Wednesday 25 July 2007

Sunday, August 7, 1949

W L Pct.
Yakima ..... 78 40 .681 —
Vancouver .. 70 44 .614 6
Spokane .... 63 54 .538
Wenatchee .. 59 58 .504
Victoria ... 52 66 .441
Bremerton .. 50 67 .427
Salem ...... 49 69 .415
Tacoma ..... 48 71 .403

SPOKANE, Aug. 7—Normally a two-run homer in the tenth would be enough to win a ball game. That's what Glen Stetter hit for Tacoma tonight. But the Indians used four hits, a sacrifice and a walk to score three runs in the bottom of the inning to overcome the Tigers 10-9 in the second game of a Western International League twin bill.
Spokane doubled Tacoma in the opener, 16-8.
First Game
Tacoma ....... 050 200 001—8 13 0
Spokane ...... 340 054 00x—16 22 0
Fortier, Johnson (2) and Gardner; Adams, Kimball (3), Howard (4) and Parks.
Second Game (10 innings)
Tacoma ...... 100 000 303 2 9 17 1
Spokane ...... 002 030 001 3 10 15 0
Greco, Kerrigan (10) and Sheet; Bishop, Conant (9) and Parks.

First Game
Victoria ..... 500 001 0—6 7 1
Yakima ....... 322 000 x—7 11 3
Vucurevich, Logue (3) and Day; Babbitt and Orteig.
Second Game
Victoria ..... 010 100 000—2 6 0
Yakima........ 201 010 O0x—4 8 0
Labrum and Morgan, Day (5); Sporer and Tornay.

SALEM, Aug. 7—If the Vancouver Capilanos should shrug their shoulders, toss their gloves into thee air and sign a despairing, "oh shucks,"—who could blame them?
For the Caps, desperately trying to get back into the Western International League race, have just shut down the Salem Senators in five straight starts. So what happens? Yakima pulls a five-for-five over Victoria.
Net result: Vancouver still trails the league-leading Bears by six full games.
First Game
Vancouver ....... 101 252 0—11 13 1
Salem .............. 010 000 0—1 5 5
Snyder and Sheely; Fredericks, Peterson (6) and Beard.
Second Game
Vancouver ....... 140 010 000—6 14 0
Salem ............... 000 004 010—5 10 0
Kindsfather and Sheeley; Drilling and Burgher.
Kahout, Arnerich (1), Ragni (3) and Neal; McCollum and Winter.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 7—John Marshall became the first pitcher in the Western International League to win 20 games this season as the Bremerton Bluejackets took the Wenatchee Chiefs 6-4 in the second game of a Sunday twin bill.
The Chiefs won the opener, 11-4.
First Game
Bremerton .... 001 002 1— 4 7 2
Wenatchee .... 830 000 x—11 11 2
Kohout, Arnerich (1), Ragni (3) and Neal; McCollum and Winter.
Second Game
Bremerton ...... 100 050 000—6 13 1
Wenatchee ...... 010 002 010—4 9 0
Marshall and Ronning; Orrell and Winter

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Ball Park Runway Falls, 23 Fans Are Injured
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 7—A concrete runway gave way under an overflow baseball throng Sunday. Twenty-three or more fans were injured—half of them in a 15-foot tall through a gaping hole to the ground.
Nearly 16,000 persons had jammed Rickwood field to watch Birmingham play Mobile in a
Southern Association double-header.
Most of the injured were standing on the runway just back of the visitors' dugout. Those who did not drop into the hole were tossed about as the concrete gave away.
Police immediately moved spectators back as other cracks appeared near the break.
In the hole, some of the injured tried to clamber up the broken walls but were showered by pieces of concrete.
One of the injured, W. C. Martin of Birmingham, said, "I must have fallen 15 feet. I was stunned momentarily. A concrete slab had fallen on my leg. The swirling dust and sand got in my eyes and for a moment I was blinded."
Only a small section of the crowd was affected by the accident which came without warning in the fifth inning of the first game.
Four persons were hospitalized. Others were given first aid by the Birmingham team's trainer and a physician from the crowd.
General Manager Eddie Glennon of the Birmingham club said the crowd was the largest ever to attend regular game here.
Play was not interrupted. Birmingham won both games.

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