Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-21
CLEVELAND RENDERS
 FINAL TRIBUTE TO
 CHAPMAN'S MEMORY
Thousands Attend Funeral of Star Baseball
 Player.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 20.-Raymond Chapman, star player of the Cleve- land American League club apd idol of the fans thissmornipg, received the reverential homage of sorrowine Cleveland.
 While the bell of St. Johns Roman Catholic Cathedral, where the ser. vices were held, was tolling, thous- ands of persons stood with bare heads as the body of Chapman, who died in New York last Tuesday, vic tim of pitched ball there Monday was carried to the altar and the last rites of the church were said. It was the largest funeral in Clevelandf in years and not since the visit ot Cardinal Mercier, hero of Belgium has such a mass of people attempted to enter the cathedral.
 In the vicinity of the ckGrch wait. ing the arrival of the c4sket, unable to gain admission to<t the church tears were in the eyes of men. wo. men and children An the throng which was so denaE that mounted po- lice and patrolfen strove almost in vain to keep he streets open to traf- ic.
 The Re6. Father s. Nash was cele- brant f the service, high requiem masS and the sermin was delivered blythe Rev. Dr. William A. Scullen Chancellor of the diocese, who paid Chapman an eloquent tribute.
 Chapman's widow, bride of ter months, leaning on the arm of hel father, entered the church immed. lately after the casket which was borne by Chapman's closest friends on the team and in Cleveland. The ball players parents, his brother Roy, and sister, Margaret, followed
 B. B. Johnson, president of the American League and James c. Dunn president of the Cleveland team, were among the grst to reach the church Several other club officials and players were present, including three from the New York Americans.
 Manager Iris Speaker and Out. fielder Jack Graney collapsed and could not attend the services. Graney had recovered sufficiently, however to leave for Boston tonight with the team. Speaker had high fever to- night and did not go east. He may leave tomorrow,
 All classes and walks of life were represented in the crowded church Bankers and brokers rubbed elbows with laborcrs and newsbOys.
 Thecrowd ws made up of men women and children all gathered to pay their respects to the dead. Every foot of space in the church was oc- cupied, including the sanctuary and communion rail.
 Mayor Fitzgerald was absent from the city but Law Director Woods, acting mayor, and several members of the mayors cabinet and several city councilmen attended the ser. vices.
 At the conclusion of the church service the body was placed in 2 cemetery vault. It had not been de cided where Chapman will be buried.
 New York, Aug. 20.-While Ray Chapman. short stop on the Cleve- land Americans, fatally injured here last Monday by ball pitched by Carl Mays of the New York Club, was being buried today in Cleveland, Mays was lying in his home here suffering from . nervous breakdown
 This became known this morning morning when an official of the Yankees appeared in traffic court and pleaded guilty for Mays to 2 charge of speeding last month. Mays has not played since resumption oi the New York Cleveland series, nor has he been seen at the Polo grounds.
 Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 20.- No of ficial action antagonistic to Carl Mays, the New York American lea que player, who pitched the ball Monday, which resulted in Ray Chapman's death, will be taken by President B. B. Johnson of the Am erican league. The case is ended so far as he is concerned, Johnson declared today.
 "I could not conscientiously at tempt to make any trouble for MT. Nays" Johnson said. "But it is my honest belief that MT. Mays never will pitch again. From what have learned he is greatly affected and may never De capable temporarily 'of pitching again. Then, also knowing the feeling against him to De 70 bit- ter among tho members of other teams that would bs inadvisah1e 1or| hiza to attelSt z piteh this TIT et|