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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
BASEBALL FOLLOWERS EXPECT CLEVELAND TO FINISH SERIES TODAY
ALLEN FAILS TO BLOW OUT RECTOR
Kelly Wins Over Cattle and Maruke Defeats Mack in
 Casino Boxing Card.

Johnny Red" Allen defeated oung Rector in the main bout of lne boxing show at the Casino last night, but he failed to register a k. O. as many expected he would Rector 1ought defensive bout all the way ana Allen waited for his chance to siand the left so taking these things into consideration the fight was slow and disappointing There was little boxing because Rector didn't want to box
 His main idea was to take care of Aliens left which he did with telling effect, but Rector couldn't hold it ali the time. In the first round he got into the way of a blow delivered to 10 the stomach followed by the left to the jaw. Rector was cautions after that and managed to get inside of Aliens guard most of the tfme In the fourth Allen delivered M A once, while the fifth produced a couple of blows to Rector's nidsec- i. .tion. The sixth and seventh were waltzes, but in the eighth Allen start ed wrestling to get, his chance
 The crowd called on Allen to end it all in the ninth, but the local boy was unable to do so and Rector stood up under some severe punish ment; Rector beat Allen to the punch in the tenth, but in the eleventh Allen hit Rector once ana it looked like sleep but the New Yorker proved to be a tough bird and remained on his feet. The last round amounted to nothing.
 Terry Lee. who was the referee, worked harder than either of the boxers. He had all he could do on several occasions to tear them apart
 Jimmy Kelly bested Harry Cattle in the tenth round of their sched- uled 12 round settoo. Andy Parker stopped this bout when it began to look as though Cattle was in a bad way. The Stamford boy took consid- erable punishment
 Mor of Young Mack of Hartford in the first bout. Mack didn't get started and Maruke kept feeding them to him Mack was bear for punishment and took a lot of it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Umpire Connolly Says Mails
 K1OlUs HOU 70 Use His CurUes

Cleveland, Oct. 12.-C1eve1and fans again were out hours before the game, forming a long line at the bleachers' gates, but they lacked some of the enthusiasm which char acterized their presence on previous nights. Apparently every man in line seemed to feel that the series prac- tica1ly ended when Evans nabbed the long fly Which ended yesterdays con- test 1 to 0 with the youthful Walter Mails as the wining pitcher. E; Yesterdays game, while it failed to produce the thrills and sensations of Sundays contest was another of those affairs which help to make baseball history.
 With a youngster who had hurled only six complete contests in his American League Career facing for mer team mates who had discarded him with. the label "NG'' fastened land came through triumphant in one of the greatest pitching battles of worlds championship classics, Wal ter Mails slow-ba1led and fast-bal1ed the Robins into a shut out victory and retired them with only three safe hits scattered through three in- ningS. Only once was he in danger when a single and two errors filled |-the bases-but a slow curve re- bounded from Sherrod Smiths swing ing bat into the hands of Iris Speak CT, and after that Mails never was ir real trouble.
 Despite SuDDort which if times wa c
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
To Hold Marquard's
 World Series Money

Cleveland, Oct. 12-Richard (Rubel Marquard, the south paw pitcher will not receive his share of the Worlds s Series e-receipts until after. the ticket scalping charges made against him here have been settled, said John Heydler, President of the National League, after yesterdays game. Mar 'quard was arraigned in court this morning and his case continued un- til Oct IS.
 The National League will hold his share of the receipts until the case has been settled" said MT. Heydler. eff he is found guilty the leage itself will take action.
 Asked what action the league mieht take MT. HeydIer said it would "be plenty stiff enough to make Mir Marquard wish he'd never seen a Worlds Series
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
'Tottering
 On Brink Of Defeat
Morale of Manager Robnson's Men Badly Shattered-Tc
 Win Another Game Will Exceed the Expecta- tions of Their Supporters

for reservations today. Cleveland has accepted yesterdays verdict IS final and is swelling with civic pride that will burst all over the vicinity to- night if the Indians walk off with today's game.
 It will be the irony of fate if Col urzib bus Day brings deep and over wheIming disaster to Charles H. Eb- bets, the grey old squire of F'latbush. The squire is a patriotic soul: He be- ieves in celebrating all holidays and as many of them as possible at his ball yard. Some years ago the squire discovered Columbus Day for base ball purposes He had one season ex- tended to include this holiday, but the date froze up on him and it was not repeated.
 So it will he a sad affair indeed if they bump the squire off on his own pet holiday. Still, the Indians are not giving that a thought. An h. dian is only a savage after all, and spares neither the aged nor the young.
 The tribe would just as soon scalp the gray head of Squire: Ebbets to- complete the massacre this afternoon and save themselves another weary journey to Brooklyn.
 Last night and early today there were signs of rain. but the official forecast is promising. An interrup- tion in the series at this stage is not desired, but it might help the Robins by giving Grimes an extra days rest. However, Cove1eskie would appreciate the day off as well as Grimes and could come back tomorrow.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
,Nunamaker> Looks
 Under His Pillow

