WIL Baseball - 1949

1949 Almost Complete

2007-10-29T01:02:00.000-07:00

Now that the CUPE strike is over and the library (and its newspaper microfilm reels) is open again after three months, I am able to complete the 1949 WIL season. All I need to do is get the final stats uploaded and double-check the second-last day of action. There seems to be some confusion with two sets of box scores I've seen.

Thanks for your patience.

I Guess We'll Be the Braves Then

2007-07-31T02:20:00.000-07:00

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER
Herald Sports Editor
Although the Tri-Cites' entry in the Western International baseball loop hasn't even played a ball game in their new home, they are already the "Sweetheart of the league."
In past years every team wanted to play at Spokane in the season's opening series. But the scene that took place this year when the schedules were drawn up was quite a bit different. All the other teams, including Spokane, wanted to open in the Tri-Cities Braves stadium. In fact the debate concerning who was going to be the lucky team got so vociferous that Robert Abel, league president, decided that was only one way out. They were to draw slips out of a hat. The team whose name was drawn would get the opening date. Vancouver got it. So it will be the Braves versus the Capilanos on April 18.
As 'Babe' Hollingbery, the president of the Braves said, "It certainly feels good to be the darling of the league."
MAY GO "A" LOOP
Although the W.I. is now a class B league, there is more than a good chance it will go class A for the 1951 season. This will be one of the big items on the agenda when the minor loops hold their meeting in Baltimore. Loop moguls have privately stated they believe the addition of the Tri-Cities will be enough to swing it from a B to an A.
Dick Richards, general manager of the Tri-Cities club, said that April 18 is the official opening date. Previously it had been set as April 10, but the 18 is now correct. Richards also added that the club could not continue to use the nickname of Chiefs. He said the reason was that the city of Wenatchee has the name registered with the National Baseball association. This fact, he continued, was unknown to him or the other club owners until the league's last meeting in Salem a week ago.
BRAVES ARE INDIANS
However, the team will continue to wear the Indian head emblem on their uniforms. This emblem is the property of the club and cannot be used by any other team in the league. Tacoma will follow Vancouver into the Tri-Cities baseball stadium, and then
on April 20 the Braves will move into Yakima for their first road game of the 1950 season. This clash will also open the home season for the Yakima club. Richards praised the cooperation of Yakima in withholding their opening date so as not to conflict with the Braves. He said this would be instrumental in assuring a large crowd for both teams at their first home stands.
TWO DAY CONFAB IN RICHLAND
The next meeting of the league will be held in the Desert Inn at Richland on Jan. 10, the general manager of the club said. At this two-day confab the league directors will approve the final schedule and elect officers. Present elected officials of the W.I. league are Robert Abel, president, and George Emigh, vice-president.
Other matters that will come before the loop directors during the Richland meeting will be legislative items resulting from the meeting of the minor leagues in Baltimore. This is the annual get together of the National Association of Professional Baseball, the governing body of all minor leagues.
-Tri-City Herald, Sunday, November 13, 1949

WIL League Meet Set For Tri-Cities

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Vancouver Plays Here April 10th
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 9—Western International Baseball league directors voted last night to hold their next meeting, in January, for the election of officers, in the Tri-Cities. They also voted to keep the same admission prices during the 1950 season.
They announced that the league would open April 10, with Tacoma playing at Salem, Yakima at Wenatchee, Vancouver at Tri-Cities, and Victoria at Spokane.
The season will close Sept. 10, and each team will play about 350 games.
The directors cancelled the post-season playoffs, and adopted the Spalding Baseball as the official league ball.
They made a new rule that no club can hire more than 10 players who have been in professional baseball for three or more years.
Tacoma follows Vancouver into the Tri-Cities baseball park. After that the club takes to the road and moves into Yakima to open that city's first home game.
Arne Sanborn, station manager of radio station KPKW, said today that KPKW will broadcast all the Tri-Cities baseball games both home and away.

Tri-City In, Eugene Out

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W.I. Heads Okay Transfer Of Franchise
Predict Great Future For New Baseball Team
TACOMA, Oct. 24 (UP)— The Tri-City area of Pasco, Richland and Kennewick was officially welcomed into the ranks of the Western International baseball league today.
Former approval of the present Wenatchee franchise transfer there was given as expected at a league director's meeting here yesterday after it was shown the new club was building a satisfactory ball park.
Representatives of the Tri-City area that appeared before the league directors and outlined the advantages of Western International league baseball there were Les Babcock, Harry Owens and R. F. Philip.
Babcock, president of the Tri-City Athletic association, which is building the stadium, assured the league that the park would be ready for the opening of the season in mid-April of next year.
Owens told the moguls that grass was already coming through the ground and that the fence surrounding the park was nearly complete.
R. F. Philip, president of the Scott Publishing company, outlined the tremendous future of the Tri-City area and said he believed the team located here would be one of the top clubs in the league from the stand-point of attendance.
The new entry as yet has no nickname.
League President Robert Abel said the situation of the defunct Bremerton franchise remained the same. Both Eugene and Wenatchee are after it. He said another league directors meeting would be held Nov. 7 in Salem.
Eugene is believed to have first call if it obtains a ball park.

Wenatchee May Get WIL Team
Failure To Get Eugene Stadium Sparks Hopes
TACOMA, Oct. 25 (UP)—Failure to obtain use of Eugene's civic stadium for a Western International League baseball park means that Wenatchee will probably have a team in the circuit next season, President Robert Abel said today.
Both Eugene and Wenatchee groups were after the defunct Bremerton franchise, but the Eugene school board last night turned down a request to lease its civic stadium. No other suitable facilities are available in Eugene.
Abel said there was nothing official about it as yet but that "obviously Wenatchee is the leading contender." The present Wcnatchee franchise has been transferred to the Tri-City area of Pasco, Richland and Kcnnewick. A group of Wenatchee business men opposed the transfer and are seeking to buy the Bremerton team in order to keep the city represented.
The next league meeting is scheduled for Salem, Ore., November 7.

BOARD SAYS NO
EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 25 (UP)—The Eugene school board last night rejected the request of Frank Burrell, San Jose, Calif., to lease the Eugene civic stadium for use by a Western International League baseball club.
The school board also made it clear that the rejection applied to all professional sports.
Burrell had sought use of the stadium under a WIL franchise he had hoped to bring to Eugene.
Joe Gordon, Cleveland Indian second baseman and Eugene businessman, accompanied Burrell to the board meeting.
Burrell indicated the board's action defintltely eliminated Eugene as a possible site for WIL ball club next year.

Wilfan muses: Ah, but if only this had happened a little earlier, the Eugene Emeralds might have been in the Western International League:

Eugene After Pro Baseball
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 8—Court approval of plans for a baseball park on a 10-acre tract cleared the way here yesterday for further efforts to bring professional baseball to Eugene.
Court approval was obtained by George Solberg, a real estate dealer. Solberg said he had a buyer for the tract.
Efforts to bring a Western International League franchise here were unsuccessful this fall because the city had no park. It was understood efforts will be made to shift a Far West League club here.

Eugene to Get Ballpark For Play in Far West
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 16—Entry of Eugene in the Far West Baseball league came a step nearer to realization yesterday when A. A. Hadler of Sacramento, Calif., announced that he would begin construction on a $65,000 lighted baseball park here.
The decision gives Eugene an organized ball club earlier considered improbable after the school board refused to allow use of the civic stadium for organized baseball.
The former owner of the Pittsburg, Calif., club in the Class D Far West league, said Walter Nellis will be business manager of the club, taking over January 1. He has a player under consideration for the new club's hew player-manager. He also said he was negotiating with three major league clubs for working agreements.
Hadler said the Eugene entry will be an independent club if negotiations, with major league clubs fail to turn up top-grade talent.
The proposed park will seat 3,500 fans, and will be in the Bethel suburb about five minutes driving time from downtown Eugene.
Clubs now in the league are Pittsburg, Marysville, Redding and Willows in California and Klamath Falls and Medford in Oregon. Reno, Nev., is also a new entry for 1950, having recently switched from the Sunset League.
Hadler said he was considering having the Eugene club open the season on the road because of wet weather conditions in Oregon in April. He said the club will hold spring training in Arizona or Florida.

Post Season - Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1949

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Wenatchee to Seek Franchise of Bremerton
TACOMA, Sept. 20—The Tri-City area of Pasco, Kennewick and Richland, will have a baseball team in the Western International League next year if it can show within 30 days it can construct a suitable ball park, league president Robert Abel said today.
Abel also announced the formal withdrawl of Bremerton from the league with Eugene, Ore., and Wenatchee immediately seeking the franchise.
Present Wenatchee operators would run the Tri-City team. The application for the franchise was presented to WIL directors by Mayor U.L. Koelker of Kennewick.
A Wenatchee group, including Mayor Arthur Pohlman, former team president Joe Brownlow, and William B. Bell, opposed shifting the team and immediately applied for the Bremerton franchise. Also seeking the Bremerton club is Frank Burrell, Jr., San Jose, Calif., who would shift it to Eugene, Ore., where he has made tentative arrangements for a stadium.
Abel told Burrell his proposal would have to be sanctioned by six of the eight board members. A decision will be reached at a later date.
The Portland Pacific Coast League club informed directors it intended to maintain a team in the league next year. The Beavers have placed the Salem Senators on the selling block. Formal notice of the "For Sale" sign on the Tacoma club was given.
The directors met in closed session here.

Baseball Field is Underway
Les Babcock, president of the Tri-City Athletic association, now building a baseball park for the Wenatchee Chiefs answered the Western International League baseball president this morning by stating that "part of the evidence of our 'good faith' is now underway directly north of the Playland ballroom." (The WIL league prexy, in Tacoma, said yesterday that the Tri-Cities must show substantially good faith before the Wenatchee Chiefs franchise can be transfered here.)
"It appears to me this is just another move on the part of certain interests that do not want to see us get organized baseball here. There is only one answer to such a move. That is whole-hearted cooperation in pushing this thing as rapidly as possible during the next 30 days so that we can remove any doubts that anyone may have concerning the ability of this area not only to support and enjoy baseball, but also to prove to the doubting Thomases that the Tri-Cities is one of the best sports centers in the country."
Public sale of stock in the athletic association will be announced either today or tomorrow, the association said. Plans now call for each of the three cities to get an equal share of thc total block of the stock so that uniform representation will be made.
Babcock also said that the organizations by laws, now being drawn up, will require that at least one member of the board of officers must be from Richland and one must be from Pasco. "This doesn't set a maximum and will give us complete area representation," he said.
"I deplore this attempt to belittle our efforts to date," Babcock continued, "but from the reports we have received of the great amount of interest in baseball from Kennewick and Pasco, this may prove to be a great thing. Now we will have an opportunity to demonstrate forcefully just how great our interest is. My feeling is that the league will some day wonder why they ever thought they needed a demonstration of 'good faith'."
- Tri-City Herald, September 20, 1949

Post-Season - Monday, Sept. 19, 1949

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Protest Chiefs Move To Tri-City Area
Wenatchee Group Takes Case To Heads
TACOMA, Sept. 19—Projected transfer of the Wenatchee franchise to the Pasco-Kennewick-Richland area was expected to precipitate a lengthy debate as Western International Baseball league directors opened their annual post-season meeting here today.
Robert B. Abel, league president, said the first item of business would be the presentation of a formal request for permission to transfer the Wenatchee club, with Dick Richards and associates; present owners of the franchise, proposing to continue operation at the new location.
Before the directors take action on the petition of the Richards group, however, Abel said they would hear arguments against the move from a delegation headed by Joe Brownlow, former Wenatchee newspaperman and business manager of the Chiefs in 1947 and '48 when the club was owned by Sacramento of the Pacific Coast league.
Not until the Wenatchee situation is clarified will another proposed switch — Bremerton to Eugene, Ore. — come before the meeting, Abel explained.
ON THE LOCAL SCENE
In Kennewick, Les Babcock, president of the Tri-City Athletic association that is financing the construction of the baseball stadium for the new home of the Chiefs, said the move by Wenatchee came as a surprise to him.
"Naturally they are upset about losing the Chiefs," Babcock continued, "but a glance at last year's attendance records will show that the fans up there gave scant support to a team that was in the first division. It seems odd that now they should
suddenly decide that they want the Chiefs. It looks like a dog-in-the-manger attitude to me."
Dick Richards, general manager of the Chiefs, was unavailable for comment. He and Urban Keolker, mayor of Kennewick and Pat Owens are in Tacoma today to attend the league meeting. However, yesterday Owens told the Herald that work of grading and filling the new field, between Kennewick and Richland was to begin this morning. Last week the field was cleaned and stripped. Should Wenatchee succeed in preventing the move of the Chiefs, it would involve considerable financial loss to the Tri-City association, it was felt.

W.I. Franchise for Tri-Cities Gets Tentative Loop Support
Loop Leaders Give Blessing
TACOMA, Sept. 19—Transfer of the Wenatchee baseball franchise to the Pasco-Kennewick-Richland area was given the conditional blessing of the Western International league directors Monday.
Robert B. Abel, league president, said the switch will be formally approved if the Tri-City region shows "good faith in the next 30 days" toward construction of a suitable ball park.
V.L. Keolker, Kennewick mayor, presented the application for a WIL franchise in behalf of Tri-City boosters. The club, if moved, will be operated by the present Wenatchee owners, Dick Richards as associates.
On Bremerton
The directors took no action before adjournment on another procosed change that would shift the Bremerton franchise to Eugene, Ore. However, W. W. Shepherd, president and principal stockholder of the Bremerton club, notified the board he would not operate a team in that city next season.
A request for the franchise transfer to Eugene was made by Frank Burrell Jr.. of San Jose, Calif.—hinging on his success in closing a deal for the majority interest in the Bremerton club.
Will Stay In WIL
Though the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast league have hung the for sale sign on their WIL farm club at Salem, Portland business manager William Mulligan told the directors that the Beavers have "every intention" of operating a team in the WIL next year.
A Wenatchee group interested in retaining WIL baseball in that city, talked with individual directors but did not appear before the board. In the delegation were Mayor Arthur Philman; Collis Musson, president of the Wenatchee Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Joe Brownlow, former president and business manager of the Wenatchee club.
Abel notified the directors at their adjournment they would be on call for another meeting, probably in the near future.

WI League Turnstile Way Down
TACOMA, Sept. 19—Western International League teams played to a total of 793,996 customers during the 19-59 season, it was announced today by Robert B. Abel, president of the circuit, following the official compilation of attendance figures.
This year's turnstile total was 86,415 shy of the 880,411 count for the previous season, despite considerably better weather.
Here is a comparison of attendance figures for the eight clubs last year and 1949:
Club 1948 1949
Yakima ...... 73,600 133,917
Vancouver .. 116,722 137,611
Spokane .... 216,974 186,648
Tacoma ...... 96,200 49,673
Bremerton ... 75,195 35,440
Victoria ... 143,081 114,544
Salem ....... 77,659 67,495
Wenatchee ... 81,880 68,668

Thursday, September 15, 1949

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Vancouver Wins WIL Playoffs
VANCOUVER, B.C., Sept. 15—The Vancouver Capilanos captured the Western International league baseball playoff series tonight by whipping the Yakima Bears for the third time in a row, 8 to 3.
The playoff title gave second-place Vancouver $1,500 in prize money. Yakima won second money of $1,000 from the $4,000 play-off pool.
The Caps won the contest in the first and sixth innings. Singles by Jim Robinson, Bill Brenner and Len Tran, a sacrifice by Ray Tran and an error by shorstop Dick Briskey accounted for two runs in the first followed by a six-run barrage in the third that knocked Bear hurler Floyd Dickey off the mound.
Dickey had retired two batters when Dick Sinovic singled and scored on a homer onto Sixth Avenue by Bill Brenner. K. Chorlton singled, and Bob McLean and George Nicholas walked to fill the bases. Then Jim Robinson scored all three on a double to the left centrefield corner.
Larry Powell had no sooner taken over the mound when Ray Tran knocked a double that scored Robinson. Powell finished the game giving up three hits and striking out five.
It looked like a shut-out for Nicholas until the eighth, when the Bears snared all their three runs. Bob Williams hit his third single of the night, went to second on Sinovic's error and advanced to third on Ted Jennings' single. Babe Gammino stepped up and bashed a homer to score all three.
Nicholas tossed an eight-hitter for Vancouver, striking out six and walking three.
2,400 braved the cold wind and heavy rain to see the Caps win the best-of-five series. The rain came down hard in the second inning and lasted until the third when it stopped for good.
Yakima .......... 000 000 030—3 8 1
Vancouver ..... 206 000 00x—8 10 1
Dickey, Powell (3) and Orteig; Nicholas and Brenner.

Nenezich Says He's Through as Umpire
[Vancouver Sun, Sept. 16, 1949]
Johnny Nenezich, senior umpire in the Western International Baseball League, announced last night he was through calling balls and strikes.
The little fellow said he was tired of knocking his head against a wall in a Class B league and would call it quits next season.
Johnny will be sorely missed. He was league president Bob Abel's ace trouble-shooter, a man who could hop into a stormy series and quieten things down.
He was always colorful. He gave the grow their money's worth evry time he worked either the plate or the bases.
He also came far closer than any umpire in this league with being popular with the players.
The story goes that Johnny would have been in the Coast League umpiring years aho had he not been so friendly with the players.
There is a “non-fraternization” rule in organized baseball which prevents umpires and players from associating. Johnny, however, was always found of those who played the game and found it hard to live hard by this rule.
He will return to his home and business in Seattle.

ERIC WHITEHEAD’S
FAN FARE
[Vancouver Daily Province, Sept. 16, 1949]
No one bothered to sing it, but No. 1 on the Capilano ball club hit parade last night was “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag. . .” and there were plenty of smile, smile, smiles in the dressing room after that last big one against Yakima.
There were also many serious, pensive moments as close friends of a tough year’s work shook hands, picked up their kit and departed, many to pick up the restless threads of their careers in parts unknown come next spring.
That last, hectic dressing room scene that marks the close of another season is a dramatic one in the lives of pro ball players.
For a few like, like Dick Sinovic and Vern Kindsfather, who are moving up to Seattle, and for Len Tran, who is also toward bound, it marks the end of a triumphant milestone along the glamorous way to perhaps the Big Leagues.
To others, rookies like Bob McLean and Kay Chorlton, who know that they have made good in their first try at Class “B” ball, it is a time of quiet satisfaction and the birth of bigger and better hopes for the future.
Where Do They Go?
For others, veterans like Bob Costello, Hunk Anderson, Ray Tran and Carl Gunnarson, it marks the passing of another year of youth, ambition and fading opportunity—a year less in the desperately short calendar of a pro ball player’s active life.
They—and even the youngest of the rookies—know that next year, the year after and the year after that, there will be new, eager-faced, ambitious youngsters hanging their sweatshirts on those same dressing-room hooks.
Once that dressing room bangs shut for the last time each season—where do the ball players go? What do they do when the headlines turn to the winter of athletes?
A Winter’s Work
Here is where your 1949 Caps are going, and to what.
Bill Brenner, great manager of a hustling ball club, is already back home in Olympia, Wash., taking a short breather before taking over his twin winter shore: work in a loyal brewery and sports-casting for the local radio station, Len and Ray Tran, the double-play inseparables who are now apparently parting baseball company, are heading for a quiet fishing vacation along with Wenatchee’s Cy Greenlaw. After that, Len expects to go back to his old job at Seattle’s Boeing Plant. Ray expects to work in a Seattle brick factory.
Third-sacker Jim Robinson is headed for Seattle University and a final term that will give him his high school teaching certificate. Others heading for a campus are outfielder Kay Chorlton, who will pick up his junior year physical ed course at University of Washington, and pitcher Vern Kindsfather, in Portland U and his P.E. course.
Bob McLean, lanky first first-sacker, is headed straight for New York City, his fiancé, and, he “expects,” an early wedding. Also Manhattan-bound is pitcher George Nicholas—to resume his trade as clothes-cutter for a garment factory—at $100 per 35-hour week.
A Short One, Coz
Hunk Anderson is Seattle-bound, back to the driver’s seat of last year’s oil truck. Fellow hurler, Jim Hedgecock, will stick around in Vancouver and work for sports-program concessionaire Eddie Lamoreaux. Carl Gunnarson will also stay in this town. The likeable Gunner is already looking for work. He can be located for such, sez he, at 2724 Oxford Street.
Bob Costello is on his way to wife and family in Spokane, The popular beanpole expects to latch onto a job as a bartender—on the “right side of the bar,” as Coz puts it. Bob Snyder will winter in Tacoma—may go back to last year’s job as a longshoreman.
Outfielder Charlie Mead is going home to Sierra Madre, Cal., and Dick Sinovic back to Portland, but neither one as yet have winter jobs lined up. Bud Sheely is en route to Sacramento and a hitch as on a construction company’s payroll.
Last of the 1949 Caps is Sandy Robertson, rooted right here in an engineering firm.
Then there’s always spring training.

Wednesday, September 14, 1949

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Yankees End Wil Lashup
VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 14—New York Yankees have terminated their working agreement
with the Victoria Athletics of the Western International baseball league, business manager
Reg Patterson announced tonight.
Under this agreement the Yankees furnished players for the A's from other farm teams, with the option of selecting any player owned by the locals. They exercised this option by taking
Vic Buccola, first basemen, who will manage a Class "D" minor league club for them.
Patterson also announced that pitcher Joe Blankenship had been assigned outright to the Athletics.

$60,000 Offer For Senators
SALEM, Ore., Sept 24—Salem's baseball committee will offer $60,000 to buy the Salem Western International League ball team if a ten-day public opinion poll shows the money could be raised locally.
The Portland Beavers, owners of the Salem club, have asked $95,000.
The poll will be taken by newspapers and radio stations, it was defence at a meeting here last night.

Tuesday, September 13, 1949

2007-07-28T16:29:00.000-07:00

YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 13—A 10-inning 3 to 2 victory over Yakima Tuesday night moved the Vancouver Capilanos to within one game of the Western International League playoff championship and $1,500 top bonus money.
Vancouver's Bob Snyder a 22-game winner, grabbed the contest for the Caps with an outstanding relief performance in the ninth inning, then knocking in the winning run in the overtime frame.
The Canadians drew first blood in the second inning when Yakima hurler Bill Bradford struck Len Tran with a pitched ball. Charlie Mead followed with a double and Bud Sheely tripled, bringing in two runs.
Yakima knotted the count in the ninth inning on a single by Al Jacinto, a long double by Bob Williams, and another one-bagger by Ted Jennings.
Sheely singled in Vancouver's half of the tenth, advanced to second on Bob McLean's roller to second base and reached home on Snyder's short crack to centerfield.
In blanking the league champions for eight innings, Vern Kindsfather was aided by three douple-plays, all instituted by shortstop Len Tran, with brother Len Tran wheeling the ball on to McLean at first.
Vancouver ......... 000 200 000 1—3 5 1
Yakima .............. 000 000 002 0—2 9 0
Kindsfather, Snyder (9) and Sheely; Bradford, Babbitt (9) and Tornay (2).

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER
Herald Sports Editor

Vancouver looks like a cinch to win the Western International League playoffs for the extra $1500 jackpot. They have taken the play completely away from the league champion Yakima Bears by whipping them twice in their own park. Now when trains travel over to the up-hill, down-dale, Canadian field, the home team should breeze in.
The Capiliano's park is grievously well known to players in the WIL loop. For one thing it's an uphill race to first base, but they make up for it by giving the runner the down grade from second to third. And the players will tell you that the Canadian ball is "dead" compared to the one used here. Walking out of the Yakima park after the game last night, Dick Richards, general manager of the Chiefs commented, "Well, one run and the Caps will have the playoffs sewed up."
Rumors about shifts and transfers of teams currently in the W.I. League continue to make the rounds. Latest one we picked up is that the Wenatchee Jaycees will buy the Bremerton franchise and move it to that city as soon arrangements can be completed.
B. PARK READY TO START
Richards, of the Chiefs, has already moved his family to Kennewick in anticipation of the move of the team to the Tri-City area. Work on the new WIL baseball park is scheduled to get under way late this week with plans calling for thie completion of the seeding and building the fence this year. Time and weather conditions permitting the grandstand and bleachers will also be erected.
Certain legal technicalities has prevented the public sale of stock in the Tri-City Athletic association, builder of the baseball park. However, as soon as these have been cleared up, a public announcement will be made. A meeting being held today will certainly clear up many of the items on the current agenda.
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED
On Monday there will be a meeting of the WI league directors in Tacoma. Unquestionably out of this meeting will come many of the answers concerning various deals now in the making throughout the entire league.
Salem has long been for sale and a group of merchants are currently trying to buy that team. Tacoma and Bremerton are definitely on the block. But just what stage any of the negotiations have reached is very difficult to tell at this moment.
However, there is every indication that the league is due for a big overhaul job in the next two years. Some cities will be dropped completely out of the structure and new ones added. Teams will change ownership and more and more the league will build itself into a league and eventually into a strong Class A loop.
Tri-City Herald, Wednesday, September 14, 1949

Monday, September 12, 1949

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Caps Score Upset Over Yakima
YAKIMA, Sept. 12—Vancouver, which ran second to the pennant-winning Yakima Bears during the regular season, gained a degree of vengeance Monday night by trouncing the Western International league flag winners, 14-5, in the opening game of the playoff finals.
Yakima took a brief 5-4 lead in the fourth when Vancouver committed three costly errros but the Capilanos scored twice in each of the final five innings.
Get 20 Hits
Every Vancouver batter, with the exception of Hunk Anderson, starting pitcher, collected at least one hit as the Caps teed off on two Bear hurlers for 20 hits. Jim Robinson, Cap third baseman, led the hit parade with four hits in six trips to the plate, including a triple.
Vancouver drew first blood in the finals of the playoff by pushing across four runs in the second inning on five hits. Yakima picked up a run in the bottom half of the
second and pushed ahead with four more runs in the fourth frame on three hits and errors by Dick Sinovic, Len Tran and Charlie Mead.
Come Back In 5th
Vancouver jumped back into the lead with two runs in the fifth then added two or more tallies in every inning the rest of the way.
Vancouver ..... 040 022 222—14 20 3
Yakima ......... 010 400 000— 5 11 1
Anderson, Hedgecock (4) and Brenner; Powell, Sweiger (6) and Tornay.

Sunday, September 11, 1949

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Yaks Whip Spokes To Meet Caps
SPOKANE, Sept. 11—The Yakima Bears, Western International League Baseball champions, won a playoff series from Spokane Sunday night by whipping the Indians 6 to 5 in a 10-inning contest.
Yakima now takes on Vancouver in a second best-of-flve game series. Vancouver downed Wenatchee by the same count the Bears made against Spokane, three games to one.
Left-fielder Edo Vanni started Yakima on the road to victory in the top of the tenth with a lone triple. Vanni scored the winning run on second baseman Al Jacinto's outfield fly. Spokane won its lone game Friday.
Yakima hurler Teddy Savarese was snatched from tight spots time after time by outstanding defensive play that included one triple play and five double plays.
Relief pitcher Gene Babbitt was credited with the win and Bill Werbowski the loss. Spokane outhit the winners 15 to 11. The Indians had knotted the score at 5-5 in the ninth inning.
Larry Barton and Ken Richardson homered for Spokane.
Yakima ........ 000 001 130 1—8 11 1
Spokane ....... 010 300 010 0—5 15 1
Savarese, Babbitt (8) and Tornay; Bishop, Werbowski(9) and Rossi.

Saturday, September 10, 1949

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Chiefs Out Of Playoffs
WENATCHEE, Sept. 10—Len Tran, Vancouver second baseman, eliminated the Wenatchee
Chiefs from the Western International League play-offs here tonight with a three-run 11th inning homer over the center field wall. Vancouver won, 8-7.
The ball game was all tied at the end of nine innings at five all.
Wenatchee's Clint Cameron and Hal Rhyne hit consecutive homers in the bottom half of the 11th for the Chiefs but that wasn't enough.
Wenatchee started out with one run in the first and fourth inning while holding the Caps scoreless. In the fifth frame the Caps cut loose with four base blows and two walks and one Wenatchee boot for five runs and to take the lead at 5-2.
Wenatchee came back in the seventh inning to score three runs on two walks and one double. It chased starter Vern Kindsfather and brought in Carl Gunnaron, who left the game after the ninth. Hunk Anderson worked the last two innings for the win, while Lou McCollum suffered the loss.
The win will pit the Capilanos against the Yakima-Spokane winner next week.
Vancouver ...... 000 050 000 03—8 12 4
Wenatchee ...... 100 100 300 02—7 7 l
Kindsfather, Gunnarson (7), Anderson (10) and Sheely: Frick, Johnson (5), McCollum (6) and Pesut, Winter.

Two Vancouver Diamond Stars Sold To Suds
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Sept. 10—Vancouver Capilano, outfielder Dick Sinovic and pitcher Vern Kindsfather were today sold to the Seattle Rainiers for 1950 delivery, announced Capilanos general manager Bob Brown.
Sinovic, a classy outfielder with tremendous hitting power, was bought by the Capilanos in mid-June from the Pittsburgh chain. Dick batted .323 this season, accounted for 105 runs batted in and hit 13 homers.
Kindsfather has won 18 games this season and lost 10 for the Caps. He is a 21-year-old freshman in his first season of organized ball.

