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By DICK BECKER Staff Sports WriterDon Rowe, 21-year-old left-hander, stood Amarillo’s veterans on their ears with a brilliant two-hitter Saturday night before 2,651 fans at Sherman Field.The superb 6-0 shutout sent Lincoln into the driver’s seat in the Western League championship playoff, threegames to one.The Chiefs can wrap the pennant up tonight with their fourthstraight victory over the Gold Sox. But it won't be easy. HughBlanton, who stifled the Lincoln bats in the playoff opener at Amarillo, will take the mound for the Gold Sox.He will face Lincoln Bennie Daniels, who lost the opener.'• Game time will be 8 at Sherman Field. -It will also be “Larry Shepard Night at Shermantown. HowardLincb, who led the player appreciation night, announced he has another surprise for Shepard. Ceremonies will be just prior to the game.Shepard held Rowe back, especially to pitch the home opener, and it was excellent strategy. Don was never faster and he sent 11 Gold Sox down on strikes.Art Cuitti got the first hit, a topped roller on the third base line★ ★ ★ ★in the fourth, and Frank Murray the other, a solid double to right center in the sixth. Don walked but two men.The Chiefs, meanwhile, went to work on big Jim Tugerson and three Amarillo reliefers.The big blow', according to Shepard, was John McDevitt’s homer over the left field wall in the third inning. It was Lincoln *s first hit. 4*I figured the team that got the jump would win it/*Larry said.But that wasn’t all for the home club.Sam Miley doubled in the fourth and Dick Stuart followed with a towering homer to left. It was Dick's second of the playoffs and fittth of the season.Singles by Howe, Reggie Grenald and A3 Stringer netted a run in the fifth and Marcos Cobos bashed a solo homer in the seventh.The final run came in the eighth. Miley was hit by a pilch by Kenny Yoke. He came racing home on McDevitt’s double to center.CLUBHOUSE CHATTER— The ball that hit Miley could have been serious but the plastic helmet took most of theblow. , . . Miley was also hit on the jaw by a thrown ball in the sixth as he stole second. . . . There have been 99 strikeouts by the two teams in four games and Lincoln has hit nine home runs. . . . Dignitaries on hand for the opener at Lincoln included League President O’Neal Hobbs, Buck Faucett, gen eral manager at Amarillo and Mrs Faucett, and Judge A. F. Madison president of the Amarillo club. . . Another visitor was Harold George executive secretary of the Nebraska. State League. . . . Five of Lincoln’s nine base hits were for extra base
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Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Sep 09, 1956
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
William R.
CT, USA 20 Sep 2018
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