Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-09
CLEVELAND FULL
Of EXCITEMENT
BEFORE THE GAME
.Wilbert RObinson's Hand
shake Like the Kick
of a Mule.
DODGERS "SKULL PRACTICE"
HELD AT INDIANS PARK
Brooklyn a 6-to-5 Favorite.
Beating Coveleskie a Hard
Task for Any Team.
ny DAMON RUNYON.
tUniycrSal Service stan Corrc-
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ries. This town knows something is
going on.
Brooklyn takes its championship
baseball as an incident Here it is
an event.
The Mayor issues proclama,ions
the Cleveland club gets here to-day.
They are excited. worked up.
This Is rlo.e !!se q rea! worlds Sc
stands II re lobby OF the Hoiienden
Ro;sI watching crowd OF baseball
TEs aonsndsn is press headauar.
rsa c-c--9 into room on the hrst
bzGseS plraed on their coats.
hs bT:oky!ga ei95 Is , E; ne M Mdh
iasOa. "a, ana laush.ns. stands in
iHg pIsAsantries, with cid friends
81 EoqF t FHG.s M 10 slap VANS Ans
q. me 6acE. Your Uncle wilbert has
hand like ham. and his salutation
is as cordial as the kick Of a mule.
Writer'S Arrive With Iluston-
The delegation OF New York news
paper men who travel on Colonel Til
afternoon aud query your Uncle viii
burt while waiting TO be assigned
10 rooms
again tomorrow" asks. one.
NO" answers your Uncle Wilbert
.'Weil. but If you Gan win with him
tomorrow you Will have such an edge
you can anord TO gamble with any
G Of The Eas IS the one
How long has Grimes had TO
rest parries the fat leader OF the
lie does no, suggest his probable
pitching choice. for the opening game
IS. more likely to be Cadore or
snerroa, Smith; the he's successful zee III
about some tickets for the game.
REbSS Maranard, thin and dnppsr,
town where Rube was born
"'' "SkuiI Practice"
Soon all the BROOKLYN players move
Cleveland ball yard and practice an
hour Then there is meet ,its . ThoSs
practice by the players.
Plans for the next. game are gone
over carefully and line mapped out.
George Staliings. manager OF the
skull meetings. one time when the
club was in a prolonged slump, Sher-
wood MeSee. whimsical fellow,
arose yawninely at the close OF such
meeting and remarked:
Now. that we've won that one IN
here. let's go out and lose another
on the field
Before he leaves for the ball yard
your Uncle Wiihsrt hanis ont ,n book
rapidly, and puts pudGy foreiingcr
on a paragraph.
b,nHsS ~ Pe To,n,ny 6ne GshsT gay
a; the plate?' he asks. Griffith Is
ceming IN trying to score; and o'Nein
blocks him off I'VE yards from the
"a hCfOr, no No "A
holds Griffith there until ne gets the
bail and tags him out"
Everybody recalls the circum-
stances.
- Hohbv shows Rule.
Here ih, lit IT is;~ , Says Ro6inson Here
70 block a man of base : before IF re- The he,
nassnan has the ball. made Il claim
in the old DAYS a man would have
slid around tho catcher
-,,, ~ tod co,!nnoily would show the
i MHo Ne hp S~o ho2nsrel TO know It IS
MEed , TO block men 81 that same way
three times the umpires called the
runners safe on me. Thcy wouldn't
let me get away with IL"
no doubt. o. the old DAYS lie wos
the star catcher OF tho great Paiti-
nl,oIe, Orioles one OF the best teams
Mary Philadelphia fans come IN I,
BIZ BE t n,A, today Tho Interest OF
Is weli-niGh .ncxplieabic. Frank
MaGk!n the Mad Halter OF the CITY
q b br9,nssiy h9yS% explains that +,
81 any decent baseball on her ov., &c.
count Of late years.
Indians HIVE Own Homes.
ire cleveland players do NOT m.
SaGr f hoas the IN ho tI, Trhsy my.
mad, n 1ne b rlino, =, 1,n Dunn, a man nhc
ms meets them az the. railroad static.
Z ~1 nunn th :: ar ,T1,Ts from Brooklyn
Ee took the Cievelana c,ph We. .h me,
~, was no; regarded as much o, a 5ne.
mess venture. II returns him r.,
S Charley F,hhcts. owner o, ~,
S5e9Kiyn CHI; o.ser's into press head
series. but II Is the As, .i,nn ,w,91nlh, .:
as II ms club has chance 10 VIII
as Ebbets is not n had fellow II. 4,
unf9rtunate in making little ynls,ala .,
IN baseball which draw criiIcisS,gn:
-. ~ nc rs generous man. and nj,
So are IN baseball He Is about In. IN 6;
S or the &, old regime tlat include
& 58 Garry Hermann. president OF N,
Gin9einnati club, comes in on the sam,
~ JET" win me Ne" YORK writer's bu
does rot mingle with them Man,
80 the series. 80
~ Cincinnati, does not love Cleveland
They located the Federal reearv
Is bank away up North here" com plain
Joe Heintsman. of Cincinnati. sourly
st Cleveland baseball Town.
~ Yes; instead OF putting IL In Gin
~ cInnatt In tho southwest corner n
~ the State" comments Herb Corov
drily Corey is also an Ohio man
~ put makes his home in New YORK
ss.S EveH Heintsman has to laueh
s-g The streets OF Cleveland are wide
and busy. There is much trailic. wei
$A@S handled. II Is n fine town II Is sucl
H. ~ q good baseball town that during III
ran Of the season. IL the Cievelan
club 10 ipi the East, where Sunda,
ball to nCk perInstted, It Jumps baci