Friday, September 9, 1949

2007-07-28T15:51:00.001-07:00

WENATCHEE, Sept. 9—Wenatchee's Chiefs exploded for four runs in the seventh inning here Friday night to defeat the Vancouver Capilanos 9-6, in the third game of the Western International league playoffs.
First baseman Clint Cameron of the Chiefs collected two homers and catcher Nick Pesut knocked a pair of doubles to lead the 15-hit Wenatchee attack.
Righthander Joe Orrell was credited with the win and Jim Hedgecock was charged with the loss. Incidentally, Hedgecock climbed the mound moments after being informed that his wife had entered a Vancouver hospital to have a baby.
Vancouver now leads 2 to 1 in the best-of-five-game series that continues here Saturday night.
Vancouver ........ 030 020 001—6 12 1
Wenatchee ........ 000 302 40x—9 15 4
Nicholas, Hedgecock (6), Snyder (7) and Sheely; Orrell and Pesut.

SPOKANE, Sept. 9—The Spokane Indians turned back the Yakima Bears 16 to 15 Friday night in the third game of their Western International league baseball playoff series.
Yakima came from behind with three runs in the top of the ninth on Ted Jennings' bases-loaded double but saw their lead disappear as relief pitcher Gene Babbitt was unable to hold the Indians in the bottom half of the inning. A walk to Lyle Palmer and singles by Edo Vanni, Paul Zaby and George Valine produced the tying and winning runs.
The Bears won the first two games. Yakima could have ended the series with a win Friday night.
Yakima ....... 004 500 303—15 17 3
Spokane ...... 302 007 202—16 14 4
Dickey, Soriano (6), Sweiger (8), Babbitt (9) and Tornay; Conant, Werbowski (4), and Rossi.

Thursday, September 8, 1949

2007-07-28T15:44:00.000-07:00

YAKIMA, Sept. 8—The Yakima Bears, Western International league pennant winners, made it two straight over the Spokane Indians in the first round of the play-offs
by trimming the third-place club 13-4 here Thursday night.
A win for the Bears at Spokane Friday night will end the series.
The Bears started their attack on starter Dick Bishop, scoring three runs in the first inning and two more in the second, and continued to pound out hits against reliefers Andy Adams and Ken Kimball. The Bears failed to score in the third, sixth and eighth innings only.
Al Jacinto and Bob Williams paced the 14-hit Yakima attack. Williams hit a double, triple and two singles to chase across four runs, whiole Jacinto doubled and connected for three singles to knock in four runs. Paul Zaby hit a three-run double off the centre-field fence for Spokane in the seventh.
Spokane ....... 000 001 300— 4 10 3
Yakima ........ 320 220 40x—13 14 1
Bishop, Adams (3), Kimball (7) and Rossi; Bradford and Tomay.

VANCOUVER, B.C., Sept. 8—Paced by five sparkling double-plays via the record-breaking Tran-Tran-McLean combination, the Vancouver Capilanos defeated Wenatchee 6-1 on Thursday night behind Bob Snyder's six hitter .
Snyder whiffed seven Chiefs, just missing a shutout as Wenatchee squeezed their only run home in the first inning via Jim Warner's single and a fielder's choice.
Vancouver jumped out to an early margin, banging Lou McCollum for six straight hits in the first frame and scoring four runs. Jim Robinson, first man up, started the hit parade as he belted one to left, then the Trans, Dick Sinovic and Bud Sheely hit safely in rapid succession.
Cy Greenlaw took over from McCollum and went the rest of the way, allowing seven hits and a pair of runs. The Caps picked up another tally in the fourth and a single run in the eighth.
Len Tran, who stepped out between innings to receive the year's Most Popular Player Award, hit three for three, started two of the five douhble plays and pivoted spectacularly to help fashion the other three. Bob McLean, the payoff end of the D.P. combination, twice dug out throws in the dirt to protect the Caps' errorless streak.
Vancouver has won two straight over the fourth-place Chiefs.
The teams move to Wenatchee for two games Friday.
Wenatchee ....... 100 000 000—1 6 1
Vancouver ....... 400 100 01x—6 13 0
McCollum, Greenlaw (1) and Pesut; Snyder and Sheely.

San Diego Puts For Sale Sign On Tacoma Club
TACOMA, Sept. 4—The Tacoma Baseball Club is for sale, it was announced here today by William Starr, president of the parent San Diego Padres.
Starr said he had been athorized by his board of directors to negotiate the sale of the local holdings of the Western International League club.
He declined to name a price but local authorities said it would probably be in excess of $100,000. The San Diego president said every effort will be masde to sell the Tiger franchise and physical holdings locally. Failing in this, the next alternative would be to sell the franchise and cease operating in Tacoma. Sale of the franchise would require approval of six of the W.I.L. directors.
The original purpose for purchase of the local club—development of young players—no longer exists because of other agreements, Starr said, so it is felt no longer feasible to operate here.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Denver Proves Baseball Mint; Draws 463,039
DENVER, Sept. 8 (INS) — Denver today laid claim to teh title of the best minor league team in the nation.
The Denver Bears of the Western League, who ended the regular season last night in a tie for second place in the standings, played before 463,039 fans in 70 home games. The record was more remarkable because the team was ij or near the cellar for most of the season.
The Western league, although operating with only six clubs, led all Class A leagues in attendance with a total of 1,361,011. Among the individual clubs, fifth-plaec Omaha was second in attendance with 276,718. Sioux City was lovest with 123,643—a ten percent increase over 1948. Next year, the loop with expand to eight clubs with the addition of Wichita, Kan., and Colorado Springs, Colo.

Wednesday evening, September 7, 1949

2007-07-28T15:35:00.000-07:00

YAKIMA, Sept. 7—Outhit, 9-11, the Yakima Bears utilized 13 free passes issued by three Spokane hurlers to defeat the Indians in the first game of the Western International League post-season playoffs Wednesday night 12 to 5.
The Indians threatened repeatedly but failed to cash in. They left three men stranded in four innings, three of them successively. A total of 31 runners were left stranded.
The game was markeed by a stormy session between the Indians and umpires John Nenezich, Bill Husband and Gerry Mathieu in the fifth inning over the question of whether the Indian right fielder caught a long fly ball hit by little Al Jacinto, Yakima second baseman. The arbiters ruled that Paul Zaby caught the ball on the hop and allowed the triple.
Larry Powell, starting pitcher for the new W.I. champions, held the Indians scoreless for six innings but the visitors broke through for two runs in the seventh on singles by Jos Rossi, Larry Barton, Ken Richardson and Jack Calvey.
A walk issued to Lee Howard filled the bases, but Powell pulled out of the potentially bad innings by striking out Lyle Palmer, after serving up three consecutive balls, and then inducing Tuck Stainback to hoist a fly into short right field which first baseman Bob Williams caught after a long run.
Starter Bill Werbowski yielded only five hits bin the four innings he toiled but five walks and two hit batsmen led his his defeat.
1,200 fans sat through the game, which consumed almost three hours.
Spokane ........ 000 002 120—5 11 3
Yakima .......... 111 213 30x—12 9 2
Werbowski, Howard (4), Kimball (7) and Rossi; Powell, Babbitt (8) and Tornay.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 7—Hunk Anderson and four teammates accepted well-earned plaudits and gifts from the fans and managment prior to the game, then Anderson avenged his only defeat of the season with a six-hit pitching win over Wenatchee. The Caps opened the first game of the Western International League semi-finals with a 5-1 victory over the Chiefs.
The 11-game winner only ran into serious trouble once. In the seventh, nursing a 3-1 lead with two out, Wenatchee chucker Al Libke and batterymate Jim Warner clipped out a pair of sharp singles, and Clyde Haskell walked. With the bases jammed, Anderson took Hal Rhyne to a 3-0 count before the hard-hitting right-fielder dumped a curve ball to Ray Tran at short to snuff out the threat.
It was Warner who had belted a looping left field foul line homer for the sole Chief counter in the sixth inning.
Three clean singles in the second inning moved the locals into a lead they never relinquished. With one away, Dick Sinovic, Bud Sheely and Bob McLean space singles for a single tally.
the caps, playing fast-breaking, heads-up baseball all the way, sewed up the game in the two-run fourth when K. Chorlton singled, stole second, went to third on McLean's clean belt to centre and scored on Hunk Anderson's towering fly, taken by Nick Pesut against the wall in deep right centre. McLean skipped to third on a short passed ball and scampered in one Jim Robinson's second successive double.
Two more in the eighth on Len Tran's single, Charlie Mead's double, walked to Sinovic and Sheely and Chorlton's outfield fly were just for luck.
The whole team joined in the pre-game ceremonies, and each player was presented with an inscribed cigarette case-lighter by the Capilanos Baseball Club in honor of a highly successful season.
After Thursday's game, the two teams move to Wenatchee for two or less games in the best three-out-of-five playoff series.
Wenatchee ....... 000 010 000—1 6 3
Vancouver ........ 010 200 20x—5 10 0
Libke and Pesut; Anderson and Sheely.

Wednesday morning, September 7, 1949

2007-07-28T12:29:00.000-07:00

ON THE INSIDE
By DON BECKER
Herald Sports Editor
Wanna buy a couple of baseball players? We know two that are for sale. Of course, the price tag runs into five figures, but then these are no ordinary players. One of them, Jim Warner, is the Western International league home run king. He's also a whale of an outfielder and don't act surprised if he's named to the WIL all-star team. His contract can be had for $25,000.
For an infielder, and at second base in particular, you'd have to go up to another class of baseball and do some hard looking to find a better man than Clyde Haskell. Clyde will go for $15,000. Both these players are now the property of the Chiefs and Dick Richards, general manager of the team, says that the sound of the big league scouts buzzing around these two is similar to that at the national air races.
- Tri-City Herald, Wednesday, September 07, 1949

PORTLAND, Sept. 7—Three members of the Salem Senators have been called up for seasoning with the parent Portland Beavers. They are catcher Bill Burgher, pitcher Cal McIrvin and outfielder Bob Cherry. Outfielder Art Pennington also was to have joined the Coast League club but was forced to return home by illness in his family.

W.I.L. Playoffs Start Tonight
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
Western International League baseball playoffs start Wednesday night in Yakima and Vancouver, B. C.
At Yakima, the 1949 champion Yakima Bears will entertain the third-place Spokane Indians. Second-place Vancouver plays host to fourth-place Wenatchee's Chiefs.
Both series are for best-of-five. After the first two games the teams switch to Spokane and Wenatchee. If a fifth, game is needed the teams return to Yakima or Vancouver.
Winners of the two elimination series then will clash in another best-of-five set for the playoff title.
Yakima received $2,000 for winning the pennant. Players will split the playoff swag, with $1,500 going to the winning team; $1,000 to the runner-up and $750 apiece to the
third and fourth clubs.
(WILfan note - I didn't realise the word "swag" was in use this early, but there it is in the AP story)

Monday, September 5, 1949

2007-07-28T12:20:00.000-07:00

FINAL STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 99 51 .660 —
Vancouver ... 91 57 .615 7
Spokane ..... 78 71 .523 20½
Wenatchee ... 77 73 .513 22
Victoria .... 68 81 .447 32
Salem ....... 64 87 .421 35½
Tacoma ...... 63 88 .417 36½
Bremerton ... 60 89 .403 38½

WI League Ready For Playoffs
Not even the shouting remained in the Western International league baseball race. Except for the Spokane-Wenatchee battle for third place everything was settled long before Labor Day's windup contests.
The lone struggle remaining on closing day saw Spokane and Wenatchee divide a doubleheader with Spokane taking third place as a result. The Indians squeezed past the Chiefs 2-1 in the opening game, then lost a 12-inning no-count contest 8-6.
In other contests, Salem took a pair from league-leading Yakima 4-2 and 10-8, Victoria trampled Bremerton 21-4 and 11-6 and Vancouver divided with Tacoma, winning the first 4-1 and losing the finale 12-3.
Starting Wednesday, Yakima will host Spokane and Vancouver will entertain Wenatchee in the first two games of a best-of-five series.

Ump Sandt Trades Jobs With Catcher
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 5—Umpire Carl Sandt swapped places with Vancouver Catcher
Bud Sheely Monday in a comedy windup to the Western International league baseball season.
Naturally there was an argument and naturally Sandt lost.
The game could not affect the standings and both teams were having a grand time, with a batboy at shortstop for Tacoma and the two managers pitching. In the last inning Sheely walked to the plate and swapped his bat for Sandt's mask and indicator.
The umpire whacked a double and Sheely called him out for failing to touch first base. Vancouver was behind at the time, 12 to 3, and that's the way it finished.
First Game
Vancouver .... 000 101 020— 4 9 2
Tacoma ........ 010 000 000— 1 9 3
Kindsfather and Brenner; Kerrigan and Gardner.
Second Game
Vancouver .... 000 021 0— 3 8 7
Tacoma ........ 420 231 x—12 15 0
Brenner, Sinovic (5) and Sheely; Johnson and Gardner.

VICTORIA, Sept. 5—The Victoria Athletics closed out the 1949 season with a double-header sweep against Bremerton, winning the first game 24-4 and the second contest 11-6.
Eleven bases on balls and eight Bremeton errors, plus 21 Victoria hits made it each for Frank LaBrum to reister his first W.I.L. win in the afternoon contest.
LaBrum had one bad inning — the fifth — when the Tars scored all of their runs to take a momentary 4-3 lead. Then the roof fell in as the A's plated 21 runs in the next four innings in a wild scoring splurge that went through four pitchers. Biggest beneficiary of the slugfest was Ray Jacobs, who had a triple, double and two singles in six trips and batted in seven runs. John Hack batted in four runs to run his season's total to over 100, and hit a home run.
Behind 6-4 going into the eighth inning of the season's finale, the A's unloaded for seven runs and stopped a Bremerton attempt to give John Marshall his 23rd pitching win. Marshall was sent into the game with the score tied and runners on second and third. He walked McDougald intentionally but Len Noren blooped a single into short right field for one run. Marshall's hopes disappered completely when Charlie Balassi followed with a grand-slam home run.
About 1,700 spectators were on hand for the windup, running the A's home attendance total to 115,044, 32,000 more than the third-place Athletics drew in 1948.
First Game
Bremerton ..... 000 040 000— 4 7 8
Victoria .......... 012 047 64x—24 21 1
Kohout, Baldwin (5), Ronning (6), Stanford (8) and Neal; Labrum and Morgan.
Second Game
Bremerton ..... 001 310 010—6 12 3
***Victoria ..... 002 020 07x—11 12 1
LINESCORE INCOMPLETE

First Game
Wenatchee .... 010 000 0—1 8 0
Spokane ...... 000 000 2—2 5 0
Orrell and Pesut; Conant and Parks.
Second game
Wenatchee ..... 001 002 001 004—8 13 1
Spokane ....... 010 000 003 002—6 13 6
Johnson and Pesut; Richardson, Adams (4), Kimball (8) and Rossi.

First Game
Salem ....... 000 200 02—4 5 0
Yakima ...... 000 200 00—2 10 1
McIrvin and Burgher, Beard (8); Sporer and Tornay.
Second game (eight innings)
Salem ....... 000 233 02—10 9 1
Yakima ...... 010 003 40—8 15 1
Beard, Burak (7) and Burgher; Orengo, Moore (3), Williams (6) and Tornay.

Cherry to Beavers
PORTLAND, Sept. 6—Portland Beavers of the Coast League called up three players today from their farm club, Salem Senators of the Western International League. Brought up were Catcher Bill Burgher, Pitcher Cal McIrvin and Outfielder Bob Cherry.

Sunday, September 4, 1949

2007-07-28T12:19:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 99 49 .669 —
Vancouver ... 90 56 .616 8
Spokane ..... 77 70 .524 21½
Wenatchee ... 76 72 .514 23
Victoria .... 66 84 .440 34
Salem ....... 62 87 .416 37½
Tacoma ...... 62 87 .416 37½
Bremerton ... 60 87 .408 38½

TACOMA, Sept. 4—Larry Ward and Tobey Tobias were the winning pitchers as the Victoria Athletics down the Tacoma Tigers, 9-4 and 2-1.
Vic Buccola, Gil McDougald and Manager Earl Bolyard were tossed out of the final game and the A's were forced to finish with a couple of pitchers playing in the infield.
First Game
Victoria ...... 003 600 000—9 15 0
Tacoma ........ 010 020 001—4 10 1
Ward and Day; Fortier and Gardner.
Second Game
Victoria ...... 200 000 0—2 5 1
Tacoma ........ 010 000 0—1 4 3
Tobias and Morgan, Day (3); Lazor and Gardner.

**[Vancouver lines and game stories may not be correct]
VANCOUVER, Sept. 4— John Marshall tossed a six-hit shutout as Bremerton took a 3-0 win the nightcap of twin bill with Vancouver on Sunday.
Marshall faced only 31 batters. He walked two and struck out three.
Losing pitcher Bob Costello allowed 13 hits in eight inings, walking two and striking out two. Both starters hit a batter.
Bill Taylor smacked three doubles and batted in a pair for the Tars, while Lou Briganti singled in the other in the third inning.
Vancouver pikced up a 5-3 win in the opener, as Dick Sinovic's double brought in three runs in the Caps' five-run third.
The Tars scored three runs in the sixth, with Lil Arnerich doubling in a run, Bill Taylor batting in another, and Len Neal singling in the last one.
Carl Gunnarson worked 5 1-3 innings for the win, giving up seven hits, one walk, and one strike out. Bob Pirack surrendered eight hits in going the distance in defeat, walking two and striking out none.
First game
Vancouver ... 005 000 0—5 8 0
Bremerton ... 000 003 0—3 8 1
Gunnerson, Anderson (6) and Sheely; Pirack and Neal.
Second game
Vancouver... 000 000 000—0 6 0
Bremerton ... 001 100 01x—3 13 0
Costello and Sheely; Marshall and Neal.

First Game
Salem ...... 000 104 0—5 7 1
Yakima ..... 203 000 1—6 8 1
Olson, G. Peterson (5) and Beard; Saravese and Tornay.
Second Game
Salem ....... 001 020 000—3 7 1
Yakima ...... 200 000 11x—4 10 0
Drilling and Burgher; Powell, Bradford, Babbitt (6) and Tornay.

Spokane-Wenatchee, postponed, rain.

Saturday, September 3, 1949

2007-07-28T12:13:00.002-07:00

              W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 97 49 .664 —
Vancouver .. 89 55 .618 7
Spokane .... 77 70 .524 20½
Wenatchee .. 76 72 .514 22
Victoria ... 64 84 .432 34
Salem ...... 62 85 .422 35½
Tacoma ..... 62 85 .422 35½
Bremerton .. 59 86 .407 37½

VICTORA, Sept. 4 [Colonist]—Jim Propst, pitching his last game of the season, kept Victoria Athletics in fifth place at Royal Athletic Park last night. The little southpaw blanked the Tacoma Tigers 6-0 on four hits to record his 17th victory since joining the club on May 31. The Tigers had won the afternoon encounter, 4-0, to move to within a half game of the A's.
The big reason why the Victorians are not in the cellar, Propst was at his best as he came up with his fourth shutout and 20th route-going performance of the year. The Tigers had only one hit going into the eighth inning. He almost lost his shutout in the ninth when two singles and a walk loaded the bases with one out. A great throw by Ray Jacobs kept the runner on third and then Propst finished it with his eighth strikeout of the game. It increased his league-leading total of whiffs to 182.
BREAK UP DUEL
The A's had their usual trouble with Bob Johnson put iced the game with a four-run rally in the seventh which broke up a tought, 1-0 duel. Dick Morgan started the uprising with a long homer.
Don Carter proved too much for the A's in the afternoon. The canny Tacoma righthander came as close to pitching a no-hitter as it is possible to get. Gordon Johnson led off the Victoria first with a hopper through the middle. It was the last hit for Victoria as Carter actually hurled nine full innings of hitless ball. After the first inning, when two walks started a budding rally, the A's never got a runer to second base as Carter came up with the season's best mound effort.
SEASON ENDS TOMORROW
The same clubs play a double-header at Tacoma today and the season ends tomorrow with the A's home to Bremerton for two holiday games.
First Game
Tacoma ..... 002 000 011—4 10 2
Victoria ..... 000 000 000—0 1 2
Carter and gardner; Blankenship, Logue (9) and Day.
Second Game
Tacoma ..... 000 000 000—0 4 2
Victoria ..... 000 100 41x—6 12 1
Johnson and Gardner; Propst and Morgan.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 3—Vancouver Capilanos set a new double-play record of 179 with one in each game as they handed Bremerton a double setback, 6-4, and 10-7, and shoved the Bluejackets more fully into the league basement.
The breaker came in the first game, and was started by pitcher Jim Hedgecock, who tossed to Len Tran at second and on to Bob McLean at first.
Jim Robinson tripled and doubled in the opener, and Dick Sinovic smacked a solo homer. Hedgecock got the win, allowing seven hits, walking five and striking out six.
The Caps scored five runs in the fourth inning off Baldwin in the fourth¨.
Robinson swung a big bat in the nightcap, bringing in four runs with a triple and two doubles.
Len Tran singled in a pair in a winning cause.
Bob Snyder notched his 22nd win, despite allowing homen runs to Lou Brignanti and Charlie Bushong, both of whom batted in a pair. He walked two and struck out four in tossing an 11-hit game.
First game
Bremerton ..... 010 020 010—4 7 2
Vancouver ..... 000 510 00x—6 13 2
Baldwin and Ronning; Hedgecock and Sheely.
Second Game
Bremerton ..... 200 002 210—7 13 1
Vancouver ..... 020 214 10x—10 11 1
Dahle and Neal; Snyder and Sheely.

Salem ........ 100 001 520—9 12 3
Yakima ....... 601 000 33x—13 9 2
Peterson, Fredericks (1) and Beard; Sweiger and Tornay.

Wenatchee ..... 220 002 000—6 11 3
Spokane ........ 210 112 00x—7 10 1
McCollum and Winter; Howard, Adams (2), Kimball (7) and Parks.

TACOMA, Sept. 3—Vancouver may be in second place in the Western International League, but it is in first place in batting and fielding, statistics released by the Howe News Bureau after Saturday night's games reveal.
Vancouver has a team batting average of .308, followed by Wenatchee (.304), Spokane (.302), Yakima (.294), Tacoma (.288), Victoria (.286), Bremerton and Salem (both .284).
Wenatchee leads the league in hits with an even 1600, 23 more than Vancouver. The Chiefs also have the most doubles (332). Tacoma leads in triples (77), and Wenatchee in home runs (133). Victoria is a distant second with 113 round trippers.
Vancouver, with 109, has three more stolen bases than Spokane. The Capilanos have walked the least (514) of any team, while Wenatchee (793) has garnered the most free passes. Victoria leads in strikeouts (813) while Wenatchee batters place second (755).
In team fielding, Vancouver has a .965 average, followed by Yakima (.962), Victoria (.957), Spokane and Tacoma (.955), Salem (.952), Bremerton (.948) and Wenatchee (.947). The Caps have the most double-plays, a league record 178, while Victoria has turned two triple plays this season. Wenatchee has the most errors with 300, 11 more than runner-up Bremerton. Vancouver has the fewest with 194.
In individual batting records, Wenatchee's Clint Cameron has the best average among those who qualify for the batting title at .378. Spokane's Edo Vanni leads in hits (207), Jimmy Robinson of Vancouver in runs (142), Gil McDougald of Victoria in doubles (43), Ritchie Myers of Wenatchee in triples (17) and Jim Warner of Wenatchee in home runs (a league-record 43). Larry Barton of Spokane tops the RBI category (132) while Robinson has the most stolen bases (40).
In pitching, Hunk Anderson of Vancouver leads in percentage with .917 (11 and 1). Bob Snyder of Vancouver and John Marshall of Bremerton are tied for wins (22) while Bob Kerrigan and Ray Fortier, both of Tacoma, lead the league with 16 losses. Bill Werbowski of Spokane and Frank Logue of Victoria have both appeared in 48 games, Marshall has 28 complete games and 162 walks to lead the league. Jim Propst of Victoria tops the league in strikeouts with 192 while Vince Lazor leads in wild pitches with 13, and Cal McIrvin of Salem and Merle Frick of Wenatchee have both tossed 14 wild pitches.
The percentage futility mark is held by Bob Pirack of Bremerton, who has won only one game in 13 decisions (.077) this season.
League batting, including games of Sept. 3:
                 AB   R   H 2b 3b HR SB RBI Pct.
Brenner, Van... 191 31 74 14 1 6 1 42 .387
Cameron, Wen... 415 102 157 36 1 18 1 107 .378
Sinovic, Van... 346 77 127 21 9 14 7 103 .367
Libke, Wen..... 123 42 45 8 3 6 2 34 .366
Rhyne, Wen..... 522 114 190 38 7 14 6 103 .364
Stainback, Spo. 351 46 127 23 4 0 10 52 .362
Vanni, Yak..... 581 133 207 33 9 0 34 79 .356
Sheely, Van.... 391 59 138 17 0 21 6 117 .353
Zaby, Spo...... 530 131 183 35 5 3 21 88 .345
McDougald, Vic. 541 122 185 43 7 13 12 114 .342
Robinson, Van.. 646 143 220 20 12 2 40 53 .341

League pitching, based on percentage:
                W L PCT IP   H   R BB SO
Anderson, Van. 11 1 .917 160 166 103 101 83
Soriano, Yak.. 14 2 .875 125 95 39 37 90
Sweiger, Yak.. 11 2 .846 107 126 68 31 55
Propst, Vic... 17 6 .739 188 170 82 126 192
Dickey, Yak... 16 6 .727 191 185 129 183 163
McIrvin, Sal.. 10 4 .714 119 131 70 77 56
Libke, Went.... 5 2 .714 50 43 19 24 26
Babbitt, Yak... 7 3 .700 88 120 66 44 41
Powell, Yak... 16 7 .696 192 184 86 100 118
Nicholas, Van. 15 7 .682 204 249 117 74 81
Bishop, Spo... 15 7 .682 192 235 143 71 80
Savarese, Yak. 15 7 .682 181 208 98 49 88
Snyder, Van... 22 11 .667 237 293 171 89 113
Frick, Wen.... 12 6 .667 171 177 147 160 121

Friday, September 2, 1949

2007-07-28T12:13:00.001-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 96 49 .662 —
Vancouver .. 87 55 .613 7½
Spokane .... 76 70 .521 20½
Wenatchee .. 76 71 .517 21
Victoria ... 63 83 .432 33½
Salem ...... 62 82 .425 33½
Tacoma ..... 61 84 .421 35
Bremerton .. 59 84 .413 36

VANCOUVER, Sept. 3 [Keith Matthews, Vancouver Sun]— The ball players didn't come up with much of a game for the "Old Man" last ngith, and they also failed to chip in with an expectant present, a new Western International League record in double-plays.
The Capilano-Bremerton game somewhat of an anti-climax after Vancouver General Manager Bob Brown had been presented with giftsd to commemorate his 50th anniversary in baseball, could be described as awful-awful.
The Caps looked tired, and they are. Bremerton went along with it.
An outfielder, Jay Ragni, was the winning pitcher, going all the way after surviving a five-run first inning.
SEVENTH LOSS
Even with the five runs as a cushion, George Nicholas couldn't post his 16th win of the season. Instead, he picked up his seventh loss.
Home runs by Lou Briganti and Bill Taylor had something to do with it.
Besides the Caps gummed up a chance for their 178th double play of the season when first Jimmy Robinson juggled a grounder and then Len Tran threw into the dirt at first base.
However, in a 145-game series, one night like this is to be expected.
SOMETIME TODAY
As far as the double plays are concerned, some time today the Caps will set the new record, and it is then the wish of Ray Tran, maker of most of these plays, to go on and set a mark to which nobody is going to come close in future seasons.
Speaking of Tran, he finally got himself a small rest last night when he retired in the sixth inning. K Chorlton taking over at shortstop and Charley Mead going to left field.
Tonight the local schedule winds up with a game at 8 o'clock when Bob Snyder will be shooting for his 22nd victory of the season. It will make him the top winner in the WIL if he gets there.
Bremerton ...... 031 211 000—8 12 1
Vancouver ...... 500 000 001—6 9 1
Ragni and Neal; Nicholas and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Sept. 3 [Colonist]—Facing six games in the last three days of the W.I.L. season, Victoria Athletics are going to have to look better than they did last night if they wish ton retain fifth place. Last night, they lost their second straight game to Tacoma as Bob Kerrigan held them well in check while his mates came up with two big scoring innings for a 10-2 win.
The loss left the A's only a game and a half ahead of teh Tigers and only two and a half games ahead of the last-place Bremerton club. Facing two games with Tacoma today and tomorrow, and a pair with the Jackets on Monday, the A's could drop all the way to the bottom of the heap.
Just over 3,000 fans turned out for "Charlie Balassi Night." The popular outfielder was the recipient of gifts from fans, business forms and the club management in a pre-game ceremony and provided some entertainment of his own with his familiar guitar and cowboy music. As is so often the case, it was all he contributed. In four trips he managed to get a base on balls.
MITCHELL TIRES
Dick Mitchell, shooting for his second victory since joining the club late in the season, matched Kerrigan for six innings but fired and went out under fire in the seventh when the Tigers put together six hits and a pair of errors to tally five times and break a 2-1 game. Frank Logue came in to make his 47th mound appearance of the season and was tagged for the final three Tacoma runs in the eighth when the Tigers received the benefit of some loose Victoria defensive play. Vic Buccola's eighth-inning hoist over the centre-field wall was the ojnly earned run charged against Kerrigan.
The usual Saturday split twin bill winds up the series today. Joe Blankenship has been named to work the afternoon game, with Jim Propst, making his last start of the season, gunning for his 17th triumph under the lights and seeking to protect his league-leading strikeout total.
Tacoma ...... 010 010 530—10 13 3
Victoria ...... 000 100 010—2 7 4
Kerrigan and Sheets, Gardner (7); Mitchell, Logue (7) and Morgan.

