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Show HNS PRAISE TWIRLER GRIMES Speaker's Men Give the Star, His Dues: Mails to Twirl Today xi:w vii;K iii 7 MTanager Tris ' Sf.al.ei of tbf- Indians last night gave full ii"d't to Grimes for lis masterly. Iillehing in yesterday's game "We could not hit with men on bases and Brooklyn had tWO halters who! could.'' he said 'i think trial is the' Im-s: reason I know ol In doping out win we lost Griffith hit safely twice with no-n in scoring dlstahee and Wheal turned the Irak OllCC We had chances to score more runs than Brooklyn, but Grimes would not let us al'.hongh it must be admitted w t hit a lot of balls hard. "Doc Johnston slammed a fierce ope to left in the fourth inning that would; have scored me. had not Wheat made' a nice catch. Smith hit two warm' grounders to (Cone) Jamleson hit ni' east once In tough luck, and I know hat when I grounded to Kibluff in in eighth I hit Hie hall as hard as ever in my life. And you may remember re-member the one hit by Sewell that Clrifflth grabbed off lhe wall If WO COil(d have had some of those go safe we could have been deep in the game.' "1 give Grimes the credit. lie Is a nood pitcher. lie has a great splt'ball. He reminds me of Jack Quinn of the Vankees. his spitter breaking more like jinn's than it does Cotvelaskie's or Shock' i 's. We may get him the nexlt llr.ie." Speaker said he intended to send in I either Raj Caldwell or Walter Mails, his only left hander. to pitch tomorrow. tomor-row. "The boys did just what I expected thev would do after what they have, bet n showing me till season.' said ' Manager Kobinson of the Brooklyn team. It has been their habit all year to come baqX strong after defeat and naturally 1 could see no reason; why rney should not do the same thing In the world series. . VME l.l r. "I said before the spries opened that I had as game a ball club as ever troil a diamond and I think their performance per-formance In the second game will satisfy sat-isfy everybody that I estimated the players properly. Some of the faii6 thought after the first game that the Brooklyn team would bo easy for the Indians :ill through the series hut 1 fell different!' about It. Xow that we have come back and evened the series our confidence In ultimate victory is even greater than before nnd we never felt that we would not win "The first two games have Satisfied me that the two teams are about as closely matched as tw o teams could be. Kach plav s the same sort of game, relying re-lying on hard hitting for Its runs, with little effort to do much base stealing of course. Speaker stands out above all the other players as a fielder and as a hitter, but even with Tris In the lineup. 1 can not concede that Cleveland Cleve-land has a tietter team than Brooklyn. "I was satisfied before the series that my pitchers would be able to hold the India us in (hick, even though Spenker's team hit aboeV. 300 for the senson. 1 am more convinced now on that score. They got only five hits against the three pitchers who worked against them in the first game and, while they got seven off Grimes In the second game, Burleigh shut them out. whieii is tii final malyels after all l xpei t thai my other pit. -hers will be '. as successTub And don't overlook the fact, either, that my boys batted in tl.re i nns against the leading pitcher 'of the American league for the 1920 1 1 season." |