Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-08
IVAN OLSON HAS
STEEL SPRING ARM,
So SAYS RUNYON
Sherry" Smith Is From
Mansfield, Ga, and a
Good Hunter.
OFFICIAL SCORER GIVES IRIS
SPEAKER A TW0-BAGGER
Ed. Bang, Cleveland Writer,
Tells Critic All About
the Sewell Error.
by DAMON RuNYoN.


series.
This time the scorc is . TO / and
the game is very exciting.
The series. now stands two games
fer brooklyn and one for Cleveland.
and the ball players arc leaving to-
night for Cleveland TO resume their
playing saturday.
One club or the other must win five
games in nino before this series is
decided.
The crowd is habbling of the work
today OF Ivan Olson. Olson is the
Brooklyn shortstop. He is lean,
angular. hard bitten looking fellow
with sharp features. They say he
is not popular in Brooklyn.
a y Brooklyn man has just remark
cd:
And 10 think we almost drove
that fellow out of this town a few
weeks aSo by abusing him when he
wasn't going good"
HerroE LIZ There.
Charley HcrzoG, the Chicago ball
player. leans over into the press stand
and beckons with the hand that e,iil
bears the scars OF knife slash from
fellow he was lighting in Joliet
called him crock.
!; seems bu: yesterday that He-zoE
hinsel: IS down :he-e OF the field
plsy:aE IL wo:ld series.
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S.wei! ~. ~ : r-.s: tsu PLAYER
SON. dsy. ~, .-~, acw ae lacks *
J+-t"oce ITre-.en"s Is gre5, as
So T. ;aess ts SEXES
seven can .catictly pi, t.a-n.3 t,-
little n.-voc.ae,t Ise s jus, ou,
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one 0: me creates, BAH players o..
nif ::-n. and ;zEiag pa: Il series
On which hErgE :housa.dx q Dbl
Lars aac E It's ~.
Olson. :ae .e-,a.-y ,ooE.aE man
VINO p!zys -. same position on The
opposing c!ub. r hero she-. IN.
yoangs:s' IS goa" bu; cons!d-
81: Olson Ives :odzy through SERGE
FIRE Q. Brooklyn criticism. which Is
very no, criticism indeed % bal!
player. ScweN Will he all -.ra,.
She-rod srn!;h IL the Brooklyn
pitcher. He IS tai heavyIbul, ley.
handler Re comes fro. Mans7t!d.
Ga, and owns several good hunting
dogs and Is very woade..ul wing
shot.
smith Good Pitcher
In addition 70 this. ne g. good
pitcher a; times. In the world Sc.
ries OF 1916 Smith pitched splcnd ID 5,
against the Red SoI lie vas beat
en- in sixteen innings
There IS reminder OF THIS series
10 the baseball writers in N iac!dcn,
in The first Inning today. Wambs-
Ganss. the strangely named C!evelanc.
second bascman. is given base on
balls.
Smith taxes his pitching pos.;!o.
and distance and suddenly shoots the
ball over 70 Konetchy, trying 10
catch Wanbsganss mapping
Cleveland player coaching Of,
first base says something 10 D!neen
the American League umpire lie Is
claiming Smiths delivery 10 frs.
does not correspond 10 the pitching
rules The same complain; was
made by Red Sox players abou,
Smith In 1916
However, left.haDded pitchers are
permitted more ieeway In these mat
ters In the National League than In
the American. and D!neen SAYS moth.
ing.
Smith is powerful fellow Ue
throws the bah with grca; force
Yet ne has less OF the twisting and
than the average pitcher
Starts Ball Over Head.
He starts with the hall held be.
tween his hands above his head
= Then he drops his arms and his lief
arm swishes around from :, half
crook with apparently l!t,lc effort.
This absence Of manncrism is yer,
deceiving. Smith wears proud al,
Is Southern name in sherrot, shor,ene,
TO SHERRY" by the ball players
He holds Cleveland 20 three HTS
u two by the great O'Neill This is Won
derful world series pitching. II
great pitching any time. The Cinye
z land men are rcdoubtable h!ticrs
Yet did Ivan Olson no, have tina
.tesl spring arm cor eonnectea TO him IN
Is show more hits OF Sherrod Smith,
.8fs The gentlemen OF tho press thin
Speaker will start Duster Malls, h,
y Continued on eleventh pageJ
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