Yakima ...... 100 101 002—5 10 2
Spokane ..... 012 010 03x—7 14 1
Sporer and Tornay; Bishop and Parks.

Salem ........ 200 300 000—5 8 2
Wenatchee ....... 000 002 001—3 8 4
McIrvin and Burgher; Frick and Winter.

Capilanos Set New Gate Mark
VANCOUVER, Sept. 2—Bob Brown, general manager of the Capilano Baseball Club, estimates over 130,000 fans have stormed through the gates of Capilano Stadium this season to watch the Vancouver Western International League squad in action.
This sets a record for the Caps. The previous high was 1947, a pennant-winning year, when 127,000 fans paid to see the Vancouver club.
Brown, in an optimistic mood, figured final attendance totals this tear should be slightly over 140,000.

Thursday, September 1, 1949

2007-07-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 96 48 .667 —
Vancouver ... 87 54 .617 7½
Wenatchee ... 76 70 .521 21
Spokane ..... 75 70 .517 21½
Victoria .... 63 82 .434 33½
Salem ....... 61 81 .421 34
Tacoma ...... 60 84 .417 36
Bremerton ... 58 84 .408 37

SPOKANE, Sept. 1—Yakima clinched the Western International League baseball pennant Thursday night, dumping Spokane 5-0 to eliminate the last mathematical chance that it could be headed off.
They won it in championship style with Bill Bradford giving up only three hits. Not a Spokane player passed second base.
The title win was a complete reversal of the Bears' form of the last two years. In each they finished in the cellar. Last year they were 35 games off the winning pace.
The night's celebrations were married with one item. Heavy-hitting catcher Ray Orteig suffered a possible broken finger when he was hit in the hand with a ball during pre-game practyise. He may miss the playoffs.
Yakima .......... 000 101 030—5 11 1
Spokane ........ 000 000 000—0 3 0
Bradford and Tornay; Werbowski, Adams (9) and Rossi and Parks (9).

VANCOUVER, Sept. 1—Vancouver took an 8-3 decision from Bremerton, with two double plays giving Vancouver a season's total of 177, equaling the league record set by Tacoma two years ago.
The 8-3 win was sparked by home runs from the bats of Bud Sheely and Dick Sinovic.
Bremerton ......... 000 000 102—3 7 0
Vancouver ......... 201 020 30x—8 9 3
Kohout and Ronning; Kindsfather and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Sept. 2 [Colonist]—If Manager Earl Bolyard could have looked into a crystal ball and come up with Centerfielder Len Noren as his starting hurler last night, Victoria's Athletics might have won another ball game. Instead, they absorbed a 21-12 drubbing at the hands of the Tacoma Tigers.
The Tigers, battling to stay out of the W.I.L. basebment, reached the offerings of regular moundsmen Frank Logue, Tobey Tobias and Frank LaBrum for 21 hits in the first six innings and held a 21-4 lead going into the seventh. Then Noren, who started his baseball career as a pitcher, took the mound and held the Tigers to a lone scractch single in three innings, and joined his centrefield replacement, Ray Jacobs, in a late Victoria attempt to overcome the huge deficit.
Noren hit a home run over the right centrefield wall in the seventh and hammered a two-run double in the eighth. Jacobs touched off a four-run eighth-inning rally and a three-run ninth-frame splurge with a pair of tremendous home runs. His first, a high inside-the-park blow, hit high on the signboard in deepest left field, and Jacobs was well around third when the ball game down.
Main source of worry to the Athletics was Southpaw Ray Fortier. Although he was reached for 17 hits, Fortier held the A's in check while his teammates built up the huge lead and paced the Tifer attack with three singles and a double in five trips for five runs bated in. Every member of the Tiger line-up, except Dick Greco, who only played one innijng, had at least one R.B.I.
Victoria's two left-handed batters, Vic Buccola and Gordon Johnston, picked up seven of the Athletic hits, with the former having a perfect night with triple and three singles in four trips.
Tacoma ........... 058 053 000—21 22 4
Victoria ........... 110 200 143—12 17 5
Fortier and Gardner; Logue, Tobias (2), Labrum (3), Noren (7) and Morgan.

Salem ........... 020 063 831—23 25 3
Wenatchee .... 600 022 010—11 15 3
Olson and Burgher; Orrell, Greenlaw (5), Meyers (6), Haskell (8) and Pesut.

Brown Would Do It Again
VANCOUVER, Sept. 1—Bob Brown, owner of the Western International league Vancouver Capilanos, is looking back Thursday on 50 years with his first love—baseball.
More than 70 now—he won't say how much more—Brown came to Vancouver 40 years ago with an idea he could make a living out of the sport. He'd been in baseball for 10 years then.
He needed first, a stadium, and he helped turn the first sod himself. Today it is the Capilano stadium.
Since the day when Brown first saw the dense forest slowly shaped and molded into a baseball field, a lot of water has passed beneath the bridge. The stadium has twice burned down.
Friday night local fans and players will honor him in his stadium for his 50 years in baseball ... a milestone reached by few.
And if he was 21 again, what would he do?
“I'd get me a good ball club with a big park and just sit back and watch the fans roll in.”

Tran Sold To Seattle
VANCOUVER, Sept. 2—A story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning said that Len Tran and Bud Sheely would probably be called in to finish the season with the Coast League Rainiers.
Speculation here led to the belief that already a deal had been made between the Caps and Seatttle for the sale of Tran, probably for cash and players for delivery next spring.

Wednesday, August 31, 1949

2007-07-28T11:44:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 95 48 .684 —
Vancouver ... 86 54 .614 7½
Wenatchee ... 76 69 .524 20
Spokane ..... 75 69 .521 20½
Victoria .... 63 81 .438 32½
Salem ....... 60 84 .417 35½
Tacoma ...... 59 84 .413 36
Bremerton ... 58 83 .411 36

Wenatchee, Wash., Aug. 31—Three Western International League baseball records were broken Wednesday night when Wenatchee slaughtered the Salem, Ore., Senators, 33-3.
Jim Warner, Wenatchee centerfielder, drove out four home runs to bring his season's total to 43. Bill Barisoff set the old league mark of 40 while playing with Bremerton in 1946.
The winning teams' 29 base-hits and 33 runs also broke records set earlier this year by Wenatchee. The Chiefs set the old mark of 26 hits against Salem just last week. They had scored 25 runs against Yakima this season.
Included in the onslaught were eight home runs, five doubles and one triple.
Al Libke, former Cincinnati Red player, was the winning pitcher and helped his cause with six hits, including two home runs and two doubles, in six trips to the plate.
The biggest run-making inning was the seventh, when ten runs cross the plate, but the Chiefs had six-run frames and scored in every inning but the second.
Salem ........... 001 010 001— 3 10 2
Wenatchee .... 604 236 (10)2x—33 29 2
Drilling, Burak (1), Foster (4), Burgher (5), Hedington (6), Osborn (7), and Beard; Libke and Pesut.

SPOKANE, Aug. 31—The Western International league basaball title eluded the Yakima Bears by one run Wednesday night—the run that relief pitcher Teddy Savarese walked in to give Spokane an 11 to 10 victory. A win would have given the Bears a mathematical cinch on the crown.
Yakima ....... 200 030 140—10 14 1
Spokane ..... 010 003 502—11 14 3
Dickey, Babbitt (7), Sporer (8), Savarese (9) and Orteig; Conant, Bishop (7) and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 31—Tacoma Tigers put up all five runs on the board in the sixth inning in a 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos on Wednesday.
Sandy Robertson loaded the bases in the sixth, and then gave up a triple to Jerry Ballard that landed just in front of the fence in centre field where it is marked “415 feet.” Dick Sinovic got a glove on the ball but couldn't hold it.
There was one double-play, bringing the year's total to 175, two shy of the league
Robertson allowed two walks and three hits in the fatal inning, but he started a double-play in the eighth inning, the 175th of the year, two shy of the league record.
K Chorlton got credit for an RBI in the second inning without a hit.
Tacoma ........ 000 005 000—5 9 1
Vancouver .... 010 000 000—1 9 1
Lazor, Carter (9) and Sheets; Robertson and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Sept. 1 [Colonist]—Gil McDougald batted in his 108th run with his 13th home run at Royal Athletic Park last night and the eighth-inning circuit blow ended what little chance John Marshall had of tying the W.I.L. record of 25 victories. It gave Victoria Athletics a 4-3 triumph and Marshall his 13th setback, as he was striving for his 22nd win.
WORST OF BREAKS
Working with only two days of rest and appearing in his 44th game this year, Marshall appeared to lose some of his edge in the late innings, but an error and a dubious call at second base probably robbed him of the verdict. At that, the big righthander contributed to his own downfall. One of the Victoria runs came after a walk, another after a batter was knicked by one of his pitches, and a thrd was moved into scoring position with another pitch which hit a batter.
A walk to Charlie Balassi and Joe Morjoseph's terrific double opened the scoring in the fifth. Bremerton squared matters in the fifth when Bill Taylor hoisted one over the wall. The blow would have given the Tars the lead if Lil Arnerich had not been called out on a close play a few minutes earlier, while trying to pilfer second. Arnerich protested long enough to get tossed out and the short-handed Jacketshad to send Pitcher Bob Pirack to the outfield.
After building a 3-1 lead with single runs in the sixth and seventh, the A's promptly handed Bremerton two runs in the eighth with an error by John Hack causing the trouble and sending Larry Ward, who was pitching well, to the showers. Joe Blanenship came in to pick up his sixth victory when McDougald lead off the eighth with his game-winning loft.
BATTLE OF WITS
Fans, about 1,200 of them, came in for some unusual strategy in the Victoria seventh with Manager Earl Bolyard winning a battle of wits with Bremerton's Alan Strange. Morjoseph led off with a single and Bob Day was hit by a pitched ball. With a bunt by Ward the obvious move, Strange called Pirack in from centre field and placed him on third with Don Stanford moving far in on the grass after Ward had missed one sacrifice attempt. Bolyard ordered Ward to swing away and he fouled it off. Pirack was sent back to the outfield, but Bolyard then flashed the bunt sign again and Ward made it look good by laying it down neatly for the sacrifice. Vic Buccola's outfield fly later brought in the A's third run.
Tonight, Tacoma Tigers, still with a chance to overtake Victoria, move in for a four-game series.
Bremerton ..... 000 001 020—3 10 1
Victoria ........ 000 011 11x—4 7 1
Marshall and Ronning; Ward, Blankenship (8) and Day.

Salem Senator Price $95,000
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 31—Portland Beaver General Manager William Mulligan put a price of $95,000 on the Salem Senators Wednesday.
Mulligan told a Salem delegation that the club could be purchased for that amount. He set $75,000 as the price of the park and the physical plant and $20,000 for the franchise in the Western International league.
The figures were higher than the Salem delegation had hoped, but there was optimism about eventual reaching of an agreement. The Salem committee said it would report back to the fans.
A mass meeting of fans had appointed the committee to see whether the club could be bought. Their plan is to sell shares of stock to the fans.
Mulligan expressed willingness to sell the park to the Salem group, if terms could be agreed upon, and said he did not want to see Salem lose the franchise.
Harry Collins, telephone company executive, is chairman of the Salem delegation.

Tuesday, August 30, 1949

2007-07-28T06:26:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 95 47 .669 —
Vancouver ... 86 53 .619 7½
Wenatchee ... 75 69 .521 21
Spokane ..... 74 69 .517 21½
Victoria .... 62 81 .434 33½
Salem ....... 60 83 .420 35½
Bremerton ... 58 82 .414 36
Tacoma ...... 58 84 .408 37

VANCOUVER, Aug. 31 [Merv Peters, Vancouver Sun] — Although Vancouver Capilanos have only the slightest chance of winning the WIL baseball pennant, they probably have more incentive to “play out the string” than any other team in the league.
The Caps are trying for four different league titles, all within reach at the moment.
They added three more double-plays to their string last night while beating the Tacoma Tigers, 9-5, to bring the season’s total to 174, three away from the league record. The present record of 177, was established last year by Tacoma.
With nine games remaining on the schedule, Caps are almost a shoo-in to set a new record. The double-plays, Len Tran to Ray Tran to Bob McLean, came in the second, fifth and sixth innings last night.
41 FOR JIM
Another inducement to “keep punching” is wee Jim Robinson’s try for the stolen base title. Robinson is also out to win the triples and total hits championship of the league. Lastbnight he added a single and a stolen base to his totals.
His total for stolen bases is now 41 and total hits stands at 205.
Then comes Dick Sinovic‘s try for the league batting championship. Last night, Sinovic hit four for two [sic], both singles.
A big five-run splurge in the first inning on five hits and two errors provided surprise starting pitcher Bob Costello with a comfortable lead to coast on for his 11th win of the season.
From the first inning until the eighth Costello coasted and was never in trouble. The big, lanky blond seemed to be having the time of his life, but it ended in the eighth when he loaded the bases with two walks and a single and then walked a run home.
Bob Snyder relieved him and retired the side.
BUD RAPS 20TH
Catcher Bud Sheely, who has chased Charley Mead for the home run department for the entire season, is now out in front of the big outfielder. He caught up to Mead with his home run Monday night and passed him last night with his 20th of the season. Mead has 19.
Last night was Fans Appreciation Night, and 42 baseball patrons went home happy with presents such as a man’s suit, wrist watches, hams, nylons and what have you.
Tacoma .......... 020 000 030—5 5 3
Vancouver ...... 500 100 12x—9 13 0
Carter and Gardner; Costello, Snyder (8) and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Aug. 30—Unable or unwilling to give starter Dave Dahle any relief, the Bremerton Bluejackets absorbed a 21-2 pasting at the hands of the Victoria Athletics on Tuesday night.
Dahle, a former college southpaw, had nothing and was not helped by seven Bremerton errors. He gave up 13 bases on balls and was touched for 19 safeties by the hit-hungry Victoria line-up.
With manager Alan Strange absent or not wishing to putin an appearnce, Dahle was left in until the eighth, when third baseman Don Stanford moved over to the mound. This necessitated a shift which sent catcher Len Neal, who was playing first base, to third, and brought in pitcher John Marshall at the gateway. By the time it was over, Dahle was charged with 20 runs, 16 of them earned, and the A's had come up with two eight-run innings.
With every man in the line-up except Len Noren participating in the slaughter, the winners rapped out nine doubles, two triples and a home run. Leading the way was Joe Marjoseph. The swarthy left fielder not only came up with a couple of smart cacthes but crahsed out a bases-loaded home run in the eight-run sixth inning and drove a change-up pitch to the left-field coner for a double with the bags again populated during the right-run spree which took place in the eighth. Vic Buccola had three well-tagged doubles and a drag bunt in five trips and Bob Day had two doubles and a pair of singles.
Jim Propst was having little trouble with the Jackets. The slender southpaw gave up nine hits would have had a shutout except for a boot by Gordon Johnston in the fifth which gave the visitors their unearned runs. Propst struck out 12 to run his league-leading total to 184 in 179 innings of pitching. He also completed his starting assignment for the 18th time in 22 starts, a record unmatched in the W.I.L. this season. The victory was his 16th sknce he pitched his first game of the season on May 31. He has lost 10.
Bremerton ..... 000 020 000—2 9 7
Victoria ........ 011 208 18x—21 19 2
Dahle, Stanford (8) and Ronning; Propst and Day.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 30—Wenatchee centrefielder Jim Warner clouted his 39th home run of the year Tuesday night to move within one of the loop standard, as Wenatchee defeated Salem, 11-9.
Salem ............. 001 121 103— 9 14 1
Wenatchee ..... 300 107 00x— 11 14 2
Fredericks, Osborn (6), Burak (8) and Beard; Greenlaw, Myers (9) and Pesut.

Yakima ........ 212 005 010—11 12 1
Spokane ...... 100 005 000— 6 10 3
Powell, Babbitt (7) and Orteig; Adams, Kimball (3), Howard (7) and Rossi.

Capilanos Set Attendance Record –
130,000 Already and Still Going Up
[Sun, August 31, 1951]
Bob Brown, general manager of the Capilano Baseball Club, said last night that attendance here for the 1949 baseball season has already passed the 130,000 mark.
This sets a new record for the Capilanos’ drawing power. The previous high was 1947, a pennant winning year, when 127,000 paid to see the Brenners go into action.
“What we could have done with a park which would have seated 7500 is hard to imagine,” Brown said. “This year’s club is by far the most attractive to fans that we have ever had.”
“Individually, and as a team, they have proven themselves the most popular team in Vancouver’s history,” Bob said.
“Do you know that less than a month ago Eddie Lamoureux in the concession stand had about 150 photographs of the Caps and he put them all on sale at 35 cents each just to get rid of them. They were all gone in one night.”
“I wish this team would have had the chance to play in a park with a 7500 capacity. They might have drawn 300,000 this year,” Bob added.
The 130,000 figure which Brown released last night was unofficial, but he said he knew that they had surpassed the figure and probably 135,000, too. At this rate the final attendance should be slightly over 140,000, over 20,000 more than last season.

Monday, August 29, 1949

2007-07-28T06:11:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 94 47 .667 —
Vancouver ... 85 53 .626 7½
Spokane ..... 74 68 .521 20½
Wenatchee ... 74 69 .517 21
Victoria .... 61 81 .430 32½
Salem ....... 60 82 .425 33½
Bremerton ... 58 81 .417 34
Tacoma ...... 58 83 .411 35

VICTORIA, Aug. 28—Home runs accounted for all of Bremerton's scoring as the Bluejackets eked out a 3-2 win over Victoria before 1,200 fans at Royal Athletic Park Monday night.
Jay Ragni walked in the first inning before Bill Taylor homered, then smacked one out in the fourth inning.
The A's were unable to do much with the knuckle-balling of Duke Baldwin. The young Bremerton righthander gave up a run in the fourth when he walked Vic Buccola before Gil McDougald swatted a tremendous double to the left-field corner. Successive singles by Joe Morjoseph, Dick Morgan and Dick Mitchell scored the A's other run in the fifth, but Gordon Johnston and Buccola popped up to end the threat,
Baldwin pitched hitless baseball from there and Johnston, who had walked in the eighth, was the only Victorian to get on the bags in the last four frames.
Mitchell took the loss, his third in fourt decisions, and was removed for a pinch-hitter in the eighth.
Len Noren came up with the fielding piece of the night when he snagged Charlie Bushong's soft liner in the fifth inning at his shoe-tops.
Bremerton ....... 200 100 000—3 4 0
Victoria ........... 000 110 000—2 5 0
Baldwin and Ronning; Mitchell, Blankenship (9) and Morgan.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 28—Dick Sinovic and James Patrick Robinson added to their team-topping totals on Monday as the Vancouver Capilanos trampled the Tacoma Tigers, 14-3.
Jimmy Robinson stole two bases, both in the first inning, to raise his season’s total to 40. He is easily the biggest thief in Vancouver history. He only picked up one hit, but that made this department reach 204 for the season.
Sinovic raised his batting average with a three-for-four performance, and is a serious contender for the league batting title for the first time since 1942, when Clarence Maddern lost in a ticklish finish to Salem’s Jack Richards.
Sinovic also came up with two catches which made Hunk Anderson’s 11th victory very easy. In the third inning, he misjudged Al Spaeter’s line drive and when he saw his mistake, he charged the ball and caught it with a full length dive, glove outstretched, one-handed.
In the fourth with the bases loaded and two out Jerry Ballard, Tacoma’s skyscraper first baseman, laid the wood on a fastball and hit it on a line directly over Sinovic’s head. Dick nonchalantly turned, raced 50 feet back and was waiting when the ball came down.
Meanwhile, Anderson had a four-hitter until the ninth and some believe he eased up so the Caps could add to their double play total. Though two runs scored, the double play clicked for the 171st time.
Bud Sheely spanked a three.run home in the seventh, and had four RBIs for the night, as did Charlie Mead. But the big man was Bob McLean , who came out of a batting slump with a homer and a double for five RBIs.
Tigers note: Tacoma 3rd baseman Joe Kaney says he is through with baseball after this season. He is going to look after a sporting goods store in his home town, Alameda, California.
Tacoma .......... 010 000 002—3 7 1
Vancouver ...... 601 000 34x—14 14 0
Johnson and Sheets; Anderson and Sheely.

SALEM, Aug. 29—Yakima's pace-setters took a 10-0 shellacking from Salem on Monday night in the Western International League. Cal McIrvin gave up but seven hits in hurling the Senators win.
Yakima ........ 000 000 000— 0 7 5
Salem .......... 004 003 03x—10 17 0
Sporer and Tornay; McIrvin and Burgher.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 29—The bottom of the first division of the Western International league standings saw an upheaval Monday night.
Spokane bounced back into third place by an 11-8 win over Wenatchee in 11 innings.
The Chiefs got off to an early lead. Jim Warner picked up his 38th home run of the season in the first inning and the Chiefs piled up a 4-0 score going into the fourth. They couldn't hold the pace and Spokane won in the second extra inning with a four-run splurge.
Spokane .......... 000 001 411 04—11 21 2
Wenatchee ....... 112 000 201 01—8 12 3
Bishop, Werbowski (8) and Rossi; McCollum, Johnson (10), Frick (10) and Pesut.

Salem Group May Buy Club
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 29—A five-man Salem committee will meet in Portland Wednesday afternoon to negotiate with the Portland baseball club for purchase of the Salem Western International league baseball team.
The committee, headed by Harry Collins, will meet in the office of William Mulligan, Beaver general manager. Also expected to attend is George Norgan, president of the Portland club.
If the purchase price is favorable, the five-man committee hopes to sell stock to the public at $25 a share.

Sunday, August 28, 1949

2007-07-28T05:56:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 94 46 .671 —
Vancouver ... 84 53 .613 8½
Wenatchee ... 74 68 .521 21
Spokane ..... 73 68 .518 21½
Victoria .... 61 80 .433 33½
Salem ....... 59 82 .418 35½
Tacoma ...... 58 82 .414 36
Bremerton ... 57 81 .413 36

TACOMA, Aug. 28—Bremerton bumped Tacoma twice on Sunday, 5-1 and 6-2.
Big John Marshall was the hero of the Bremerton uprising. He won his 21st game of the year with a seven-hit performance in the opener, then moved into the outfield in the second game and drove in two runs with a fourth inning triple.
First Game
Bremerton ...... 040 001 000—5 12 1
Tacoma ......... 003 000 100—4 7 0
Marshall and Ronning; Fortier and Gardner.
Second Game
Bremerton ...... 102 210 0—6 10 0
Tacoma ......... 000 020 0—2 4 2
Kohout and Neal; Kerrigan, Johnson (6) and Sheets.

First Game
Yakima ..... 010 112 0—5 6 0
Salem ...... 000 000 0—0 7 1
Savarese and Tornay; Peterson, Osborn (7) and Burgher.
Second Game
Yakima ...... 000 001 300—4 10 0
Salem ....... 001 000 002—3 8 2
Sweiger, Dickey (8) and Tornay; Burak, Olson (8) and Beard.

First Game
Spokane ....... 000 200 0—2 7 1
Wenatchee ... 031 200 x—6 7 0
Brillheart, Kimball (4) and Nulty; Orrell and Winter.
Second Game
Spokane ....... 200 411 502—15 15 1
Wenatchee ... 810 200 000—11 14 2
Conant, Howard (1) and Rossi; Frick, Greenlaw (7) and Pesut.

Saturday, August 27, 1949

2007-07-28T05:50:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 92 46 .667 —
Vancouver .. 84 53 .613 7½
Wenatchee .. 73 67 .521 20
Spokane .... 72 67 .518 20½
Victoria ... 61 80 .433 32½
Salem ...... 59 80 .424 33½
Tacoma ..... 58 80 .420 34
Bremerton .. 55 81 .404 36

VANCOUVER, Aug. 27—What can you say about a ball game which ends 18-2, except that the home team won?
For that matter the home team, the Capilanos, won two from Victoria Saturday at Cap Stadium, the other being a more respectable 3-2 affair.
The spectre of Charlie Mead returning to the line-up after a two-day rest, was the biggest reason Victoria took a Saturday night sloshing. Mead tripled, homered and singled twice to bat in six runs. His homer, the 19th this season, came with the bases loaded.
In all the Caps had 21 hits, Bob McLean being the only local without. Ray Tran had five.
Joe Marjoseph homered for the losers in the night game.
In the opener, Victoria made poor use of 14 hits, leaving 13 men on base, and Larry Ward chalked up a hard-loss defeat. Len Noren, subbing for Vic Buccola at first base, and John Hack had three apiece.
Dick Sinovic singled in a pair of runs for Vancouver in the first inning and Len Tran doubled in the final one in the seventh to break a 2-2 tie. Ward and Charlie Balassi had run-scoring singles for Victoria.
The Caps double play total soared in the two games to 170 and it is just possible that they will break the record of 177 against the team which set it last season, Tacoma. The Tigers open a stand in Vancouver on Monday.
First Game
Victoria ......... 000 010 100—2 14 1
Vancouver ..... 200 000 10x—3 9 1
Ward, Blankenship (8) and Day, Kindsfather and Sheely.
Second game
Victoria .......... 001 000 010—2 9 1
Vancouver ...... 310 406 22x—18 21 0
Logue, Tobias (4) and Morgan; Nicholas and Sheely.

SALEM, Aug. 27—Wenatchee Chiefs went wild, banging out 26 hits as they trounced the Senators, 16-6. Cather Lee Winter pitched for the winner and was reached for 17 safe blows. The total of 43 hits was believed to be close to a league record.
Wenatchee ...... 242 030 050—16 26 0
Salem .............. 022 200 000—6 17 0
Winter and Pesut; Drilling, Foster (2), Hedington (3) and Beard.

TACOMA, Aug. 27—The Tacoma Tigers consolidated their grip on seventh spot by trimming Bremerton Bluejackets, 13-3. Dick Greco's 33rd homer was among the 17 Tacoma hits.
Bremerton .......... 010 000 200—3 9 1
Tacoma .............. 022 060 03x—13 17 1
Sullivan and Ronning; Lazor and Sheets.

Spokane ....... 011 002 000—4 9 3
Yakima ......... 000 020 100—3 8 1
Werbowski and Varkuo, Rossi (9); Bradford and Orteig, Tornay (3).

Eugene Seeks Bremerton Ball Franchise
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 27—A move to buy the Bremerton franchise in the Western International League and secure a W.I.L. club in this city gathered momentum here today.
A large tract of land in the suburban Bethel district here has been offered, rent free, for a ball park by an owner who asked to remain anonymous.
Sports groups estimated the club could be established here for some $75,000. An unidentified Portland group was reported intreested in financing the project.
Among those who expressed interest in bringing the club here was Joe (Flash) Gordon, Cleveland second baseman and owner of a hardware store here. Gordon did not say what connection he might be willing to make, however.
George Emigh, vice-president of the W.I.L. and business manager of the Salem Senators was also interested in starting a club here.
Eugene, which drew an annual attendance of more than 50,000 for less than 40 games in the semi-pro Cascade League, is ranked as a good baseball town.

Sportsmen Ask Conference on Salem Sale
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 27—Salem sportsmen prepared to confer personally with Bill Mulligan, general manager of the Portland Beavers, about the future of the Salem Baseball Club.
They named a committee of five to go to Portland and ask Mulligan just wat he plans to do with the Beavers' farm club. One possibility was the forming of a local corpoartion to buy the Senators–with stock being sold to the fans.
Harry Collins, District Telephone Company manager, was named chairman of the fans' committee. Other members are circuit judge Rex Kimmell, Restaurateur Jack Simberg, Jim Mosolf, ex-major leaguer and now store owner, and Bruce Williams, lawyer and sportscaster.
Mulligan sent word he would be glad to confer with the committee in Portland.

