Show DID SHORTENING OF Or BASEBALL LL SEASON P PREVENT JIM DUNN DUN FROM I 1 WINNING WIl FLAG n nt 1 n t wy wy S 4 w a Y lf y ys Ar ri s C t 4 i 2 h g. g Y r Y 1 f fd d t r. r i r F J fG Cyr i JOE WOOD AT LEFT AND TRIS SPEAKER When hen Jim Dunn bought the Cleveland American h league guc franchise in the spring of 1916 he be promised Cleveland fans a n pennant in ill three years cars He spent over in cash to get Tris Speaker to help make mako good his goo r promise prom prom- ise He paid for Joe Wood and gambled ambled on Wood Toad doing doing- a come COme- back He expected these two men to help i put the tiro team on top Speaker was gain going full inn speed in in 1918 1018 and Joe was pla playing g a great game earn in In the outfield out out- field Lieu d and h hitting hard although h he lie cou couldn't couldn nt t deliver deli in the tho box Critics concede con con- t cc cede o that Cleveland had a good chance at the thc I pennant ennant until the team was weakened by enlistments and the thc draft Dunn had tho right dope I and Toe loc Maybe the Indians would have Im c copped ped t the e bunting if baseball on ell Spoke had gone on au uninterrupted Who knows kno 1 |