The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ONein at second, whereupon Kilduff whirled and nailed Mails at first
 INDIANS STAR

der this incentive in the sixth, when two feats in handling the ball aroused the throng to a frenzy. Wheat lifted a booming foul fly along the right field line and Burns chased the descending sphere clear to the grandstand. where he brought up with a slam against the iron railing. but not until he reached in among the spectators occupying a 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 a red hot hopper to Wambsganss, a lightning double play, Wambsganss to Sewell to Burns, checked what appeared to be another run-getting rally.
 Other plays of almost equal brilliancy marked the progress of the battle, but these were the outstanding defensive features of the contest.
 sThe outcome of the third game in no way appeared to affect the confidence of Manager Speaker in the ability ot his players to win out in the coming battles which switched to Cleveland tonight
 STEAMERS STATEMENT
 We will win the series" was the con- fident comment of Speaker as he left Ebbetts Field. He declared Brooklyn's s victory or rather Cleveland's defeat. was due to better teamwork in the field by Brooklyn.
 "The Brooklyn players were upon their toes and certainly played great base ball." he said, while our men in the field did not do so well today"
 Manager Speaker praised the work of Shortstop Sewell, who only recently came into the major league, and predicted that some day that boy is going to be one of the best"
 Manager Robinson of Brooklyn declared that his opinion on the final result was still the same as it was when the first game was played.
 BOBBY SAYS
 Just as thought two days ago. said Robinson, ~the series will be very close The clubs are very evenly matched, but I think we have the edge on Cleveland in respect to pitchers"
 He paid a compliment to his players for their gameness and their ability to stage a comeback.
 ."rhe thing needed in world series he said, lis nerve, and our boys cer- tainly have plenty of its Both teams are trying their best to win and their efforts should stop all talk of baseball scandal
 It may have been a lucky thing for Brooklyn that Manager Speaker at the last moment decided to start Caldwell, for it was while Ray was on the meund that the Dodgers got the runs.
 
 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 pass in Brooklyn's half of the first. Jimmy Johnston promptly sacrificed him tc second and he advanced to third when Sewell - fumbled Grffith's grounder, Olson completed the circuit on WheatS hit to left and Griffith went to the midway. From that point the right fielder scored when Myers hit to short right.
 TRIBES ONLY SCORE
 Iris Speaker, with the unintentional aid of Zack Wheat, saved his team from a shut out. In the fourth the Cleve- land leader hit down the third base line. The smash was ordinarily good for two bases. but Wheat let the ball get through him and 1t rolled to the far corner of the iots Speaker con- tinued around the base and scored so easily that Wheat made no efforts to throw the ball home.
 The pitching of the Brooklyn boxmeI show that nearly half of the twen,y balls thrown by Caldwell in, the one. third inning he performed, were widt of tho plate.
 Mails pitched creditably in his six and two-thirds innings. Although his ball total of thirty-eight was almost equal to that of Smith for nine innings, he held Brooklyn to three hits-and no runsS He sent across nineteen strikes and relieved credit for fourten on fouls. Four fouls came after the sec ond strike. The Cleveland lefthander started we'll throwing seven balls in the fractional inning and eight in the second. After that his total was never less than eleven and in the seventh he pitched twenty-three times, twelve of which were wide, of the plate. Uhle, in his one inning. had three balls. three strikes. three foul strikes and two plain fouls.
 Flight Brooklyn men went out on flies and ten on grounders,s not in- cludinE the ball Sew ell erred on.
 The ball total for the three Indian twirlers was fifty and the strike total half that number. Brooklyn batters fouled off twenty-o -one offerings fol strikes
 The almost summer-like weather brought out the largest attendance of the series to date. According to the official figures 25.0SS spectators paid admission to see Smith and his Steam- mates turn back the Speaker tribe for the second consecutive time. Their col lective contribution to the box offic. was s8l.29s. This made the total receipts for the first three game, s236.51l, of which the national com. mission received $23.651.10; the players pool $127.715.94 and the clut swneu $s5.143.9s.