Mandy Lee. Mandy Lee was such a hit, 14 competing quartets sang it the next year in the New York contests.
The next night after singing in the finals, George recalled: "...it was so close, they had us and the Capital City Four come back out and sing another song". By the slimmest of margins, the Barflies were named "World Champion Barbershop Quartet".
For their win they received the new tifle and a check for $50.00.
It worked out to $12.50 apiece and they're not even sure if they ever cashed the check.

There were ten judges when we stepped on stage at Central High to make history. But for the grace of God and a few simple barbershop chords the Barflies would have been forgotten before the ink was dry on the Sunday editions.
It was amazing  . newspapers all over the United States picked up he story and the Barflies became famous. Things sorta got outa hand a bit from then on for the next year.

They did appear on a recording with several other quartets from the contest. It was made by