Monday 23 July 2007

Monday, July 18, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 61 32 .656 —
Vancouver ... 55 35 .611 4½
Spokane ..... 51 44 .537 11
Wenatchee ... 46 49 .484 16
Salem ....... 42 51 .442 19
Bremerton ... 42 53 .442 20
Victoria .... 40 52 .435 21½
Tacoma ...... 38 59 .392 25


WENATCHEE, July 19—Neil Bryant, Ritchie Meyers, Nick Pesut and Mel Warner all homered as the Wenatchee Chiefs smacked 18 hits in a 17-7 thumping of the Victoria Athletics.
The Chiefs also hit five doubles and a triple, as everyone in the line-up except the 0-for-5 Hal Winter had at least two hits.
Frank Matoh set the pace at the plate for Victoria, driving in four runs with a pair of homers and a single in five trips. Gil McDougald and Charlie Balassi also hit for the circuit for the A's.
Joe Blankenship took the loss and falls to 3 and 2.
Victoria ............ 400 000 021—7 8 1
Wenatchee ....... 141 330 05x—17 18 3
Blankenship, Logue (4), Tobias (9) and Day; Orrell and Pesut.

SPOKANE, July 19—The Vancouver Capilanos continued their climb to the top, pounding out 16 hits as they handed the Indians their first home defeat in eight starts, 12-6.
Dick Sinovic and Len Tran provided the bulk of the Cap runs. Sinovic smashed a 400-foot double with the bases loaded in the third inning and Tran repeated the performance in the fifth.
Spokane committed six errors but only two of the Capilanos' runs were unearned.
George Nicholas hung up his 15th win for Vancouver against three losses, holding on well until the sixth when the Indians drove him from the box with four straight hits.
The result left the Caps four and a half games behind the idle Yakima Bears and increased their second-place margin over the Indians to six and a half games.
Vancouver .......... 103 150 101—12 16 2
Spokane ............. 100 013 010—6 15 6
Nicholas, Hedgecock (6) and Sheely; Werbowski, Kimball (5), Howard (7), Clark (7) and Parks.

(Only games scheduled)

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