Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-06
Iris Speaker Was Out
standing Star With Many
Spectacular Plays.
yMAMAUX HAS TERRIFIC
SPEED BEHIND THE BALL
Kruger Is Big League
Tourist, Going From One
Team to Another.
BY DAMON RUNYON.
-StnT Correspondent. Universal Ser

iand mas beaten BROOKLYN IN the frSt
game of the worlds series of 1920
by score OF To !. Twcnty-thrce
thousand, five hundred and seventy
three persons. the exact tabulation
of. the turnstiles. as just bawlcd
around the press stand by an an
nouncer with a meEaphone. are pre-
pairing TO quit the premises.
A stii!ish north wind that blows
out of cold gray sky hurrics them
away. 1t has been cold day. much
too cold for baseball The Brooklyn
ball yard is set in a sort of pocket,
which sucks in all the chilly drafts
OF Flatbush.
The background is the giant ar
mory of Brooklyn's First Cavalry
and tall apartment houses and
sQuatty, dilapidated dwellings, Rig
groups of persons on the roofs OF
these buildings are slowly dissolving.
The Cleveland ball players. In new
steel gray uniforms, and the Brook
Ign men. in dingy white. are thread
ing their way through the crowd on
tho field, ali headed for their dress
inS-rooms under the stand.
Everybody seems to be moving
siuggishly. like ants on n cold day.
Stanley Covcleskie. burly Pole.
who is the victorious Cleveland
pitcher. can he seen showing through
knot of men and boys.
Let Coveleskie go back and thank
the prematurely gray-haired man
who brings up the rear of the scat
tered Cleveland band
Speaker Snred Game.
RMS man is iris Speaker, man
ager OF the American League club
from the Forest City. lie is the man
who is responsible for this moment
Of triumph for Stanley Coveicskic
y wonderful catch by Speaker gives
this game 10 Stanley Covclcskie
Speaker is the greatest outheldcr
in baseball. Perhaps he is the great
cs; outiielder that ever lived. A man
has Just so stated. Speaker comes
from the town OF Hubbard. Tex.
which has little more population
than one OF those apartment houses
yonder.
He is pleasant-spokcn young
man. 33 or "a years old. very un-
ostentatious Off the field and can
throw lariat, and spin a six-shooter
around on his finger and do many
other cowboy tricks. lie learned
these in Texas
lon nave TO go to the animal king
dom TO fad SMILES for further de-
seription. He has the speed of
erevhound lie has an eye like an
antelope. which can see very far. His
Judgment OF Il iy ball Corresponds in
Eeenncss 10 the sense of smell OF a
,. The eighth aiming comes back
stanley t'ovtfeskie holds the
Brooklyn Dodgers helpless at bal
with his pitching for seven inn,nrs
The Brooklyn club IL nickna;neJ H.,
Trolley Dodgers because on account
or living In Brooklyn they are sun
POSED TO be constantly lodging troll
ley cars
Why Trolley DodGerst
There is something in the name.
Brooklyn fairly teens with troUeys.
The score IS the same as at the
hnish. 10 ! in favor OF Cleveland.
So,x,eleskie Is pitching wonderful
best in his own league. lie moisteus
the bail with saliva, putting it up TO
his mouth before he delivers il as il
he were eating an apple.
Coveleskie comes from the coal
does lis battery mate. Steve o.%eiii'
gooa-!oos!nS man who is power
IN IN ms $40 ame. Inty are both of
Stanley Covclesk!e's brother. Iiar-
~. a !ett-hander once beat the New
IoIk Giants out of pennant by
them FOL, the rhilltes Another
steve o'Neni is o, the baseball
Jo Nesies' TH ,6i nGigGe M,SG and
Tiveo casually in the press stand
where 81, HuGhey Fullerton. Ring
LarGner. Tiny Maxwell. Bill Fhclam
Jack Ryder and hundreds o. otncr
a.
RUDE Marquard. tall. tain wry.
ncckec, pitches the game fer Brook.
lyn UP 20 the eighth inning. Cleye-
land scores all lis runs of him. an
error by konetchy doing some dam.
san; L cub Is unable to &c, a
how man runs are, scored aga ns,
its own pitcher. as far as the final
rsult IS concerned. So say The ea-
Lamar Goes To lint.
Wilbert Robinson, as wide as q
door. sends Lamar. younEs;er, up TO
Then ne pu:s in Al MamauX. said 10
be the nantsomest man IN baseball.
20. pitch.
strikes out Seweli, ONeili and Cove.
leskie; one right afie: ,he other Joe
Sewei!., year ago captain o: the
Alabama. and O'Ne.ll 90 some Hitting
in this game.
lSewell is taking the place Of Ray
s Chapman a. shortstop for the Clcvr-
land club. Chapman is tn. man ac-
cidentally killed by Carl Mays. III.
e New York pitcher. only a few week
ago. The Cleveland players wear
bands OF mourning on :h.ir LEFT
sleeves In memory oi Chapman.
Sewen Is an agile youth. Experts
say 1t was thought beforehand he
Z would be fighty and nervous In This
series and make bad breaie H..
makes many wonderful plays. Old
4 persons talking OF youth are ALWAYS
doubtful.
Ernest Kruger. the ErookIvn
V catcher. is the hrst man at bal ~
~ the Dodgers batting side O. m.
Kruger Is powerful. long-dis.
tance siugger He Is one Of the big
league tourists. man who move.
kees once with the Giants. now with
Brooklyn.