The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
WIN GIVES TIGERS
COMMANDING LEAD
Now Have Two Game Edge In
Current Crucial Series
With Tribesmen
BY DALE STAFFORD

BY DALE STAFFORD
DETROIT, Sept. 21.-R-
Lynwood Thomas Rowe, baseball:
story-book pitcher, wrote another
chapter today in n of the games
greatest comeback sagas.
The Arkansas Express OF old
Rowe, stifled the Cleveland In
dians with a .meager five hits as
he pitched the Detroit Tigers T.
a S to 0 victory that gave them a
commanding two-game edge in the
current crucial series with The
Tribe and the same margin on
top of the American league stand
ingS.
Best Spot Yet
The win, 18th OF the season as
compared to only three defeats
for Rowe, left the Tigers in the
most dominating position they
have enjoyed All year long in their
circuits most topsy-turvy pennant
race in 30 years.
Rowe was the show To-Day ana
the ovation he received from the
crowd of 1890 as he strobe OFT
the diamond a winner was some
thing to be remembered.
Not only did the six foot-four
and one-haf inch giant muffle the
bats of the Indians when hits
meant runs but he contributed d
run-scoring single TO the attack
that wrecked Cleveland's hopes.
In only one inning was Rowe IN
trouble. That was the seventh
when two singles and a walk filled
the bases with two men out. The
Ii ers we're ahead, 4 to 0.
Up TO the plate as a pinch hitter
stroIe OdeIl Hale, Rowe, fellow
towlisman from E~ldorado, Ark,
VINO has been batting against Lyh
since boyhood. Hale was supposed
to know Rowe's pitching but Rowe
APPEARED to know more about
. ale's batting because he struck
N out. There died Cleveland's
- and only real threat, Rowe
nng to only SIX hitters in the
two innings.
Always Headliner
days good L evil, Rowe
never been out OF the head
re came 10 the Tigers III
s Schoolboy' Rowe, a boy
Of voting uge with a blaz-
st tai and d devastating
:. 1855 and 1856 Rowe won
! total q 62 games, Detroit
80 penrants and Lyn was
:. q Detroit.
came ! bad arm and the
a11 L. pitcher probably
DISAPPOINTMENT more bitter
oEcE. Two Years ago he
cacz ID tee Texas league
1yp= hat the sun might
: silrs wing. One critic
I'D 1lat Rowe become an
Ce- because Of his tine bat
-: ! was pitch or nothing
: zig fellow. Last year he
% : lar season and this
combining cunning with the
.l-ces sill. q his command,
- rs oeen q sensation.
or The first four innings today
t1= game WIS almost a replica
G. y~eaterlay's except that Rowe
p-tcaed better than did Louis
Buck Newson. Al Milnar, Cleve-
land Southpaw, held Detroit to a
couple Ct singles Il a triple in
this span.
Hemsley Hunt
The triple came in the fourth
inning from the bat Of Franz
CFinky) Higgins and because of il
the Indians may not have Catcher
Rollie Hemsley for the rest of the
season. With two men out and the
bases empty, Higgins lined to
center and Roy Weatherly tried
for a diving eaten. The ball went
by Weatherly and was finally re-
trieved by Ben Chapman who
threw to Ray Mack.
Liz 1dttCI - lcldy W Tile pldIe
caught Higgins but the Tiger third
sacker, a former blocking half
back for the University of Texas
football team, bowled Hemsley
over. Rollie left the game in the
next inning and was taken to a
hospital where X-ray films show
ed that he "a badly bruised. Hem
sley returned to his hotel. He told
lnterviewers that he hoped to be
able to play again before the
season ends.
The lower half of the Tiger bat
ting order, impotent of late, went
to work in the next inning and
produced two runs which would
have been sufficient in view of
Rowe's fine pitching.
Pete Fox, who belted a couple
Of doubles and a single, opened
with a two-bagger to left. He
reached third as George Tebbetts
rolled out. Rowe then singled tc
z-4- >--