Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-13
INDIANS WON FINAL GAME
 AND WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP


 sixteenth pole. INDIANS WON FINAL GAME
 AND WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP ]
 Cleveland. Ohio, Oct 12-Baseball l champion of the world. The Cleveland l American league club won that supreme title here this afternoon when the Indians defeated the Brooklyn Nationals in the seventh and deciding game of the 1920 series by a ss e of 3 to 0. Tonight Cleveland is celebrating in a manner adequately in keeping with the honor, and it is doubtful if a government proclama- tion announcing the selection of this city as the future capital of the United States would create, a ripple of interest among the fans ! The shutout victory was chiefly en- gineered by Stanley Coveleskie the spitbali hurler of the local team, who has proved to be pitcher of remarkable skill and endurance during, the series. Backed by l an air-tight defense on the part of his team mates at the critical moments of the game, the Shamokin, Pa, coal miner, let l the Robins down with five hits. Only two Brooklyn players reached second base during the nine sessions at bat and only 1 five of the invaders were left on the bases | all told.
 Coveleskie's feat in winning three of the l five games necessary to clinch the cham pionship. for Cleveland will go down as one of the outstanding features of worlds series history and che of the most prom i inent and praisaworthy factors in a strug g'e which has furnished more startling 1 incidents than any similar series in years The Brooklyn batters accumulated only two runs off the moistened s!ants of Covey. in twenty-seven innings in which he offciated on the hurling mound He | let the Robins down with one run in the ] first game at Brooklyn on October 5, al- lowed them a second tally on Saturday and shut them out today. It is doubtful if more masterly exhibition of pitching has been flashed before the fans in any worlds series since 1905, when Christy Mathewson. then at the zenith of his twirling career with the New York Gi- ants, shut out the Philadelphia Ath- letics in three games.
 Great as must be the credit ac- corded Covelesk'e for his remarkable feat in coming back after but two days of rest and tching his best game of the series. the general offensive and defensive work of the other members of the Cleve- land club cannot be dimmed by the indi- vidual glory of their star boxman The Indians, as team, grew more inlpres- sive as the series progressed and their feat in winning four straight games from Brooklyn after getting away to an indif- ferent start stamps the club as one de- serving of all the support and enthusiasm which their efforts have evoked in this : section.
 l In shutting out the National leaguers : in the final clash this afternoon the h. 7 dians, led by Manager Iris Speaker. rose to playing heights. which bore out the ; complete confidcrce of the club packers and fans to their. ability to prove their right to wear the baseball crown of the l Universe. They reached the spitters of , Burleigh. Grimes the National league 7 star deliverer of this type of pitching, for seven solid hits, clinched the game be- fore the halfway mark as it ultimately , proved and topped the play with several l pieces of baseball Strategy that demon strated the possession of mental alert ness which marks the difference between : keen thinking and a mechanical playing . baseball club.
 ) That these outstanding features were appreciated by the Cleveland followers of the club and the middle western section 7 of the country generally has been ap- parents since the day the team returned from Brooklyn. But today the demon stration which marked the final putout of Myers and clinched the champion7 ship for the Indians surpassed any sim far scene in several seasons Thousands of men, boys and women poured out of the bleachers and stands and engulfed the victorious players like a human ava lanche, It was a continuous battle for the members of the team in their march toward the dugout each step being talk en slowly with scores of fans endeav- bring to shake their hands or pat then ou the back.
 Iris Speaker sensing the coming out burst of enthusiasm made a dash from centerfield toward the grandstand where his mother and other relatives occupied a lower tier. His progress was slow but once he reached the rail he vaulted over the iron front and into his mothers arms like small school boy. The scene was so unusual that for a moment there was a complete cessation of the cheering which, however, broke out with treble vigor when Mrs. Speaker hugged patted and kissed her gray-haired son and tho latter responded in manner which in dicated that he regarded his mother. approval far above any other reward. that might come to him as a result O. i the victory of his team in winning thu greatest honor that can come to pro fessional baseball player.
 When Speaker finally. left his mother! l side and started for the club house h,
 was fairly besieged by requests to shak
 hands and autograph programs and pho
 tographs. When he finally disappeare, in the passageway of dressing quarters the crowds swept back to the Speake
 box where they cheered and demanded | speech from the mother of the popula Iplayer-manager Mrs. Speaker met tn
 demands of the fans by waving her han,
 and was soon joined by Owner James C
 Dunn of the club, who addressed tn
 throng for her. During the height of tn
 demonstration Charles Ebbets, presiden
 of the Brooklyn club crossed the field an,
 congratulated the executive of the win
 ming team. Then the throngs slowly dis
 persed to discuss at their leisure the ucs
 cessful climax of Cleveland's forty yea
 battle for major league pennant and 2 j worlds series banner.
 That the citizens of Cleveland propos
 to honor the occasion properly was show
 by a conference which took place bt
 tween Mayor W. S. Fitzgerald and prom
 inent business men of the city almost be
 fore the final cheers had died away ]
 was tentatively decided to hold pull
 lice reception and welcome for the play
 CTS of the team in the public square e
 the city within the next day or two a
 which the populace will be invited [
 show collective and cornprehensiv
 manner their appreciation of the hor i, ors which the players of the team hay H brought to Cleveland. If this takes th 7 preliminary trend shown in rewardin