The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
INDIANS SAVAGE
ASSAULT BEATS
DODGERS, 5 TO 1
Furious Attack Overrides
Desperate Defence and
Evens Series.
CAN'T HIT COVELESKIE
Brooklyn Helpless at Bat
While -Four MOundsmen
Are Pounded Down.
PARK rs OVERLOOKING
Cleveland Players Perform
Marvellously Before
Home Folk.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Played. Won. Lost. Pct.
Brooklyn IN. L. 4 2 2 800
Cleveland CA. L. 2 500
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~ Staff Correspondent OF THE HERALD
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9.-With a
berserker savagery born or two sue
cessive setbacks and a relentless fury
Of attack into which was thrown all
the bitterness Of dual disappoint-
mont, the Cleveland baseball team this
afternoon fought its way brilliantly
out of the depths OF failure. While
the Brooklyn club, in a vain effort
to stem the rushing flood of defeat.
hurled pitcher after pitcher into the
breach, Stanley Coveleskie once more
stood as stanch as the fireat Gatun
Dam itself against the frantic efforts
Of the Brooklyn batsnen.
Coveleskie pitched with exceeding
skill, effectiveness and even beauty in
defeating the Dodgers in the first
game Of the world series In Flatbush
last Tuesday. But to-day he even out
did that performance. He was the
apotheosis Of confidence, cunning,
overpowering mastery. And 1t was in
a great measure due to his efforts
that Cleveland won the fourth game
Of the baseball classic by score or
S to 1, and evened the series. Each
club now has two victories to its
credit. And tonight the Clevelands
once more rule favorites.
This test of to-day was no mean
one for the Brooklyns. Perhaps 1t
will turn out that the game was the
critical one Of the competition. The
Dodgers went into the field leading
by two games to one. holding the bet
ter position in strategy, pitching, bat
ting, Relding and every other factor
which enters into the winning of base
ball games. They counted on winning
as decisively here as they had won
on their own field in F7atbush. But
from the start things went against
them. Their pitching dwindled from
the super-variety, with which Grimes
and Smith had so valiantly and
brilliantly turned back the Indians, to
the mediocre.
Dash MadIy Over Field.
Their worried efforts with the bat gave
them only Ave hits, three of them scat
tered and two of them put together In
the fourth inning by Jimmy Johnston and
Tommy Griflths to save the Dodgers
from the further ignominy Of shutout.
In the field they battled with the same
grit and determination which, behind
effective pitching, had made them victors.
But to-day they dashed hlther and
thither, always madly and only too often
vainly, as the Indians. riding the high
wave of success, made almost everything
count in their favor. In all. the Cleve-
.ands' collected twelve hits--this by q
team which had been compiling an aver
are OF only 16h and had gone inning
after irning without the sernblance of a
t1xco a r,c of n hit
1t was a grand revival of the vaunted
strength of the Clevelands. and moro
than $1,000 persons turned out to wit
ness It. Brooklyn started with Leon
Cadore on the mound. rather a surprising
gselection for II had been expected that
Jeff Pfeffer would get the assignment.
In the long run Pfefrer did make his
appearance In tha box. but not until Ca
dore had been followed by Al Mamaux
and Mamaux had been followed by
Rube Marquard. And while Pfeffer was
In there pitching with some success and
not little failure Clarence Mitchell was
out in the bull pen warming up his old
left arm for probable effort against
those walloping Comanches in Cleve-
lnnd uniforms
Has Little beside Nerve.
CaGore had lot OF nerve, but he had
very little outside of that, at times.
handy quality. Two hits got Cleveland
two runs in the frs, inning. and when
two more hits bounced off Cleveland hats
in the second with only one out Wilbert
Robinson decided that no had made an
error in the first place.
Mamaux lasted for q short spell into
the third inning, just long enough to
give the Indians two hits more and an
othor run.
The entry OF Marauard was not met
with Wild enthusiasm by tho assembled
multitude. Nor was u met with howls
of derislon. The fans had not yet heard
of Marquard's arrest for scnlping. IL IL
had heard the Information. II might have
made Marduard take a dip in the tor
rdity of abuse with which the Yankees
became altogether too familiar here this
summer. In the sixth inning Pfeffer
took the place OF the Rube. Marquard
had not been going any too well, so Rob-
lnson sent Lamar TO bat for h,n IN the
sixth Then again, Iris Speaker had
changed his Lineup TO meet the require
ments Of left handed pitching, so Robbie
probably had some strategic reason for
sending another right Handler into the
fray.
No matter what tho reason suffice it
20 soy that this day Robinson messed
himself UP In a tangle OF strategic fly
paper. n tnngle which started with the
selection of Cedore and out OF which the
rotund manager was reported to be try
ing to oxtricatc himself even Mt "A late
hour tonight
Plenty OF Inspiration,
Tho observation-disclosures acted like lot
Of men lnspirited and let II be said that
there was plenty OF food and inspiration
outside of the sterling pitching OF Cove
leskie.
Cleveland stil believed In them In
spife of their two defeats In Brooklyn
ne turned out perhaps fifty thousand
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