Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-10-14

Cleveland. @, oct. lU.--lu Il baseball
game of sensational and thrilling plays
far beyond the widest dreams of an i'm
ngnative fiction or scenario writer. the
Cleveland Americans defeated the Brook
Ign Nationals to / in tho fifth contest
OF the worlds series here this afternoon.
An unasslsted triple play by William
Wambsganss, u native born son of Cleve-
land and home runs by Elmer Smith and
Jim Bagby were trio of individual feats
which formed flashllght photographs on
the brains of the fans which no future
diamond battle can erase.
The victory broke the tie existing be-
tween the pennant winners Of the two
major leagues and tonight Cleveland is
confident that the first American League
pennant eyer won by this city will he
overshadowed by the great glory of the
worlds series banner to be flung 10 the
breeze next spring.
The Brooklyn Robins. crushed by the
two terrible catastrophes of Saturday
and to-day are clinging despera tely to
tho hope that Sherrod Smith may be
able to check the savage batting on
slaught Of the Indians but the home team
and fans declare that nothing can stop
the rush of the Clevelanders, now that
they have solved the mystery of the
Flatbush hurting staff.
BASEBALL HISTORY MADE
The calbre of the play may be gath
cred from the fact that two worlds
records We're established during the
hour and 49 minutes in which the tribe
of Speaker tore great handfuls OF
plunage from the stunned and helpless
Robins. Never before in history Of the
worlds series had triple play been
made by one player and 90 seldom has
this baseball feat been accomplished
N the history of either major or minor
leagues that each and every such play
is familiar to thousands of fans.
HOME RUN WITH BASES FULL
A home run with the bases full is
also an innovation in the modern his
tory of the super-series. yet both these
records were made at Leagee Park
here this afternoon with a second home
run. four double plays and a score Of
other fielding and batting features
which would have been acclaimed as
thrilling during the course OF n nor.
NAL world series conflict
There was something uncannily local
about Wambsganss' triple play. The
Indians second baseman was born in
Cleveland in 1894 and after learning
the fundamentals of the national game
at Coneordia college. entered the pro-
fessional baseball ranks. After a COM
paratively short period Of minor league
experience with the Cedar Rapids club
of the Central Association, he came to
the local team in 1914 and has since
been a fixture with the Indians. That
a native-born ball player of Cleveland
should have made such an unusual and
infrequent paly Is coincidence. but
that a previous similar play should
have been made in the same park
eleven years ago savors OF something
beyond coincidence.
ONLY II TIMES DUPLICATED
But eleven times in the records of the
American pastime has an unassisted
triple play been accomplished. OF these
feats, but two were previously scored in
the major leagues.
1t was Neal Ball Of the Cleveland club
of 1909 who swept three opposing players
out on n similar handling OF the ball In
that year during the game between the
Boston Red Sox and the Indians, played
on July 10, Stahl was on first and Wag-
ner OH second with Mcconnell at bat
when Ball accomplished the play which
Is the dream Of every fielder in the game.
HOW TRIPLE WAS MADE
To-day the stage setting was much the
same. Both Kilduff and Miller had sin
gled to center in turn at the beginning
Of the fifth inning and were perched on
second and first, respectively when
Pitcher Mitchell came to bat. The Brook
lyn hurler who had previously relieved