New-York tribune., 1920-10-13
Crimes's Wild Throw Lets
In First Run; O'Neill,
Jameson and Speaker
Help Make Final Ones
Dodgers Helpless
Before Coveleskie
Cleveland Crowd Gives
Manager and Players
Ovation After Victory
By w. O. Mcclellan

CLEVELAND, Oct 1.-THE Clevc-
land Indians, pcnnant winners of the
American League, are the world cham
pions.
They won their fifth game from the
Brooklyn National League team by to
0 to-day, making the worlds series of
1920 five games to two. When big Ed
Konetchy, the Brooklyn first baseman.
batted the last ball Of the series, fore
ing out Wheat, the jubilant Cleveland
ers poured into the field to manhandle
affectionately their own champions.
Cleveland has been awaiting this day
since 1879, the year when this city first
acquired big league team 1t is a
home city for the home team, first, last
and always, and this was its great day.
The dark shadow that has been hang
ing over all professional baseball since
the series of 1919 did not affect them
here.
Speaker Greets His Mother
When the crowd first swirled into the
field to surround Speaker the manager
of the worlds champions broke away
from them. lie dashed over to a field
box whore there sat a thin little old
lady. The little old lady rose smiling
and reached out her arms to the hero
Of the hour. 1t was Speakers mother.
who had come all the way from Hub
bard, Texas. to be present at her sons
triumph The little old lady's arms
went around the big players neck and
he kissed hey heartily. Then he slipped
back into the field and was surrounded
by his admirers again.
Speaker was carried toward the
entrance to the dressing room and
jammed there by the surging OF the
Clevelan fans. He was lifted to broad
shoalders and passed back and forth.
Smith, Coveleskie, Gardner and the
others were patted by adoring but Wig
orous hands. The premoturely gray
manager of the Indians finally fought
his way from the clutches of his
friends and forced his way to where
Uncle Wilbert Robinson, of the Dodg-
ers, was shutting toward the dressing
room.
Uncle Robby Greets Speaker
The broad smile of Uncle Robby was
gone and he looked little serious, but
when he saw Speaker coming toward
him the game old veteran of many
baseball contests smiled again and
reached for Speakers hand with his
pudgy fist.
"It was coming to you, iris" he
said. The crowd pressed around them
both and there We're many volleys Of
cheering as the managers went into
the dressing rooms.
This is the second time that Wilbert
Robinson, with a team that gave the
experts the horrors, won a National
League pennant but failed in the fight
for worlds chan,DiOn hin
There are no alibis," he said. "They
couldn't make any runs, and it takes
runs to win ball games"
Marquard Barred from Baseball
Uncle Wilbert had planned to start
Richard de Marquis Marquard, the
"Rube' of long and more or less
checkered baseball career. but the
pitcher was read out of baseball this
morning by John A. Heydler, presi-
dent Of the National League Mar
guard had been caught trying to scalp
worlds series tickets and John Heyd-
"Rube" had caught the spirit Of the
age and had taken to profiteering, de-
clared that he could play no more
baseball.
The decision was arrived at with
considerable precipitation when one
considers that it took the National
League several years to get rid of Hal
Chase. The news was sent to Uncle
Robby that Marquard was banished
and the Punishment was to take effect
Immediately.
Grimes vs. Coveleskie
That left Burleigh Grimes to do the
pitching, with Coveleskie, the splitting
Pole, who had twice smothered the
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