New-York tribune., 1920-10-06


A gale from out Of the barren lands
came bowling across the field, twist
ing and warping the trajectory of fly
oalls into puzzling deviations. but
these devlations were not puzzling
enough to battle the defensive art of
Speaker, who romped back and forth
across the field like a ball-playing
centlpede in action. In spite of the
effective pitching Of Marquard, Ma
maux and Cadore, Cleveland won the
flrst game 3 to l through the speed
and power of her defensive play.
Curbed by Coveleskie
AS starter Stanley Coveleskie, the
enduring Pole, curbed the scrappy
Dodgers with five scattered blows,
using his right arm and a splitter
as the case may be. And when the
Pole began to sway triAe in the
nlpping gale his supportin cast, led
by Speaker and young Sewell, did the
rest.
Ali in vain the loyal Brooklyn dele
cation pleaded for a rally. Through
inning after inning the big crowd clam
ored for winning drive. But Cove
leskie was at his best. He yielded but
and timely punches by Sewell and
O'Neill had turned in two precious tai
lies Brooklyn was beaten then and
there.
Less than five months ago Joe Sewell,
as captain was directing the baseball
fortunes of Alabama University, down
in the fried chicken belt. From Ala
and when Ray Chapman was killed and
the dragnet for shortstops was thrown
out Sewell came to Cleveland.
Yesterday he stepped into his first
worlds series, a young collegian with
less than months ior league ex-
perience, and in the course of the
afternoon he not only figured in his
clubs winning rally at bat with clean
single, but on the side ran down seven
chances at short without bobble. And
two of these chances wiped out near
base hits that might have done Brook
lyn world Of good.
n the third inning he robbed Pete
hlidutt of an apparently certain single
by dashing into short left for his
grounder and then whipping d fine line
throw TO first. Later, in the fifth, it was
Sewell again who shut down upon an
other Brooklyn rally by mailing Lamar's
line drive over short with his gloved
hand So here we find four clean drives
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base hits into outs, proving again that
Age and Youth can battle together.
Steve O'Neill Prominent
But it might be mentioned in passing
that Speaker, Coveleskie and Sewell
were not the only members of the win
ming tribe Steven O'Neill contributed a
brace of timely doubles that proved to
he of vast assistance. And then there
was a man named Wood Exactly eight
years ago this same Wood was the
main hero in a spicy worlds series af-
fair wherein the Red Sox trimmed the
New York Giants.
Smoke ball Joe was the feature of
that engagement. But Smoke ball Joe
lost the hop to his fast one, faded out
of the picture and apparently was for
ever through. The old right wing that
once carried such terrific speed might
as we'll have been banging on the wall
with his glove But Wood refused to
be checked out He switched his
career from pitching to outfelding,
signed up with his old pal Speaker, and
yesterday, back in the thick of anoth er
worlds series, il was Joe Wood who
scored two of the three Cleveland runs,
crossing the plate each time with a
smile as wide as the span of a hand.
While Coveleskie was toying with
Brooklyn batsmen the tall and willowy
form OF Rupe MarQuard was back at it's
old trade. Rube began his worlds
series career back in 1911 by unluckily
tossing a fast ball in reach of Frank
Bakers bat. He worked against the
Athletics in 1911 and 1913 and against
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