The Washington herald., 1920-10-06

Iris saved The Day.
The Cleveland ball players in new
steel gray uniforms and the Brook
lyn men in dingy white are thread
in- their way through the crowd
- on the field, all headed for their
dressing rooms under the stand.
Everybody seems to be moving
sluEgishly like ants on a cold day.
stanley Coveleskie. a burly Pole
. who is the victorious Cleveland
pitcher can be seen showing through
a knot of men and boys.
Let COveleskie go back ana thahk
the prematurely gray haired man
who brings up the rear OF the scat
tered Cleveland band
This man is Iris Speaker, man
agar Of the American League club
from the forest city. He is the
man who is responsible for this
moment of triumph for Stanley
COyeleskie. A wonderful catch oy
Speaker gives this game to Stanley
COveleskie.
Speaker is the greatest outhelder
in baseball Perhaps he IS the
greatest Outfelder that ever NNeu-
4 man has just so stated Speaker
comes from the town OF Huooaru'
Texas. which has little more poPu-
lation than one Of those apartment
houses yonder.
Compliments For speaker.
- He is a pleasant spoken young
man az or "a years old. very unos-
tentatious off the field. nId can
throw a lariat. and spin SIX
shooter around on his finger and
do many other cowboy tricks. he
learned these in Texas.
You have to go to the animal
kingdom to find SMILES for further
description. He has the speed OF
a greyhound. He has an eye like an
antelope. which can see very far'
His Judgment Of a fly ball cores
ponds in keeness to the sense OF
smell of a deer.
The eighth inning comes back
again.
BROOKLYN Dodgers helpless at bat
with his pitching for seven innings.
The Brooklyn club is niCknamed the
Trolley Dodgers. because. on account
Of living in Brooklyn, they are sup
posed to be constantly lodging troll
ley cars.
There is something in the name.
Brooklyn fairly teens with troIleyS'
CoveIeskie HurIs We'll.
The score is the same as at the
finish, 3 to ! in favor Of Cleveland.
CoveIcskie is pitching wonderful
ball. He is a spitball pitcher. the
hest in his own league. He moistens
. the ball with saliva, putting it up
to his mouth before he delivers IL
as if he were eating an apple.
Coveleskie comes from the coal
mining regious Of Pennsylvania. SO
does his battery mate, Steve O'Neih,
a good-lOOking young man who is
a power in this game. They are
both of famous baseball families.
Stanley CoveIeskie's brother, Har-
". a left-hander. once beat the New
York Giants out Of a pennant by
pitching most of a series against
them for the Phillies. Another
brother. John. is an outielder.
Steve O'Nem is of the baseball
O'Neills which include Mike and
Joyce. All this information Is re-
vived casually in the press stand
Lardner. Tiny Maxwell. Bill Phelon.
Jack Ryder and hundreds of other
famous chroniClers of the game.
Rube Gets No Help.
Rube MarQuard. tall, thin. wry-
necked. pitches the game for Brook
lyn up to the eighth inning. Cleve-
land scores all its runs off him,
an error by Konetchy doing some
damage.
Still, if a club is unable to get a
run off a pitcher it does not matter
how many runs are scored against
its own pitcher, as far as the final
result is concerned. So say the eX-
perts. So much for Marquard
wilbert Robinson, as wide as a
door, sends Lamar, a youngster, up
to bat for Marquard In the sixth
inning. Then he puts Al MamauN.
said to be the handsOmest man in
baseball, in to pitch.
Mamaux is a right handler with
terrific speed behind the ball. He
strikes out SeweII, O'Neill and Cove
leskie one right after the other.
Joe Sewell, a year ago captain of
the baseball club at the University
Of Alabama. and O'Neill do some
hitting in this game.
Sewell is taking the place of Ray
Chapman at shortstop for the Cleve-
land club. Chapman is the man ac-
cidentaIly killed by Carl Mays. the
New York pitcher. only a few weeks
ago me Cleveland players wear
bands of mourning on their left
sleeves in memory OF Chapman.
Sewell is an agile youth. Experts
say 1t was thought beforehand he
would be flighty and nervous in this
series and make bad breaks. He
makes many wonderful plays. Old
persons talking OF youth are al
ways doubtful.
Speaker Robs krueGer.
Ernest Kruger. the brooklyn
catcher, is the first man at bat as
the Dodgers batting side of the
eighth comes on.
Kruger is a powerful. long dis
tance sluEger. He is one of the big
league tourists, a man who moves
around much. Once with the
Yankees. once with the Giants, now
with Brooklyn.
- What seems at first an unkind
baseball fate finally does Kruger
a good turn.