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first one, and then theother. were spon-
taneous and impartial. craftsmanship,
except in a few individual cases, was
noticeably absent. 1t may have been due
to the fact that these thrilling plays
came SO rapidly that the Brooklyn fans
never had time to set themselves for
genuine outburst of concerted and home
team roofing.
The baseball fireworks opened in the
second inning when Right Fielder Crit
fifth made a great running catch off Joe
Woods bat that robbed the Cleveland
outfielder of a sure double. a moment
later konetchy knocked down Sewell's
blazing slash and retired him at first
with snap throw to Smith. Both play
ers were required to doff their caps re-
peatedly as they came to the bench. In
the third Konetchy and kilduff figured
in another star play. O'Nell's smash
fairly tore its way through the hands
of the Robins first sacker, but the ball
was DETECTED by Konetchy's efforts to
stop II and shot off toward KilduT, who
scooped 1t up and flung 1t back to Smith,
who had rushed over to cover the bag.
Again in the fifth session, the Brook
Ign infeld figured In fast double play.
Olson knocked down Mails wicked drive
and recovering his balance, with an
effort, tossed the ball to kilduT. forcing
O'Neil at second, whereupon Kilduff
whired and nailed Mails at first.
Speakers players let themselves out
under this incentive in the sixth when
two feats in handling the ball aroused
the throng to franzy. Wheat lifted
booming foul fly along the right field
line and Burns chased the descending
sphere clear to the grAndstand where he
stopped with slam against the iron rail-
ing, but not until he reached in among
the spectators occupying front row box
and with his gloved hand speared the
ball almost in the lap of woman fan.
Myers then singled to left. but when
konetchy hammered red hot hopper to
Wambsganss, a lightning double play.
Wambsganss to Sewell to Burns, checked
what appeared to be another run-produc-
ing rally. Other plays of almost equal
brilliancy marked the progress Of the
battle, but these were the outstanding
defensive features of contest which
Will always rank well to the fore In the
annals of worlds series games.
1t may have been a O,cky thing for
Brooklyn that Manager Speaker at the
last moment decided to start Ray Cald-
we'll In the box, for 1t was while Ray was
on the mound that Manager Robins ons
boys got their two runs. Ivy Ilson, the
Brooklyn shortstop, who has proved the
most consistent player of either team in
reaching first, his record for the three
games being eight out Of twelve, drew a
pass in Brooklyn's half of the first. Jim
my JohVston promptly sacrificed MIN 10
second and he advanced to third when
Sewell fumblcd Griffith's grounder Ivy
completed the circuit on Wheat's hit to
left and Griffith went to the midway
From that point the right fielder scored
when Myers hit to short right.
SAVED FROM SHUT-OUT
Iris Speaker, with the unintentional aid
of lack Wheat. saved his team from a
shut-out. In tho fourth. the Cleveland
leader hit down the third base line. Tho
smash was ordinarily good for two bases,
but Wheat let the ball 20 through him
and 1t rolled to the far corner of the lot.
Speaker continued around the bases and
scored o,easlly that Wheat made no ef-
fort to throw the ball home.
Tho pitching analysis Of the Cleveland
boxmen show that nearly half OF the 20
balls thrown by Caldwell in the Ia inning
he performed were wide Of the plate.
Three went as strikes, four as foul strikes
and two were grounders. one of which
was fumbled. The other two were hits
that sent in the two runs for Brooklyn.
Mails pitched credtably In his 2-3 In
nings. Although his ball total OF SO was
almost equal to that of Smith for nine
innings, ne held Brooklyn to three hits
and no runs. He sent across 10 strikes
and received credit for IA on fouls. Four
fouls came after the second strike. The
Cleveland left handler started we'll, throw
ing seven balls In the fractional inning
and eight In the second. After that his
total was never less than II, and In the
seventh he pitched % times, IL of which
were wide Of the plate. Uhle In his one
inning had three balls three strikes, three
foul strikes and two plain fouls.
Eight Brooklyn men went out on files
and ten on grounders, not including the
ball on which Sewell erred. The total for
the three Indian twirlers was 80 and the
strike total half that number. Brooklyn
Datters fouled off q offerings for strikes
LARGE ATTENDANCE
The almost summer-like weather
brought out the largest attendance of the
series to date. According to the ofilcin
figures of the National Commission, 25 ,0Ss
! spectators paid admission to see Smith
and his teammates turn back the Speaker
tribe for the second consecutive time
Their collective contribution to the box
Office was Sl,29S. This made the total
| receipts for the first three games $236,5ll