Cleveland, O., Oct. 12.-More base ball scandal developed yesterday morning when it became known that Leslie Nunamaker, second string catcher of the Cleveland team, found money under his pillow Sunday even- ing. Nunamaker immediately report ed the latter and an investigation is being made.
 Nh one had offered money to Nun amaker and he did not know whether the roll of bills was meant for him self or whether the person that left it intended to have Nunama kerE dis tribute it. Nunamaker's story, told: to Ban B. .Johnson5 efollows:;e j. 9F':t {
 "I entered nay. room Sunday even ing and thought thaNthe pillow looked mussed up. A friend came in the room with me and | turned to him and said, Some bird has been monkey ing with this, pillow I picked up the pillow and examined it, and as turned it a- roll of bills fell on the floor. Here they are"
 e Johnson examined the bills that Nunamaker turned over There were 16 Confedera dollar bills.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
By SID MERCER.

Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 12.-The worlds series from a Brooklyn stand point is now reduced to the simple process of the Dodger winning three straight games from team that in the last week has knocked down every star pitcher Manager Robinson could set up.
 Such a feat was accomplished years ago when Cy Young and Bill Dineen led forlorn Boston hope against Pittsburgh Pirates, but you can't make anybody believe that the Dodgers are going to do it. They are tottering on the brink of destruction and their morale is badly shattered. If they win one more game they will exceed the expectations of the sup porters.
 The experts in attendance here agree that the break in, Cleveland's $ favor in the sixth, and the most cru cial game in the series, virtually puts the Robins out They gambled with their best pitcher and lost. They have no undefeated hurler to shoot back at the Indians today. They are stunned by three consecutive beat ings, and they realize the hopless- ness of curbing an eager and relent- less foe with ordinary pitching.
 The concensus of opinion is that Iris Speaker is about to fulfil his prediction of four straight victories in Cleveland.
 Cleveland Swelling.
 If the series doesn't end here to- day it will be resumed in Brooklyn next Thursday, but the railroads are not being swamped with applications
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Brooklyn Fighting
 On Defensive Now

Cleveland, Oct 12.-The battered Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians, thrice victorious in as many days. were ready to face each other today in the seventh game for the baseball championship with the east erners determined to force the series into further games and the westerners confident that today's game would be the last.
 With the world championship pos Manager Wilbert Robinson of the Robins, and Iris Speaker, guiding hand of the Indians, were undecided early in the day as to what hurlers were that "Rube'' Marquard would face the sluggers of the junior circuit and that Stanley Coveleskie would be given the task of carrying Cleveland through to a championship in seven games.
 Coveleskie, twice conqueror of the Flatbush players in the present series, begged Manager Speaker to send him to the mound, but George Uhle, side arm hur1er, who received his first training on the sand lots of Cleveland, also yearned for chance in the big battle. Final decision would not be made, however, until just before the game, Speaker said.
 May Start darquard.
 Robinson. also indicated that he might change his selection before game time, intimating that Burleigh Grimes, who shut out Cleveland in the second game, but was knocked out of the box Sunday afternoon, might be given another chance. The probability was, however, that Mar quard would be the final choice, pri- marily because the Indians are con- sidered rather weak against left handed hurlers.
 Speaker felt that he had the edge on Brooklyn in the pitching. Even should Coveleskie lose today, he still had Bagby to fall back on. with Uhle
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Unless Signs Fail
 Cleveland Will Win
Brooklyn Victory Rainy Day May Prolong the Series Dodgers Are As Good As Through, Says
 Jack Veiock

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 everything they got.
 There was rather strange turn of fate in the winning of the sixth game by the Indians-the game that has all but clinched the coveted title-in that Duster Mails, whose good left arm moved the Dodgers down, is a Brook lyn castof.
 When Mails was with the Dodgers in 1916 they won the championship and later lost the worlds 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 melon. Mails never forgave the fattest manager in the baseball business for releasing him. He believed that he was capable of holding his own if given the proper chance and he fig ured that he never got that chance in Brooklyn.
 Mails Cheerful. Today Mails has turned in the vic
 tory that 9a has put per perfectly good and ne 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 1auding Mails they are not overlooking the share that George Burns had in the victory. l The first sacker of the Indians, a Detroit castoff, put the game on ice for the tribe with his timely double and as far as Cleveland is concerned | he is a bright worlds series star to- (day.
 I Burns, incidentally, is the second player discarded by Detroit to bring | disaster to the Dodgers. | In 1916 when the Robins struggled
 against Boston, Del Gamer, who had
 been released by the Tigers, was called
 from the bench to pinch-hit for Larry 1 Gardner in the fourteenth inning with
 the score standing 1 to 1. Gainer
 rapped out a double that spelled de-
 feat for Brooklyn and strangely it was l Sherry Smith who pitched that game.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Suspended Players
 Visiting In South

