The Dodgers and Indians take a day off from the World Series to travel west to Cleveland for games four through seven on October 8, 1920. The New York writers find the Cleveland fans more enthused than their Brooklyn counterparts.

Brooklyn may have been a trifle somber over baseball on opening day last Tuesday, but Cleveland is not. The overpowering stench from the game’s greatest scandal, plus two straight defeats by the hustling Dodgers, have failed to suppress the fanatical ardor in Ohio’s metropolis, where they are all looking for Speaker’s slugging sons of swat to take three out of four and start back for Brooklyn in the lead.

Here you are in the home of the fan at heart, the old-fashioned fan who is rampant and roistering, stooped in the old fashioned faith that once belonged only to the South Side rooters of Chicago before the eight crooks and traitors sold them out. It is refreshing to step from the fog of scandal into this buoyant exuberance of a people who through their idolatry of Speaker and his men still believe in the game.

New York Tribune