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pionChiefs Nose Out ,hga tlt;1Columbus To WinTournament TitlepactCarvhisBy the associated press . AfTh§ Syracuse Chief*:, whospent much of the season in the ’a*f second division and didn't reallv wpfget cranked up until the final P™' month, are the International pion league’* Governor's Cup play- willoff champions of 19*9 drivThe Chiefs, a farm cluh of the pUr New York Yankees, nailed down r#C) the playoff title Friday night by ^ist whipping Columbus 7 6 and thus ^ beating the Jets in the best of- ’seven finals, four games to one. jp _It was the sixth playoff cham lt;u!plonship for the Chiefs in 65599years in the league. Over that span, they have won the regular wln season pennant only three times add —the last time 'way back in1897. theSyracuse’* triumph had cur seemed almost out of the ques- \tion last week after the Chiefs n,s lost the first two games of the th* best-of-five playoff semi • finals en, to Louisville. But they stormed cplt; back to take the next three from () the Colonels, then won three in '•a row from Columbus before j• finally losing to the Jets Thurs- ('in day night. 3-0. Friday night they his. clinched it. hei' i When August arrived, Syrt- L!n• cuse was In sixth place with a am I 50-52 record. But from there to vieI\rende»*• the final regular season games ba• Sept. 1, the Chiefs were on the cni• warpath, winning 25 and losing un• 13, and finishing In third place, ] t 31^ games behind flag-winningTidewater, with a 75-65 record j Syracuse, whose last playoff . championship came in 1954, out-1 hit the Jets 11-9 in Friday *n night’* dramatic showdown 50 game and received what proved I01 the winning blow when Jose 61 Vidal doubled home three runs 50 In the seventh. iColumbus, trailing 7-2, scored al i* I four times in the eighth-three ca of the runs coming home w John Jeter'* homer, *nd went into the final inning behind by m one run. wWith one away and IL home pt run king Bob Robertson at bat (. for the Jets in the ninth, the '„ lights went out—and stayed out'Uf-5rfor 53 minutes. After they came hack on, Robertson walked and w Chief reliefer Bobby Locke re-! C| tired the next two batters to se- R*de.cure the game—and playoff title eifor Syracuse.ir
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Oswego Palladium Times
Oswego, New York, US
Sat, Sep 13, 1969
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