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where his mother and other relative
occupied a lower tier box.
Speakers" Mother Recoanizad

his progress was slow but once he
reached the rail, he vaulted over the
iron front and into his mothers arms lik,
small schoolboy. The scene was SC
unusual that for moment there was
complete cessation of cheering whicl
however broke out with treble vigo1
when Mrs. Speaker hugged, patted anc
kissed her gray-haired son and the lat
ter responded in a manner which indica
ted that he regarded his mothers ap
proval and petting far above any re
wards that might come to him as a re-
suit of the victory of his team in win
ing the greatest honor that can come to
professional ball player.
When Speaker finally left his moth
ers side and started for the club house,
he was beseiged by requests to shake
hands and autograph programs and pho
tographs. When he finally disappeared
into the passage way of dressing quar-
ters the crowds swept back to the
Speaker box where they cheered and de-
manded speech from the mother of the
popular ball-player manager. Mrs Speak
er met the demands of the fans by wav-
ing her hand and was soon joined by
owner James c. Dunn, Of the club, who
addressed the crowd for her.
Ebbetts CongratuIates
During the height of the demonstra-
ton. Charles Ebbets. of the Brooklyn
club, crossed the field and congratulated
the executive of the winning team.
Then the throngs slowly dispersed to
discuss at their leisure the successful
climax Of Cleveland's forty-year battle
for major league pennant and a
world series banner.
That the citizens of Cleveland pro-
pose to properly honor the occasion was
shown by a conference which took place
between Mayor W. S. Fitzgerald and the
most before the final cheers had died
away. 1t was tentatively decided to
hold public reception and welcome for
the players of the team in the public
square within the next day or two at
which the populace will be invited to
show in collective and comprehensive
manner their appreciation of the honor
which the players of the team have
brought to Cleveland. If this takes the
preliminary trend shown in rewarding
the stars of the series to date it is quite
likely that every member of the club will
have automobiles. watches, medals and
other souvenirs of their conquest suf-
ficeDt to fill several store houses before
the fans permit them to retire to well
earned season of inactivity.
H6celptS, Attenuance.
After the game, it was announced by
the national commission that the paid
attendance had been 27,525 and the gate
receipts, $4,000. 1t was the largest
attendance and receipts of any of the
seven games.
That those who witnessed the closing
contest saw game of usual standard
is shown by the box score. but there
were features which thrilled the thou
sands which cannot be Illuminated by the
cold figures of either the box score or
summary.
Sewel's Comeback.
Despite the two errors charged to
Shortstop Sewell he made plays which
went far to eliminate the youngsters
miscues In the fifth inning he stop
ped Aliller's smash back of second base
while on the dead run and got the bat
ter with a fine throw to first. In the
the same inning. Coveleski was almost
knocked down by line drive from
Grimes bat but chased the ball half
way to third and got his man at the in
initial bag.
In Clevelands half of the fifth. Right
Fielder Griffith made thrilling try for
Speakers triple which scored Jameson.
After a long sprint he got his finger
tip on the ball just as he crashed into
the stand, but could not hold the hard
hit sphere. Second Baseman kilduff al
so came in for a great round of applause
in the second session when he came in
on the grass on a full sprint and scooped
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