The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-11
INDIANS SCALP
DODGERS WITH
FIERCE ATTACK
Epochal Baseball Defeats
Brooklyn in the Fifth
Game, 8 to /.
SENSATIONS MARK PLAY
Wamby Makes Triple Play,
Doubles Are Many and
Batting Is Heavy.
nv WILLIAM Il. HANNA.
Special Despatch to THE HERALD.

Special Despatch 10 The HERALD
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 10.-Not before
IN the world series contests, and seldom
In contests OF any other kind. has there
been such all around effectiveness as
shown by the Clevelands this afternoon
in the fifth game of tho 1920 post-season
series. Their game was effective, phe-
nomenaily so. The attack was concen-
trated. powerful the fielding extraor-
binary. The Brookyns. although they
made hits In quantity, were overpowered,
IL not stampeded, by such baseball and
were beaten by a score of to !.
1t was not until the last inning that
the National Leaguers had man circle
the bases. Although they made thirteen
hits. and would have had one more but
for an error in scoring, as bad as any
thing made on the field during the series,
they were all but shut out Scattered
hits and persistent frowns of fortune
which led them against all sorts of run
killing fielding when men were on bases
were the reasons for the emaciated tally
total.
The epochal deeds of the Indians,
whose playing had diversified strength
ball teams seldom attain for the reason
that there's a limit to human achieve
ment on the ball field as elsewhere, In
Guided two home runs-one by Elmer
Smith with the bases filled, the other by
Bagby, pitcher and leader in games won
in the American League.
Smith made his home run in the first
inning, and If ever there was an event.
full drive in ball game this one was.
Before home crowd of $4,000, the
bases filled and a blow which presaged
a victory which would put Cleveland IN
the lead IN games won. where only two
DAYS before they had been behind. the
psychological effect was tremendous.
In the third inning, with two en-
camped on the bases, Bagby pierced the
ethereal heights with another home run.
O'Seill had just been passed in order
that Grimes, the luckless pitcher, who
was the target for all this tribal abuse,
might get a supposedly easier adversary
in the person of Bagby. The pitchers
home run cleared the heads of Hy Myers
and Tom Griffith, but those pickets were
foiled by the new stand In right centre.
which cuts out into the lawful playing
field to interfere with outfield play.
1t would have been caught or held
to two bases on a regulation field, but
1t was slashing lick just the same. and
whatever it's {. te would have been had
the infringing structure not been there
the Indians would have won just the
same, for the drive merely increased
their amount Of we'll earned booty.
Triple Play Unassisted.
At the bat hits clustered to extraor-
binary richness i'm returns; in the field
double plays and other feats suppressive
to opponents TO an extraordinary degree.
The Indians, fairly running wild, and
with the lid off as to what they could
do. flung the Dodgers back in the fifth
inning with triple play, the first triple
play In worlds series. and. more than
that. one OF the baseball raritles, triple
play unassisted.
This triple play came Just at time
when the Dodgers were trying to or
sanize rally which might turn the
ts<se their way after all. and at time
when they needed only another punch or
two 10 make Bagby totter on his
pedestal and possibly drive him from t..
kilduff had singled to centre with no
body out. and Miller had rasped a clean
s,rgle to the same field. Clarence
Mitchell was at the bat, and Robinson s
southpaw pitcher Is a sturdy batter.
He cracked that ball hard and made
II ring. II was a liner headed to right
- Wao bOtub WaUDSEdnSS'S
way, slightly TO HIS right Wamby took
two or three steps. lifted himself to his
toes, made a slight spring and reached
the ball overhead with both hands. II
was good catch, spectacular but diff
cult But the ball had been so hard
ard straight from the bat that both
Kilduff and Miller were piling heller
SHELTER for the next base.
Without the slightest hesitation and
showing that he was clear headed.
Wambsganss proceeded to execute the
play In front OF him and seize an OBJ
rortunity which comes once in a life
time. and not always then.
Puts Out All Three.
Kilduff was nearer to third than to
second. and all Wamby had to do 70
dispose OF him was TO step on second
lase. That done, he turned his atten-
ton to Miller, who had clattered up the
line and was within a few feet Of sec
ond base. Wambsganss, before Miller
could turn back toward first, which
would not have done him any good
enyway, prodded the trapped Dodger in
the stomach with the ball, and the
triple play was completed
Associated with the unbeatable de-
Nelopments OF Clevelands fielding. in
which. besides the triple, there were