New-York tribune., 1920-10-07
Indians Seek
Bard Who SANG.
Of old Grimes
Masterful Pitching of Brook
lyn Ace Starts Speakers
Tribe ON Trail of Poet
Who Reported Him Dead
Puts Spell ON Cleveland
Dodgers Play Like Cham
pions; Victory i'm I'd Game
CivesThem Edge, Says Rice
By Grantland Rice

At the moment Of going to press
group of infuriated Cleveland ball
players are looking for the sap-headed
bard who dashed off this ancient lyric
with all the atmosphere of truth:
"old Grimes is dead, that good old
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear long black coat
All buttoned up before
he once had something on the ball,
But now his withered wing
Lies underneath the coffin lid.
Beyond its final fling"
So old Grimes is dead, is he? Yes.
about as dead as Babe Ruth. Man o.
War, Jack Dempsey and the home
brew kick.
In the presence of $4,000 astonished
rooters the Old Corpse tossed off his
winding sheet yesterday and turned
back the powerful Cleveland attack
into a shut-out rout Either some
poet has been lying for a number of
years or the worlds greatest miracle
has developed. In either case. some
one should page Sir Oliver Lodge and
verify the matter at once.
Enough to Startle EN-
Believipg that Old Grimes was not
only dead but buried, no wonder the
Cleveland Indians were start1ed Hedel when 'ne
ne began to break series of fast
balls and battling curves over the in
SlGe 51i and outside corner of the plate.
no wouldn't be? If you were bat-
tihS and bloke thought to be dead
lol lnlrty.seven years suddenly began
hanging fast cnes around your neck
Wouldn't you be startled, too?
lth Old Grimes safely back on this
sac or the StyX the aroused DODGERS
p'avea Ike champions, drove jim Bag
~ on the reservation and moved up on
I've" terms with the indians, who never
had chance.
In only one inning could Cleveland
bunch as many as two safe hits. In
the seventh Gardner and O'Neil singled
put when Speaker rushed Granev mn
as a pinch hitter Old Grimes struck
MN out In the eighth Grimes doled
out three passes, but even with these
'aVlsh gifts to work on the Cleveland
attack was so powerless before his
fancy pltchlng that not run resulted.
When a ball club can gather three
f@N" ~ Si'N iOuilt ana tnSD can
orlVe run across you may get some
idea of how badly its attack was broken.
On the other side of the argument.
Brooklyn found Jim Bagby much
softer proposition than Stanley Covees-
ke had been the day before. Bagby
was good enough to win thirty-one ball
games through the year, the only
pitcher IN either league who reached
the thirty mark. But he still looked to
he bit weary after the heavy burden
he had carried all year and only a pair
Of lucky turns saved him from bigger
rout
Through the first three innings the
Brooklyn attack hit him with savage
earnestness, but line drives were mis-
placed or double plays yanked him out
of greater trouble Just as he seemed
to be sinking for the third and last
time.
Grimes's Support Faultlcss
Bagby drew the same brilliant sup
port from Iris Speaker that Coveleskie
did, but even the Texans spectacular
catches were not enough to save his
hide. Speaker, in addition to killing
off brace of doubles, interpolated a
single and a double of his own, proba-
bly, enraged at the duplcity involved in
the rumor OF Old Grimes s demise. But
it wasn't enough. For in addition to
Grimess fine pitching his support, led
by Tommy Griffith, Zach Wheat and
Pete kllduN, built up wall that was
(Coptlnued on mana Surva,