The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-05
CLEVELAND INDIANS BRISTLING
 WITH A SUPREME. CONFIDENCE
Invade Brooklyn Today for First Worlds Series Game None the Worse for Wear After An All Night Ride in Pullmans-Expect Bagby Will Oppose Marquard in Opening Game.
(By Jack Veiock.)

New York, Oct. 5.-Bright sunshine and cool October breeze greeted the here this morning for the first game | of the worlds series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 l The invading. American League.
 champions were apparently none the lworse for wear after an all-night ride in Pullmans. At any rate, they briS- tied with confidence and were in the highest of spirits. 4. Speaker and his players are eager to come to grips with the National Lea que champions and they will have their wish granted at o'clock this afternoon when, with some 25,0O0
 fans looking on, Umpire Hank O'Day will give the command to play ball. Ebbets Field will.be about as roomy as the inside of aZ zsardine- can with all the sardines- at home.@e Every re- served seat was sold hours ago and there were long lines of fans in front of the ticket windows awaiting the sale of unreserved seats, scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock Many of the fans | waited all night long, sticking to their | posts in spite of a rain storm which broke over the city about midnight. Interest in the series. reached the l usual heights freree today despite the unsavory ref1ectionsc cast upon the na- | tional pastime by the 1919 worlds series sea nda1 -
 None of the members of the Dodgers l or Indians has ever been within the 1 shadow of suspicion and the baseball | classic will be played strictly on its merits. =.
 Cleveland Favorites. :. r The Cleveland club will go into the | big series today a to favorite in | the betting. Speakers boys are gen- erally conceded to be a much harder | hitting and faster fielding club than l the National League champions, and despite, the. fact that Brooklyn ap- parentIy has decided bulge in the tn Q r. mo Inf n n | been generally picked as Ss the next worlds champions. Interest in the selection of pitchers ' held the fans as the hour of the first 1 game approached.
 Manager Robinson says. he intends | to start southpaw against the in- vaders. If he sticks to the plan either Sherry Smith or Rube Mar ] quard will be sent to the firing line | in the first game.
 | Manager Speaker, it is expected, will send one of his two aces-Bagby or Coveleskie-to the hurling top. As ] Bagby pitched his last game Saturday 1 the chances favored Coveleskie to | start today's game.
 1 If the Dodgers use Smith or Mar quard there will probably be several l changes in the batting order of the | Cleveland club, with the chance that l Evans may lead off instead of Jamie
 son and play left field and Joe Wood l be sent to right field in place of 1 Smith. Johnston, it was believed, will l be kept at first base although. Speaker l has George Burns to play in that po- i Sition The men who will judge the play in | the big series are Hank O'Day, Bill | Klem, Tom Connolly and Bill Dineen. O'Day will be at the plate. Connolly 1 at first base Klem at second base and 1 Dineen at third. ,s
 | Brooklyn Awakening
 Brooklyn fans, who seemed to take the victory of the Robins rather pas
 sibly, have awakened to the fact that the 1920 National League champions are much better ball club than that
 which captured the pennant for Brooklyn four years ago. Fhe Dodg-
 CTS are conceded to be one of the 1 'tfghtin' est clubs that has ever won a pennant in the Mother League and l that Wflbert Robinson himself says they are as game an aggregation as he has ever seen. Every player on
 my club is physically fit for the big
 series and rarin' to go,'' said Bobby
 this morning. What's more we have
 a pretty good hunch that. we are go-
 ing to be the next worlds champions.
 Gameness always plays big part in
 a worlds series and I want to say
 right here that no gamer bunch of
 players were ever assembled on one ball club-and I've seen several
 "The members of the Cleveland
 most part" Robby continued, but ]
 have looked over their records and find that Speaker has one of the
 l hardest hitting teams of recent years Good pitching, however, can stop hit ting, and that's where we shine. , have every confidence in my pitchers ) and the boys behind them will do the
 rest. I plan 10 use a left handler against Cleveland today but do no will be chosen
 !