New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

In the American League the Cleve-H
land Indians, under the leadership Of
iris Speaker, the greatest of the out
fielders and himself the most effec-
tive player on the club, enter a worlds
series for the first time. The Indians
too have been under tremendous pres
sure in pennant race that lasted to
the bitter end.
The rival managers in the worlds
series of 1920 are two of the dominant
personalities of the national game
They are honorable men and clean
sportsmen, men whose careers can be
held up as an inspiration to the young
players of baseball. The names of
Robinson and Speaker are guarantees
of the good faith of this series.
Capacity Crowds Certain
The series will start in Brooklyn
Tuesday at 2 o'clock. Brooklyn is
feverish community where it's Dodgers
are concerned, quite as feversh as
Cleveland with its first pennant and
its first chance to claim a worlds
championship. There is no question
as to what the attendance in either
city will be. 1t will be all that the
Brooklyn and Cleveland ball parks can
hold.
Worlds series dops is more or less
CiSdCileIOuS. OOuulClOUS IHdC 0OlU DUR
ing the league races do not always
figure when teams from rival leagues
get together. Flatbush is filled with
optimism. The reliance of Brooklyn
is chiefly in Wilbert Robinson's
pitchers, for Robinson is the greatest
handler of pitchers. His boxmen are
fit and ready for their tests due to
his canny handling of them.
The Cleveland boXmen seem to have
posed upon them. 1t would seem as
though they had just been able to
finish their gruellin; season. Pitch
ing will be big factor in this battle
The Cleveland machine seems to be
the more smoothly running Of the two,
but the men are more nervous and high
strung. In this they reflect the Cleve-
land baseball bugs, who suffered much
mental anguish during the league race
filled with confidence one day and
hysterical with despair the next
The Dodgers are not a nervous team
Wilbert Robinson is not nervous
gent. His sense Of humor always is
with him. His wide smile dispels
nerves. Also there is another factor
that promises well for the Dodgers. who
won this years National neagus pen
nant. They have faith in thems elves
The Dodgers who won the pennant in
1916 did not think that they could
beat the Red Sox in the world series.
Consequently, they took second money.
No team is any better than it thinks it
is.
The pitchers may settle it all. Cleve-
land has Bagby, leading them all in the
winning of genes for the season;
Covaleskie, the splitter; Caldwell. the
Yankee reject, made into a new man
by Speaker, and "Duster" Mails, the
Brooklyn castoff, who came through
when the veterans of Cleveland were
showing signs Of willing Dagby, the
most successful, depends upon his
knowledge of the players weaknesses
for his success. He does not know
the National League batters.
Dodgers Boxmen in Form
Robbie has his own school of pitch
ers-Burleigh Grimes, Rube Marquard,
who stopped the Giants in the final
game that gave the Dodgers their pen
nant; jeff Pfeffer, Sherrod Smith, Leon
Cadore and Al Mamaux. These pitch
ers have been so handled that they
should now be just in form for the
test.
The first day probably will see a
duel between Grimes and Bagby. and it
ought to be one to be remembered. 1t
Is hardly probable that this series will
go the full nine games. The first game
or two ought to tell the story.
Flatbush has all the confidence in
the winning Dodgers of 1920
that it lacked in the Dodgers of 1916,
and the players have the confidence in
themselves. Flatbush may yet be the