Monday, September 5, 1949

FINAL STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 99 51 .660 —
Vancouver ... 91 57 .615 7
Spokane ..... 78 71 .523 20½
Wenatchee ... 77 73 .513 22
Victoria .... 68 81 .447 32
Salem ....... 64 87 .421 35½
Tacoma ...... 63 88 .417 36½
Bremerton ... 60 89 .403 38½

WI League Ready For Playoffs
Not even the shouting remained in the Western International league baseball race. Except for the Spokane-Wenatchee battle for third place everything was settled long before Labor Day's windup contests.
The lone struggle remaining on closing day saw Spokane and Wenatchee divide a doubleheader with Spokane taking third place as a result. The Indians squeezed past the Chiefs 2-1 in the opening game, then lost a 12-inning no-count contest 8-6.
In other contests, Salem took a pair from league-leading Yakima 4-2 and 10-8, Victoria trampled Bremerton 21-4 and 11-6 and Vancouver divided with Tacoma, winning the first 4-1 and losing the finale 12-3.
Starting Wednesday, Yakima will host Spokane and Vancouver will entertain Wenatchee in the first two games of a best-of-five series.

Ump Sandt Trades Jobs With Catcher
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 5—Umpire Carl Sandt swapped places with Vancouver Catcher
Bud Sheely Monday in a comedy windup to the Western International league baseball season.
Naturally there was an argument and naturally Sandt lost.
The game could not affect the standings and both teams were having a grand time, with a batboy at shortstop for Tacoma and the two managers pitching. In the last inning Sheely walked to the plate and swapped his bat for Sandt's mask and indicator.
The umpire whacked a double and Sheely called him out for failing to touch first base. Vancouver was behind at the time, 12 to 3, and that's the way it finished.
First Game
Vancouver .... 000 101 020— 4 9 2
Tacoma ........ 010 000 000— 1 9 3
Kindsfather and Brenner; Kerrigan and Gardner.
Second Game
Vancouver .... 000 021 0— 3 8 7
Tacoma ........ 420 231 x—12 15 0
Brenner, Sinovic (5) and Sheely; Johnson and Gardner.

VICTORIA, Sept. 5—The Victoria Athletics closed out the 1949 season with a double-header sweep against Bremerton, winning the first game 24-4 and the second contest 11-6.
Eleven bases on balls and eight Bremeton errors, plus 21 Victoria hits made it each for Frank LaBrum to reister his first W.I.L. win in the afternoon contest.
LaBrum had one bad inning — the fifth — when the Tars scored all of their runs to take a momentary 4-3 lead. Then the roof fell in as the A's plated 21 runs in the next four innings in a wild scoring splurge that went through four pitchers. Biggest beneficiary of the slugfest was Ray Jacobs, who had a triple, double and two singles in six trips and batted in seven runs. John Hack batted in four runs to run his season's total to over 100, and hit a home run.
Behind 6-4 going into the eighth inning of the season's finale, the A's unloaded for seven runs and stopped a Bremerton attempt to give John Marshall his 23rd pitching win. Marshall was sent into the game with the score tied and runners on second and third. He walked McDougald intentionally but Len Noren blooped a single into short right field for one run. Marshall's hopes disappered completely when Charlie Balassi followed with a grand-slam home run.
About 1,700 spectators were on hand for the windup, running the A's home attendance total to 115,044, 32,000 more than the third-place Athletics drew in 1948.
First Game
Bremerton ..... 000 040 000— 4 7 8
Victoria .......... 012 047 64x—24 21 1
Kohout, Baldwin (5), Ronning (6), Stanford (8) and Neal; Labrum and Morgan.
Second Game
Bremerton ..... 001 310 010—6 12 3
***Victoria ..... 002 020 07x—11 12 1
LINESCORE INCOMPLETE

First Game
Wenatchee .... 010 000 0—1 8 0
Spokane ...... 000 000 2—2 5 0
Orrell and Pesut; Conant and Parks.
Second game
Wenatchee ..... 001 002 001 004—8 13 1
Spokane ....... 010 000 003 002—6 13 6
Johnson and Pesut; Richardson, Adams (4), Kimball (8) and Rossi.

First Game
Salem ....... 000 200 02—4 5 0
Yakima ...... 000 200 00—2 10 1
McIrvin and Burgher, Beard (8); Sporer and Tornay.
Second game (eight innings)
Salem ....... 000 233 02—10 9 1
Yakima ...... 010 003 40—8 15 1
Beard, Burak (7) and Burgher; Orengo, Moore (3), Williams (6) and Tornay.

Cherry to Beavers
PORTLAND, Sept. 6—Portland Beavers of the Coast League called up three players today from their farm club, Salem Senators of the Western International League. Brought up were Catcher Bill Burgher, Pitcher Cal McIrvin and Outfielder Bob Cherry.