Friday, August 26, 1949

2007-07-28T05:49:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 92 45 .672 —
Vancouver .. 82 53 .607 9
Wenatchee .. 72 67 .518 21
Spokane .... 71 67 .514 21½
Victoria ... 61 78 .439 32
Salem ...... 59 79 .428 33½
Tacoma ..... 57 80 .416 35
Bremerton .. 55 80 .407 36

VANCOUVER, Aug. 27 [Don Carlson, Sun] — Jim Propst, Victoria’s spider-like little left-hander, spun a web about Vancouver’s formidable .300 hitters last night – all except two.
Of the seven regulars in the .300 class, only Dick Sinovic, a real pro, and Bud Sheely were able to outmatch Propst, who won his fifteenth game of the season, a 6-4 game over the Caps to even their series at one game each.
Sinovic, with home run number 12, and Sheely, with his number 18, and second in two nights, kept the Caps in the running until the ninth.
FINALLY GOT TO BOB
In that ninth, with Bob Snyder working nicely for Caps, close to his 22nd pitching win, the A’s punched through the winning two runs when Len Noren singled a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded and two out.
Snyder’s reaction was chagrin and self-disgust. After the disastrous first inning when Victoria combined three hits (two of them doubles) and a walk for three runs, Snyder had almost recovered to match Propst, almost.
Throwing his heart out, Propst pitched a whale of a game. He gave only five hits, struck out 12.
He made the left-handed section of the Capilano batting orchestra look like wind instruments, except for Sheely’s one crash. The right-handers had their moments, too. K. Chorlton walking away from the plate three times with the big strike-out K symbol opposite his name in the scorecard.
MAKES IT A HABIT
Propst thus once again proved to be Vancouver’s nemesis. He is the only Western International League pitcher to have shut out the Caps this season, a job he did earlier at Cap Stadium, on which occasion he struck out 13 of Bob Brown’s dandies.
Sinovic could have been the hero had it not been for Propst’s mastery of his colleagues and Snyder’s ninth-inning sag.
It was Sinovic’s double off the centre field wall which put Caps back in the ball game in the first inning. That stroke scored the Tran brothers. Dick solved a Propst change-up pitch for it.
Then in the sixth inning, Sinovic provided one of the season’s most sensational defensive outfield plays, throwing out Ray Jacobs at the plate after hauling in Bob Day’s high fly. For a man who was supposed to be still favoring a temperamental arm that was some throw.
Sinovic’s homer came in the eighth and put Caps even with Victoria 4-4 again. It was a first-pitch blow over the right-centre field wall.
GAMES START EARLIER
Despite losing, Snyder showed why he has sustained Vancouver pitching staff this season. Stylish Bob struck out nine, and had his curve and change-up working smartly. He did give up 12 hits.
After the game, general manager Bob Brown announced that next week’s games will start 15 minutes earlier, at 8 p.m., owing to the increased coolness of the evenings.
Tuesday night, Brown announced will be “Fans’ Appreciation Night” with prizes for customers.
The prize list includes: suit or men’s or women’s clothes, two watches, two blankets, five hams, 18 pairs of nylons, two cup and saucer sets, six autographed league baseballs with named of Capilano players inscribed on them.
“We want to say thanks to the fans who have been so faithful to us all season,” said Brown.
Victoria .......... 300 000 102— 6 12 1
Vancouver ..... 200 001 010— 4 5 0
Propst and Day; Snyder and Sheely.

First Game
Wenatchee ....... 000 060 0—6 9 1
Salem .............. 030 011 0—5 8 0
Johnson, McCollum (6) and Pesut; Fredericks, Olsen (5) Foster (7) and Beard.
Second Game
Wenatchee ...... 021 040 000— 7 13 2
Salem ............. 030 000 021— 6 12 2
Greenlaw and Pesut; Osborn, Olson (5) Foster (9) and Burgher.

Spokane .......... 001 203 001—7 8 2
Yakima ............ 136 200 01x—13 13 1
Howard, Kimball (3) Adams (6) Conant (8) and Rossi; Dickey, Sporer (6) and Tornay.

Bremerton ....... 200 000 000—2 4 1
Tacoma ........... 003 500 00x—8 12 2
Dahle, Pirack (4) and Ronning; Carter and Gardner.

Thursday, August 25, 1949

2007-07-28T05:40:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 91 45 .669 —
Vancouver ... 82 52 .612 8
Spokane ..... 71 66 .518 20½
Wenatchee ... 70 67 .511 22
Victoria .... 60 78 .435 32
Salem ....... 59 77 .434 32
Tacoma ...... 56 80 .412 35
Bremerton ... 55 79 .410 35

VANCOUVER, Aug. 26 [Don Carlson, Vancouver Sun] – For 133 baseball games this season a little guy with grey hair had been hiding out behind third base for Vancouver.
Last night he popped up and in the Capilano’s 134th game, a 6-2 win over Victoria, Jimmy Robinson grabbed the spotlight with a vengeance.
He simply got tired of flirting with obscurity.
His .330 batting average and blinding speed afoot, he felt, deserved more adulation.
2000 CHEERED JIM
Well, the 2000 faithful who welcomed the Caps back to the ballyard in the cold murk after their pennant-losing road trip, will certainly offer that adulation today.
Robinson batted four for four.
Two of his hits were triples, both to the left side of the outfield, which caught the Victoria outfield short, although Robinson, a left-handed swinger, is a notorious wrong-field hitter.
Two triples in one game, and the triple the rarest feat in baseball. That makes ten for the season for Robinson, a statistical clue as to his speed on the bases.
“SANDY” SOCKS ONE
The first three-bagger came in the third inning, scoring Sandy Robertson, who had doubled mightily against the left field wall, tying the score. Then Len Tran singled Robinson home for what turned out to be the winning run.
Robinson’s speed, and a bright flash of cunning, the kind of which is not too plentiful in this B ball, also got him an official single in the fifth.
When Dick Mitchell, Victoria’s starting pitcher, delivered the ball, Robinson feinted a bunt by him after pulling the pitcher in too far to field effectively, and then he outran shortstop Gordon Johnston’s cover-up throw to first. You could smell burned grass after that sprint.
Robbie completed his hour of glory with an outstanding block of Joe Marjoseph’s smash down the line in the eighth with two on and the A’s pressing. The play launched a double play which ended the threat.
LOTS OF HITTING
Last night's ball game was a pleasing free-hitting one, the Caps reaching Mitchell and Frank LaBrum for 13 hits, the A’s getting to Robertson for ten.
Bud Sheely hit his 17th home run of the season for Caps in the sixth scoring Dick Sinovic ahead of him. That made Sheely’s runs-batted-in total 104.
Charlie Balassi found Robertson for an out-of-the-park smash in the second, scoring Gil McDougald, who had walked.
Robertson struck out six, walked four and had a perfect night at the plate, too, three for three. He was very impressive.
Victoria .......... 020 000 000—2 10 2
Vancouver ..... 012 003 00x—6 13 0
Mitchell, Labrum (7) and Morgan; Robertson and Sheely.

BREMERTON, Aug. 25—Alan Strange's Bremerton Bluejackets dropped into a virtual tie for the W.I. league basement Thursday night. Tacoma Tigers, present occupants, moved within two percentage points of vacating the undesirable premises by sweeping a double-bill from the Tars, taking the opener 6-1, as Bremerton's John Marshall again failed to notch his 21st victory and stopping a Bluejacket ninth-inning rally to cop the nightcap, 5-3.
First Game
Tacoma .......... 400 020 0—6 9 3
Bremerton ....... 100 000 0—1 6 3
Fortier and Sheets, Gardner (3); Marshall and Ronning.
Second Game
Tacoma .......... 102 010 010—5 13 1
Bremerton ....... 000 100 002—3 8 2
Kerrigan and Sheets; Baldwin, Pirack (8) and Neal.

SALEM, Aug. 25—Salem Senators put a crimp in Wenatchee's third-place aspirations by blasting the Chiefs, 16-10, in a loosely-played game. Nine errors, 21 walks and 28 hist contributed to teh fiasco.
Wenatchee ...... 310 030 102—10 11 3
Salem .............. 264 002 02x—16 17 6
McCollum, Peterson (3) and Winter; McIrvin and Burgher.

YAKIMA, Aug. 25—The league-leading Yakima Bears celebrated Dick Briskey Night with a 4-1 triumph over Spokane Indians on Thursday. It was announced that Briskey had been purchased by San Francisco and will join the Seals after the W.I.L. playoffs.
Spokane ....... 001 000 000—1 4 2
Yakima ........ 000 010 03x—4 7 1
Bishop and Rossi; Powell and Orteig.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

It's A Bad Habit
LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Aug. 26—The Leavenworth Braves, tabbed the losingest baseball club in America, keep plugging along—in the same old rut.
The Braves lost their 102nd Western Association game of the season last night, 6-l, to the league leading St. Joseph Cardinals. It was their 16th loss to the Cardinals in as many starts.
They've only won 24 games.
Club President Robert Ricketson compares the Brave Camp to "an army replacement center in wartime."
Three managers have taken a turn at directing the Braves with about the same success—or lack of it—and between 60 and 65 players have donned Leavenworth uniforms this season.
Caught without a major league affiliation at the start of the season after the Boston Braves withdrew their help a year ago, Leavenworth started the season under Manager Bill Cronin and lost their first 22 games.
In desperation, Rlcketson advertised in newspapers for baseball talent and appointed boisterous (Fido) Murphy, 1946 manager of the Topeka Owls, as the new skipper.
Murphy's presence added more color to the already cosmopolitan Braves. At the time Murphy too over, there were such fellows as Cuban shortstop Jose Blanco and Puerto Ricans Mike Perez, outfielder, and Rafael Casanova, catcher, in the lineup.
Negro players Earnest Mason, pitcher; Percy Howard, catcher, and Johnny Lloyd, outfielder, all from Chicago, were added to the roster by Murphy.
The Braves picked up a bit and had won five games by the time their losses totaled 30. But the skids went on again and the Braves dropped 23 in a row.
L. R. (Red) Harvel, who started the season as general manager, became the third skipper. Only three of the players who started the season are still on the squad.
Nobody has accused the Braves of not trying to win. They hustle to the last out and are well ahead of their 1948 attendance when the club finished only four games out of first division.
The Western Association is an eight-team class C circuit. Its season ends Sept. 5.
The Braves get the customary pre-game lecture from Manager Harvel. His favorite expression during a game—with the Braves usually well in arrears—is:
"Let's get 'em boys, the game's young."

One Hitter, No Hitter
ALEXANDER CITY, Aug. 25—Marvin (Droopy) Chappell, 28-year-old hurler for Lagrange in the Georgia-Alabama class D League Thursday night pitched a one-hitter and a no-hitter for a double shutout of Alexander City. Both were seven innings.
The second-place Millers took the first tilt, 1 to 0, and won the second game over the Troupers, 7 to 0.
The double decision raised Chappell's victory total to 20 for the year.
Only three men reached first in the nightcap as Chappell walked two and hit one.
Chappell, of Sylacauga, Ala., has been with the Alexander City ball club for three seasons.

Wednesday, August 24, 1949

2007-07-28T05:02:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 90 45 .667 —
Vancouver ... 81 52 .609 8
Spokane ..... 71 65 .522 19½
Wenatchee ... 70 66 .515 20½
Victoria .... 60 77 .438 31
Salem ....... 58 77 .430 32
Bremerton ... 55 77 .417 33½
Tacoma ...... 54 80 .403 35½

WENATCHEE, Aug. 24—Wenatchee was back within striking distance of the third place Spokane Indians tonight after taking their second win in three starts against the Western International league leading Yakima Bears. The Chiefs walloped the Yankees 10-3 Wednesday.
Wenatchee was never in trouble after collecting four runs against Yakima in the first inning. Merle Frick, Chief pitcher, gave up but five hits.
Salem didn't move out in front of Spokane until the seventh inning when seven runs crossed the plate, climaxed by a three-run homer off the bat of Art Pennington, flashy negro shortstop.
Yakima ........ 000 201 000—3 5 2
Wenatchee ... 403 020 10x—10 16 2
Savarese and Orteig; Frick and Winter.

SPOKANE, Aug. 24—Spokane bowed to Salem 11-9 in a Wednesday night WIL contest. The decision gave the Oregonians the three game series 2-1.
Salem ........... 000 111 701—11 17 4
Spokane ..... 300 003 300—9 12 2
G. Peterson, Olson (7) and Beard; Adams, Kimball (7), Conant (7), Howard (8) and Parks.

Vancouver at Victoria, postponed—wet grounds.
Tacoma at Bremerton, postponed.

Tuesday, August 23, 1949

2007-07-28T04:52:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 90 44 .672 —
Vancouver .. 81 52 .609 8½
Spokane .... 71 64 .526 20½
Wenatchee .. 69 66 .517 22½
Victoria ... 60 77 .438 31½
Salem ...... 57 77 .425 33
Bremerton .. 55 77 .417 34
Tacoma ..... 54 80 .408 36

VICTORIA, Aug. 23—Vancouver Capilanos slipped another half game behind the Western International League-leading Yakima Bears here Tuesday night.
The Caps split their double-header with the Athletics, losing the first game 3-1 and winning the second game 8-6 while Yakima edged Wenatchee.
Frank Logue held the Caps to four hits in the opening game. Vancouver got its only run in the second inning when Bud Sheely came home from second on first baseman Bob McLean’s single.
Victoria got to Capilano pitcher Vern Kindsfather for nine hits, with Len Noren singling in a run in the fourth and two more in the sixth. The rally started with McDougald and Charlie Balassi singled and Joe Marjoseph was hit by a pitch after two were out. Noren then hit the ball of the end of his bat and it landed in between the desperately-lunging Trans and rolled a few feet the outfield as McDougald and Balassi came in.
They threatened on other occasions, too, but were halted three times by sparkling double plays.
After getting two runs in the third inning of the second game on Victoria pitcher on Frank Labrum’s error, the Caps won it all with a five-run outburst in the fifth.
Hunk Anderson singled and Jim Robinson and Ray Tran both bunted to fill the bases. Robinson's bunt was down the third base line and John Hack picked it up when it rolled foul, but umpire Bill Husband ruled it fair. A single by Len Tran, a walk to Dick Sinovic and singles by Bud Sheely and K Chorlton brought in the five runs. Anderson was the winning pitcher.
The A's almost pulled it out in the ninth when a double by Vic Buccola, single by McDougald and a walk to Balassi loaded the bags with one out. This sudden activity brought in Bob Snyder. Morjoseph cracked out his third double of the game on Snyder's first pitch to send in two more runs and put the tying tally on second, but Snyder took Noren on an infield pop and wheeled a call third strike past Bob Day.
First Game
Vancouver ........ 010 000 0—1 4 0
Victoria ............ 000 102 x—3 9 2
Kindsfather and Sheely; Logue and Morgan.
Second Game
Vancouver ......... 002 050 001—8 11 2
Victoria ............. 100 100 202—6 11 2
Anderson, Snyder (9) and Sheely; Labrum, Tobias (5) and Day.

SPOKANE, Aug. 23—Spokane evened its series with Salem on Tuesday night by topping the Senators 9-4. The Indians' win was thanks largely to a five-run sixth inning splurge that let Bill Werbowski coast to his 18th pitching triumph.
Salem .......... 010 000 003—4 11 1
Spokane ...... 001 005 03x—9 10 1
Burak, Osborn (6), Foster (7) and Burgher; Werbowski and Parks.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 23—A fancy relief job by Gene Babbitt helped Yakima Bears get by the Wenatchee Chiefs 7-6 in a Western International League game. Wenatchee pushed over three runs in the eighth and was within a tally of a deadlock when Babbitt entered the game with the bases loaded and no outs. A strikeout and a double play ended
the threat.
Yakima .......... 023 000 020—7 9 1
Wenatchee .... 100 000 230—6 8 1
Sweiger, Dickey (8), Babbitt (8) and Orteig; Orrell and Pesut.

BREMERTON, Aug. 23—Neither team is going any place this season, but the hottest series of the Western International League race locks the Bremerton Bluejackets and the Tacoma Tigers in an effort to stave off a cellar finish.
The navy yard nine stretched its hold on seventh place to two games Tuesday night with a 7-6 win over the Tigers in 12 innings.
Bremerton scored two runs in each of the first three innings to take a 6-0 lead over Tacoma, but the Tigers bounced back to knot it in the eighth. Manager Bob Johnson's long windup as relief pitcher enabled Lil Arnerich to steal third in the 12th inning
from where he scored easily on Bill Taylor's single with the winning run.
Tacoma ............. 000 100 320 000—6 11 2
Bremerton .......... 222 000 000 001—7 9 2
Lazor, Johnson (4) and Sheets; Kohout, Pirack (3), Dahle (8) and Ronning.

Monday, August 22, 1949

2007-07-28T04:42:00.000-07:00

W L Pct GB
Yakima ...... 89 44 .669 —
Vancouver ... 80 51 .611 8
Spokane ..... 70 64 .522 19½
Wenatchee ... 69 65 .515 20½
Victoria .... 59 76 .437 31
Salem ....... 57 76 .429 32
Bremerton ... 54 77 .412 34
Tacoma ...... 54 79 .406 35

WENATCHEE, Aug. 22—Wenatchee's bid for third place in the final Western International League standings took on new strength today.
The Chiefs moved within a game of Spokane Monday night by dumping the pennant-bound Yakima nine 8-5.
Cy Greenlaw gave Yakima but eight hits, scattering them effectively in all but the eighth inning when the Bears bunched four blows for as many runs.
Consecutive homers by Nini Tornay and Gene Thompson highlighted the inning, but only
offset earlier blasts by Wenatchee's Jim Warner (his 36th, leaving him four short of the league record) and Al Libke.
Yakima .......... 010 000 040—5 8 2
Wenatchee ..... 120 021 11x—8 13 4
Bradford, Sporer (8) and Tornay; Greenlaw and Pesut.

VICTORIA, Aug. 22—Vic Buccola, the little Victoria first baseman, spoiled Vancouver pitcher George Nicholas’ return to baseball activity.
Buccola’s home run with the bases filled in the seventh inning of their Western International League game here Monday night put Victoria in the lead and led eventually to the Athletics’ 7-6 win over Vancouver.
Nicholas had been out with pleurisy.
After Vancouver scored three unearned runs in the seventh, thanks to John Hack’s error at third base, Len Noren and Dick Morgan singled to start the rally in the Victoria half of the inning. Bob Day batted for Joe Blankenship and lined out. Gordon Johnston kept matters humming with a single to left which loaded the bags. Buccola then brought the fans — 4000 of them on Fan Appreciation Night — as hit hit a hong, high home run to right centre field.
The Caps forced an extra inning when they tied the score in the ninth inning as Len Tran walked, went to second on a single, moved to third on a wild pitch and came home on Charlie Mead’s outfield fly.
In the tenth, Vancouver almost won for Nicholas. They got runners on first and third with one man out. But Ray Tran forced a runner and brother Len flied out.
With one out in the tenth, Charlie Balassi singled, went to second as Nicholas tossed out Joe Morjoseph and race across with the pay-off tally when Noren rapped his fourth single to right centre.
Vancouver ....... 000 101 301 0—6 13 1
Victoria ........... 000 200 400 1—7 13 3
Nicholas and Sheely: Blankenship, Tobias (8), Mitchell (9) and Morgan.

SPOKANE, Aug. 22—The Spokane Indians couldn't catch up enough against Salem hurler Bob Drilling as the Senators hung on for a late-inning, 7-5 win Friday night.
Spokane got off to an early lead against Salem on Larry Barton's two-run first inning homer, but the Oregonians pushed back for a 4-3 lead and put the game away with three tallies in the ninth. The Indians rallied in the bottom of the inning, scoring two runs off Drilling.
Salem ........ 100 010 113—7 12 1
Spokane ..... 200 100 002—5 10 2
Drilling and Burgher; Conant and Parks.

ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED
(Only games scheduled)

Sunday, August 21, 1949

2007-07-28T04:19:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ...... 89 43 .674 —
Vancouver ... 80 50 .615 8
Spokane ..... 70 63 .526 19½
Wenatchee ... 68 65 .511 22
Victoria .... 58 76 .433 32
Salem ....... 56 76 .424 33
Bremerton ... 54 75 .419 33½
Tacoma ...... 51 79 .406 37

BREMERTON, Aug. 21—Three eighth-inning singles gave the Yakima Bears a 2-1 opening game over Bremerton, and Dick Briskey's inside-the-park homer with two out and the bases loaded decided a 13-9 12-inning finale against the Bluejackets on Sunday.
First Game
Yakima ......... 000 010 01—2 11 2
Bremerton ..... 001 000 00—1 6 1
Dickie and Tornay, Ragni and Neal.
Second Game
Yakima .......... 001 040 031 004—13 13 2
Bremerton ...... 000 300 402 000— 9 19 4
Sporer, Babbitt (7), Soriano (10) and Tornay; Dahle, Pirack (5), Marshall (8), Baldwin (9) and Ronning.

SPOKANE, Aug. 21—Bob Snyder won his 21st of the season as Vancouver and Spokane split a Sunday twin-bill. The Indians won the first contest 6-5, thanks to a run with two out in the ninth, while the Caps won the second game 11-8.
Snyder came to Hunk Anderson’s rescue in the first inning. He got help from Dick Sinovic, who hit a three-run homer, and Jimmy Robinson, who hit a triple and two singles.
The Indians won the opener on a bobble in the ninth after reliever Jim Hedgecock faced two batters in relief of Bob Costello, who took the loss.
First Game
Vancouver ......... 040 000 100—5 15 2
Spokane ............ 003 001 011—6 11 2
Costello, Hedgecock (9) and Brenner; Brillheart, Bishop (9) and Parks.
Second Game
Vancouver .......... 410 310 200—11 17 5
Spokane ............. 500 201 000—8 12 1
Anderson, Snyder (1) and Sheely; Werbowski, Kimball (4) and Parks.

SALEM, Aug. 21—Tacoma completed its four-game sweep of the hometown Senators with winds of 7-5 and 7-2 on Sunday.
First Game (eight innings)
Tacoma .......... 500 000 02—7 10 0
Salem ............ 002 300 00—5 9 2
Kerrigan and Sheets; Olson and Beard.
Second Game
Tacoma ......... 300 011 200—7 12 0
Salem ........... 000 000 002—2 10 2
Carter and Gardner; McIrvin, Fredericks (8) and Burgher.

First Game
Victoria .......... 300 140 2—10 11 0
Wenatchee ..... 000 002 2— 4 9 1
Propst and Day; Johnson, Pesut (5) and Winter.
Second Game
Victoria .......... 101 100 010—4 12 3
Wenatchee ..... 004 100 01x—6 10 0
Ward, Logue (8) and Morgan; McCollum and Pesut.

Saturday, August 20, 1949

2007-07-28T03:54:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 87 43 .669 —
Vancouver .. 79 49 .617 7
Spokane .... 69 62 .527 18½
Wenatchee .. 67 64 .511 20½
Victoria ... 57 75 .432 31
Salem ...... 56 74 .431 31
Bremerton .. 54 75 .423 32½
Tacoma ..... 52 79 .397 35½

SALEM, Aug. 20—Tacoma's Tigers, tail-enders in the Western International league race, edged out a 2-1 decision over the Salem Senators tonight to take a 2-0 le.id in the current series which ends with on Sunday twin bill.
An error, a single by Ed Barr and Bill Sheets' long fly gave the Tigers their deciding run in the eighth inning tonight. They had previously tallied off right-hander Gene Peterson in the sixth inning when Dick Greco tripled and registered on Barr's hit.
Ray Fortier of the Tigers blanked the Solons until the ninth when a walk and a pinch
single by Manager Bill Beard produced a run.
Fortier gave up nine hits and Peterson allowed eight during their pitching duel.
Tacoma ...... 000 001 010—2 8 0
Salem ........ 000 000 001—1 9 1
Fortier and Sheets; Peterson and Burgher.

BREMERTON, Aug. 20—John Marshall went to the rescue in the ninth inning tonight to choke off a Yakima threat and save a 4 to 3 Western International League victory for the Bremerton Bluejackets.
Dick Briskey had opened the stanza with a double putting the tying run at second. Marshall relieved the Bremerton starter, Joe Sullivan, and forced pinch-batter LeRoy Paton to pop up. Edo Vanni to hit an easy fly and Al Jacinto to foul out to tho catcher.
Bob Williams homered for Yakima in the fourth and the losers got their other runs
in the seventh on successive doubles by Briskey and pitcher Larry Powell, plus two infield outs.
Yakima .......... 000 100 200—3 7 4
Bremerton ...... 200 002 00x—4 7 1
Powell and Orteig; Sullivan, Marshall (9) and Ronning.

SPOKANE, Aug. 20 – A four-run rally in the eighth inning was Vancouver’s last gasp on Saturday night as the Spokane Indians defeated the Capilanos 9-6 in the opening game of a series.
K Chorlton swung Vancouver’s big bat, with three hits, including a homer, and three runs batted in.
Vancouver .... 020 000 040—6 10 4
Spokane ....... 010 320 12x—9 14 2
Kindsfather, Gunnarson (5) and Sheely; Adams and Parks.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 20—Victoria Athletics went down to their sixth straight defeat at the hands of the Wenatchee Chiefs as Merle Frick wielded the whitewash brush in a 7-0 shutout.
The loss was the fifth in seven games on the current road trip and the eighth in the last ten starts for the A's, now 18 games under .500 and back to their lowest point of a disasterous season.
The Chiefs picked up their runs gradually, scoring in six of the eight innings they went to bat. The losers threatened only twice, filling the bases in the fourth and getting two men aboard in the ninth. Frick shut the door each time with a strikeout. Clyde Haskell led the 11-hit attack on Dick Mitchell with a double and two singles in three trips.
Ray Fortier hurled Tacoma to a 2-1 win over Salem to preserve Victoria's scant grip on this place.
Victoria ......... 000 000 000—0 7 1
Wenatchee .... 112 100 11x—7 11 0
Mitchell and Morgan; Frick and Winter.

TACOMA, Aug. 20—Pity the poor pitcher unfortunate enough to try to compile a respectible earned-run and complete-game average in the W.I.L. Figures released each week by the Howe News Bureau disclosed that the hitters in the Class "B" league have a big edge over the pitchers. Vancouver Capilanos lead with an amazing team mark of .309 and have eight out of nine regular players over the .300 mark. Only outfielder K. Chorlton, at .294, has failed to make the select circle. However, the Caps lack their usual long-distance punch this year and trial Spokane, Wenatchee and Yakima in the important matter of scoring runs.
Spokane ranks second as a hitting team at .303, followed by Wenatchee, .296, and Yakima, .295. Wenatchee rates as the top offensive club, having scored seven plus runs per game for their first 126 contests. However, the Chiefs have not had the pitching the match their hitting and their defensive work has been shoddy all season. On the other hand, the Yakima defence has been the best. Opponants have only managed to score an average of five runs per game against the Bears and this comparatively high figure tops the league. The Bears and Spokane ave scored just less thave seven runs a game.
Breaking it down to an overall average, W.I.L. teams have averaged 14 runs, 20 hits, 32 total bases, ten bases on bals and four errors per game. No less than 45 regulars are batting over .300, an average of about six per club.
Leading the hit parade is Clint Cameron, Wenatchee first baseman. Cameron is hitting .395, a bulge of 27 points over teammate Hal Rhyne, who is next in line. Bill Brenner and Dick Sinovic, both of Vancouver, are closest to Cameron, with .392 and .378 respectively, but will not have appeared in enough games to be considered for the bat title.
Edo Vanni, Spokane, leads in hits with 180, and stolen bases, 32. Larry Barton, Spokane, has a narrow lead in batting in runs with 115. Jim Warner, Wenatchee, leads in home runs, 35, and runs scored, 120. Jack Parks, Spokane, and Ted Jennings, Yakima, have each hit 14 triples. Dick Briskey, Yakima, leads in doubles with 34, and Dick Greco, Tacoma, has the most total bases, 287.
Average: .330 and above.
AB R H 2b 3b HR SB RBI Pct.
Cameron, Wen... 332 83 131 33 0 14 1 82 .395
Brenner, Van... 166 20 65 12 1 6 0 38 .392
Sinovic, Van... 241 50 91 15 6 5 0 30 .378
Rhyne, Wen..... 438 97 161 32 7 12 6 87 .368
Vanni, Yak..... 503 117 180 29 7 0 32 68 .358
Sheely, Van.... 302 42 107 15 0 13 3 86 .354
Stainback, Spo. 295 36 103 29 4 2 10 41 .349
Zaby, Spo...... 433 110 150 29 4 2 18 71 .346
Barton, Spo.... 416 118 143 30 5 19 2 155 .344
Mead, Van...... 462 116 157 20 6 17 3 102 .340
Taylor, Bre.... 502 90 170 28 11 14 3 112 .339
Briskey, Tac... 433 87 147 34 10 9 5 83 .339
Greco, Tac..... 456 102 153 30 7 30 6 106 .336
L. Tran, Van... 459 114 152 32 6 10 7 80 .333
Rossi, Spo..... 281 47 93 19 2 3 8 55 .331
McDougald, Vic. 443 94 146 29 5 12 11 91 .330
Orteig, Yak.... 324 77 107 21 5 7 2 79 .330

Friday, August 19, 1949

2007-07-28T03:53:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 87 42 .675 —
Vancouver .. 79 48 .622 7
Spokane .... 68 62 .523 19½
Wenatchee .. 66 64 .508 21½
Victoria ... 57 74 .435 31
Salem ...... 56 73 .434 31
Bremerton .. 53 75 .414 33½
Tacoma ..... 51 79 .392 36½

BREMERTON, Aug. 19–Yakima Bears gave no indication of slowing their torrid pace. The season-long league-leaders handed the Jackets their fourth successive setback, 9-3, on Friday night.
Bob Williams and Edo Vanni each had three hits for the winners.
Yakima ............ 201 102 103—9 13 2
Bremerton ........ 000 020 010—3 7 1
Savarese and Tornay, Orteig (9); Baldwin, Pirack (5) and Neal.

