Tuesday 24 July 2007

Thursday, July 21, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 64 32 .667 —
Vancouver ... 57 36 .613 5½
Spokane ..... 52 46 .531 13
Wenatchee ... 47 51 .480 18
Salem ....... 43 53 .448 21
Victoria .... 42 53 .442 21½
Bremerton ... 42 56 .429 23
Tacoma ...... 40 60 .400 26


SALEM, July 21—Salem Senators handed Tacoma a 9-6 decision as they miscued five times.
Tacoma ........... 030 000 330—9 12 1
Salem .............. 020 000 220—6 13 5
Walden and Sheets; McIrvin, Osborn (9) and Beard.

YAKIMA, July 21—Bremerton's John Marshall went after his 19th victory but suffered his seventh defeat instead as the league-leading Yakima Bears blanked the Tars, 9-0. Ted Savarese gave the Jackets three hits—two of them scratch singles—in fashioning the shutout.
Bremerton ........ 000 000 000—0 3 2
Yakima ............ 010 153 00x—9 14 0
Marshall, Baldwin (6) and Neal; Savarese and Tornay.

WENATCHEE, July 21—Charlie Balassi, Len Noren, Dick Morgan and Frank Matoh all hit for the circuit as the Victoria Athletics pounded out a 16-5 decision over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
The A's now have 12 home runs in their last four games.
Wenatchee starter Bill Caplinger gave the A's a good start when he walked four batters in the first inning, when Victoria scored three times.
Balassi's home came in the second with two on to boost the margin to 6-0 to drive Caplinger off the hill in favour of Merle Frick.
Noren's homer was a solo effort in the third, Morgan's drove in two runners ahead of him in the eighth and Matoh's came with one aboard in the ninth.
Balassi, Morgan and Russ Walseth added doubles, and John Hack had three hits in the 17-hit attack. Seven walks were handed to the A's.
Ritchie Meyers and Frick hit one out for the Chiefs.
Larry Ward gave up at least a hit every inning, and 15 in all, but struck out 15 Wenatchee batters in gaining the victory.
Victoria ................ 331 031 032—16 17 0
Wenatchee ........... 010 000 031—5 15 2
Ward and Morgan; Caplinger, Frick (2) and Pesut.

SPOKANE, July 21—Vancouver Capilanos kept up the pursuit of the Bears by downing the Spokane Indians, 7-4,with Dick Sinovic in the starring role.
Sinovic blasted a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning and then, after the Indians had gone ahead, 4-3, broke up the game with a two-run triple in the sixth.
He also made three great catches in centre field, while the infield helped Vern Kindsfather to his 11th victory by turning four double plays in crucial spots. Kindsfather allowed nine hits and three walks in going the distance.
Vancouver ............ 001 202 110—7 9 1
Spokane ............... 200 200 000—4 11 3
Kindsfather and Brenner; Conant, Babbitt (8) and Parks.

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