Greenville, s. C.. Oct. 12-Although Joe Jackson and Lefty Williams, sus- pended Chicago White Sox play CTS arrived here more than a week ago for visit to Jackson's rel atives, they have been as hard to find as a needle in a haystack by re- porters.
 There was no word of welcome for the busted ball players from the peo- pie of Greenville, and apparently there has been misconstruction of a story of their arrival The glad hand of welcome was only by few friends at Branwood. a suburb of Greenville, where Jackson worked in the Bran don cotton mills at s1 a day before he began professional baseball in 1908.
 It is reported that an owner of an apartment house in Greenville de- clined to rent the ball players an apartment because of the baseball scandal.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
By Jack VeiOck,

Cleveland, O.. oct. 12-The 1920 Worlds Series will pass into the realm of things that have been today unless all signs fail.
 Two things may occur to prolonS the series. One is a Brooklyn vic tory, the other a rainy day. Of the two the weather looked most danger ouS.
 land this morning and there was the smell of rain in the air But the ln- dians and Dodgers were banking on playing the seventh game.
 The Indians are as good as in with the worlds championship. The Dodgers are as good as through.
 Cleveland has every advantage oyer your Uncle Wlbert'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 pitch CTS ready to inject into today 8 pastime. One is Stanley Cove1eskie, who has beaten the Dodgers twice, and George Uh1e has an outside chance.
 Robinson has Burleigh Grimes and Rube Marquard. He also has Al Mammaux and Jeff Pfeffer, 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 1efthander and if this is the case Marquard will get another chance. But Grimes looked like the logical selection.
 Regardless of Robinson's pitching selection today it was the general be- sfief that the Indian steam roller would continue on it's way.
 Speakers boys are full of ginger and confidence and they ase hitting. The Robins on the other hand are hope1essly out of it and the realiza- ton cannot possibly help their m mora1e.
 Cleveland Lucky. Cleveland has been lucky in the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Pitchers Worked
 Along Same Lines

 Cleveland, Oct. 12.-AnaIysis of. the pitching ,records in yesterdays game shows that Mails and Smith were working=s'o on the. ba tiers in much the same fashion. The Cleveland hurler's tsuperiority lay entirely in the fact that he. allowed fewer hits. and scat tered them better than his opponent Mails threw the ball to the batters s99 times, while Smiths efforts to- tailed 103 in eight innings. The local lad shot over 35 strikes, 7 foul strikes, 26 called balls, 2 fouls, forced : IS men to go out on flies and 12 on iGrounders. He allowed three hits
 Smith twirled 3S strikes. ' foul strikes. 2S called balls, fouls, re- tired 8 batters on flies, and 12 on rollers. He allowed hits, however but only in the sixth, when Speak 'er's single and Burns double scored Cleveland's run, could the Indians get more than one safe blow to an in ming.
 [ Smith seemed more disappointed than any other player last night. "I shot over a fast one to Burns and he happened to catch it squarely," he said, explaining the hit that won the game for Cleveland.
 "But just let me pitch to that fel- low again."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12

a little cratic he pitched confid fident1y and without hesitation. His work was fitttingly characterized by Um- pire Connolly who worked behind the plate. After the game Connolly declared that he had seen many men pitch great ball, but that Mails had everything a pitcher could want and he knew how to use it.''
 But for Mails great work, Sherrod Smith might have come out of the world series as one of the greatest hurlers in the annual classic. The Brooklyn south paw, who won one game from Cleveland, to 1, pitched 3 game that ordinarily would have gone into the winning column. But with two down in the sixth, Speaker singled and Sherry then sent one over the plate to George Burns lilS- ing, and the first baSeman lined it to the center field b1eacherS for a two bagger. Speaker crossed the plate with the only run of the game.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Thirteen Giants Off
 For Havana Fields