SALEM, Aug. 19—Dick Greco hit his 31st and 32nd home runs at Salem as Tacoma Tigers scored heavily in three innings to down the home team 13-5, Friday night and keep the Senators from moving ahead of Victoria into fifth spot.
Tacoma ......... 040 000 504—13 12 1
Salem ............ 010 120 001— 5 11 0
Lazor and Gardner, Fredericks, Osborn (7) Foster (9) and Burgher.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 19—After sweeping a four-game set in Victoria, the Wenatchee Chiefs took the first home game of a series with the Athletics on Friday night by pounding out an 8-2 win.
Frank Labrum, ex-Stanford right-hander, got his first starting assignment for Victoria and was tagged with his fourth successive setback. Ray Jacobs was the only Victorian to do much with the offerings of Joe Orrell. Jacobs hit his 15th homer in the first and singled in the fifth to score the other run on Bob Day's double.
Victoria ............ 001 010 00—2 8 2
Wenatchee ....... 020 040 20x—8 11 0
Labrum and Day; Orrell and Winter.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 19—The Vancouver Capilanos won again Friday night but so did Yakima. For the third time this week, the second-place Vancouver ball club thus failed to hain an inch on the first-place Bears in the race down to the Western International League flag.
Friday night, lefthander Jimmy Hedgecock won, beating Spokane 6-3, although the Indians hit him safely 12 times, while the Capilanos were only able to muster eight hits.
Lee Howard was the losing pitcher for Spokane.
The Vancouver offence was led by Len Tran, who has been outstanding on the club’s road trip, and Charlie Mead. Tran batted two for four and Mead two for three with a home run.
Vancouver ..... 201 010 002—6 8 2
Spokane ........ 100 101 000—3 12 3
Hedgecock and Brenner; Howard and Parks.

Assign Vucurevich to Twin Falls
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 19—Business manager Jack Radtke of the Twin Falls Pioneer League Ball club said right-hander Pete Vucurevich had been assigned to the Cowboys from Victoria of the Class “B” Western International League.
Vucurevich had a 5-10 record there for 5th-place Victoria, Radtke said, and last year made an 11-11 mark for Ventura of the California League.

Soriano, Seals Jointly Own Yakima Bears
YAKIMA, Aug. 20—Ownership of the pennant-bound Yakima Bears of the Western International league became a 50-50 proposition between Dewey Soriano and the San Francisco Seals after Soriano, Yakima club president bought out the interest of Frederick Mercy, Jr. The purchase price was not disclosed.
When the Seals, through Soriano, negotiated the purchase of the club last winter from Dick Richards and associates, it was on the basis of the Coast league club as half owner and Soriano and Mercy each having 25 per cent interest.
Mercy, Yakima moving picture owner, had operated the Yakima entry in 1946 and 1947

Thursday, August 18, 1949

2007-07-28T02:56:00.000-07:00

W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 86 42 .672 —
Vancouver ... 78 48 .619 7
Spokane ..... 68 61 .527 18½
Wenatchee ... 65 64 .504 21½
Victoria .... 57 73 .438 30
Salem ....... 56 72 .438 30
Bremerton ... 53 74 .417 32½
Tacoma ...... 50 79 .358 36½

SALEM, Aug. 18–Salem Senators scored three runs in the ninth inning Thursday night to edge Bremerton Bluejackets, 6-5, in their WIL game.
Bremerton pitcher John Marshall, trying for his 21st pitching victory, held Salem scoreless until the seventh when they scored twice. After another run in the eighth, Salem won the game with a last-inning rally on doubles by Bob Cherry and Orrin Snyder, a walk, and a costly Bremerton error.
Snyder raced home on the error for the winning run.
Bremerton ......... 100 400 000—5 8 4
Salem ............... 000 000 213—6 9 4
Marshall and Ronning; McIrvin and Burgher.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 18—Ray Tran’s bat continues to be the baseball inspiration of Vancouver’s touring Capilanos.
Tran batted four singles and a double in six times at bat here Thursday night here as the Caps beat the Wenatchee Chiefs 12-9 in a Western International League baseball game.
The little second baseman for Vancouver thus continues to be one of the league’s best prospects to go into high baseball next year, even if the Capilanos do not manage to catch up to Yakima and first place this year.
The Caps were just too much for three Chief pitchers, although only one of the visitors, Dick Sinovic, was able to get an extra-base hit. That was a home run with one runner on,
The win left the series between the two clubs even, with two wins each,
Hunk Anderson opened the game as Vancouver’s pitcher, trying for his seventh win.
When Chiefs began hitting him in the third inning, he was replaced by Bob Snyder, who gained credit for the victory.
Vancouver .......... 311 310 300—12 16 0
Wenatchee ......... 204 102 000—9 12 1
Anderson, Snyder (3), and Brenner;
Greenlaw, Caplinger (3), Meyers (7) and Winter.

TACOMA, Aug. 18—Unlimbering two Tacoma pitchers for a total of 19 hits, Yakima Bears scored a series-sweeping 11-9 victory over the Tigers in their Western International League baseball game Thursday night.
It was the final meeting of the season between the two teams and the victory gave Yakima a record of 18 winds in 21 games with Tacoma.
Pitcher Bill Sweiger of Yakima, who aided his own cause with three doubles in four times at bat, left the game in the seventh when the Tigers bunched four hits, including Glen Stetter's 12th homer of the season, to score three times.
Edo Vanni got four singles in six times at bat.
Yakima ....... 004 103 010—11 19 3
Tacoma ......... 100 111 311— 9 16 2
Sweiger, Dickey (7) and Orteig; Kerrigan, Carter (8) and Sheets.

SPOKANE, Aug, 18—Victoria overcame a five-run deficit Thursday night to whip the Spokane Indians 7-5 in the final game of their Western International League series. Spokane took the series three games to two.
The Athletics scored twice in the seventh off reliever John Conant to gain the victory.
John Hack and Len Noren, each with three hits in five trips, propelled Victoria's 12-hit attack on three pitchers.
Tobey Tobias stayed through a shaky start to see his club come back to take the lead in the seventh. But Frank Logue had to squelch a threatened rally in the Spokane half.
Victoria ......... 000 140 200—7 12 0
Spokane ....... 302 000 000—5 10 3
Tobias, Logue (7) and Day; Kimball, Conant (5), Bishop (6) and Parks.

PORTLAND, Aug. 19—(UP)—Art Pennington, Portland Beaver negro outfielder, will join the Salem Senators today to lend a hand to that injury-riddled team.
Pennington goes to the Western International league club only on a temporary basis, and he will return to Portland when injured Salem players return to the lineup.

Vancouver Park Under Discussion
VANCOUVER, Aug. 18—Mayor Charles Thompson today declined to comment on the result of a closed meeting on the possibility of building a new baseball stadium here.
He met with representatibve of Sicks Capilano Breweries, whose stadium must be vacated when the new Granville Bridge is built.

Salem Anxious to Remain W.I.L. Member
SALEM, Aug. 18—Suggestions on how to keep a Western International League team here will be aired at a meeting called for next Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce Hall.
The Salem Senators, owned by the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League, have been drawing poorly at the box office and the Beaver management recently talked of moving the franchise to another city.
Business manager William Mulligan of the Portland club and business manager George Emigh of the Senators will attend the meeting.
Several informal proposals for local purchase of the franchise have been made and the latest suggestion — strictly coffee-hour talk around town — is that Eugene interests might buy the franchise and Salem fans buy the Bremerton franchise, which is up for sale. A Salem-Eugene rivalry might boost attendance, fans say.

Wednesday, August 17, 1949

2007-07-27T00:36:00.000-07:00

W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 85 42 .669 —
Vancouver ... 77 48 .616 7
Spokane ..... 68 60 .531 17½
Wenatchee ... 65 63 .508 20½
Victoria .... 56 73 .434 30
Salem ....... 53 72 .433 31
Bremerton ... 53 73 .421 31½
Tacoma ...... 50 78 .391 35½

WENATCHEE, Aug. 17—Vancouver Capilanos are further than ever away from first-place Yakima in the WIL baseball league, following their 8-7 loss to Wenatchee on Wednesday night.
Down 8-4 going into the ninth inning, Vancouver nearly tied the ball game with their desperate three-run rally that fell just a little too short. The two winning runs were on base when Caps’ K Chorlton popped up to end the inning.
A walk to Jim Robertson, a double by Ray Tran and singles by Charlie Mead, Dick Sinovic and Bud Sheely accounted for Caps’ runs in the last inning.
Capilano pitcher Bob Costello allowed what proved to be the winning run to score in the eighth inning when Ritchie Myers homered with one man on.
Costello made up for this in part by knocking home one of the Caps’ previous runs. Sheely singled home two runs and Mead accounted for the other before the ninth inning rally.
The loss—combined with Yakima’s win—left Vancouver seven games out of first place with only 25 games left to catch the league-leading Bears.
Vancouver ........ 000 220 003—7 12 1
Wenatchee ........ 030 201 02x—8 10 0
McCollum and Winter; Costello and Sheely.

SPOKANE, Aug. 17—The Spokane Indians broke through for all their runs in the fourth inning to defeat the Victoria Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday night and take a 3-1 series lead.
5,409 were on hand, but not to watch the game. They were there for catcher Jack Parks’ wedding before the game. Outfielder Paul Zaby was best man and an organist was set up at third base.
Parks ended up with three singles and caught the full game.
Bill Werbowski came back on one day’s rest after three successive relief appearances to beat Jim Propst in a pitching duel. Both pitchers allowed seven hits, while Werbowski walked one and struck out two. Propst walked four and fanned five, tossed a wild pitch and started a double-play.
Victoria .......... 001 100 000—2 7 1
Spokane ......... 000 400 001—4 7 2
Propst and Day; Werbowski and Parks.

Bremerton ...... 021 030 000—6 13 2
Salem ............... 004 001 02x—7 7 1
Dahle and Ronning; Drilling and Burgher.

Yakima .......... 000 340 001—8 11 0
Tacoma ......... 010 000 000—1 5 5
Sporer and Tornay; Fornier and Gardner.

6,000 See Catcher Take Bride at Plate
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 17—A baseball player was married Wednesday night at home plate before 6,000 fans and nobody yelled “You're out!”
Catcher Jack Parks of the Spokane Indians married Betty Mae Tibbett before donning his mask to play against Victoria, B. C.
Except for the baseball atmosphere it was a normal wedding.
The bride, dressed in a green suit, marched from third base to the pitcher's mound and then down to home plate along an aisle of baseball players.
Parks wore a spotless white uniform never soiled by a sliding base runner.
There was some laughter when the 21-year-old Parks kissed the 20-year-old bride, but mostly the crowd was hushed during the ceremony. Some of the women in the audience furtively brushed tears in the bright glare of the floodlights.
The Spokane bat boy, blushing all the way, carried the ring on a pillow through the cordon of players.
There won't be any honeymoon. Parks has to stick around for a long home stand with the Indians.
It was a beautiful wedding. There wasn't an umpire in sight.

Tuesday, August 16, 1949

2007-07-26T23:14:00.000-07:00

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.

Monday, August 15, 1949

2007-07-26T23:06:00.001-07:00

W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 83 42 .661
Vancouver ... 77 46 .626
Spokane ..... 66 60 .521
Wenatchee ... 63 63 .500
Victoria .... 56 71 .441
Salem ....... 54 71 .432
Bremerton ... 52 72 .419
Tacoma ...... 50 76 .397

SPOKANE, Aug. 15 – It took an extra inning and more than three hours but the Spokane Indians defeated Victoria 12-11 here Monday night.
Little Bill Werbowski, who was pitching for the third time in as many nights, got his 16th win of the season after relieving Andy Adams with no outs in the ninth.
Frank Labrum, a newcomer to the Athletics’ pitching staff, was the losing pitcher giving up the tying run and winning runs in the ninth.
Paul Zaby hit his third single of the night to bring in Lee Howard and the Indians’ winning run. Ken Richardson was the batting hero, batting in six runs with a home run, double and a single.
Gil McDougald batted in four runs for the losers with a double and single while John Hack led the hitters with three singles.
Victoria ........ 400 202 003 0—11 13 1
Spokane ....... 000 142 031 1—12 19 2
Vucurevich, Logue (5), Labrum (8) and Day; Bishop, Kimball (2), Adams (6), Werbowski (9) and Parks.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 15 – Smashing out 18 hits, the Vancouver Capilanos opened a series in Wenatchee with a 14-11 win over the Chiefs.
Charlie Mead was four for four, while Bud Sheely had four hits and Ray Tran, three.
Bob Snyder rung up his tenth win, but came perilously close to giving away the game as he allowed 14 hits.
With the Caps leading by six runs after seven innings, the Chiefs picked up two runs in the eighth, and scored four runs on six hits with two out in the ninth. Only Ray Tran’s great jumping catch of a line drive ended the rally, and the game.
Vancouver ..... 303 002 303–14 18 2
Wenatchee .... 310 000 124–11 14 7
Snyder and Sheely; Orrell, Johnson (1), Winter (7) and Pesut.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Arkansas Pitcher Nearing Baseball Strikeout Mark
PINE BLUFF, Ark., Aug. 15—The Pine Bluff Cardinals wonder if their ace righthander, Eddie Albrecht, isn't destined to be organized baseball's strikeout king this season.
The 170-pound fireballer, property of St. Louis Browns, has whiffed 311 batters while working 27 2 2/3 innings in the class C Cotton States league. A workhorse who has seen action in 47 games, he might run his total to 350 in the remaining 16 days of the season.
Albrecht's hurling prowess isn't limited to strikeouts. He has won 24 games and lost nine, yielded 218 hits and only 78 earned runs. He has walked 126 batters.

Sunday, August 14, 1949

2007-07-26T22:51:00.000-07:00

W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 83 42 .664 —
Vancouver ... 76 46 .623 5½
Spokane ..... 65 60 .520 18
Wenatchee ... 63 62 .504 20
Victoria .... 56 70 .444 28
Salem ....... 54 71 .432 29½
Bremerton ... 52 72 .419 31
Tacoma ...... 50 76 .397 33½

YAKIMA, Aug. 14—Yakima had its Western International league lead built back up to five and a half games today — thanks to Sunday wins in two of the season's tightest contests.
The Bears nipped Bremerton hy scores of 2-1 and 2-0 to build up a full game on idle Vancouver. Yakima concentrated its scoring in both games into single innings. The first was won in the second frame as Bremerton committed two errors which the Bears combined with an infield hit and an attempted sacrifice for two runs.
In the second tilt, the Yaks got only three hits off Bremerton's John Marshall. But all three — Al Jacinto's single, Bob Williams' double and Ted Jennings' one-baser — were in the fourth inning and good for another pair of tallies. It was all Bill Sweiger needed to go with his eight hit pitching chore.
First Game
Bremerton ...... 010 000 0—1 6 2
Yakima ........... 020 000 0—2 6 0
Ragni and Neal; Powell and Orteig.
Second Game
Bremerton ...... 000 000 000—0 8 0
Yakima ............ 000 200 00x—2 3 1
Marshall and Ronning; Sweiger and Tornay.

SPOKANE, Aug. 14—Victoria slaughtered Spokane 13-1 in the makeup of an early season rained-out tilt.
The A's pounded out 21 hits, 18 of them singles and nine of them off Andy Adams, who surrendered four runs in the fifth inning to hand the A's a 4-2 lead. The Indians tied the game with a pair in the sixth, but the A's went ahead for good with a six-run seventh.
Gil McDougald doubled twice and singled three times in six at bats. Vic Buccola had four singles while John Hack smacked three more to bring in five runs. Catcher Bob Day, batting eighth in the lineup, was the only Athletic to neither get a hit nor score.
Ken Kimball relieved Adams in the fifth and was credited the loss.
Paul Zaby gave the Indians their first run in the fourth with a single, Jack Parks made it 2-0 with a homer in the fourth and Skip Rowland's triple plated a pair in the sixth. All the runs off Larry Ward were earned as Victoria played errorless ball. He allowed only eight hits in going the distance, while walking seven.
Victoria .......... 000 040 605—15 21 4
Spokane ......... 001 102 000—4 6 3
Ward and Day; Adams, Kimball (5), Werbowski (7), Howard (9) and Parks.

TACOMA, Aug. 14—Salem also turned in a twin-bill sweep, bopping Tacoma 5-2 and 8-7 to move into sixth place ahead of Bremerton.
It was a case of too many walks for Dick Greco, Tacoma outfielder-pitcher, in the opening tilt against Salem. He limited the Oregonians to eight hits, but gave up as many free passes to toss away the game. Mel Wasley's inside-the-park homer for two runs was Salem's deciding issue in the second game.
First Game
Salem ........ 030 010 300—5 8 0
Tacoma .... 000 100 100—2 10 1
McIrvin and Burgher; Greco and Gardner.
Second Game
Salem .......... 121 020 2—8 12 1
Tacoma ...... 400 002 1—7 12 2
Olson and Beard; Ballard and Sheets.

Wenatchee and Vancouver, unscheduled.

Saturday, August 13, 1949

2007-07-26T22:48:00.000-07:00

W L PCT GB
Yakima ..... 81 42 .659 —
Vancouver .. 76 46 .623 4½
Spokane .... 65 58 .524 16
Wenatchee .. 63 61 .504 18½
Victoria ... 55 70 .440 27
Bremerton .. 52 70 .426 28
Salem ...... 52 71 .423 28½
Tacoma ..... 50 74 .403 31½

VICTORIA, Aug. 13—Base umpire Carl Sandt played the biggest role Saturday night as the Wenatchee Chiefs got by the Victoria Athletics 4-3 to sweep a double-header. The Chiefs won the first game 9-6.
The finale was tied 3-3 entering the seventh inning. Ritchie Myers started it with a single. Hal Rhyne bunted and pitcher Tobey Tobias tossed to second base. But Sandt called the runner safe to amazement of just about everyone. An outfield fly and Dick Faber’s single brought Myers around.
Tobias ended up being charged with the loss, despite stranding 14 Wenatchee runners in the last seven innings.
Wenatchee starter Cy Greenlaw whiffed the side in the first and third innings and had nine strikeouts after only 3 1-3 frames. However, the A’s managed to score their only runs of the game between fanning out.
He dominated the game with strikeouts and fly-outs that his teammates only made two assists.
Clint Cameron was in one both of the Chiefs rallies as they scored twice in the second and once in the fifth, tying the contest both times.
In the opener, the Wenatchee cashed in five runs before Victoria starter Frank Logue was pulled in the second inning. Frank Labrum came in and proved to be no mystery. Cameron made the count 6-0 in the third with a home run and then hit another over in the fifth with a man aboard to provide the winning runs after the A’s had tied it.
Victoria reached Lou McCollum for two runs in the third and four in the fourth.
First Game
Wenatchee ...... 321 020 100—9 16 2
Victoria ........... 002 400 000—6 13 2
McCollum and Pesut, Peterson (7); Logue, Labrum (2) and Morgan.
Second Game
Wenatchee ....... 020 010 100—4 9 1
Victoria ............ 201 000 000—3 11 1
Greenlaw and Winter; Tobias, Logue (9) and Day.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 13—Fortified with some elixir of youth, 44-year-old Spokane manager Jim Brillheart beat the Vancouver Capilanos 7-2 in the afternoon game of a twin-bill Saturday.
He allowed five hits, but struck out none.
“We should have made him world a little fielding some bunts,” Vancouver general manager Bob Brown told the Vancouver Sun. “A couple of innings of that might have finished him. As it was he just stood there and swung his arm and didn’t move off the mound at all.”
Bob Costello started for Vancouver and left in the seventh after Ed Nulty, Paul Zaby and Larry Barton had hit home runs over the right field wall in the space of 1 2-3 innings. The first two homers came in the fifth inning after a double and a walk.
In the nightcap, reliever Hunk Anderson tossed a one-hitter in a complete-game relief job Vancouver won 4-2.
Jim Hedgecock started the game for the Caps and gave up a double, two singles, a walk and two runs before leaving. Anderson pitched to 32 batters in his complete game relief job, as he struck out three and walked four.
Only Jack Parks was able to single off him in the seventh.
Little Bill Werbowski allowed eight hits and eight walks in taking the loss.
First Game
Spokane ......... 000 040 300—7 10 0
Vancouver ..... 000 000 020—2 5 1
Brillheart and Parks; Costello, Gunnarson (7), Robertson (9) and Brenner.
Second Game
Spokane ......... 200 000 000—2 4 0
Vancouver ...... 000 200 20x—4 8 1
Werbowski and Rossi; Hedgecock, Anderson (1) and Sheely.

Salem ......... 000 131 520—12 5 2
Tacoma ...... 010 012 000—4 8 5
Fredericks, Osborn (6) and Burgher; Kerrigan, Lazor (7) and Sheets.

Bremerton .... 100 411 000—7 9 0
Yakima .......... 000 001 101—3 4 2
Baldwin, Pirack (7) and Neal; Dickey, Sporer (4) and Orteig.

ON THE SUNBEAM
By ALF COTTRELL
[Vancouver Sun, Aug. 15, 1949]
From Sisler to Sinovic

Over the weekend I learned with some surprise that the stately old gentleman who manages the Spokane Indians, Jim Brillheart, had on Saturday afternoon pitched himself a 7-2 win over the Vancouver Capilanos.
I have it from several excellent baseball sources that old Jim mixed some slow stuff with some slower stuff and just a dash of legerdemain out of the past to make the youthful, confident Capilanos look like professional carpet beaters.
It was the most intriguing to your truly because on Friday morning in the lobby of the St. Regis the venerable Spokane boss had consented to discuss the occasional difficulties in pitching to such as Tyrus Cobb, George Sisler, Earl Sheeley Sr., Bob Meusel and the like back in 1922 and thereabouts.
He told of Walter Johnson and Smokey Joe Wood fighting a famous duel of fast balls. I knew that as he talked time-tinted pictures were floating before his eyes. You could sense that they were drifting back and lingering, held by his reluctance to let them disappear.
He fanned fondly of his Washington teammates of those days, Joe Judge and Stanley Harris at their respective peaks. Also Sam Rice, Muddy Ruel and an awkward kid named Goose Goslin.
Maybe it was because memories of those giants of his day had come before him that Brillheart decided to go out and beat the guile of a bygone era the next afternoon against a bunch of kids who weren’t even born when he pitched his first big league victory over Ty Cobb and his quarrelsome menagerie of Detroit Lions.
Anderson’s Hunk of Pitching
Because I missed seeing old Jim span two baseball eras Saturday afternoon, I sought out that distinguished historian and horticulturalist, Robert P. Brown, on Sunday. Bob was weeding the recalcitrant corn in the back garden of his Thirty-seventh Avenue home.
Brown was of course a shortstop away back in baseball’s dark ages. Now he directs the Capilanos from a front office pew. Sunday, when he straightened up and grimaced as the kinks came out of his spinal column, he wanted to discuss Hunk Anderson’s Saturday night display in which Hunk set the Spokes back by using a variety of snapping curves and leaping fast balls.
Goodness gracious, yes, he would give old Jim credit. Especially as the latter had never intended to go nine innings. The idea had obviously been, Bob said, that Brillheart would help out his tired pitchers by going as far as he could, then reel out and let a young man take over.
Tricks, of Imagination Maybe
“Darn it, I’m pretty mad at my club for letting Jim get away with it,” he growed. “They should have run him. We got good bunters. They could have worn him out.”
Instead of that, he complained, the Caps kept swinging from their arches. The pitches came inside, outside, a bit high, a bit low. They kept nibbling, seldom getting more than a piece of the ball.
“And you could walk as fast as his pitches were coming in,” said Brown. “Darned if he wasn’t using trick stuff, too, when a pitch meant a little extra. The banned spitter, and maybe, I thought, an emery ball.”
In the latter suggestion, perhaps it was the imagination of Brown the ex-shortstop that was groping back into the past for a once-familiar gripe. After all, he must have felt as if he were seeing a ghost out on the mound at Cap Stadium Saturday afternoon.

Friday, August 12, 1949

2007-07-26T22:47:00.001-07:00

W L PCT
Yakima ..... 81 41 .664 —
Vancouver .. 75 45 .625 5
Spokane .... 64 58 .525
Wenatchee .. 61 62 .495
Victoria ... 55 68 .447
Bremerton .. 51 70 .421
Salem ...... 51 71 .418
Tacoma ..... 50 73 .407

VANCOUVER, Aug. 12—Righthander Vern Kindsfather pitched a three hitter and Bud Sheely smashed two home runs as the Vancouver Capilanos defeated the Spokane Indians 5-1 on Friday night.
Sheely singled in the first run of the game in the first inning, the first of his five RBIs. he hit a solo homer in the fourth and a two-run shot in the sixth.
The Caps pulled off a remarkable double-play to help Kindsfather to his 15th win. In the fourth inning, and two runners on base, Jack Calvey powered a fast ball 400 feet into centre field. Dick Sinovic raced to the fence and caught the ball one-handed over his shoulder. A fast relay to Ray Tran and then to Bob McLean doubled Ken Richardson off first base.
Spokane ....... 000 000 001—1 3 3
Vancouver .... 010 112 00x—5 9 0
Bishop, Kimball (7) and Parks; Kindsfather and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Aug, 12—Merle Frick surrendered 12 bases on balls, hit a batter and uncorked three wild pitches, but still came out with a win as the Wenatchee Chiefs thumped the Victoria Athletics 10-2 Friday night.
He was reached for only three hits and two were of the fluky variety. Only Jim Propst's smash through the middle was well tagged.
Trailing 3-0 as they came to bat in the third, the A's tallied once on a hit batter, a walk and John Hack's bloop double to righ. Two strikeouts, the last one with the bags loadde, stopped the threat.
Jim Warner continued to pound Victoria pitching. He doubled off Propst and scored the first run of the game in the first inning, smashed a two-run homer in the third, connected for singles in the fifth and seventh, then smashed out homer No. 35 in the eighth. He scored four times and batted in four runs, but was also Propst's eighth strikeout victim in the ninth.
A's notes: Righthander Dick Mitchell has agreed to finish out the season with the A's.
Wenatchee ....... 102 000 223—10 11 0
Victoria ............. 001 001 000—2 3 4
Flick and Winter; Propst and Day.

Bremerton ....... 200 010 000—3 9 4
Yakima ............. 001 004 00x—5 5 2
Dahle, Pirack (6) and Ronning, Neal (5); Savarase and Orteig.

Salem ........... 000 002 021—5 12 5
Tacoma ........ 224 000 04x—12 15 1
Drilling, G. Peterson (4), Foster (8), Hedington (8) and Burgher; Fortier and Sheets.

Thursday, August 11, 1949

2007-07-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 80 41 .661
Vancouver ... 74 45 .622
Spokane ..... 64 57 .529
Wenatchee ... 60 62 .492
Victoria .... 55 67 .451
Bremerton ... 51 69 .423
Salem ....... 51 70 .421
Tacoma ...... 49 73 .402

TACOMA, Aug. 11—Yakima Bears tacked a fill game onto their Western International League league Thursday by blanking the Tacoma Tigers 5-0 behind Bill Bradford's five-hit pitching.
The Bears reached Don Carter for single runs in the second and fourth frames, made it 3-0 on Dick Briskey's homer in the seventh and completed their scoring against Vince Lazor in the ninth.
Yakima ...... 010 100 102—5 8 0
Tacoma .... 000 000 000—0 5 1
Bradford and Tornay; Carter, Lazor (9) and Gardner.

VICTORIA, Aug. 11—Joe Orrell scattered eight singles as the Wenatchee Chiefs took the opener of a series against the Victoria Athletics, 6-2.
Orrell was only in trouble once on Thursday. The A's bunched four of their hits in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead but it was their last chance. Orrell didn't allow a runner past first base the rest of the game.
Jim Warner connected for a pair of home runs, his league-leading 32nd and 33rd of the season. Warner connected over the centre field fence in the third inning with no one on, and repeated in the fourth after Orrell had singled with two out.
One bad pitch cost Pete Vucurevich a chance for a win. With two out in the seventh, Clint Cameron and Neil Bryant singled and Ritchie Myers drew a walk. Vucurevich then tried to get a let-up pitch past Dick Faber and the Wenatchee left fielder rapped it on a line to right field for a double to clear the bags.
The win broke a four-game losing streak for the Chiefs.
Wenatchee .... 001 200 300—6 7 0
Victoria ......... 020 000 000—2 8 3
Orrell and Winter; Vucurevich, Laburn (8) and Day.

