Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-09
DODGERS LOSE
LEAD; SCORE
five TO one
Perfect Day Greets Players
As They Step Onto Field;
Hundreds Stand In Line All
Night In Attempt To Get
Tickets Early In Morning.

Cleveland, Oct. 9.-The Clevelands
the worlds series in easy fashion,
trampling over the PROSTATE forms
of the Brooklyn Nationals by a score
of 5 to /. Coveleskies potent pitch
ing stopped the Brooklyns cold.
Brooklyn used four pitchers to stop
the eruption of hits from the Indians
bats. The official box score shows
how the Indians massacred the
Cleveland D Il g
Ready to Fight.
The Cleveland tribe sounded the
tocsin today for trial uprising
against their foe, the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Twenty-seven thousand
persons jammed League park to see
the American League pennant win
ners try to turn back the invading
Brooklyns, who hold the edge of an
odd game over Chief Speakers war
riors.
Stanley Coveleskie stood prepared
to pitch for Cleveland.
IF I can get my splitter break
ing we can put this game in the bat
bag" said Coveleskie.
All Cleveland came to League park
today or tried to. Those that didn't
come stayed home to welcome the
hundreds that surged into town from
all over Ohio and other central west
states to see Cleveland. take its worlds
series baptism. The city was some-
what low In spirits over double bump
ing administered in Brooklyn ssapd
Mayor Fitzgerald iesued an Qf&1fal
proclamation for .ny,5 '.syho odY to "a I
asaa sspsst stiJJday' Tor. sspeaker AM 5s
men. All factory whistles blew at
noon and flags were flown where flags
never flew before.
Lined Up All Night.
Hundreds stood in line all night to
the early comers found seats as scarce
as a ton Of coal at last years prices.
Spectators sold seats in the re-
served stands for $50 apiece. and
there were those who bid higher for
them when the supply ran out. Those
that could not get in looked vainly
for a flat root to stand on. but the
park had hip roofs. fine for shedding
rain, but without foothold for a
stAndee. a
Day is Perfect.
It was fine day for the sport.
The sun beat downward and glanced
brightly on the velvety green's of the
in and outfield. The leacherites
cooked and stewed in the sun which
also tanned the faces of scores of
sllectators who occupied the tenn
porary boxes that encroached into
foul territory. .
A new cntfield stand built in right
center groaned with crowd This
stand took up some of the playing
field in iris Speakers domain. The
crowd was good natured and came
prepared for tin horns and COW bells
to make a racket.
The Batteries.
Brooklyn-Cadore and Miller.
Cleveland--Coveleskie and ONeill.
First Inning.
Brooklyn-Olson up. The game
was momentarily delayed when Mana
gers Speaker and Robinson went lin
right field to discuss ground rules
Strike one. Foul, strike two. Olson
went out, Gardner to Johnston. Iohn-
ston up. Ball one. Ball two. Sewell
up. Foul, strike one: Ball one: Ball
two. Foul, strike two. Foul ball.
Foul ball. Ball three. Griffith pop
ped to Gardner. No runs. no hits. no
errors.
Decentralization up. BAH one.
Ball two. Strike one. Jameson lined
out to Cadore. Wamsganns up. Ball
one. Strike one. Ball two. Ball
three. Strike two. Wambsganns
wide. Speaker up. Ball one. Ball
two. Foul, strike one. Foul, strike
two. Speaker singled into center field.
Wambsganns going to second. Smith
up. Ball one.I Strike one. Wambs-
ganns scored on Smiths single to
center. Speaker going to third. On
the throw to catch Speaker Smith
ner fled to Myers and Speaker scored
on the catch. Smith held second.
Johnston up. Strike one. Strike two.
Johnston struck out. Two runs. two
hits, no errors. r.
Sccond Inning.
Brooklyn-Wheat up. Strike one.
up. Strike one. Foul. strike two.
Myers 1ied out to Smith. !. X onetchy
up. Konetchy went out by the
WambaGanns-Johnston route. No
runs. no hits. no errors.
ClevelGha- sewell up. sewell was
given q great cheer when he came up
to the plate. Ball one. Ball two.
Strike one. sswell drove the ball up
against tha screen and the bail bound
went for . single. O'Neill up. O'Netll
singled through Johnston Sewell go
ing to, second. Cadore wa9 taken from
the bog and MamAux took up the
Brooklyn burden. Coveleskie up.
Strike one. Foul. strike two. Cove
leskie struck out on three pitched
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