Thirteen members of the New York National League baseball club left New York for Havana this morning to play a series of 16 exhibition games with Cuban teams, beginning next Saturday. John J. McGraw man. ager of the Giants, will join them later this month. Departure will be made from the Pennsylvania station at nine o'clock. The team will proceed to Havana by way of Key West.
 Players making the trip, to be in charge of John J. Evers, are Frank Snyder and Earl Smith, catchers; "Po1F' Perritt, W. D. Ryan and Jesse Barnes, pitchers; George Kelly, first basenan; Larry Doyle, second base man; D. J. Bancroft, shortstop; Frank F'isch, third baseman; George Burns, Vernon Spencer and Ross Young, out fielderS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12

and Morton in reserve and Mails ready to go in again if necessary. The latter, a youngster, weighing close to 200 pounds, could easily work again, Speaker said. Brooklyn, however, has not a pitcher who has not been pound- ed by Cleveland. Grimes, Marquard, Smith, Mamaux. Cadore and Pfeffer have either lost games or been hit hard.
 "Today's game will be the last" Speaker said. we are not going because it won't be necessary When the last out is made this afternoon the series will be finished''
 In the Brooklyn camp there was a different feeling.
 We've got to have this game and when we have to have something we usually get it,'' said Manager Robin son today, and his remarks echoed the spirit of the entire team
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
"Oh, MT. Mails" Has
 No Effect On Mails

Cleveland, Oct. 12-Manager Rob- inson found a note in his box yester- day morning signed Well Wisher,'' and telling that on the Pacific Coast Duster Mails was very sensitive to such verbal shots as "Oh. Waiter!" and "Oh. MT. Mails!'' Well Wisher,'' who made it known she was a femi- nine fan, was sure that sort of treat ment from the Brooklyn bench would ''Set the goat of Oh, MT. Mails
 It may have been poor advice, it may have been the Dodgers didn't try it and it may have been Mails has cotton in his ears for he failed ut terly to go up in the air, and the feminine fan made a bad guess.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Favorites Have Sad
 Time Tn Laurel Races

Laurel, Md, oct. 12.-Followers of favorites had, rather a sad time here yesterday in the sixth ace, the Chin coteague Handicap, one of the fea- lures of card by no means scintll- ating with racing gems, when the Jenkins entry could do no better than third, although backed to odds of three to five. The entry consisted of Cffasseur and Chief, and the first named managed to land in show mon ey. Chasseur welcomed the end of the mile and a sixteenth test. for he was a weary quadruped when he ram- bled past the post.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Hal Malone Wins
 Pace At Lexington

Lexington, Ky, Oct 12.-Hal Ma hone, owned by George Brandeis of Omaha, and driven by Marvin Chi1ds won the Phoenix Hotel prize for 2:05 pacerS yesterday afternoon at the Grand Circuit meeting here. The first heat went to Royal Earl, an accident causing Hal Malone to stumble be- fore the eightb pole was reached
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
AMERICAN POLO LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results. Providence 6. Lowell l.. Worcester 2, Salem G.. - Hartford 3, Fall River 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
: Hartford 3, Fall River 1.

Hartford, Oct. s12-The brilliant de- fense work of the Hartford club last night, made it possible for the locals to defeat the visiting Fall River quin- Yet 3 to. 1. Evans and Morrison cov- cred the Fall, River rushes so well that the effectiveness of Jeans drives went for naught while Lewis and Harkins teamed it just often enough to thrice cage the ball and keep Hart ford in the lead throughout.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Bridgeport To Play
 InHartfOrd TOnioht
Expect to Give Upstate Team Trimming and Prepare for Game With League Leaders at Casino
 Tomorrow Night

Salem, Mass. Oct. 12-In a red hot game in, which. digger. Higgins was in- jured, and Griffith ordered off the floor by the officials Worcester de- feated. Sa lem7 to 6. Higgins was the star for Worcester, Williams and Hardly played good polo for Salem.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Games Today. (AfternoOn.)

(Afternoon.) Lowell at Salem. New Bedford at Fall River.
 (Evening. Bridgeport at Hartford. Providence at Worcester. Fall River at New Bedford. Salem at Lowell.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Records of The
 Two Great Horses

Man O. War has made turf history in winning 19 out Of 20 races-nine out of ten as two-year-old in 1919 and 10 straight as a three-year-old this year. His record follows:
 Year. Starts 1st 2d 3d Unpl. Won 1919.. 10 g 0 $S3325 1920. 10-1 10 o co S5,94O|
 Totals. 20 19 0 0 $169,265
 Sir Barton started six times as a two-year-old and did not win a race but ran second to Dunboyne in The Futuriay. As a three and four-year- old, however. he has won 13 out of 21 races. His record in full follows: Year. Starts 1st 2d sd Unpl. Won 191S.. 6 0 0 S4,113 1919.... IS s 3 sS,250 1920. ... 8 22O95 Tntals- 27 12 "a T s11AAaa
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12
Providence 6 Lowell 1.

/ Providence R. I. Oct. 12-In a corking game last night Providence defeated Lowell by a score of to 1. The score gives little idea of the game which was by all odds the best played here this season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-12

Worcester z, Salem 6.