Sunday 22 July 2007

Wednesday, July 6, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 55 26 .679 —
Vancouver ... 48 30 .615 6½
Spokane ..... 43 38 .531 12
Wenatchee ... 39 43 .476 16½
Salem ....... 37 43 .463 17½
Bremerton ... 35 47 .427 20½
Victoria .... 34 46 .425 20½
Tacoma ...... 33 51 .393 23½


BREMERTON, July 6—Jim Probst gave up a first-inning run, then kept Bremerton scoreless the rest of the way in a three-hit, 5-1 victory over the Bluejackets on Wednesday.
The win was his seventh of the season to give him the club leadership, despite not startin the season with the A's, and he whiffed 11 Tars to run his strikeout total to 67 in 69 innings.
The A's jumped on Bob Pirack for 13 safeties. Charlie Balassi hit a triple, double and single in five tries, scored once and batted in a run. Vic Buccola, Frank Matoh and John Hack each had a pair of hits.
Victoria's Frank Finnegan exploded a colossal home run which hit the light wires in deep left field 435 feet from home plate.
Walt Pocekay singled in Bremerton's run.
Victoria ........... 100 300 010—5 13 1
Bremerton ....... 100 000 000—1 3 4
Propst and Day; Pirack and Ronning.

SPOKANE, July 6—A crowd of 4,600 Spokane fans saw the Indians drop a 7-5 decision to the league-leading Yakima Bears, squaring their series at 1-1.
Lloyd Dickey hurled the route for the winners, giving up nine hits, including two home runs.
Skip Rowland powered a 370-foot home run with two Spokes on in the third.
Yakima ........... 104 200 000—7 10 0
Sookane .......... 003 001 010—5 9 4
Dickey and Tornay; Conant, Weaver (6), Bishop (8) and Rossi.

TACOMA, July 6—The Vancouver Capilanos stayed right in the battle to overcome Yakima by sending the Tacoma Tigers down to their ninth straight defeat, 12-1.
The Caps pounded out 16 hits, including a home run by Charlie Mead, to make things easy for Bob Snyder. Mead had three singles as well for a perfect night at the plate while Orrin Snyder, fighting to hold his place in the outfield, garner two doubles and a single, a feat duplicated by catcher Bud Sheely.
Vancouver ....... 200 241 003—12 16 1
Tacoma ........... 010 000 000—1 6 2
R. Snyder and Sheely; Lazor, Johnson (6) and Sheets.

WENATCHEE, July 6—The Salem Senators trounced the Wenatchee Chiefs, 16-5, breaking the game open with a six-run fifth inning featuring Bob Hedington's grand slam.
Jim Warner and Nick Pesut tapped four-deckers of lesser RBI-calibre as the Chiefs maintained their fourth-place margin over the Oregonians at one game.
Salem .............. 101 262 004—16 14 1
Wenatchee ....... 000 212 000—5 11 5
Osborn and Carlson; Frick, Faber (7) and Pesut.

Fines for Spokes for Ump Attack
TACOMA, Wash., July 6—As a result of a dispute with the umpires last Saturday night, Jim Brillheart, Spokane manager, was fined $75 and four of his players assessed fines totalling
$80.
The Spokane club said it would appeal the season-long suspension of shortstop Jack Calvey, whom league president Bob Abel accused of “making a farce of the game and manhandling
an umpire” during the squabble.

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