Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-12

Game Of Series Today;
| Has Pitched Three OF The
! Winning Games For Cleve-
! land.
League Park, Cleveland. Ohio, Oct.
12.-Cleveland, the American league
pennant winners, are, the worlds base.
ball champions of 1920. They defeat
ed the Brooklyns by score of three
to nothing today and won the big
championship in baseball. The big
Pole, Coveleskie. winning his third
game OF the series, held Brooklyn
helpless. The series ended with five
victories for the Clevelands and two
Tor the National league champions.
Final Score
a srookiyn -. .... ........ 3 3
On the sunburnt dusty field of
League Park this afternoon, the
Cleveland Indians closed in with a
rush on the hapless Brooklyn Dodg-
ers. for what the<> Cleveland home
folks declare will BE the final contest
with the National league champions
".
Easily twenty six thousand cheering
Clevelanders, sensing that the end OF
the worlds series was at hand, journ-
eyed out here to watch the Indians
clash with the Brooklynites, whose
straight defeats here have dealt their
championship aspirations a seemingly
mortal blow.
With thir much vaunted pitching
staff slot to pieces the Brooklyns
Ia t..AI TO-
pectfof being picked on again today
by Stanley Coveleskie, who had twice
turned back the Dodgers to defeat.
The Speaker tribe needed only one
victory to end the series in their favor.
John Heydler, president of the
Eatipnal League, talked with the
members Of the Brooklyn club before
the game to smooth down the ruffled
feathers of the Robins.
"Just play the game you did. in win
ming the championship" Heydler told
SRemember the strain Of today's
game 10 on the Indians. Get the jump
on them today and then yousca go
back home and win the series. This
Ia ssClevelapd's hardest game =
Trs Speaker said the IndiAns would
have the series won before nfslst.S
X I'VE have the better teatn said
the Cleveland manager and I think
four straight victories in League Park
National League partisan"
There was another jam Of SCleve-
=. lands cheering citizens out here to-
Saay to. make a Roman Holiday. All
seats were taken and there were BIDS
of $50 apiece for grandstand chairs.
) The crowd came early. The day was
warm with no threat of rain. Behind
the Brooklyn bench were the Flat
bush followers Of the National league
= championship clinging to the frayed
hope Of a Robin victory and holding
postmortems over the three recent
defeats.
The unpires for today's game were
assigned as follows:
,O'Day (plate); Dineen (first basel I;
KLEIN (second base); Connolly, .(th!rd
base).
First Inning.
Brooklyn-Olson up. Olson popped
to Gardner. hitting the first ball
\ trike one. Ball two. Strike two.
Shehan fell down swinging at the
bail and the crowd laughed. sheehan
iiied out to Jameson, who came in
/ fast to make the catch. Griffith up.
+, Strike one. Johnston took Grifath's
I, srounder and tossed to Coveleskie,
] who failed to touch the bag. 1t was
+, Wheat up. Strike one. Wheat sent
( q high hay to Wambsganss. No runs,
no hits, one error. Y 20 \
Cleveland-Jamieson up. Strike
{ ono. Jameson went out at first to
! Konetchy unassisted.s Wambsganse
up. Wambsganss flied out to Wheat
Speaker up. Ball one. Ball two.
Strike two. Speaker popped to Shee-
han: No runs. no hits. no errors.
Second Inning. ;.
4 Strike two. Bail one. Foul. sewell
! threw out Myers at first. Konetchy
up. Strike one. Foul, strike Ntwo,
| Gardner threw out ;Konetchy at first
| Kilduff up. Strike one. Strike two,
J Ktldulf went out at first, Sewell to
! Johnston. Sewell made a nice stop
4 and q pretty throw. No runs, no hits,
\ no errors. r.&.. u
cieveland-smith up. Ball one.
! Kllduff threw out Smith at first on a
1 pretty play, taking the ball behind the
'box and making a snap throw. Card
ner up. Ball one. Foul. strike one.
Sheehan took Gardner's grounder and
threw over Konetchy'sa head. Gard
ner held nrSt, while Cleveland claimed
thAt he was entitled to go to second on
the overthrow. Umpire O'Day allowed
the claim and Gardner walked down
to second. Johnston up. Ball one.
Ball two. BALI three Strike one,
Strike two. Johnston. walked. sewell
up. Strike one. Ball one. Foul,
strike two. Foul Bal two. Sewell
lined out to Grifmth. Gardner held
second. tO'NsiH up. Strike one.
Strike two. Foul. Kilduff threw out
O'Netll at hrst. No runs. no hits, one
error. y h Ut s,.j
Third Inning. 5..., I.
Brooklyn--Miller up. Ball one.
Strike one. Foul. strike two. Ball
two. Miller famed. his third strike
being drop ball which he failed to
80 after. Grimes up. Grimes sent a
Texas Lacquer back of short. Olson
up. Strike ohe.i Strike two. Sewell
mussed Olson's grOunder and 1t went
for an error. Sheehan up. Sheehan's
gr0undsr hit Olson on the leg and
Olson was declared out. Sheehan- II
credited with a hit and Grimes was
Z aent back to second base. Grinith up,
Strike one. Grinith hied out to Smith;
!. No osruns. two hits one error.
Cleyeland- Coveleslkte up. Strike
4 one. strike two; Covsleskie struck