BREMERTON, Aug. 11—Bob Cherry lined a two run homer for the Senators in the ninth but a rally fell short as the Bremerton Bluejackets defeated the Seantors 7-6 in a Western International League game on Thursday night.
Salem .......... 000 101 022—6 14 1
Bremerton .. 012 020 11x—7 14 0
Burak, G. Peterson (7) and Burgher; Kohout and Ronning.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 11—The Vancouver Capilanos had their nine-game winning streak snapped, losing 9-7 to Spokane and dropping five games behind Yakima’s pace.
There are some, Vancouver manager Bill Brenner and pitcher Jim Hedgecock predominantly, who insist the game should have been tied in the ninth inning.
Behind 9-6, Ray and Len Tran both singled to start the ninth. Charlie Mead flew out and in stepped Dick Sinovic, author of a grand slam home run in the seventh, which put the Caps back in the picture.
He worked the count to 3 and 2 and lashed an inside fast ball from Lee Howard down the third base line. It hit past the base and both Brenner, on deck, and Hedgecock, coaching third, insisted it was a fair ball. Umpire Carl Sandt disagreed. Sinovic struck out looking on the next pitch and then tossed his bat disgustingly into the stands.
Had Sinovic’s “hit” been fair, Ran Tran would haves scored from second and Len Tran and Sinovic would be in scoring position. Brenner was the next batter and he laced a single that would have tied the game,
Caps starter George Nicholas was batted out in the first inning with three runs on five hits.
Larry Barton smashed a grand slam homer for Spokane in the sixth off Carl Gunnarson.
Spokane .......... 300 015 000—9 13 0
Vancouver ...... 100 000 501—7 11 1
Howard and Parks; Nicholas, Gunnarson (1), Anderson (6) and Brenner.

Renew Efforts to Purchase Salem Senators
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 11—Assistant Secretary of State William Healy and other local sportsmen today renewed efforts to buy the Salem Senators of the Western International League.
The move stemmed from the recent threats of the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League to sell or transfer the franchise of the farm club.
Healy and several unidentified associates attempted to buy the Senators for $60,000 a few weeks ago. But Healy said Bill Mulligan, Beaver business manager, asked $125,000 for the club and its home park, Waters Field.
"I doubt if the league would authorize a transfer of the Salem frranchise," Healy said. He planned to confer with Mulligan some time this week.

Wednesday, August 10, 1949

2007-07-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 79 41 .658
Vancouver ... 74 44 .627
Spokane ..... 63 57 .525
Wenatchee ... 59 62 .488
Victoria .... 55 66 .455
Salem ....... 51 69 .425
Bremerton ... 50 69 .420
Tacoma ...... 49 72 .405

VANCOUVER, Aug. 10—A successful hit-and-run in the sixth inning proved to be the different on Wednesday night as the Vancouver Capilanos defeated the Wenatchee Chiefs 4-3 to sweep a four-game series.
The Caps were down 3-2 going into the inning, which began with a single by Charlie Mead. Dick Sinovic, who had doubled off the left-field wall to drive in two runs, was up next. Manager Bill Brenner elected not to sacrifice and flashed the hit-and-run sign. Sinovic slapped the first pitch over second base and Mead went into third standing.
Bud Sheely popped out but K Chorlton ripped a double down the left field line to bring in Mead and put Sinovic at third. Bob Snyder flew out and Sinovic came in to break the tie.
Snyder allowed five hits, one of them being a three-.run homer to Clint Cameron in the fourth. He struck out four and walked two in his 17th win of the year
Wenatchee ...... 000 300 000—3 5 0
Vancouver ...... 200 002 00x—4 10 1
McCollum and Winter, Snyder and Sheely.

TACOMA, Aug. 10—Tacoma's "willingness" to fall before the Yakima Bears this year is largely responsible for the central Washington diamondeers being atop the Western International League. But the spirit of cooperation went by the boards Wednesday night and as a result, the Yaks lead Vancouver by only four games.
Snag Moore bobbled an easy infield fly in the eighth inning to let Tacoma score two unearned runs and hand the Tigers a 3-2 win. It marked only the third time this season that Yakima has come out on the losing end against Tacoma.
Yakima ..... 010 000 100—2 9 2
Tacoma .... 001 000 02x—3 8 0
Powell and Tornay; Kerrigan, Lazor (9) and Sheets.

VICTORIA, Aug. 10—The Victoria Athletics came from behind twice, then hung on to the lead they gained in the fourth inning as they defeated Spokane 6-4 on Wednesday night.
Gil McDougald's error on the game's first play set the stage for two Spokane runs in the first. The A's evened the count in the bottom of the inning on Vic Buccola's triple, singles by John Hack and Charlie Balassi, a hit batter and a fielder's choice. McDougald's triple and Len Noren's single made it 3-3 at the end of the third after Larry Barton homered for the Indians.
Larry Ward started the winning rally in the fourth with Victoria's third triple. He scored on Johnston's single and the latter completed the circuit on an error and fielder's choice.
Joe Morjoseph's homer in the fifth wound up the Victoria scoring.
The Indians cut the lead with their final run in the eighth but Lee Howard's failure to touch the plate cost them another run and possibly a big inning.
Ward went the distance for the A's for his tenth win in 18 decisions. He stranded 14 Spokane runners.
Victoria third baseman Frank Matoh broke a small leg bone in sliding into second base. He's out for the season.
Spokane .... 201 000 010—4 13 2
Victoria ..... 201 210 00x—6 15 1
Conant and Parks; Ward and Day.

Salem ........... 100 000 021—4 10 1
Bremerton .. 100 000 002—3 10 1
McIrvin and Burgher; Sullivan and Ronning.

Tacoma Hurler Angers Owner
TACOMA, Aug. 10—Enoch Alexson, general manager of the Tacoma Tigers, today announceed that he has suspended pitcher Gordon Walden for the balance of the Western International League season and fined him an undisclosed amount.
Walden's set-down was for "a display of temperament and some half-hearted hurling" at last night's game with Yakima. Tacoma lost 18-7.
Walden appeared to lose interest in the final innings, Alexson said, and in the ninth delivered a wild pitch after a number of half-speed tosses that Bears pounced on for four hits.

Tuesday, August 9, 1949

2007-07-26T01:04:00.000-07:00

Western International
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 79 40 .664
Vancouver ... 73 44 .624
Spokane ..... 63 56 .529
Wenatchee ... 59 61 .492
Victoria .... 54 66 .491
Bremerton ... 50 68 .424
Salem ....... 50 69 .420
Tacoma ...... 48 72 .400

VICTORIA, Aug. 9—Frank Logue came in to relieve sore-armed Joe Blankenship to start the third and pitched six scoreless frames as the Victoria Athletics defeated the Spokane Indians 10-6 for the second straight time.
Jack Parks' two-run homer in the ninth spoiled Logue's scoreless string.
It was Logue's 38th mound appearance, tops in the league, and fourth win since July 24th as he raised his record to 9-10.
Blankenship got picked on early, allowing a run in the first inning and three in the second before Victoria put a run on the board in the third.
Andy Adams allowed only one Victoria hit until the sixth when John Hack homered to make it a 4-2 game. Gil McDougald walked and Charlie Balassi tied it by slicing one over the fence.
The A's chalked up six runs in the eighth. Paul Zaby missed a shoestring catch in right and Frank Matoh was credited with a triple. Bob Day bounced one over the drawn-in infield and the parade was one. Logue was conked by a pitched ball and successive hits by Gordon Johnston, Vic Buccola, Hack and McDougald send five more runners over the plate.
Spokane ......... 130 000 002— 6 11 2
Victoria .......... 001 003 06x—10 12 2
Adams, Kimball (6) and Parks; Blankenship, Logue (3) and Day.

TACOMA, Aug. 9—Tacoma made a game bid against Yakima, coming from behind twice to tie the score. But the Bears powered back to bat around in both the eighth and ninth frames for an 18-7 rout of the Tigers on Tuesday.
The league-leading Bears chalked up their 11th win in 16 starts against the cellar-dwelling Tigers.
Ted Jennings was the big gun at bat for Yakima with three triples.
Yakima ............ 501 004 146—18 17 3
Tacoma ........... 100 303 000— 7 8 1
Dickey, Sweiger (6) and Orteig, Walden and Sheets.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 9—The Vancouver's Capilanos bit another chunk out of Yakima's Western International League lead Tuesday night. The Caps ran their victory skein to eight straight by nipping Wenatchee twice 5-2 and 5-3. It cut Yakima's first place margin to an even five games.
In the opener, Sandy Robertson, a newcomer, set the Chiefs down on four hits—three in the first frame.
First Game
Wenatchee ........ 200 000 0—2 4 2
Vancouver ........ 003 002 x—5 10 0
Meyers and Winter; Robertson and Sheely.
Second Game
Wenatchee ........ 000 000 012—3 8 0
Vancouver ........ 200 000 03x—5 8 1
Greenlaw and Winter; Hedgecock and Brenner.

Salem ............... 010 000 500 1—7 10 1
Bremerton ...... 200 002 200 0—6 10 3
Olsen, Foster (7), Osborne (8) and Burgher; Dahle, Marshall (7) and Ronning.

Spokane Not For Sale
SPOKANE, Aug. 9—Published reports that the Spokane Indians are to be sold were denied last night by club owner Roy Hotchkiss.
Hank Greenberg, former American League batting star and now a vice president with the Cleveland Indians, was given as the likely purchaser.
Hotchkiss said last night, however, the reports are false and that he is satisfied with the Western International League.

Monday, August 8, 1949

2007-07-26T00:17:00.000-07:00

Western International
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 78 40 .664
Vancouver ... 71 44 .617
Spokane ..... 63 55 .534
Wenatchec ... 59 59 .500
Victoria .... 53 66 .445
Bremerton ... 50 67 .427
Salem ....... 49 69 .415
Tacoma ...... 48 71 .403

VANCOUVER, Aug. 8—Bud Sheely homered in the fourth inning for the 13th time this season as the Vancouver Capilanos held on to a 4-3 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
The only other extra-base hit the Caps got was a double by Dick Sinovic.
Charlie Peterson took the loss, despite stranding 12 Vancouver runners. He walked six and allowd 11 hits.
Caps notes: General manager Bob Brown tried to sign Gene Babbitt, who ended up inking a deal with Yakima. He offered him $550 a month, compared to the $300-$400 others players who are not on option receive.
Wenatchee ......... 000 021 000—3 10 1
Vancouver ......... 100 120 00x—4 11 0
Peterson and Winter; Costello and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Aug. 8—Frank Matoh's grounder over the mound in the bottom of the eleventh gave the Victoria Athletics a 6-5 win over the Spokane Indians.
The A's were trailing 3-2 entering the seventh. Gordon Johnson opened with a walk, went to third on a hit and run and second on John Hack's fly ball to right.
Hack's two-run single in the eighth put Victoria ahead, but Skip Rowland tied the game at 5-5 in the ninth when he smacked the ball over the centre field fence after Ken Richardson doubled.
Joe Morjoseph led off the 11th with a single and was doubled to third by Charlie Balassi, after manager Earl Bolyard eschewed the idea of a sacrifice. Len Noren was walked before Matoh dribbled the ball to bring in Morjoseph as pitcher Dick Bishop briefly fumbled the ball.
Jim Propst, the WIL's top southpaw, went the distance in another fine mound chore to receive credit for his 13th win in 18 decisions. He was matched against Bill Werbowski, who topped him 3-0 at Spokane the last time the two met. Propst would have had a nine-inning win but for two errors by his infield which cost him as many runs.
He gave up eight hits, seven of them coming in Spokane's three scoring innings, walked only three and whiffed 11, running his strike-out count to 141 in 139 innings.
Spokane .......... 201 000 002 00—5 8 2
Victoria ........... 020 000 120 01—6 14 2
Werbowski, Bishop (9) and Parks; Propst and Day.

(ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED)

Salem So Long?
YAKIMA, Aug. 8—Western International League president Robert Abel has verified reports that Salem may lose its franchise because of attendance troubles.
Salem's problems were disclosed by business manager George Emigh after a conference
with Bill Mulligan, general manager of both the Salem team and its parent Pacific Coast league Portland club.
He reported an attendance of only 59,019 fans for the Senators' 60 home games this year. The last 10 games at home drew only 2,770 paid admissions.
Failure of local efforts to raise $125,000 to buy the club and park leave two possibilities, Emigh said: move the franchise either to Eugene, Ore., or to Wenatchee. The latter is contingent upon a proposed shift of the Wenatchee franchise to the Pasco Richland-Kennewick sector.

Western International Loop Playoff Starts September 7
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 8—The Western International League playoffs for $4,000 in bonus money will start Wednesday, September 7, two days the close of the regular season, among the top four finishers in the 1949 W.I. campaign, league president Robert Abel announced here today.
In the first round, the pennant-winning club will play the third place team and the second place team will engage the fourth place club. The two survivors then will engage in a final series for top money of $1,500.
The first series will be the best three games out of five, as will also the finals. Previously, it had been planned to limit the first round to three games
$1,500 To Winner
Here is how the playoff money will be divided:
Winner, $1,500; second place team, $1,000, two clubs eliminated in the first round. $750 each.
All the money will go to the players and they also will receive regular salaries throughout the series.
Abel announced the playoff arrangements following a conference with President Dewey Soriano of the Yakima Bears. Abel came here to complete the arrangements inasmuch as the Yakima club is out in front in the pennant race. Abel conferred with heads of the other W-I clubs before coming here Sunday to complete plans.
In 1st, 2nd Parks
The first round wili open at the parks of the teams which win the pennant and finish second. After two games, the clubs will shift to the home parks of the rival clubs for the third and fourth games, then return for the fifth game should the series go the limit.
The final series will open in the city of the surviving club which finished highest in the W-I campaign. The same procedure of travel will be followed in the first round.

Sunday, August 7, 1949

2007-07-25T23:20:00.000-07:00

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.

Saturday, August 6, 1949

2007-07-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 76 40 .655 —
Vancouver ... 68 40 .607 4
Spokane ..... 61 54 .530 14½
Wenatchee ... 58 57 .504 17½
Victoria .... 52 64 .448 24
Bremerton ... 49 66 .426 26½
Salem ....... 49 67 .422 27
Tacoma ...... 48 69 .410 28½

WENATCHEE, Aug. 6—Wenatchee literally walked away with their ball game Saurday as Bremerton's Dave Dahle gave up 14 bases on balls. The Chiefs garnered only seven hits but two of them were Jim Warner's 30th and 31st home runs of the year, good for six runs.
Bremerton .... 000 020 001— 3 9 2
Wenatchee .... 100 303 007—14 7 1
Dahle, Stanford (8) and Ronning, Neal (5); Greenlaw and Winter.

SPOKANE, Aug. 6—Spokane Indians maintained their third place position, scoring eight runs in the seventh frame Saturday to whallop the Tacoma Tigers, 16-9. Dick Greco hammered his 29th and 30th home runs for the Tigers in a losing cause.
Tacoma ....... 000 052 002— 9 13 1
Spokane ...... 002 220 82x—16 20 2
Lazor, Carter (7) and Sheets; Werbowski, Kimball (5), Conant (6) and Parks.

SALEM, Aug. 6—Vancouver's hit-happy Canadians banged out 14 blows, including three-run homers by K Chorlton and Bud Sheely, for their third straight victory over the Salem Senators, 13-5. Sheely's blast brought his runs-batted-in total to 13 for three games.
Vancouver .... 007 200 203—13 14 3
Salem ............. 200 001 110—5 9 1
Anderson and Sheely; Peterson, Pirack (3), Foster (6) and Burgher.

YAKIMA, August 6—The Victoria Athletics dropped third straight with a 9-5 loss to Yakima. Bears pushed over four runs in the eighth to break a 5-5 deadlock and hand Larry Ward his eighth defeat against nine victories.
Cacther Bob Day paced the Victoria attack with a perfect night at the plate, hitting a triple, a double and a single in three trips. Vic Buccola hammered out his tenth home run of the season and Joe Monjoseph hit his second triple in as many nights.
Victoria ........ 200 002 100—5 7 1
Yakima ........ 030 200 04x—9 12 1
Ward and Day; Sweiger and Orteig.

Friday, August 5, 1949

2007-07-25T22:47:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 75 40 .652 —
Vancouver ... 67 44 .604 6
Spokane ..... 60 54 .526
Wenatchee ... 57 57 .500
Victoria .... 52 63 .452
Bremerton ... 49 63 .430
Salem ....... 49 66 .426
Tacoma ...... 48 68 .414

SALEM, Aug. 5—Doggedly continuing their pursuit of the Bears, the Vancouver Capilanos uncorked some heavy artillery to down Salem Senators twice, 12-6 and 9-5. Cacther Bud Sheely was the biggest gun. He unloaded a bases-loaded home run and three singles to drive in six runs in the first game.
He came back in the seventh inning of the finale to slam out another grand-slam round-tripper which provided the victory margin.
Dick Sinovic tied it for the Caps in the fourth with yet another four-ply circuit smash.
First Game
Vancouver ........ 210 305 2—12 17 3
Salem ................ 012 100 2— 6 8 3
Costello and Sheely; Olson, Foster (4), Fredericks (8) and Beard, Burgher (6).
Second Game
Vancouver ....... 004 010 400—9 12 1
Salem ............... 013 000 010—5 8 1
Hedgecock and Sheely; McIrvin and Burgher.

YAKIMA, Aug 5—Playing their third twin-bill in five nights and their fifth in nine, the Victoria Athletics bowed to the league-leading Yakima Bears twice on Friday night, 6-4 and 4-3.
With the first game taking almost two and a half hours, the second contest was not completed until 1:15 in the morning.
Failure at the plate in the clutch cost the first game. The A's received 13 bases on balls from two Yakima picthers but hit into two double-plays and left 12 runners stranded in the seven innings as they managed but five singles. The Bears handed Joe Blankenship his fourth setback when they put together five singles, a walk and an error for five runs in the ninth.
The finale provided some action. The A's went ahead 3-1 but were unable to break through again. The Bears finally managed to tie the count and win it in the ninth when Ted Jennings set the stage by leading off with a triple.
First Game
Victoria ......... 000 112 0—4 5 2
Yakima ......... 001 500 x—6 8 2
Blankenship and Day; Sporer, Babbitt (5) and Orteig.
Second Game
Victoria ........ 030 000 000—3 6 3
Yakima ......... 100 011 001—4 11 0
Tobias and Morgan; Bradford and Tornay.

SPOKANE, Aug 5—Catcher Jack Parks connected for hos 21st circuit blow with two men on in the ninth inning to give the Spokane Indians a 6-5 triumph over the Tacoma Tigers tonight.
Tacoma ......... 001 101 200—5 8 0
Spokane ........ 000 110 103—6 16 6
Carter, Kerrigan (9) and Gardner; Conant, Kimball (8), Bishop (9) and Parks.

WENATCHEE, Aug 5—Wenatchee Chiefs and Bremerton Bluejackets scored 23 runs on a total of 16 hits tonight in a weird affair won by the home club, 13-10. Each team used up six pitchers who combined to issue 23 bases on balls.
Bremerton ........ 013 003 030—10 7 3
Wenatchee ........ 200 262 10x—13 9 3
Pirack, Walden (5), Stanford (7) and Ronning, Neal (7); Frick, Johnson (6), Greenlaw (8) and Winter.

Thursday, August 4, 1949

2007-07-25T03:52:00.000-07:00

W L PCT
Yakima ...... 73 40 .646 —
Vancouver ... 65 44 .596 6
Spokane ..... 59 54 .522
Wenatchee ... 56 57 .496
Victoria .... 52 61 .460
Salem ....... 49 64 .434
Bremerton ... 49 64 .434
Tacoma ...... 48 67 .417

SPOKANE, Aug 4—Spokane and Bremerton divided a twin bill on Thursday before more than 6,000 fans. Spokane won the opener 6-5 but Bremerton stepped back to end a seven-game losing streak in the finale 7-6.
Spokane's attendance was due in part to the presence of Al Schacht, baseball's "Clown Prince," but the fans also saw five hours of baseball that went until well after midnight.
Bremerton cut off a Spokane rally that had two on and none out in the ninth to win the second tilt.
First Game
Bremerton .......... 000 104 0—5 8 0
Spokane ............... 002 211 x—6 7 1
Marshall and Ronning, Neal (6); Bishop, Werbowski (6) and Parks.
Second Game
Bremerton .......... 104 000 200—7 10 4
Spokane .............. 001 003 020—6 9 3
Kohout, Marshall (6) and Neal; Adams, Kimball (3), Werbowski (8), Howard (9) and Rossi.

YAKIMA, Aug 4—The league-leading Yakima Bears moved six games in front of second-place Vancouver by handing the Capilanos a 9-1 loss on Thursday night to take the series 3-1. Southpaw Larry Powell held the Caps safely in check but got quite a battle from Bob Snyder for six innings. Double by Leroy Palmer and Powell, with an error sandwiched in between, scored two Yakima runners in the seventh to break up a 1-1 mound duel.
The Bears exploded for six runs in the eighth to make it safe. A two-run homer by Ted Jennings and a two-run triple by Edo Vanni did most of the damage.
A crowd of 4,442 swelled the attendance for the four games to 16,444, a Yakima record. It also increased the Bears' home attendance to 107,529, highest in the WIL.
Vancouver ......... 001 000 000—1 6 1
Yakima ............... 001 000 26x—9 11 1
Snyder and Brenner; Powell and Orteig.

WENATCHEE, Aug 4—Tacoma, tired of Wenatchee's winning ways, didn't take any chances of the hometown Chiefs coming from behind in the final frame on Thursday night. The Tigers blasted out eight hits, including Glen Stetter's circuit smash, for nine runs in the final inning in a 13-3 win. Wenatchee scored once in its half of the frame.
Tacoma .......... 022 010 109—13 15 3
Wenatchee ..... 010 000 101— 3 9 3
Walden and Sheets; McCollum and Winter, Peterson (9).

SALEM, Aug 4—Jim Propst saw his complete game streak end at 11 Thursday night when he attempted to take the load off an overworked Victoria pitching staff and throw on two days rest. However, he survived a sixth inning when Salem came to winthin a run and gained his 12th victory in 16 decisions when Frank Logue came through with another fine relief chore to abruptly halt the rally and give the A's a 5-4 win.
Logue's fine performance gave Victoria the series, 4-2.
Only 289 fans showed up, the third time during the series the Seantors drew less than 800.
Rookie John Burak started for Salem and immediately ran into some hard luck as his mates booted four times to give Victoria two runs in the first inning. Hits by Bob Day, Propst and Gordon [sic] Johnson, plus a mental blunder in the Salem infield, gave the A's their last three runs in the second inning.
A's notes — The New York Yankees have sent righthander Frank Labrum to the A's. LeBrun joined Ventura of the California League in June after finishing classes at Stanford University. Gil McDougald will be out two weeks with a badly gashed kneecap from sliding into home plate on Wednesday. Shortstop Russ Walseth (knee) and righthander Frank Prowse (arm) are lost for the year.
Victoria .......... 230 000 000—5 10 4
Salem .............. 000 121 000—4 10 4
Propst, Logue (6) and Day; Burak, G. Peterson (9) and Burgher.

Wednesday, August 3, 1949

2007-07-25T03:41:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 72 40 .643 —
Vancouver ... 65 43 .602 5
Spokane ..... 58 53 .523 13½
Wenatchee ... 56 56 .500 16
Victoria .... 51 61 .455 21
Salem ....... 49 63 .437 23
Bremerton ... 48 63 .432 23½
Tacoma ...... 47 67 .412 26

SALEM, Aug 3—Victoria Athletics cut a Salem rally short in the second inning on Wednesday night by pulling off their second triple-play of the season. However, the triple-killing came too late. The three Senator runs already proved to be the margin of victory as the home club came through with a 4-1 triumph.
Pete Vucuruvich went the distance and had only one bad inning. He was charged with his ninth defeat when his teammates were unable to solve Dick Drilling for the necessary runs.
Four successive hits and a walk in the second plated three Salem runs and left runners at second and first with no one out. First baseman Vic Buccola then snared a line drive, stepped on first to take the second man, and fired the ball to shortstop Russ Walseth for the inning-ending out.
The A's managed their lone run in the fifth on a single, Mel Wasley's boot and an infield out by Dick Morgan. Len Noren and Morgan were the only Victoria hitters able to do anything with Drilling. Noren had two singles and a double in four trips where Morgan had two singles. Infielder Arnold Johnson broke into the line-up for the first time, taking over from Gil McDougald at second base. He went hitless in two tries.
Victoria .......... 000 010 000—1 7 0
Salem ............. 030 010 00x—4 10 1
Vucurevich and Morgan; Drilling and Beard.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 3—Fighting to ensure a spot in the Shaughnessy playdowns, Wenatchee Chiefs ran their winning streak to seven ames by trouncing the Tacoma Tigers, 8-1, behind the five-hit pitching of Joe Orrell. Glen Stetter's home run spoiled Orrell's shutout bid. Clyde Haskell and Richie Meyers hit Wenatchee home runs.
Tacoma ............. 000 001 000—1 5 1
Wenatchee ........ 200 211 02x—8 13 1
Kerrigan and Gardner; Orrell and Winter.

YAKIMA, Aug. 3—Only a longshot gambler would be willing to wager that the Yakima Bears won't be the 1949 W.I.L. champions. Determined to win the bunting at any cost, the Bears today added Gene Babbitt, one of the best relief pitchers in the low minors, to an already tough pitching staff. Babbitt was obtained from the Spokane Indians, who have had their troubles keeping above the .500 mark.
The Bears increased their lead over the Vancouver Capilanos by scoring a 3-1 decision over the runners-up to take the series lead, 2-1. Babbitt was not long in proving his worth, coming in to relieve the faltering Lloyd Dickey and save the game in the ninth.
Playing before the largest crowd ever to see a Western International League game in Yakima—4,575—Dickey pitched brilliantly until he had two out in the ninth. Then his control deserted him and he walked four men in a row to force in the Caps' only run and put the winning run on the bags. Babbitt then strolled to the mound and forced Len Tran to fly out.
Dickey struck out 11 and only walked two up until the ninth. Yakimaøs three runs came in the fourth when Bob William' single, Len Tran's boot, a hit batter and Snag Moore's double did the damage.
Vancouver ........... 000 000 001—1 6 1
Yakima ................ 000 300 00x—3 8 1
Kindsfather and Brenner, Dickey, Babbitt (9) and Orteig.

Bremerton at Spokane, postponed, rain.

Younie Leaves Russets
IDAHO FALLS, Aug. 3—A new relief pitcher has joined the Idaho Falls Russets of the Pioneer Baseball league. Frank Gabler, former New York moundsman, was released from the Great Falls Selectrics to the Russets by Seattle.
Lou Garland, Russet manager, also announced Pete Younie has been returned to Yakima, Wash.
Burgher Optioned
PORTLAND, August 3—The Portland Pacific Coast League Beavers have options catcher Bill Burgher to the Salem farm club of the Western International League today. Burgher has been catching for Portland for the past year.

Tuesday, August 2, 1949

2007-07-25T02:58:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 71 40 .640
Vancouver ... 65 42 .607
Spokane ..... 58 53 .523
Wenatchee ... 55 56 .495
Victoria .... 51 60 .459
Salem ....... 48 63 .432
Bremerton ... 48 63 .432
Tacoma ...... 47 66 .416

SALEM, Aug. 2—Bouncing back with a 19-hit attack after three errors gave Salem a 2-0 victory in the first game, Victoria Athletics earned an even split in their WIL double-header Tuesday, scoting a 12-8 decision in the regulation finale.
The split in the second successive twin bill with the Solons hgave the A's a 3-1 series lead.
Tobey Tobias was the hard-luck loser in the opener, holding the Senators to three scattered hits, only to lose when three errors gave Salem two runs without the benefit of a base hit in the fifth inning. Ray Jacobs, who replaced Charlie Balassi in the outfield, picked up two of Victoria's four hits off Cal McIrvin.
Off to a good start with four runs in the first inning, the A's twice lost the lead in the second game before winning it with another four-run outburst in the eighth. Ahead 4-1 going into the fifth, Larry Ward ran into trouble and was derricked in favour of Joe Blankenship in the fifth when Salem scored five runs to go ahead, 6-4. After tallying three times in the sixth, Victoria lost the lead when Salem scored again on two runs in the Salem half. Jacobs then came through in the eighth when he slapped a three-run homer for runs which gave Blankenship the victory.
First Game
Victoria ..... 000 000 0—0 4 3
Salem ........ 000 020 x—2 3 0
Tobias and Day, McIrvin and Beard.
Second Game
Victoria ..... 400 003 041—12 19 2
Salem ........ 010 052 000—8 12 2
Ward, Blankenship (5) and Morgan; Fredericks, Foster (8) and Carlson.

