The Washington times., 1920-10-07
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! !. THIRD CLASH
Sherrod Smith, for Brooklyn,
and Mails, for Cleveland,
:, ~ Doped as Fingers.
BY SID MERCER.

~ NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Eariy IN
dications were that the third clash
today of the world series contenders
the last in Brooklyn unless the de-
iEision is delayed beyond the seventh
Ckame-will be a duel Of left-handed
pitchers.
- Sherrod Smith, Brooklyn's burly
fork-hander, and Walter (Duster)
I Mails, who once toiled in Dodger
livery. are believed to be the choices
Of their respective managers for the
combat which each team leader Is
particularly anxious to win.
1t is almost certain that Mails VIII
face the Dodgers, but Uncle Wilbert
Robinson may switch from Smith to
either Cadore or Pfeiffer. who are
fairly aching for a chance to get into
the fracas Robby can afford 10
gamble. but Speaker is only one jump
ahead of his second string pitchers'
The result of yesterdays game has
made the Dodgers supremely conf
dent that they are going to win. They
have disposed-for a few days at
least-of Jim Bagby, who was rated
as highly as Coveleskie before the Sc
ries started, and they expect to make
trouble for Mails, who has not had a
lot Of major league experience. ii
4 they win today they figure Speaker
will be forced to shoot Coveleskie
back at them on Saturday, when the
fourth game of the series Is played
in Cleveland.
BIG, HUSKY CITIZEN.
Smith is a big. husky citizen who
can go nine innings and more II
necessary. His baptism OF fire in
worlds championship game was re-
ceived in 1915, when he took the Bos-
ton Red Sox and Babe Ruth along
for fourteen innings before he bowed
in defeat. A veteran of several hard
National League campaigns, Smith Is
a steady, reliable performer and he
can hit q bit, too. He finished the
regular season in good form and has
a good, long rest and is as ready as
he ever will be.
Mails is also a big, wide-shouldered
finger with long arms and world
of speed. He is. however, more of a
gamble in this series than Smith. In
the closing month of the American
League campaign, when the Indians
were hard pressed by the White Sox
and the Yankees, this big fellow won
five times in six starts for Cleveland
By acquiring Mails from the Sacra-
mento Club of the Pacific Coast
League Idlc III 6uSl, iiio cpS"NSi
turned lucky stroke in his man.
agement of the Cleveland club. The
Indians needed left handed pitcher
badly They had not really high
class southpaw on their roster for
several years, and no team Is sup
uposed to win a pennant without at
least one left-handed spellbinder.
WAS WITH BROOKLYN.
Some four years ago Mails had
been picked up by your Uncle Wilbert
Robinson and he hung around with
the Brooklyn club for a couple Of
seasons before Robby gave him up as
hopeless prospect. Your Uncle
wiIbert has a reputation as re-
builder Of pitchers and when he dis
posed of Mails nobody believed the
young man would ever amount to
anything because Robby could never
discover available pitching genius in
him.
But Mails learned something kick
ing around in the minor leaguesHe
is twenty-four years old--in his
prime as ages of ball players go =
and he has world Of. stun They
gay that when a lefthander ls good
ne Is wonderful good. but when ne
lacks control, he is horrid. "Duster'
must have the control, otherwise h,