New-York tribune., 1920-10-06
Coveleskie Pitches Good
Game; Great Fielding
of Sewell and Speaker
Robs Dodgers of Hits
IO'Neill and Wheat
Strongest at Bat
Brooklyn Uses Vanguard,
Mamaux, Cadore; ; Wind
Puzzles Players; Crowd
Shows Little Enthusiasm
By w. o. Mcclellan


1884 saw the Cleveland Indians
take the first game of the series of
1920 from Uncle Wilbert Robin
sons Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets
Field yesterday by score of to
/. The depression might have been
due to the touch of winter in the
air. 1t might have been charged to
the fact that the Dodgers did not
seem able to break through the pitch
ing of Stanley Coveleskie, backed
by the fielding of Iris Speaker, the
veteran, and Joe Sewell, the re-
cruit. Then, again, it might be due
to the fact that all baseball fans
are still somewhat shocked at the
revelations concerning the worlds
series of 1919.
At any rate, it was somewhat
subdued crowd. Most of the noise
was made by a lone bug in the upper
tier, who shouted from start to
finish at the Cleveland team in the
native songue Of the Ohioans. Twice
the Dodgers, urged on by Uncle
Wilbert Robinson, swathed in a
plaid mackinaw, started what prom
iSed to be rallies, and there was
something of a stir. But on the
whole the fan of Yesterdays game
was not the screaming and sponta-
neous nut that he used to be at the
worlds series of other days.
For once the baseball fan seemed to
have something on his mind AS a
ball game 1t was mechanically good,
particularly from the standpoint of the
team from Cleveland better baseball
game than is seen in worlds series.
1t should have produced thrills, but
the somberness of the crowd seemed to
be almost funereal at times compared
to the crowds of the past
Gale Swept in First Run
The chilly wind that swept Flatbush
yesterday started the trouble for the
Dodgers and Richard De Marquis Mar
guard, now veteran of five world $
series. The first run was swept in by
the gale in the second inning. George
Burns, the outfelder who is employed
only against lcft-handers, hoisted d fly
between first and second base.
Little Petcrkin KilduT started to
fdget around trying to guess where
it would land SO did Big Ed konetchy,
the Brooklyn first baseman The white
pellet swirled around and dropued just
beyond reach Of Konetchy. Burns
started to dash to second and Ko
netchy threw to the bag blindly. There
was nobody there, and Zack Wheat, the
left fielder, failed to hack uD the throw.
The ball rolled to the corner of the
park. and Burns came all the way
home with the first run of the series,
run scored on one hit and an error.
With Larry Gardner out, Wood got
base on balls. Then up stepped
young Joe Sewell. who was playing in
the University of Alabama a year ago
with only very vague dreams of worlds
series and big leagues. He drove a
single to right center, and Wood went
to third Steve O'Neiu drove a two
bagger along the left field line and
Wood scored
At this point wee Willie Keeler, for
mer old Oriole and companion Of Will
bert Robinson in the days of his
youth remarked That ends it. When
that Polack gets lead of two runs
nobody can beat him." And the griz-
lied Oriole oracle proved true
prophet.
Coveieskie held back the Dodgers
Coveleskie and iris Speaker. For fair
pitcher looks good with Speaker be-
hind him and good pitcher looks all
the better with Speaker ranging the
entire outfield and turning what look
IKE two -baggers and triples when they
leave the bats into outs.
Sewell Heads Of Hits
Coveleskie also had Joe Sewell. who
replaced Ray Chapman at short. This
marvellous recruit, Kidnapped from the
University of Alabama campus, stopped
at least two certain hits, and at periods
where hits would have meant the crack
ing OF the Cleveland defense and
rush OF the Dodgers. The veteran of
many games and many series and the
recruit under fire for the first time
made the Cleveland defense impregna-
bic.
The reigning depression seemed to
be thicker in the fourth inning when
Joe Wood, with one out, drove two
bagger to center field. Sewell lifted
high one into the wind and Hi Myers
gathered it in. Then up came Steve
oNeill, the slugging Cleveland catcher.
again with his second twobagger, this
one drive to the right field corner OF
the lot, and Wood scored for the sec
ond time
"And now it is all over" spake wee
Willie Keeler, oracle of the old Orioles.
They can't get to that Polack now.
rms game is gone"
In the Brooklyn half OF the fourth
inning Ivan Olson, unpopularly known
IN Flatbush and elsewhere as Ivory,
achieved the nrst hit against the spit
ting Polack of the Cleveland Indians.
1t was a Texas Lacquer over second,
nth cracked a clean single to center.
This caused considerable fidretfng in
the Cleveland infeld, and they leld one
OF those consultations. Wheat lifted
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