Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-06
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Indians Triumph Over Rob.
= ins in First Game of
Worlds Series hy
Score of 3 to |.
Coveleskie Is the Star
BY ]. E. SANBORN.
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New York, Oct. 5.-By a margin
too slender to be conclusive,
Cleveland won the first game of the
worlds series from Brooklyn today,
before a crowd which packed Eb-
bets Field to the limit and numbered
not less than $4,000.
The score was 3 10 /, but the two
runs by which the Indians triumphed
were sort of fluky and did not mean
anything in determining the relative
strength of the rival teams. They
looked to be evenly matched and a
stiff wind blowing cross lots gave
the Indians the break that settled
the game.
| Boss Robinson followed the dope
by starting Rube Marquard against
Cleveland, and Boss Speaker did his
best to cross the southpaw by in
serting three substitutes who bat
right handed, into the Indian line
up. Before the battle was over Rob
inson used three pitchers and flock
OF pinch hitters. while Speaker
wound up with his regular team in
the field
First Score in Second.
The play which decided the game
occurred in the second inning, fol-
lowing complaeent first round for
both sides. Burns popped a little
fly "'hich looked like a cinch for
kilduff. The gale from Gowanus
bay blew it over toward first with
Pete in full cry after it. He could
not get under it. Too late to Judge
it, konetchky tried to take the fall
1t fell safe, two or three yards from
first base and just back of the base
line. Burns was wise to the situa-
ton and kept on running toward
second. konetchky picked up the
ball and fired it in theS general di-
rection of second base, but there was
nobody covering. Kilduff was chas-
ing the fly and Olson was asleep,
The ball travelled to the left field
stands and before Wheat could re-
cover it, Burns completed the cir
cult. 1t was not Babe Ruth swat,
but it counted. =
Ruhe retired Gardner, then passed
Wood and wind blown single by
Sewell, followed by a sterling two
bagger by O'Neill, scored another
. run in that round and those two re-
turned the verdict.
Outside of that inning the two
!. teams broke even Each made five
safe hits and the only error was
tabled against Konetchky BECAUSE
Olson failed to cover second. zone
OF the Brooklyn's swats was due to
the wind because Wamby misjudged
a low fly by Olson in the fourth
but it cut no figure il. the result.
!. Pinch Hitters Used.
Boss Robinson did not need to use
, three pitchers, because Marquar6
was going at top speed when he was
: taken out for pinch hitter in the
sixth. and Mamaux stood the Indians
on their heads kr the two rounds
' he pitched before he, too, gave way
8 10 pinch hitter, who delivered il,
the eighth. That put it up to Ca
core TO work in the last round and
= ne retired three men easily. As fast
E as his substitutes came to bat against
+ rght-handed pitchers, Speaker sent
!, N his regulars and wound up the
= game with his real team.
Coveleskie worked the full route
and was accorded perfect support.
fle probably would have shut out
the Robins if it had been necessary.
The lone tally recorded for the home
team III the seventh was due to the
fact that the Indians did not play
4 close in to cut it off at the plate. The
: run which Cleveland scored off Mar
guard in the fourth was distinctly
r an earned tally, for it was made by
TWO solid drives for two bases each
! one by Joe Wood and the other b,
Steve O'Neill.
Defense Strongest.
< The combat indicated that both
teams are stronger defensively than
they are on the offense. Robinson
used three hurlers without in any
way weakening his pitching staff.
Speaker went through with one slab
s man. Neither team hit the ball
e enough to worry the adherents of the
5 other club. 1t was not a battle be-
!. tween two champion teams as the
t baseball world has come to know
champions. Instead, it was con-
e troversy between two second-rate
| teams whom Dame Fortune assigned
, to the ultimate base ball honors of
5 1920, and she probably will decide
' which one shall wear the purple toga
inscribed Worlds Champions"
Defensive plays of high-class were
, frequent. Griffith made the most
e difficult play when he backed up
against the right field wall and
speared with one hand. long drive
by Speaker in the fifth There was
nobody on at the time, but the play
was a corker. Speaker retaliatcd by
stealing a lines drive hit from
, krueger's bat at the start of the
eighth. He had to make shoestring
. catch Of it while on the run, bat he
5 made it.
. Each team pulled a boner. Olson
should have covered second base OF
+ Burns little fly i'll the second ir
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