Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-13
The Ieuguc meslIon is 81


The Cleveland Indians toma-
hawked ana War-cluhbed the
Eruoklyn Dodgers yesterday and
war danced away with their fourth
straight game and the final con-
test of the big series. When they
open the season next year the flag
which is emblematic of a worlds
championship will float before
Lake Fries breezes over their wig
wan.
Air-tight pitching by Coycleskic,
timely batting by his teammates
and strategy on the part of the
Tribe of whom Speaker is chief
We're the factors in the final con-
test.
Just as in the other three games
in Cleveland. the Indians displayed
superior class. The champions
fielding averages were married by
three errors but the chief offender,
Shortstop Sewell, seems to have
taken care that no DOdCcr was
within scoring distance when he
wobbled. He made up for cutting
two grounders by several spectaC-
uIar plays which cut down hits.
Crimes Pitches We'll.
Grimes, who was hatted out of
the box Sunday. tried to do Il
come back" ana did pitch good
bali but not nearly good enough to
beat the American league cham
pions The Indians made use of
their hits and in addition showed
brooklyn just how the delayed
g,tg al
stole second and Gardner raced
over the plate with the Tribes first
run. Speakers mon, in fact, show
ed more daring in yesterdays game
than in any other of the series.
They took chances and got away
with them, just like u champion
ship ball team does,
Coveleskie again demonstrated
that he is iustas good if not lit
Tie bit better than any pitcher on
the Brooklyn staff He dished up
a long row of ciDhcrs with rims
around them to decorate Brook
lyn's run column ana the hits he
allowed were as far apart as the
water holes on Ari2ona's desert.
Best Team Won.
bt l''CA tItlll N'll III 'phlS u
seems to have been fortunate in
winning two games of the series.
II is hardly presumption to say
that Mails would have shut out
the Dodgers in the third game of
the series had he been started in
stead of caldwell. In the six and
two-thirds innings he worked
against the Robins in that game
-he was taken out to allow a
pinch hitter to bat-hc had them
completely baffled, Just as he had
when he BANKED them in CleYe-
land in the sixth game.
The American league has again,
and most emphaticNlly, demon-
strated its superiority over the
National league, viewed from any
angle-pitching, batting and STRAIT
egg.
Pitching FaliaCy punctured.
During the past seasOt, some
baseball criticics maintained that
the National league was stronger
THAN the American They place l
particular stress ON the pitching of
the senior league, asserting that
the twirling on Ban JohusOn's cir
cult was not nearly as good as that
of the National league mOundsmen.
They attempted to prove this by
citing the fact that the hitting was
much heavier in the American
league where home runs and 800
hitters were conspicuous.
And all of the critics seemed to
agree that the Brooklyn pitching
staff was the strongest in the MAJ
tional league, Because of this the
Cleveland club wasNsupposed to en-
ter the big series under a handicap.
1T was generally admitted that
Cleveland was the stronger team
but National league enthusiasts
POINTED out that the Indians hitting
power would not assert itself in the
annual fall classic because of the
Dodgers superb pitching. The In
dams hitting strength had been due
to weaker pitching, they asserted.
See What Happened.
What happened to the best pitch
ing staff in the National league
when it faced the champion team
of the American league is now a
matter of history. The Indians by
timely hitting, defeated every mem
Der of the Dodgers star mounds
men and thus exploded the theory
that they had been batting weaker
pitching in their own league ana
would be unable to solve the de-
livery of the National leagues pre-
mier moundsmen.
Brooklyn has a fine pitching staff
undoubtedly the best in the Ma.