SPOKANE, Aug. 2—Spokane handed Bremerton its sixth straight defeat on Tuesday in an 8-6 game. The Indians tied together five straight singles after two were out in the fifth inning scoring three runs.
Bremerton ........ 200 201 100—6 16 2
Spokane ............. 031 031 00x—8 12 0
Dahle, Pirack (6) and Ronning; Werbowski and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, Aug. 2—Wenatchee kept up its winning streak by edging Tacoma, 10-9, on Tuesday night.
Jim Warner hit his 28th and 29th home runs to take the lead from Dick Greco, who connected for his 28th in a losing cause.
Tacoma ............ 033 000 120—9 12 1
Wenatchee ....... 016 001 02x—10 15 2
Fortier, Lazor (3), Johnson (9) and Sheets; Greenlaw, Meyers (3) and Winter.

YAKIMA, Aug. 2—Yakima dropped two decisions Tuesday night—one to the Vancouver Capilanos, and another to John Young.
The first cut their Western International League lead over the second place Caps to four games and evened their crucial four game set at a win apiece. The second lost them the ninth inning service of Manager Joe Orengo and catcher Ray Orteig.
Vancouver won the tilt in the ninth frame, scoring four runs on a lone hit by Bob McLean and three Yakima bobbles. Four Yakima hurlers went to mound in the final inning.
Orengo was bounced for disputing Young's decision that Vancouver's Ray Tran was hit by a pitched ball. Orteig followed Orengo a few moments later.
Vancouver ..... 001 100 104—7 9 0
Yakima .......... 000 021 000—3 6 3
Anderson and Sheely; Sweiger, Savarese (9), Bradford (9), Sporer (9) and Orteig, Torney (9).

Offers $60,000 For Franchise of Salem Club
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 2—Assistant Secretary of State William E. Healy was in Portland today negotiating with the Portland Beavers for the sale of the Western International League baseball club.
Healy did not identify his backers, who he said have put up $60,000 to make the sale,
The Portland management, however, has said it would like to see for not less than $75,000.
Healy long has been interested in baseball. He used to be a part owner of the Bellingham W.I.L. club before the Bellingham franchise was moved to Salem.

LEAGUE LEADERS
Batting, Hal Rhyne and CLint Cameron, Wenatchee, .395
Runs, Larry Barton, Spokane, 100.
Hits, Edo Vanni, Yakima, 149.
Runs batted in, Bill Taylor, Bremerton, 97.
Total bases, Dick Greco, Tacoma, 237
Doubles, Cameron nd Dick Briskey, Yakima, 28.
Triples, Jack Parks, Spokane, Ritchie Myers, Wenatchee, 12.
Home runs, Greco, 26.
Stolen bases, Vanni, 29.
Sacrifice Hits, Al Jacinto, Yakima, 32.

TEAM BATTING—Vancouver, .301; Spokane, .300; Yakima, .300; Victoria, .281.

TEAM FIELDING—Vancouver, .963; Yakima, .960; Victoria, .956.

DOUBLE PLAYS, Vancouver, 128 in 97 games.

Monday, August 1, 1949

2007-07-25T02:26:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 71 39 .645 —
Vancouver ... 64 42 .604 5
Spokane ..... 57 53 .518 14
Wenatchee ... 54 56 .491 17
Victoria .... 50 59 .459 20½
Bremerton ... 48 62 .436 23
Salem ....... 47 62 .431 23½
Tacoma ...... 42 65 .420 27½

SALEM, Aug. 1—Jim Propst completed his 11th consecutive game and won his 11th of the season in the nightcap as the Victoria Athletics swept the Salem Senators, 9-6 and 7-1, in a Western International League double-header.
Frank Logue went the distance in the first game to chalk up his eighth win, his fourth in a row against nine defeats.
The A's concentrated their attack in the first game on three scoring innings. Three walks, two Salem boots and a single by John Hack gave them a 3-0 lead in the first inning. They sent Bill Osborn to the showers when singles in the next inning by Hack, Frank Matoh, Bob Day and Logue pushed over two tallies. A third Salem error and successive doubles by Charlie Balassi, Ray Jacobs and Len Noren provided four more runs and the victory in the sixth.
Mel Wasley's 17th home run and another round-tripper by Wayne Peterson were the big blows off Logue.
In the night game, Propst gave up seven hits but the Senators broke through only once, spoiling his shutout in the fourth after the Victorians had taken a 2-0 lead.
Russ Walseth and Gil McDougald each had a pair of hits as the A's rifled 14 off Gene Peterson.
A's Notes — Team rosters were able to expand to 19 on Monday and the A's have added shortstop Arnold Johnston and outfielder Joe Morjoseph. Johnston was expected earlier but got held up in a numbers move. Morjoseph batted .310 in 117 games with Dayton of the Central League last year. He had 31 home runs, batted in 106 and smacked 18 doubles and three triples.
First Game
Victoria ............. 032 004 0—9 10 1
Salem ............... 010 203 1—6 8 21
Logue and Day, Osborn, Foster (3), Drilling (6) and Carlson.
Second Game
Victoria ........... 000 202 021—7 14 1
Salem ............. 000 100 000—1 7 2
Propst and Morgan, G. Peterson and Beard.

YAKIMA, Aug. 1—The league-leading Yakima Bears made certain the Vancouver Capilanos would not gain a tie for top spot in the current series between the two clubs by winning, 9-8. A sweep would have put the Caps ahead on percentage points.
The Bears came from behind in the free-hitting encounter when a pinch double by Ray Orteig and a hit by Al Jacinto chased in the tying and winning runs in the last of the ninth.
In a see-saw affair, the Caps took an early 4-2 lead, tied it 6-6 after a four-run Yakima fifth-inning rally, and then went ahead again when K Chorlton hit a two-run homer inn the eighh after the Bears had again gone ahead, 7-6.
Tiny Ted Savarese managed to go the distance to gain credit for his 11th win.
Vancouver ......... 301 002 020—8 11 1
Yakima .............. 011 040 002—9 14 2
Costello, Hedgecock (5) and Brenner, Savarese and Tornay.

(only games scheduled)

Try To Buy Salem
SALEM, Aug. 1—Assistant Secretary of State William Healy stopped over in Portland yesterday to try to make a deal for the purchase of the Salem franchise of the WIL.
Healy is said to have offered $60,000, but the Portland Beavers, owner of the club are said to holding firm for $75,000.
Healy didn't say who he is fronting for, but he used to be a part owner of the Bellingham WIL club before the franchise was transferred to Salem.

Sunday, July 31, 1949

2007-07-25T02:05:00.000-07:00

First Game
Wenatchee .......... 000 020 0—2 10 0
Bremerton ............ 000 100 0—1 4 0
McCollum and Winter; Kohout and Neal.
Second Game
Wenatchee .......... 103 200 201—9 14 1
Bremerton ............ 001 000 000—1 6 2
Frick and Winter; Baldwin, Pirack (6) and Ronning.

First Game
Spokane ........... 000 010 001—2 9 0
Tacoma ............ 000 001 000—1 10 1
Conant and Parks; Greco and Sheets.
Second Game
Spokane ........... 011 200 1—5 9 1
Tacoma ............ 013 040 x—8 11 1
Babbitt, Kimball (3) and Parks; Carter and Gardner.

Only games scheduled.

Saturday, July 30, 1949

2007-07-24T15:55:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 70 39 .642 —
Vancouver ... 64 41 .610 4
Spokane ..... 56 52 .519 8½
Wenatchee ... 52 56 .481 17½
Victoria .... 48 59 .449 21
Bremerton ... 48 60 .444 21½
Salem ....... 47 60 .439 22
Tacoma ...... 46 64 .418 23½

BREMERTON, July 30—Bremerton reached Joe Orrell for 12 hits but only managed a single run as the Wenatchee Chiefs consolidated their grip on fourth place with their third straight win over the cooled-off Bluejackets. Shooting for his 20th straight win, John Marshall drew his eighth setback in the 4-1 game.
Wenatchee ......... 111 000 010—4 10 1
Bremerton ........... 000 000 001—1 12 0
Orrell and Winter; Marshall and Walden.

VICTORIA, July 30—The Victoria Athletics handed Yakima their second 5-0 shutout of the five game series in a game Saturday afternoon, but the Bears managed to hold off a ninth-inning rally to win the second game, 2-1.
Joe Blankenship was backed up by four double-plays in the opener, as he tossed a three hitter, the first one being an unexpected bunt from Edo Vanni. He faced two batters over the minimum and walked four.
Blankenship also walked and scored Victoria's second run in the fifth inning, then smacked a lead-off homer in the seventh before Jack Hack doubled in the other two runs of the inning.
Charlie Balassi's double brought in Russ Walseth in the third inning for the first run.
With 5,300 on hand to see comedian Al Schacht in the night game, fans almost saw Victoria come from behind to tie it. Ray Orteig doubled in Edo Vanni with the first run in the fourth, then an inning later Dick Briskey scored from third when first baseman Vic Buccola messed up on Leroy Paton's ground ball.
Pinch-hitter Ray Jacobs and Walseth drew walks off Larry Powell in the ninth and were moved along by Buccola's sacrifice. Charlie Balassi grounded to short to score one run, but Walseth was cut down trying to reach third. Gil McDougald bounced into a forceout to end the game, as the A's left 13 on base during the game.
First Game
Yakima ......... 000 000 000— 0 3 0
Victoria ........ 001 010 30x — 5 10 1
Bradford and Tornay; Blankenship and Day.
Second Game
Yakima ......... 000 110 000—2 6 0
Victoria ........ 000 000 001—1 5 4
Powell and Orteig; Vucurevich and Day.

VANCOUVER, July 30—Vancouver's second-place Capilanos sliced a full game from the Bears' lead by twice downing the Salem Senators, 12-4 and 8-7.
Vern Kindsfather had clear sailing in the opener as Len Tran hit two home runs and Charlie Mead and Bud Sheely each contributed one. Bud and Wayne Peterson hit Salem home runs, but they were not enough to match the eight runs which came from the four Cap clouts.
Vancouver left 15 men on base in the finale, but a walk to Jim Robinson, a balk by Stu Fredericks, Robinson's steal of third and Mead's single in the ninth broke an 8-8 tie.
Salem ................ 000 230 003—8 11 2
Vancouver .......... 300 030 O01—7 15 0
Drilling, Fredericks (9) and Carlson; Nicholas and Sheely.

TACOMA, July 30—The Tacoma Tigers kept up their bid for playoff contention by dropping the slumping Spokane Indians twice, 3-1 and 5-4. Bob Kerrigan effectively scattered nine hits in the opener, while Dick Greco won the last hame by slamming out his 27th homer in the ninth inning.
First Game
Spokane ........... 000 010 0—1 9 1
Tacoma ............ 200 100 x—3 6 0
Adams and Parks; Kerrigan and Sheets.
Second Game
Spokane .......... 003 000 100—4 8 1
Tacoma ........... 202 000 001—5 7 1
Bishop and Parks; Walden and Gardner.

Friday, July 29, 1949

2007-07-24T14:53:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 69 38 .645 —
Vancouver ... 62 41 .602 5
Spokane ..... 56 50 .528 12½
Wenatchee ... 51 56 .477 18
Bremerton ... 48 59 .449 21
Victoria .... 47 58 .448 21
Salem ....... 47 58 .448 21
Tacoma ...... 44 64 .407 25½

BREMERTON, July 29—The Wenatchee Chiefs swept a twin-bill over the Bremerton Bluejackets by identical 7-3 scores.
First Game
Wenatchee ..... 020 014 0—7 11 2
Bremerton ....... 101 000 1—3 6 0
Greenlaw and Winter; Dahle and Ronning.
Second Game
Wenatchee ....... 100 105 000—7 11 3
Bremerton ......... 000 100 200—3 7 1
Libke and Winter; Pirack, Baldwin (7) and Neal.

VANCOUVER, July 29—Orrin Snyder, former Capilano outfielder playing for the first time against his old team, provided the clincher with a bases-loaded home run in the ninth off brother Bob, as the Salem Senators defeated Vancouver, 11-5.
The Caps defence fell apart as four of Salem's runs were unearned going itno the ninth.
The win was the Senators' second straight in Vancouver.
Salem ............ 003 100 304—11 12 2
Vancouver ..... 110 011 100—5 10 3
McIrvin, Osborne (7) and Beard; Gunnerson, Snyder (7) and Brenner.

VICTORIA, July 29—Fresh off a 5-0 shutout last night, Frank Logue was rushed in and saved the game in the ninth inning tonight as Victoria held off Yakima for a 5-3 win.
Down 5-2, Dick Briskey opened the ninth with a double, Nino Tornay walked, then Edo Vanni and Al Jacinto singled to bring in a run and leave the bases loaded. Logue came in to get Snag Moore and Bob Williams to strike out swinging then induce Ray Orteig to pop up foul on the first base side that right fielder Charlie Balassi caught off his knees.
The Bears got two runs in the first on three walks and a single before the A's took the league with three in the fourth. A walk to John Jack, Len Noren's double and Frank Matoh's 14th home run did the trick. What proved to be the winning run crossed the plate in the seventh when Gil McDougald singled through the middle after Lloyd Dickey loaded the bags on three walks.
Yakima ......... 020 000 001—3 9 0
Victoria ........ 000 300 230x—5 8 0
Dickey and Orteig; Ward, Logue (9) and Day.

TACOMA, July 29—Ken Richardson his a three-run homer andc a double, Joe Rossi slammed a homer and a double, Jack Calvey laurruped two triples and Tuck Stainback picked up four singles as Spokane topped Tacoma, 9-7, tonight.
Spokane .... 021 222 000—9 15 1
Tacoma ..... 000 005 002—7 18 1
Werbowski, Conant (8) and Rossi; Lazor, Johnson (4) and Sheets.

Bremerton Mulls WIL Team Value
BREMERTON, July 29—Interested businessmen were to meet with officials of the Bremerton Western International League club today to see if the team is a good investment.
A meeting was set for 1pm.
The businessmen and fans became interested in the purchase when Willis Shepherd, majority stockholder, announced several days ago he had his interest up for sale. Several other northwest communities reportedly are dickering for the franchise.

Thursday, July 28, 1949

2007-07-24T13:51:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 69 37 .651 —
Vancouver ... 62 40 .608 5
Spokane ..... 55 50 .524 13½
Wenatchee ... 49 56 .467 19½
Bremerton ... 48 57 .457 20½
Victoria .... 46 58 .442 22
Salem ....... 46 58 .442 22
Tacoma ...... 44 63 .411 25½

VICTORIA, July 28—Sidearming righthander Frank Logue gave up seven hits in the first two innings and then none the rest of the way as the Victoria Athletics blanked the Yakima Bears, 5-0, in the first game of a double-header.
The A's handed Bill Sweiger his first defeat, scoring once in the first inning on a double, two walks and a fielder's choice. The team came up with a four-run cushion in the second inning, two of the runs coming on third baseman Ted Jennings' boot of Charlie Balassi's ground ball.
Dick Morgan had three straight singles for the A's.
Yakima took the night game, 9-3, as the Bears had runners on base in every inning, using 14 hits and five walks. They scored once in the second, then three in the third on a Bob Williams homer. Dick Briskey had a pair of doubles and singles, while batting in three runs.
Buzz Sporer went the distance for Yakima, though he walked nine as he pitched a five-hitter. He walked the first man in five innings and an error put the opening batter on in another.
Frank Prowse fell to 5 and 12 with the loss, as he left for a pinch-hitter in the fifth.
First Game
Yakima ........ 000 000 0—0 7 2
Victoria ........ 140 000 x—5 7 1
Sweiger and Orteig; Logue and Morgan.
Second Game
Yakima ...... 013 102 101—9 14 2
Victoria ...... 001 010 100—3 5 1
Sporer and Tornay: Propst, Tobias (5) and Morgan.

TACOMA, July 28—Dick Greco clouted a 415-foot homer in the eighth to give the Tacoma Tigers a 6-5 win over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
Greco misjudged a fly ball in the seventh, enabling the Indians to tie the game.
Wenatchee ....... 100 020 200—5 6 1
Tacoma ............ 031 010 01x—6 10 4
McCollum and Winter; Carter and Gardner.

BREMERTON, July 28—Keith Simon was creditted with his tenth win as the Bremerton Bluejackets topped Spokane, 9-7. He helped himself with a triple and a double which drove in two runs.
Spokane ....... 003 002 011—7 11 3
Bremerton ..... 110 103 36x—9 13 1
Kimball, Babbitt (6), Adams (8) and Parks; Simon, Marshall (9) and Ronning.

VANCOUVER, July 28—Bud Peterson's three-run homer in the eleventh inning gave Salem a 9-8 call over Vancouver.
The blow, Peterson's second, redeemed a ninth-inning boot which enabled the Caps to tie the count twice. Vancouver scored twice in their half of the 11th and had the tying and winning runs on when Bob Drilling forced Bud Sheely to fly out for the third out.
Salem .......... 100 211 100 03—9 15 3
Vancouver .... 012 010 002 02—8 12 3
Fredericks, McIrvin (9), G. Peterson (9) Drilling (11) and Beard; R. Snyder, Anderson (7) Costello (10) Hedgecock (11) and Sheely.

Wednesday, July 27, 1949

2007-07-24T13:08:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 68 36 .654 —
Vancouver ... 62 39 .614 4½
Spokane ..... 55 49 .529 13
Wenatchee ... 49 55 .471 19
Bremerton ... 47 57 .452 21
Victoria .... 45 57 .441 22
Salem ....... 45 58 .437 22½
Tacoma ...... 43 63 .406 26

VANCOUVER, July 27—Diminutive Ted Savarese kept the Yakima Bears four and a half games ahead of the second-place Capilanos tonight by effectively scattering 11 hits to salvage the series finale for the W.I.L. leaders, 8-2. The Caps pounded out a 14-10 triumph in the first game of the second successive twin-bill between the two clubs.
Vancouver mound ace George Nicholas failed in the nightcap, being victimized for a trio of runs in the second inning after the Caps had opened with a 2-0 lead. Roy Paton's three-run homer was the payoff blow for Yakima.
Behind 4-0 in the first game, the Bears took a 9-4 lead with two runs in the fourth and seven in the fifth, but the Caps unloaded for ten runs in their half of the fifth. Six hits, five walks and two hit batsmen did the damage.
First Game
Yakima ......... 000 271 0—10 10 14 0
Vancouver ..... 400 0(10)0 x—14 15 0
Bradford, Dickey (5), Sporer (5) and Orteig; Anderson, Hedgecock (5), Kindsfather (5), Robertson (6) and Sheely, Brenner (8).
Second Game
Yakima ......... 030 003 101—8 11 2
Vancouver ..... 200 000 000—2 11 3
Savarese and Orteig; Nicholas and Brenner.

BREMERTON, July 27—The revitalized Bremerton Bluejackets moved within two games of fourth-place Wenatchee, scoring a 4-2 decision over the Spokane Indians for their fifth straight win. Southpaw Joe Sullivan authored a three-hitter to get the win when his club tied it with two runs in the sixth and won it with another pair in the eighth.
He had to be stingy with his hits as John Conant tossed a six-hitter against him.
Approximately 1,200 fans were on hand tonight, double the usual crowd. Fans responded to a plea that they show their desire for continuance of pro baseball there by attending games. sThe request followed announcement by Bremerton club President Willis Shepherd that his majority holdings are up for sale, and reports that two other communities are dickering for the franchise. Indians notes - Spokane has given an outright release to pitcher Hank Weaver.
Spokane ....... 000 011 000—2 3 1
Bremerton ..... 000 002 02x—4 6 2
Conant and Parks; Sullivan and Ronning.

TACOMA, July 27—Ed Barr's seventh-inning triple drove in Gordon Jones and Joe Kaney with the tying and winning runs as the Tacoma Tigers dumped Wenatchee for the second night, this time 6-5. Manager Bob Johnson, third of three Tigers pitchers, received credit for his fourth mound triumph.
Wenatchee ...... 310 110 000—5 10 1
Tacoma .......... 010 200 30x—6 7 2
Frick and Winter; Fortier, Clary (3), Johnson (6) and Gardner.

VICTORIA, July 27—Jim Propst won his won his tenth game since late May and held the Salem Senators to five hits in a 14-1 crushing by the Victoria Athletics.
It was the tenth game in a row he has gone the distance and the 12th time in 15 games he has finished. He won eight of those ten games.
Propst has pitched 113 1-3 innings in 16 appearances, including one in relief, and has given up 102 hits, good for 48 runs, 44 earned. He has given up 87 walks and struck out 119, second-best in the lead behind Bremerton's John Marshall.
A pair of singles sandwiches around one of his eight robbed him of a shutout in the third inning.
His teammates battered Salem pitching for 21 hits. They took the lead in the second when Bob Day singled in the first two runs and kept adding to the margin, leaving 16 on base along the way.
Charlie Balassi had a double and two singles to raise his batting average to .355, John Hack and Len Noren had three hits each and every Victoria batter had at least one rap.
Salem ....... 001 000 000— 1 5 6
Victoria .... 021 323 03x—14 21 1
R. Drilling, Osborne (5), Hedington (7) and Beard; Propst and Day.

Seals Promise Bears Aid In Quest of W.I.L. Flag
VANCOUVER, July 27—Here is bad news for Western International League baseball clubs.
Dewey Soriano, president of the Yakima Bears, current league leaders, said in an interview, his club could ask for and get any player on the San Francisco Seals' roster, except Pitcher Con Dempsey, who is being groomed for the big wheel.
The Seals own 50 per cent stock in the Yakima club and intend to see the Bears win the pennant this year no matter what the cost, he said.
EVEN MELTON, BREWER
“There is not much chance of us folding,” Soriano said. “At the first sign of a slump, we can have Cliff Melton or Jack Brewer to help our pitching.” Melton is a veteran who was one of the New York Giants' big winners a few years ago. Brewer is one of the Coast League's most consistent winners.
“With the Seals aid in players we have already broken a Yakima record for attendance, drawing over 90,000 fans.”
In regard to his team, Joe Orengo, club manager, thinks Lloyd Dickey is one of the best pitching prospects he has ever seen. The Seals own Dickey's contract.
However, the Bears own Dick Briskey outright who they think will bring in a straight sale.
“Briskey is the most improved player in the league right now,” Orengo said. “He is hitting .339 and is doing everything out there at shortstop. Dick has 75 R.B.I.'s to show for it.”
The Bears regard Vancouver Caps, who are in second place in the standings, as the biggest hurdle.
“I don't figure Spokane as a threat," Orengo added. “They are a team built on old men. They haven't got that hustle that Yakima or Vancouver have.”

$15,000 Win Buy Cap Keystone Ace
VANCOUVER, July 27—Second baseman Len Tran of the Vancouver Capilanos has a $15,000 price tag on him.
Bob Brown, veteran general manager of the Western International League entry, predicted the 23-year-old hustle “won't be with us next season, he's going up and might not stop until he gets to the big wheel.”
To purchase Tran a club would have to complete the deal before September 15, when his name will go on the draft list.

Tuesday, July 26, 1949

2007-07-24T02:43:00.000-07:00

W.I.L. STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 67 35 .657 —
Vancouver ... 61 38 .616 4½
Spokane ..... 55 48 .534 12½
Wenatchee ... 49 54 .476 18½
Bremerton ... 46 57 .447 21½
Salem ....... 45 57 .441 22
Victoria .... 44 57 .436 22½
Tacoma ...... 42 63 .400 26½

VANCOUVER, July 26—Anything but the perfect host, the runner-up Vancouver Capilanos knifed Western International league-leading Yakima twice tonight, 3-2 in eight Innings and 4-2 in nine frames.
Vancouver squeezed out its first game win in the first extra inning when Bob McLean singled home Dick Sinovic to break a 2-2 deadlock. Catcher Bill Brenner's two-run homer in the fifth frame was the big blow of the second contest.
First Game
Yakima ............. 000 011 00—2 5 0
Vancouver ........ 000 020 01—3 9 1
Powell and Orteig; Kindsfather, Gunnarson (6), and Brenner.
Second Game
Yakima ............. 000 100 010—2 7 0
Vancouver ........ 100 120 00x—4 7 0
Dickey and Tornay; Costello, Gunnarson (9) and Brenner.

TACOMA , July 26—Tacoma's Gordon Walden notched his 10th win against eight defeats tonight with a four-hit, 8-0 shutout of the fourth-place Wenatchee Chiefs.
Ed Barr and Gordon Jones clouted four-masters for the Tigers.
Tigers' note — Bill McCord, righthanded pitcher, has been assigned by Tacoma to the Tucson Cowboys of the Class C Arizona-Texas League.
Wenatchee .... 000 000 000—0 4 2
Tacoma ......... 100 122 00x—8 10 0
Orrell and Winter; Walden and Sheets.

BREMERTON, July 26—Bremerton squeezed out Spokane, 4-3, in the eighth inning tonight, overcoming a 3-2 deficit on Charley Bushong's double, singles by Lil Arnerich and Al Ronning, and Walt Pocekay's outfield fly.
Jay Ragni powdered one over the fence for the winners in the second.
Spokane .......... 000 201 000—3 9 1
Bremerton ....... 010 001 02x—4 7 1
Bishop and Rossi; Kohout and Ronning.

VICTORIA, July 26—Salem, paced by Bill Beard's pair of home runs and triple, ran up a 9-0 lead over Victoria before the Canadians pushed over their initial tally, as the Senators triumphed 12-10.
Bill Peterson also homered for Salem. Gil McDougald and John Hack smacked the ball over the fence for the losers.
Salem ............ 102 602 100—12 14 1
Victoria .......... 000 062 020—10 9 2
McIrvin, G. Peterson (6), and Beard; Blankenship, Vucurevich (4) and Day.

Bremerton Franchise Up For Sale
BREMERTON, July 27—Baseball fans sought means today to save the city's franchise in the Western International league.
Announcement by W. W. Shepherd, president of the Bremerton club, that he was ready to put his majority stock interest on the block, was followed shortly by reports that two Northwest cities have entered negotiations. They were not identified.
Shepherd said he wanted to sell because he plans to move to Seattle within a month.
Sponsoring the funds drive is the Bremerton hot stove league. The group scheduled a meeting in the office of mayor L. Hum Kean to discuss the proposed purchase.

Monday, July 25, 1949

2007-07-24T02:32:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 67 33 .670 —
Vancouver ... 59 38 .608 6½
Spokane ..... 55 47 .539 13
Wenatchee ... 49 53 .480 19
Bremerton ... 45 57 .441 23
Victoria .... 44 56 .440 23
Salem ....... 44 57 .436 23½
Tacoma ...... 41 63 .394 28

VICTORIA, July 25—Manager Earl Bolyard shook up his batting order to get more production and it seemed to work as Victoria scored four in the third and six in the eighth in a 14-3 rout of the Salem Senators.
Included in the 14-hit attack were four home runs and three doubles. Len Noren parked two over the fence, the last one with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, and brought in five runs. Charlie Balassi batted in the first three runs of the ga,e and wound up with a homer and two singles in five trips. John Hack picked up a two-run homer in the fourth.
Larry Ward spaced seven hits over five innings for the victory and would have had a shutout except for the inability of the infield to turn the double-play. Frank Matoh got the ball stuck in his glove at third in the first inning, and Mel Wasley followed with a two-run single. Gil McDougald made a bad throw from second base in the third, keeping the inning alive for the Senators, who ended up scoring when catcher Bob Day decided to toss to second to stop a double steal.
Salem ............ 201 000 000—3 7 1
Victoria ........ 204 100 16x—14 14 1
Osborn and Beard; Ward and Day.

Yakima at Vancouver, postponed, rain.
No other games scheduled.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Marty Hits Cycle As Pinch-Hitter
LOS ANGELES, July 25—The statistician thumbed the book today and said he couldn't find a record of it happening before.
Joe Marty's pinch home run against San Diego Sunday took him all the way around the diamond during July in his pinch hitter's role. Here's how the Sacramento outfielder did it:
On July 1, he hit a pinch triple against Portland, on July 7 a pinch single against Seattle; on July 21 a pinch double against San Diego.

Sunday, July 24, 1949

2007-07-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Yakima ...... 67 33 .670 —
Vancouver ... 59 38 .608 6½
Spokane ..... 55 47 .539 13
Wenatchee ... 49 53 .480 19
Bremerton ... 45 57 .441 23
Salem ....... 44 56 .440 23
Victoria .... 43 56 .434 23½
Tacoma ...... 41 63 .394 28

Rough Go For WIL Chuckers
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was no day for pitchers Sunday in the Western International League.
Two of the games saw the winning team post 20 or more runs; in three others the top club had 10 or better. Wenatchee got six homers in the second game against Vancouver, and Spokane's Jack Parks banged out two bases-loaded home runs, a triple and two singles in the finale against Victoria.
HERE ARE RESULTS
Briefly the results went like this:
Yakima took a pair from Tacoma, 3-2 and 12-6; Bremerton also swept two from Salem 10-2
and 8-7; Vancouver edged Wenatchee 7-6 in two extra innings of the first game, then lost a brutal 21-6 decision in the second. Victoria clubbed Spokane 12-8, then was battered 20-6 in return.
The results widened Yakima's first place margin over Vancouver to six and a-half games and Jumped Bremerton from seventh to a precarious fifth place. The Tars lead Salem by a bare
percentage point.
OTHER FEATURES
Other features: John Marshall's posting his 19th win of the season for Bremerton in letting Salem down with seven hits in the seven-inning opener; Jim Hedgecock's four-hit twirling for nine innings of relief that enabled Vancouver to edge Wenatchee in the opener; and Len Tran's triple followed by Dick Sinovic's home run that provided the Vancouver club with the winning punch in the second extra inning.
Only the two Canadian fields are lighted Monday night, Vancouver entertaining Yakima and Victoria hosting Salem in the openers of three-game sets. Tuesday, Wenatchee opens at Tacoma and Spokane at Bremerton.

