Sunday 22 July 2007

Saturday, July 9, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 56 28 .667 —
Vancouver ... 50 33 .610 5½
Spokane ..... 46 38 .548 10
Wenatchee ... 41 44 .482 15½
Salem ....... 37 46 .446 18½
Victoria .... 37 47 .440 19
Bremerton ... 37 49 .330 20½
Tacoma ...... 34 54 .386 24


WENATCHEE, July 10—The Wenatchee Chiefs pounded 24 base hits off four Yakima hurlers for an amazing 25-10 triumph.
Joe Orrell started on the mound for the Chiefs but was blasted out by a six-run Bear uprising in the third and went out in favour of Al Libke, who got credit for the victory.
Yakima ............. 360 000 001—10 14 5
Wenatchee ....... 831 921 01x—25 24 3
Bradford, Sporer (1), Swieger (4), Moore (4), and Orteig, Tornay (3); Orrell, Libke (2) and Pesut.

VANCOUVER, July 10—Vancouver Capilanos could only gain a half game on the Yakima Bears as they game back to take the nightcap, 6-5, from Bremerton.
John Marshall stopped the Caps in the opener, 7-3, for his 17th victory.
Bob Snyder and Dick Sinovic salvaged the nightcap. Sinovic duplicated his feat of Friday night when he banged out a hit with one out in the last of the ninth to drive in the winning run. In fact, he hit it to the exact same spot.
Snyder came into the game when George Nicholas appeared in trouble in the third inning. He gave up seven hits the rest of the way and only one run to chalk up his 14th victory of the year.
Nicholas gave up seven hits and four runs earlier and would have been in a worse situation if it hadn't been for two Capilano double plays.
In the opener, Marshall gave up nine hits, walked three and struck out three. One of the hits was a solo homer run by Len Tran.
Walt Pocekay homered and had two singles for Bremerton accounting for three runs, and Charlie Bushong laced two doubles and two singles, as the Tars built up a 5-0 lead after they had batted in the third.
Caps' note — Centre fielder Henry Fernandez has been sold to Sherman of the Texas State League. He had been playing well until an injury benched him and Dick Sinovic took his place in the outfield.
First game
Bremerton ........... 212 000 101—7 14 1
Vancouver ........... 001 002 000—3 9 1
Marshall and Ronning, Neal ( ); Hedgecock, Costello (3) and Sheely
Second game
Bremerton ........ 022 001 000—5 15 1
Vancouver ........ 100 040 001—6 11 0
Simon and Neal; Nicholas, Snyder (3) and Sheely.

SPOKANE, July 10—The Spokane Indians defeated the Salem Senators, 4-3, on Larry Barton's 16th homer of the year.
Salem ............... 002 100 000—3 6 1
Spokane ........... 004 000 00x—4 6 1
Fredericks and Carlson; Conant and Parks.

VICTORIA, July 10—Tacoma Tigers' losing streak was snapped at 12 games with a 12-9 victory in the second of two games against the Victoria Athletics on Saturday.
The A's won the first came 10-3.
Victoria also had a lead in the night game, as Charlie Balassi singled, went to second on a groundout and scored when Frank Matoh lined the ball of the left centre-field wall.
Balassi reached base again in the second and scored when Gil McDougald doubled off the wall, then Len Noren took Clary's first pitch over centre field for a pair of runs.
Jerry Ballard put the Tigers in the lead again 5-4 in the fourth when his smashed bounced off the board at the top of the wire on the centre field fence, giving him a homer that also brought in Eddie Barr.
Ballard singled in Dick Greco in the fifth and Eddie Barr scored another in the seventh by blooping a double then scoring on Jones' single that got by Matoh at third. Yet another scored in the eighth when Al Cohen doubled down the left field line and raced in when Ray Jacobs made a wild throw back to the infield.
Jacobs made amends by smacking a two-run jomer in the eighth. Dick Morgan singled and blate came in on a single by Balassi, who tallied on Buccola's single, making the game 10-8.
Barr put one over the fence in the ninth with two aboard for Tacoma to end the scoring.
As for the opener, the A's scored eight times in the second inning. Jacobs smacked a two-run homer, Buccola followed with a three-run blast. Jacobs came up again in the inning and singled in a run.
First game
Tacoma ............ 000 001 110—3 9 3
Victoria ............ 081 000 01x—10 14 1
Walden and Sheets; Ward and Day
Second game
Tacoma ............ 030 410 113—12 11 3
Victoria ............ 103 000 041—9 16 5
Clary and Warren; Tobias, Logue (4), Prowse (8), Drew (9) and Morgan.

Plan Transfer of Chiefs to Kennewick
KENNEWICK, Wash., July 10—The Tri-City Herald said today that a tentative deal had been reached between the recently-organized Tri-City Athletic Association and the franchise owners of the Wenatchee Chiefs to transfer the baseball club's operations to this area.
The association is going ahead with plane for construction of a $75,000 ball park on a 10-acre site just outside the Kennewick city limits.
Babe Hollingberry, president of the Chiefs, and Dick Richards, the club's manager have been in session with officials of the association a number of times recently concerning transfer of the franchise to the Tri-City area.
The proposal is expected to come before a meeting of the Western International League directors at Yakima Tuesday.

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