The Washington times., 1920-10-12
BY JACK vEIOCK.
International News Service.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 1.-THE
1920 world series will pass today
into the realm OF things that have
been, unless all signs fail.
Gray, gloomy skies greeted Cleve-
land this morning and there was the
smell OF rain in the air. But about
8 o'clock the sun came out and there
we're indications that the day would
be the warmest since the opening OF
the seo1es, -,sss sS- 49,. .E-s-
Th&iih(ans .sss as good a. Ia with
the Worlds ch&mpionship- The Dod-
gers are as good as through.
INDIANS ON INSIDE TRACK.
Cleveland has every advantage oySr
your Uncle Wilbert's aggregation
from Flatbush, for Cleveland must
win only one more game, while the
Dodgers must win three straight and,
as the old saying goes. There's no
such animal"
Manager Speaker has three pitchers
ready to inject into today's pastime.
One is Stanley Coveleskie, who has
beaten the Dodgers twice. Ray Cald-
well is also ready to start and George
Uhle has an outside chance.
Robinson has Burleigh Grimes and
NuDe ne also ms AL Ma
maux and Jeff PfefYer. but there was
only a ghost of a chance that either
OF this latter pair would get into the
seventh game.
The fact that Sherrod Smith, a
southpaw, has looked better against
the Indians than any OF the other
Dodger pitchers may influence Robin
son to start a lefthander, and IL this
Is the case, Marquard will get another
chance. But Grimes looked like the
logical selection.
Regardless Of Robinson's pitching
selection today. IL was the general
belief that the Indian steamroller
would continue on it's way.
sPEAKER's MEN CONFIDANT.
Speakers boys are full OF ginger
and confidence. And they are hitting.
The Robins, on the other hand, are
hoplessly out Of 1t and the realization
cannot possibly help their morale.
Cleveland has been lucky in the
series to date. The Indians. how
ever, have made many of their own
breaks as a good ball club is always
bound to do. and for the most part
they have been entitled to every
thing they got
There was a rather strange turn
game by the Indians-the game that
has all but eliminated the coveted
title-in that "Duster" Mails, whose
good left arm moved the Dodgers
down. is a Brooklyn cast Off.
When Mails was with the Dodgers
in 1915 they won the championship .
and later lost the world series to the
Red Sox, but as Mails was considered
excess baggage, he was released to
Pittsburgh and did not share In the
cutting of the worlds series pie.
Mails never forgave the fattest
manager In the baseball business for
releasing him. He believed that he
was capable OF holding his own II
given the proper chance and he fig
ured that he never got that chance in
Brooklyn.
CAST OFF TURNED TABLES.
Today Mails has turned in the VIC
tory that has put perfectly good
world series in the has been" class
and he is one cheerful left -hander
Small wonder he pitched the best
game of his career against the
Dodgers He would rather have won
that game than anything else In the
world.
while Cleveland fans are iauding
Mails they are not overlooking the
share that George Burns had in the
victory.
The first sackor OF the Indians, a
Detroit CASTOR, put the game on ice
for the Tribe with his timely double,
and as far as Cleveland Is concerned
he is a bright world series star today.
Burns incidentally Is the second
player discarded by Detroit to bring
disaster to the Dodgers.
In 1915, when the Robins struggled
against Boston, Del Gamer, who had
been released by the Tigers, was
called from tho bench to pinch hit
for Larry Gardner IN the fourteenth
inning with the score standing 1 to l..
Gamer raped out double that
spelled defeat for Brooklyn, and
strangely enough, II was Sherry Smith
who pitched that Gsne.