Saturday 28 July 2007

Saturday, August 20, 1949






              W  L  PCT GB
Yakima ..... 87 43 .669 —
Vancouver .. 79 49 .617 7
Spokane .... 69 62 .527 18½
Wenatchee .. 67 64 .511 20½
Victoria ... 57 75 .432 31
Salem ...... 56 74 .431 31
Bremerton .. 54 75 .423 32½
Tacoma ..... 52 79 .397 35½

SALEM, Aug. 20—Tacoma's Tigers, tail-enders in the Western International league race, edged out a 2-1 decision over the Salem Senators tonight to take a 2-0 le.id in the current series which ends with on Sunday twin bill.
An error, a single by Ed Barr and Bill Sheets' long fly gave the Tigers their deciding run in the eighth inning tonight. They had previously tallied off right-hander Gene Peterson in the sixth inning when Dick Greco tripled and registered on Barr's hit.
Ray Fortier of the Tigers blanked the Solons until the ninth when a walk and a pinch
single by Manager Bill Beard produced a run.
Fortier gave up nine hits and Peterson allowed eight during their pitching duel.
Tacoma ...... 000 001 010—2 8 0
Salem ........ 000 000 001—1 9 1
Fortier and Sheets; Peterson and Burgher.

BREMERTON, Aug. 20—John Marshall went to the rescue in the ninth inning tonight to choke off a Yakima threat and save a 4 to 3 Western International League victory for the Bremerton Bluejackets.
Dick Briskey had opened the stanza with a double putting the tying run at second. Marshall relieved the Bremerton starter, Joe Sullivan, and forced pinch-batter LeRoy Paton to pop up. Edo Vanni to hit an easy fly and Al Jacinto to foul out to tho catcher.
Bob Williams homered for Yakima in the fourth and the losers got their other runs
in the seventh on successive doubles by Briskey and pitcher Larry Powell, plus two infield outs.
Yakima .......... 000 100 200—3 7 4
Bremerton ...... 200 002 00x—4 7 1
Powell and Orteig; Sullivan, Marshall (9) and Ronning.

SPOKANE, Aug. 20 – A four-run rally in the eighth inning was Vancouver’s last gasp on Saturday night as the Spokane Indians defeated the Capilanos 9-6 in the opening game of a series.
K Chorlton swung Vancouver’s big bat, with three hits, including a homer, and three runs batted in.
Vancouver .... 020 000 040—6 10 4
Spokane ....... 010 320 12x—9 14 2
Kindsfather, Gunnarson (5) and Sheely; Adams and Parks.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 20—Victoria Athletics went down to their sixth straight defeat at the hands of the Wenatchee Chiefs as Merle Frick wielded the whitewash brush in a 7-0 shutout.
The loss was the fifth in seven games on the current road trip and the eighth in the last ten starts for the A's, now 18 games under .500 and back to their lowest point of a disasterous season.
The Chiefs picked up their runs gradually, scoring in six of the eight innings they went to bat. The losers threatened only twice, filling the bases in the fourth and getting two men aboard in the ninth. Frick shut the door each time with a strikeout. Clyde Haskell led the 11-hit attack on Dick Mitchell with a double and two singles in three trips.
Ray Fortier hurled Tacoma to a 2-1 win over Salem to preserve Victoria's scant grip on this place.
Victoria ......... 000 000 000—0 7 1
Wenatchee .... 112 100 11x—7 11 0
Mitchell and Morgan; Frick and Winter.

TACOMA, Aug. 20—Pity the poor pitcher unfortunate enough to try to compile a respectible earned-run and complete-game average in the W.I.L. Figures released each week by the Howe News Bureau disclosed that the hitters in the Class "B" league have a big edge over the pitchers. Vancouver Capilanos lead with an amazing team mark of .309 and have eight out of nine regular players over the .300 mark. Only outfielder K. Chorlton, at .294, has failed to make the select circle. However, the Caps lack their usual long-distance punch this year and trial Spokane, Wenatchee and Yakima in the important matter of scoring runs.
Spokane ranks second as a hitting team at .303, followed by Wenatchee, .296, and Yakima, .295. Wenatchee rates as the top offensive club, having scored seven plus runs per game for their first 126 contests. However, the Chiefs have not had the pitching the match their hitting and their defensive work has been shoddy all season. On the other hand, the Yakima defence has been the best. Opponants have only managed to score an average of five runs per game against the Bears and this comparatively high figure tops the league. The Bears and Spokane ave scored just less thave seven runs a game.
Breaking it down to an overall average, W.I.L. teams have averaged 14 runs, 20 hits, 32 total bases, ten bases on bals and four errors per game. No less than 45 regulars are batting over .300, an average of about six per club.
Leading the hit parade is Clint Cameron, Wenatchee first baseman. Cameron is hitting .395, a bulge of 27 points over teammate Hal Rhyne, who is next in line. Bill Brenner and Dick Sinovic, both of Vancouver, are closest to Cameron, with .392 and .378 respectively, but will not have appeared in enough games to be considered for the bat title.
Edo Vanni, Spokane, leads in hits with 180, and stolen bases, 32. Larry Barton, Spokane, has a narrow lead in batting in runs with 115. Jim Warner, Wenatchee, leads in home runs, 35, and runs scored, 120. Jack Parks, Spokane, and Ted Jennings, Yakima, have each hit 14 triples. Dick Briskey, Yakima, leads in doubles with 34, and Dick Greco, Tacoma, has the most total bases, 287.
Average: .330 and above.
                 AB   R  H  2b 3b HR SB RBI Pct.
Cameron, Wen... 332  83 131 33  0 14  1  82 .395
Brenner, Van... 166  20  65 12  1  6  0  38 .392
Sinovic, Van... 241  50  91 15  6  5  0  30 .378
Rhyne, Wen..... 438  97 161 32  7 12  6  87 .368
Vanni, Yak..... 503 117 180 29  7  0 32  68 .358
Sheely, Van.... 302  42 107 15  0 13  3  86 .354
Stainback, Spo. 295  36 103 29  4  2 10  41 .349
Zaby, Spo...... 433 110 150 29  4  2 18  71 .346
Barton, Spo.... 416 118 143 30  5 19  2 155 .344
Mead, Van...... 462 116 157 20  6 17  3 102 .340
Taylor, Bre.... 502  90 170 28 11 14  3 112 .339
Briskey, Tac... 433  87 147 34 10  9  5  83 .339
Greco, Tac..... 456 102 153 30  7 30  6 106 .336
L. Tran, Van... 459 114 152 32  6 10  7  80 .333
Rossi, Spo..... 281  47  93 19  2  3  8  55 .331
McDougald, Vic. 443  94 146 29  5 12 11  91 .330
Orteig, Yak.... 324  77 107 21  5  7  2  79 .330

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