Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-11
Wambsganss Makes Triple
Play in Fifth Inning; First
Time it Has Been Done in
Worlds Series Game;
Bagby Pitches Fine Game.

Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 11.-With. the
count in games 3 to 2 IN their favor in
the battle for the baseball champion
MP or the universe, the Cleveland In
dian; today were prepared TO face the
Brooklyn Dodgers in the sixth contest
OF the series. confident Of continuing
their mad oTlrush Of the last two days
and that tonight the worlds cham
pionship pennant would be within one
game Of Their grasp.
The Dodgers, somewhat downcast
over two successive drubbings, We're
far from beaten in spirit, however.
With Sherrod Smith, the brilliant
southpaw who SEN Cleveland back
from Brooklyn on the short end of the
third series game, scheduled to hurl.
they felt the turning point a been
reached and that by evening they
again would be on even terms with the
American league champions.
To Use Mails.
Manager iris Speaker planned to
send his youthful southpaw, Walter
Mails, to the mound. While Mails has
had. only a brief major league career,
his work has been on a par with tina,
of the veterans. Coming into the
league in midsummer from the Pacific
coast and after n failure as a big
league pitcher in Brooklyn. the young
ster won six straight games when
Cleveland was on the verge of being
showed out of the pennant race. In
Brooklyn the third game Of the world
series, after Ray Caldwell had been
knocked out of the boz in the first in
ming he went in and kept the Dodgers
away from the plate until late in the
game when he was taken out for a
pinch hitter. Mails, however, had new
er started q superseries contest, while
Smith is a veteran.
Back of the Cleveland team today
was a city which had lost interest in
everything but baseball and which no
longer even gave Brooklyn a chance to
win the series. On the street, corners,
tfn the hotels, the restaurants. the the
Z atefs and everywhere the only subject
discussed was baseball and to Ctve-
land baseball" means Jim Dunn's In
dams.
The Cleveland rooters have been on
the edge of the championship crater
for years and now that the big explo-
sion has come they have lost all sense
OF equilibrium and are pulling, tug
world victory that is within their sight.
Their was, however, somewhat of a
cessation OF the tenseness which char
acterized the city during the early
days Of the big .fracas, for the fans
seemingly felt that they had seal ed
Mount Olympus and now had only to
st back and enjoy the fruits of their
c%onquests. d.
The attitude Of the clubs hackers
was indicated in the shortness OF the
lire at therbleacher gates last night
and early this morning. OF twenty on
guard at 6 o'clock last night only -four
we're there to see the game. The other
fifteen We're Observation-Disclosures
heir place in line for sale.
BY midnight, however the line had
approached the proportions Of pre-
oleacher gates to open had brought
chairs. boxes, tables and other com
4orts and. played cards, matched coins
Ind found ether ways to pass the time.
: Before daylightgcandles were used to
illuminate tlae"impromptu card tables.
A Game OF Wonders.
Yesterdays game still was the main
topic under discussion today. 1t was a
game of wonders.
, homer with the bases full, and Bagby's
homer after the smuggling O'Neill had
I oeen p~urposely passed SO Grimes could
get to the pitcher. Bagby will live Ions
IN the baseball records. The first two
!. never before a been duplicated in a
worlds series.
Fielding which was brilliant and
. sensational and at the same time
steady. hitting which came when hit.
ting " needed, kept the thousands
Of spectators jumping to their feet.
incidentally h game produced sew
. eral instances Of inside baseball STRAIT
q egy, but again in each case Brooklyn
was n sufferer n Cleveland the
/. gamer.
y In the first inning with the bases
{ tuil Smith took two powerful swings