Thursday 26 July 2007

Tuesday, August 16, 1949





               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 81 42 .667 —
Vancouver ... 77 47 .621 4½
Spokane ..... 67 60 .528 16
Wenatchee ... 64 63 .501 19
Victoria .... 56 72 .438 27½
Salem ....... 54 72 .429 28½
Bremerton ... 53 72 .424 29
Tacoma ...... 50 77 .394 33


WENATCHEE, Aug. 16—Vancouver heaped its baseball flag hopes on pitcher Vern Kindsfather here Tuesday night and the Caps loss marked one of his rare failures of the season.
The Chiefs drove Kindsfather from the game in the fifth inning, were restrained by relief pitcher Carl Gunnarson, but won 7-5 on 14 hits.
Vancouver, meanwhile, was only able to get five safeties off Merle Frick, one of which was a triple by Dick Sinovic.
The Caps took the lead once, when the exploited Frick’s wildness to score four runs. However, the Chiefs came back in their half of the inning to win.
Vancouver ........ 100 040 000—5 5 2
Wenatchee ........ 020 230 00x—7 14 1
Kindsfather, Gunnarson (5) and Sheely; Frick and Winter.

TACOMA, Aug. 16 – Tacoma out-hit Yakima but also out-fumbled first-place Yakima Tuesday night and dropped a Western International League baseball decision 5-4.
The losers trailed all the way, but Glen Stetter pound his 11th homer of the year – with no runners on base – in the eighth to narrow the score to 3-2.
Edo Vanni walked to start the Yakima ninth, Ted Jennings sent him home with a triple and scored himself on a passed ball. Winding it up, Manager Bob Johnson walked and Al Spaeter singled to chase Tacoma’s Bill Bradford off the mound.
Yakima ........ 100 010 120—5 10 0
Tacoma ....... 000 000 112—4 13 4
Bradford, Babbitt (9) and Orteig; Carter, Johnson ( ) and Sheets.

SPOKANE, Aug. 16 — Victoria Athletics hammered three Spokane pitchers for 17 hits Tuesday night but still wound up on the short end of a 10-8 Western Internartional baseball score.
Larry Ward was the losing pitcher as the Indians drove across five runs in the eighth inning to take a 2-1 lead in the five-game series. Ward had relieved Dick Mitchell, who was making his first start of the year, in the eighth. The Indians got only 11 hits while the Athletics left 12 men stranded on base.
Dick Bishop got credit for the win after he took over on the mount for John Conant in the eighth. Len Noren led the A’s at the plate with five singles in five trips and three runs batted in. Joe Morjoseph also had a perfect evening with three for three, while John Hack had a home run and a single. The homer and doubles to Vic Buccola and Gordon Johnston were the only clouts longer than a single.
Victoria ........ 010 200 320—8 17 2
Spokane ....... 000 200 35x—7 14 1
Mitchell, Ward (8) and Morgan; Conant, Bishop (8), Adams (9) and Rossi.

SALEM, Aug. 16—Bremerton Bluejackets turned back Salem Senators 14-9 Tuesday night in the wild, hit-filled WIL baseball game.
The Tars got 17 hits off three Senator pitchers, including a pair of homers by Walt Pocekay, and a homer and triple by Bill Taylor. Salem belted 16 blows of Vern Kahout.
Bremerton ....... 305 010 005—14 17 3
Salem ................ 100 110 024—9 14 3
Kohout and Ronning; Burak, G.Peterson (3), Foster (9) and Burgher.

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