The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-04
CROWDS
TO SEE WORLD
SERIES GAMES
Application for Reserved Seats
Far Outnumber Seats to Be
Disposed of BY Clubs.
TEAMS EVENLY MATCHED
Chicago Investigation of Crook
edness Seems to Vouchsafe
True Test Between Clubs.
fRy Assoeiated Prs.s.l


New York, Oct. S.-The world series
of 1920, the blue ribbon event OF base
ball, to decide the championship of
Americas national game, will be ush-
cred in at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.
Tuesday.
The contesting teams, Brooklyn and
Cleveland, champions respectively. of
the National and American Leagues.
are perhaps more evenly matched than
are world series contenders generally
The expose before the grand jury in
Chicago of the crooked deal in con-
nection with the worlds series of last
lear apparently has had no effect on
the coming games other than to make
the players of both teams more deter
mined than ever to make the contests
a true test of both clubs.
Reports from both clubs are that the
applications for reserved seats far
outnumber the seats to be disposed Of
and with the unreserved seats to be sold
on the days the games are played, it
will be a case of first come, first
served. Few fans resident outside Of
Brooklyn and Cleveland will find it an
easy task to secure tickets and the
formation of line in front OF the box
office many hours before each game
is expected.
The meeting or Brooklyn and Cleye-
land will bring together in the big
games two teams developed and man
aged by leaders of entirely different
schools of baseball Wilbert Robin
son. manager of the Brooklyn team,
is a graduate of the Baltimore Ori-
oles of the early COS, team that in
its day was in a class by itself Man
ager Robinson, however, who has been
constantly connected with baseball
since the days of the Orioles. has kept
pace with the progress of the. game,
and thus has been able to develop his
team in accordance with what he.
deemed the best methods of the old
school of baseball as well as to what
appeared to him the best points of the
modern system.
Iris Speaker, manager of the Cleve-
land Indians, is generally regarded as
one of the greatest outfie1ders base
ball has ever known. He is at present
the only playing manager in eth
major league and whatever his sys-
tenn of leadership has been, it is sur
ficient testimony to his ability as 81
leader to have developed in less thanl
two years an aggregation OF players thati
was able to win for Cleveland its first
championship in a major league cir
cult
When the two teams take the field
Tuesday for the first game Of the ser
les. they will be in as good condition
physically as it is possible for two
teams of athletes to be after the siren
uous campaigns they have been
through. The races in both leagues
were not decided as early as usual,
Brooklyn winning it's claim to the Ma
tional league pennant less than a week
before the close of the season, and
Cleveland capturing the American
league title only one day before the
close OF the season.
It is almost certain that Manager
Speaker will call upon his pitching
ace,J Jim Bagby, In the opening game,
unless Stanley Coyeleskie exhibits bet
ter form. Manager Robinson will
start either Marquard of Smith in the
box with the chances favoring the
former because OF his good pitching
in his recent games
An interesting feature OF the series
viii be that, for the first time in a
world series two brothers will appear
as opponents. They are Pimmy John
ston, Brooklyn third baseman, and Doc
Johnston. Cleveland first baseman.
The Cleveland team is not expected
to arrive in New York until Tuesday
morning. and It is likely that the
BROOKLYN club will extand tha CAM
tesy Of permitting it's opponents to use
of Ebbets' Field for a brief workout
Manager Speakers plan was 10 take
his players back to Cleveland after
today's game in Detroit and permit !
them to rest up in their home city un-
til Monday night at six o'clock when |
they viii leave for New York