First Game
Vancouver ......... 000 300 102—7 13 3
Wenatchee ........ 500 000 001—6 9 3
Snyder, Hedgecock (1) and Brenner; McCollum and Pesut.
Second Game
Vancouver ........ 005 000 001— 6 9 2
Wenatchee ....... 137 105 13x—21 22 3
Anderson, Snyder (3) and Sheely; Frick, Libke (3) and Winter.

SPOKANE, July 24—The Spokane Indians and Victoria Athletics split a pair at Ferris Field on Sunday, as the A's won the first game, 12-8, with a sparkling relief chore by Frank Logue. He took over from Pete Vucurevich with two out in the third after the Indians took a 6-3 lead and held the home nine to two runs in six and a third innings. Only one was earned.
Bob Day and Frank Matoh homered for the A's, Day had three hits and a five-RBI game. Ken Richardson had a solo blast for Spokane.
The Indians, who have won 12 out of 14 against Victoria this year, came back in the second game to pound out a 20-6 triumph.
Jack Parks hit two bases-loaded home runs, a triple and two singles to account for nine runs.
The A's put up three runs in the third, chased starter Tobey Tobias with a six-run fourth and put up five in the fifth and four in the six off Pete Vucurevich and Frank Logue. Seven of the runs, four earned, were charged to Vucurevich, who lasted two-thirds of an inning after working only the first three and two thirds in the first game.
Frank Matoh went three for three as Victoria rustled up 12 hits.
First Game
Victoria ............. 300 141 003—12 13 4
Spokane ............ 024 010 001—8 15 1
Vucurevich, Logue (3) and Day; Weaver, Babbitt (5), Conant (8) and Rossi.
Second Game
Victoria ............. 100 003 200—6 12 2
Spokane ............ 003 654 02x—20 20 1
Tobias, Vucurevich (4), Logue (8) and Morgan; Adams and Parks.

First Game
Bremerton .......... 102 204 1—10 14 1
Salem ................ 000 010 1—2 7 2
Marshall and Ronning; Olson, Foster (6) and Carlson.
Second Game
Bremerton .......... 030 001 400—8 13 4
Salem ................ 000 100 213—7 11 2
Dahle, Pirack (9) and Neal; Fredericks, Osborn (6), Peterson (9) and Beard.

First Game
Tacoma .......... 000 200 0—2 4 1
Yakima ........... 002 000 1—3 10 1
Lazor and Gardner, Soriano and Orteig.
Second Game
Tacoma .......... 400 020 000—6 12 4
Yakima ........... 233 100 21x—12 10 1
Kerrigan and Sheets; Sweiger and Tornay.

Saturday, July 23, 1949

2007-07-24T01:17:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 65 33 .663 —
Vancouver ... 58 37 .611 5½
Spokane ..... 54 46 .540 12
Wenatchee ... 48 52 .480 18
Salem ....... 44 54 .449 21
Victoria .... 42 55 .433 22½
Bremerton ... 43 57 .430 24
Tacoma ...... 41 61 .402 26

SPOKANE, July 23—Bill Werbowski and Jim Propst hooked up for a real pitchers duel tonight, but Werbowski came up with a five-hit shutout as the Spokane Indians blanked the Victoria Athletics, 3-0.
All the Victoria hits were singles—two each by Russ Walseth and Vic Buccola and one by Charlie Balassi. The Indians picked up nine bingles from Propst, with the lead-off man, Lyle Palmer, pacing the attack with two doubles and a single. Both pitchers exhibited good control with Propst issuing the only walk of the game. Werbowski whiffed three and Propst struck out four to boost his season's total to 112.
Extra base hits proved Propst's downfall with a triple by Larry Barton and doubles by Jack Calvey and Palmer resulting in the three tallies.
A's note — The A's have received a replacement folr shortstop Russ Walseth, whose year has ended due to a knee injury. Gordon Johnston will be arriving from Manchester of the Class 'B' New England League. Walseth will have his knee attended to then resume his off-season job coaching basketball at the University of Colorado.
Victoria .............. 000 000 000—0 5 0
Spokane ............. 001 000 11x—3 9 1
Propst and Day; Werbowski and Rossi.

YAKIMA, July 23—Ray Fortier fashioned a five-hitter for Tacoma tonight, as the Tigers blanked the league-leading Yakima Bears 5-0.
Two sharp singles to centre field in the eighth inning by Edo Vanni and Al Jacinto and Nino Tornay's double in the ninth were the only really hard-hit balls of the night for Yakima. Vanni and Ted Jennings beat out slow rollers down the third base line for Yakima's only hits in the first seven innings.
A two-run single by Bill Sheets and an error produced three runs in the first inning and the Tigers coasted to the victory behind Fortier's brilliant pitching.
A Yakima crowd of 1,674 boosted the Bears' home attendance to 88,936—336 more than the previous mark. The Bears have 23 home games left.
The victory squared the series at one game apiece.
Tacoma ............. 300 010 100—5 10 1
Yakima .............. 000 000 000—0 5 2
Fortier and Sheets; Sporer and Tornay.

WENATCHEE, July 23—The Vancouver Capilanos climbed on the back of Cy Greenlaw tonight for twelve hits and six runs to down the Chiefs 6-1.
Wenatchee's lone tally came in the second inning on Neil Bryant's four-bagger over the left field wall.
The Capilanos' double-play combination of the Tran brothers to first baseman Bob McLean paid off for three doubles and notched their 116th of the season.
The series stands at one game apiece.
Vancouver .......... 300 010 020—6 12 0
Wenatchee ......... 010 000 000—1 8 3
Nicholas and Sheely; Greenlaw and Pesut.

Bremerton ............. 000 014 101—7 15 0
Salem ................... 010 001 000—2 7 1
Simon and Ronning; G. Peterson, McIrvin (8) and Beard.

Tiger Jack Will Wed at Home Plate
SPOKANE, July 23—Catcher “Tiger Jack” Parks of the Spokane Indians baseball team will be married at home plate at Ferns field August 17, team officials announced today.
His bride will be Betty Mae Tibbett of Spokane.
The ceremony will be held before the Indians' game with the Victoria Athletics. A reception will be held after the game.

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Far West League Team May Be Homeless Club
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23—The Vallejo Chiefs may be the homeless wanderers of the Far West baseball league the remainder of the season.
League President Jerry Donovan told a reporter this Saturday commenting that the club's dispute with its hometown ballpark owners was “still up in the air.”
The Chiefs have been on road for two weeks because of disagreement over lease of the park.

Friday, July 22, 1940

2007-07-24T00:57:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 65 32 .670 —
Vancouver ... 57 37 .606 6½
Spokane ..... 53 46 .553 13
Wenatchee ... 48 51 .485 18
Salem ....... 44 53 .454 21
Victoria .... 42 54 .438 22½
Bremerton ... 42 57 .424 24
Tacoma ...... 40 61 .396 27

SPOKANE, July 22—Ken Kimball scattered six Victoria hits, including a two-run double by Dick Morgan and a triple by Al Drew to gain credit for his 11th win of the year in Spokane's 6-5 victory at Ferris Field.
The Indians struck for a run in the second, but fell behind 3-1 until the fifth when the roof caved in on Victoria starter Frank Prowse. Spokane came up with a five-run rally, capped by Paul Zaby's two-run double, before a man was out to drive Prowse to the showers. Frank Logue blanked the Indians the rest of the way, but all his teammates could manage was a pair of runs in the eighth.
Victoria .......... 000 120 020—5 9 3
Spokane ......... 010 050 00x—6 9 3
Prowse, Logue (5) and Morgan; Kimball and Parks.

YAKIMA, July 22—The Yakima Bears blasted four Tacoma pitchers for 20 hits and scored at least one run in every inning except the eighth to bury the Tigers under an 18-6 score.
Tacoma .......... 012 012 000—6 9 1
Yakima ........... 113 615 10x—18 20 2
Carter, Clary (4), Johnson (4), McCord (7) and Gardner; Bradford and Orteig, Tornay (5).

WENATCHEE, July 22—Joe Orrell had a three-hitter going into the eighth but had to give way to Cy Greenlaw in the ninth as the vancouver Capilanos rallied for six runs in the final two innings. Still, the Chiefs pulled off a 10-8 win over Vancouver.
Ritchie Meyers hit his third home run in as many nights and his 13th of the season for the Chiefs with one on in the fifth.
The A's pushed across four runs in the eighth after an error.
Vancouver had the tying runs on first and second when Bob McLean grounded out to end the game.
Vancouver ............ 010 010 042—8 8 1
Wenatchee ........... 002 023 12x—10 14 3
Snyder, Hedgecock (6), Gunnarson (8) and Sheely; Orrell, Greenlaw (9) and Pesut.

SALEM, July 22—Salem used the home run route to down Bremerton, 7-4, tonight. Homer by Bob Cherry and Mel Wasley gave the Senators four runs in the first frame and Cherry later conquered the wall again to provide the winning margin.
Bremerton ........... 000 110 020—4 9 2
Salem ................. 400 021 00x—7 12 4
Kohout, Pirack (1) and Neal; Drilling and Beard.

Thursday, July 21, 1949

2007-07-24T00:29:00.000-07:00

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.

Wednesday, July 20, 1949

2007-07-23T20:20:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 63 32 .668 —
Vancouver ... 56 36 .609 5½
Spokane ..... 52 45 .536 12
Wenatchee ... 47 50 .485 17
Salem ....... 43 52 .453 20
Bremerton ... 42 55 .438 22
Victoria .... 41 53 .436 23½
Tacoma ...... 39 60 .394 26

WENATCHEE, July 20—Veteran Lou McCollum was plunked for 15 hits but still came out the winner as the Wenatchee Chiefs defeated the Victoria Athletics, 9-7.
The Chiefs reached Pete Vucurevich for two runs in the first inning and built up a 6-1 lead in the third with a four-run cluster after Charlie Balassi put the A's on the scoresheet with a home run in the top half of the inning. Ritchie Meyers' three-run homer was the big blow.
The A's scored three in the fifth but the Chiefs matched the effort in their half to chase Vucurevich. Wenatchee as blanked the rest of the way, but the A's pecked away for runs in each of the last three frames.
Balassi had three hits in a losing cause.
Victoria ............ 001 030 111—7 15 2
Wenatchee ....... 204 030 00x—9 12 2
Vucurevich, Tobias (5), Logue (8) and Morgan; McCollum and Winter.

SALEM, July 20—Salem Senators divided shutouts with Tacoma Tigers tonight. The Senators took the first tilt 1-0, but the cellar-dwelling Tigers came back with a 3-0 second game win.
Pitching was sharp here as Jim Olson and Vince Lazor each gave up but five hits for Salem and Tacoma respectively in the opener. The Oregonians got three of their quintet in the fourth inning to garner the win.
In the second clash, Tacoma was outhit 8-6 but got the blows when needed. Salem had eight stranded base-runners in the first four frames.
First Game
Tacoma ......... 000 000 0—0 6 2
Salem ............ 000 301 x—4 5 0
Lazor and Sheets; Olson and Carlson.
Second Game
Tacoma ......... 020 100 000—3 6 1
Salem ............ 000 000 000—0 8 4
Kerrigan and Gardner; Fredericks and Beard.

SPOKANE, July 20—Hunk Anderson hurled a three-hitter in the seven-inning opener to give the Vancouver Capilanos a 6-3 win over the Spokane Indians, who took the night game, 8-6.
Paul Zaby singled in a third inning run for the Indians to tie the first game at 1-1. Tuck Stainback's fly ball in the sixth brought in another and Jack Parks homered for the third run in the seventh. However, Anderson homered to bring in two of three runs in Vancouver's half of the last inning.
Bob Costello lost his control in the seventh inning of the finale. After he had given up his sixth walk, the Indians jumped on him for four hits to score four runs.
First Game
Vancouver ......... 100 002 3—6 9 0
Spokane ............ 001 001 1—3 3 3
Anderson and Sheeley; Bishop and Rossi.
Second Game
Vancouver ......... 003 110 010—6 14 1
Spokane ............ 000 120 41x—8 10 2
Costello, Hedgecock (7) and Sheely; Adams, Kimball (6), Werbowski (8) and Parks.

YAKIMA, July 20—Yakima hammered another half-game wedge between its No. 1 ranking and the second place Vancouver Capilanos tonight.
The Western International League leaders boosted their margin to five and a half games by nosing out Bremerton 3-2.
Nini Tornay's line single to rightfield scored Bob Williams in the sixth inning to break up a scoreless deadlock and set the Yakimans on their way to victory. It was a duel of southpaws with Yakima's Larry Powell giving up but four blows and Bremerton's Dave Dahle only five.
Bremerton ............ 000 000 020—2 4 1
Yakima ................ 000 001 20x—3 5 4
Dahle and Neal; Powell and Tornay.

** thursday, 21st, pg. 11. Whitehead story on Sinovic.

Tuesday, July 19, 1949

2007-07-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 62 32 .660 —
Vancouver ... 55 35 .611 5
Spokane ..... 51 44 .537 11½
Wenatchee ... 46 50 .479 17
Salem ....... 42 51 .452 19½
Victoria .... 41 52 .441 20½
Bremerton ... 42 54 .438 21
Tacoma ...... 38 59 .392 25½

WENATCHEE, July 19—Lefthander Jim Propst was tagged for 13 hits and seven walks, but kept out of serious trouble by striking out 15, as the Victoria Athletics went on to a 14-7 over the Wenatchee Chiefs.
Propst now has 108 strikeouts in 96 innings and raised his record to 9 and 3 since joining the club May 31.
Victora batters rapped Cy Greenlaw and Merle Frick for 15 hits, including home runs by Gil McDougald, Len Noren and Russ Walseth, who batted in three runs each. Charlie Balassi raised his club-leading plate mark with two doubles and a single in six trips, while all other batters, except Frank Matoh, joined in the attack. McDougald, Noren and Walseth had singles in addition to their homers, and Propst and Bob Day both garnered two hits.
The A's were never headed, taking a two-run lead in the first frrame and turning the game into a rout with a seven-run splurge. The spurt came on eight consecutive hits and two Wenatchee errors.
Jim Warner hit one out for the home club.
Victoria ............. 207 201 200—14 15 1
Wenatchee ........ 010 202 011—7 13 3
Propst and Day; Greenlaw, Frick (4) and Pesut, Peterson (9).

YAKIMA, July 19—The Yakima Bears held off the Bremerton Bluejackets, 8-7, tonight.
Left Lloyd Dickey held an 8-2 lead going into the ninth but had to weather a five-run Bremerton uprising to get credit for the victory. The game was loosely played as there were nine miscues between the two clubs.
Bremerton ......... 000 200 005—7 10 5
Yakima .............. 104 001 11x—8 10 4
Simon and Neal; Dickey and Orteig.

Vancouver at Spokane, postponed, rain.
Tacoma at Salem, postponed, rain.

Monday, July 18, 1949

2007-07-23T19:57:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 61 32 .656 —
Vancouver ... 55 35 .611 4½
Spokane ..... 51 44 .537 11
Wenatchee ... 46 49 .484 16
Salem ....... 42 51 .442 19
Bremerton ... 42 53 .442 20
Victoria .... 40 52 .435 21½
Tacoma ...... 38 59 .392 25

WENATCHEE, July 19—Neil Bryant, Ritchie Meyers, Nick Pesut and Mel Warner all homered as the Wenatchee Chiefs smacked 18 hits in a 17-7 thumping of the Victoria Athletics.
The Chiefs also hit five doubles and a triple, as everyone in the line-up except the 0-for-5 Hal Winter had at least two hits.
Frank Matoh set the pace at the plate for Victoria, driving in four runs with a pair of homers and a single in five trips. Gil McDougald and Charlie Balassi also hit for the circuit for the A's.
Joe Blankenship took the loss and falls to 3 and 2.
Victoria ............ 400 000 021—7 8 1
Wenatchee ....... 141 330 05x—17 18 3
Blankenship, Logue (4), Tobias (9) and Day; Orrell and Pesut.

SPOKANE, July 19—The Vancouver Capilanos continued their climb to the top, pounding out 16 hits as they handed the Indians their first home defeat in eight starts, 12-6.
Dick Sinovic and Len Tran provided the bulk of the Cap runs. Sinovic smashed a 400-foot double with the bases loaded in the third inning and Tran repeated the performance in the fifth.
Spokane committed six errors but only two of the Capilanos' runs were unearned.
George Nicholas hung up his 15th win for Vancouver against three losses, holding on well until the sixth when the Indians drove him from the box with four straight hits.
The result left the Caps four and a half games behind the idle Yakima Bears and increased their second-place margin over the Indians to six and a half games.
Vancouver .......... 103 150 101—12 16 2
Spokane ............. 100 013 010—6 15 6
Nicholas, Hedgecock (6) and Sheely; Werbowski, Kimball (5), Howard (7), Clark (7) and Parks.

(Only games scheduled)

Sunday, July 17, 1949

2007-07-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 61 32 .656 —
Vancouver ... 54 35 .607 5
Spokane ..... 51 43 .543 10½
Wenatchee ... 45 49 .479 16½
Salem ....... 42 51 .542 19
Bremerton ... 42 53 .442 20
Victoria .... 40 51 .440 20
Tacoma ...... 38 59 .392 25

YAKIMA, July 17—The status of the Western International league remained quo Monday after all eight teams split weekend bargain bills.
The league-leading Yakima Bears failed to take advantage of runner-up Vancouver's idleness, dividing a pair with Wenatchee.
The Bears squeaked through in the short opener to a 6-5 win with a two-run rally in the final frame, and then dropped an equally tight contest in the nightcap, 5-4.
First Game
Wenatchee ....... 010 202 0—5 6 1
Yakima ............. 004 000 2—6 8 2
Caplinger and Pesut; Sweiger and Orteig.
Second Game
Wenatchee ....... 010 010 210—5 9 2
Yakima ............. 000 000 022—4 4 3
Libke, Greenlaw (9), McCollum (9) and Pesut; Bradford, Sporer (8) and Tornay.

First Game
Spokane ..... 001 000 0—1 3 0
Salem ........ 300 001 x—4 8 0
Conant, Weaver (5) and Parks; Peterson and Beard.
Second Game
Spokane ....... 101 111 231—11 13 0
Salem .......... 100 200 000— 3 6 4
Babbitt and Parks; Drilling, Osborn (8), Foster (8), Schiarra (9) and Carlson.

First Game
Tacoma ............ 000 002 3—5 6 1
Bremerton ......... 300 000 3—6 9 1
Clary, Fortier (7), Johnson (7) and Sheets; Kohout, Dahle (7) and Neal.
Second Game
Tacoma ............. 000 010 103—5 12 0
Bremerton .......... 000 000 000—0 4 0
Walden and Sheets; Marshall and Ronning.

(only games scheduled)

Orrin Snyder Released by Caps
VANCOUVER, July 18—Orrin Snyder has been given an outright release by the Vancouver Capilanos of the Western International Baseball League, Bob Brown, business manager of the club said this morning.
Snyder has been out of the lineup for the past few games, being replaced by young K. Chorlton. Chorlton will continue in the position.
Snyder joined the club in 1947, spent the first season in the Arizona-League League had a full season with the Caps.

Calvey Returns
SPOKANE, July 17—The season-long suspension of Spokane shortstop Jack Calvey has been reduced to 14 days by Western International League president Bob Abel. Calvey will return to action today.
He was suspended for his part in a run-in with an umpire July 2 which resulted in Spokane forfeiting the game. League directors had suggested that Abel review the suspension.

Saturday, July 16, 1949

2007-07-22T16:33:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 60 31 .659 —
Vancouver ... 54 35 .607 5
Spokane ..... 50 35 .543 7
Wenatchee ... 44 48 .473 16½
Salem ....... 41 50 .451 19
Bremerton ... 41 52 .441 20
Victoria .... 40 51 .440 20
Tacoma ...... 37 58 .389 25

VICTORIA, July 16—Vancouver and Victoria finished their home-and-home series Saturday by splitting a double-header, with the Caps taking the first game 4-2 and the Athletics winning the second, 4-1, as Frank Prowse tossed a four-hitter.
The only run against him was unearned. He walked one and struck out six for his first victory since May 26.
Frank Matoh connected for a three-run homer in the third after Vic Buccola walked and Charlie Balassi singled. John Hack hit a solo homer.
Balassi cost Prowse his shutout. He badly misjudged a fly ball by Ray Tran and then dropped it after making a one-handed stab. Brother Len scored Ray on a clean single.
In the opener, the Caps scored three in the seventh inning to break a 1-1 tie. Bob Costello worked a walk, but was out on Jim Robinson's fielder's choice. Ray Tran doubled him home and continued to third on Balassi's error in playing the hop. He coasted in on LenTran's fly to left field.
Vancouver had tied the game in the sixth when K Chorton doubled in Charlie Mead.
Al Drew singled Gil McDougald home in the eighth but Vancouver got that run back on Len Tran's homer in the ninth.
Vancouver took the series four games to three.
First game
Vancouver ........ 000 001 201—4 12 1
Victoria ............ 001 000 010—2 8 3
Costello and Sheely; Ward, Logue (8) and Morgan.
Second game
Vancouver ......... 000 001 000—1 4 1
Victoria ............. 003 100 00x—4 9 5
Kindsfather and Sheely; Prowse and Day.

YAKIMA, July 16—Behind the masterful two-hit pitching of lanky Lou McCollum, Wenatchee took its second straight game from the Western International League leading Yakima Bears, 4-0, here tonight.
Teddy Savarese, Yakima's hurler, pitched a creditable game, allowing only seven hits but the Chiefs collected four of them in the fourth inning for all their runs. Richie Myers' two-run triple was the big blow of the inning.
McCollum gave up a double to Bob Williams in the third inning and Edo Vanni beat out an infield hit in the sixth for Yakima's only hits. McCollum walked two and struck out two.
Wenatchee .......... 000 400 000—4 7 0
Yakima ............... 000 000 000—0 2 0
McCollum and Pesut; Savarese and Orteig.

SALEM, July 16—Spokane strengethened their hold on third place with a 7-4 decision over the Salem Senators. Bud Peterson of the Senators singled to extend his hitting streak to 19.
A record crowd of 3,928 turned out, angered by comments by Spokane manager Jim Brillheart that the league "ought to switch the Salem franchise" because only 124 paid to see the last game between the two teams.
Spokane ............ 012 103 000—7 10 1
Salem ............... 002 100 010—4 8 1
Bishop and Parks; McIrvin and Carlson.

BREMERTON, July 16—Tacoma and Bremerton pushed across 15 runs and ten hits into a prolonged ninth inning with the Tigers coming out on top, 22-9.
The Tigers carried a 13-3 lead into the ninth and added nine runs more in their turn at bat but Vince Lazor took an early shower in the bottom half of the frame when the Tars counted six times through his wildness.
Tacoma ........... 220 320 319—22 21 1
Bremerton ....... 001 000 026—9 12 6
Lazor, Kerrigan (9) and Sheets; Dahle, Pirack (5) and Ronning.

Brillheart Suspends Joe Rossi from Indian Team
SALEM, July 16—Big Joe Rossi, No. 1 catcher for the Spokane Indians, has been suspended indefinitely by Manager Jim Brillheart.
Brillheart gave as the reason for the suspension “indifferent playing and violation of training rules.” Brillheart said he had fined Rossi $50.
Rossi did not accompany the Indianshere, but was sent back to Spokane at the end of the Yakima series Thursday night.
Recently-acquired Ed Nulty is available to help out Jack Parks, the Indians' No. 2 receiver.

Friday, July 15, 1949

2007-07-22T16:16:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 60 30 .667 —
Vancouver ... 53 34 .609 6½
Spokane ..... 49 42 .538 11½
Wenatchee ... 42 38 .473 18
Salem ....... 41 49 .456 19
Bremerton ... 41 51 .446 20
Victoria .... 39 50 .438 20½
Tacoma ...... 36 58 .383 26

VICTORIA, July 15—Dick Sinovic's grand-slam home run in the sveenth inning put Vancouver into a lead it never lost as the Capilanos defeated the Victoria Athletics, 7-6.
The A's rallied in the ninth with three successive blows and had the tying run in scoring position after plating a pair with only one hit. Gil McDougald was out at first by inches as first baseman Bob McLean managed to field his grounder and race to the bag.
The Caps opened the scoring in the second with a single run but the A's came back with an equalizer in the third, thanks to two consecutive low throws to first by shortstop Ray Tran.
Len Noren hit an inside-the-park homer in the fifth to score Vic Buccola and McDougald to make it a 4-1 game, but Sinovic's grand-slam wiped that away. The Caps scored two more in the ninth.
Victoria starter Jim Propst walked 11 while Capilano starter Bob Snyder struck out 11.
Vancouver .......... 010 000 402—7 7 2
Victoria .............. 001 030 002—6 11 1
Snyder and Brenner; Propost and Day.

YAKIMA, July 15—The Yakima Bears saw their Western International League lead cut to five and a half games when Lee Winters hit a three-run ninth-inning triple to give the Wenatchee Chiefs and 8-7 victory over the Bears.
The league leaders had taken a 7-5 margin in the seventh on a three-run home by first baseman Bob Williams, playing his first game for the Bears.
Wenatchee ......... 001 003 013—8 9 0
Yakima .............. 020 001 400—7 13 0
Greenlaw and Pesut; Dickey, Sporer (7) and Orteig.

SALEM, July 15—Jack Parks batted in seven runs in the second game as the Spokane Indians bounced back to take a 21-12 decision from Salem after dropping the opener, 4-2.
Parks, Larry Barton and Ed Nulty homered for the Indians while Mel Wasley and Bob Hedington hit four-baggers for Salem in the opener with Wasley getting another in the finale.
First game
Spokane ......... 000 020 0—2 9 0
Salem ............. 030 001 x—4 4 4
Adams and Parks; Olson and Beard.
Second game
Spokane ......... 041 450 403—21 19 0
Salem ............. 012 210 042—12 14 3
Weaver, Kimball (4), Werbowski (8) and Parks; Osborn, Schiarra (2), Foster ( ) and Beard, Carlson (5).

BREMERTON, July 15—Bremerton Bluejackets widened their margin over the trailing Tacoma Tigers with a 2-1 decision over the Bengals.
Tacoma ............ 001 000 000—1 7 2
Bremerton ......... 000 000 002—2 7 1
Kerrigan and Sheets; Simon and Ronning.

Thursday, July 14, 1949

2007-07-22T15:45:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 60 29 .674 —
Vancouver ... 52 34 .605 6½
Spokane ..... 48 41 .539 12
Wenatchee ... 42 48 .467 18½
Salem ....... 40 48 .455 19½
Victoria .... 39 49 .443 20½
Bremerton ... 40 51 .440 21
Tacoma ...... 36 57 .387 25

VICTORIA, July 14—Bob Day's second home run of the night brought in Johnny Hack ahead of him in the 12th inning as the Victoria Athletics overtook the Vancouver Capilanos, 12-10, before 5,000 fans taking in Vic Buccola Night.
The A's treated Hunk Anderson roughly from the first inning as Charlie Balassi led off with a triple and Frank Matoh singled him in. Matoh's home in the third gave the A's a 2-0 lead.
Anderson was sent to the showers in a six-run fourth. Day homered, Pete Vucurevich singled, Balassi drew a walk, Buccola beat out a bunt, McDougald received a free trip, Len Noran reached base on Ray Tran's error at short and John Hack doubled.
The Caps started teeing off on Vucurevich in the sixth when K Chorlton lined one out of the park after Doug Sinovic walked. The A's repeated the feat in their half of the inning when Gil McDougald drove one over the fence after a walk to Matoh.
A double by Len Tran proved the beginning of the end for Vucurevich. Charlie Mead homered and Sinovic doubled. Bud Sheely singled, and was forced at second by Chorlton. Bob McLean singled and in came Joe Blankenship. He gave up a walk to pinch-hitter Bob Brenner, who was out at second on a fielder's choice by Jim Robinson. Ray Tran then singled to drive in McLean.
Carl Gunnarson held the A's scoreless in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Meanwhile, Mead reached base in the eighth, Sinovic hit a fly that was dropped by Gil McDougald and everyone was safe. Sheely singled to score Mead, and Chorlton's single scored Sinovic. The Caps tied for more, but Chorlton was thrown out at third on McLean's bunt, prompting an argument that resulted in an early night for manager Bill Brenner and third base coach Bob Costello.
Len Tran finally tied the game with a homer in the ninth, sending it to extra innings.
John Hack opened the 10th win a single before Day smacked one out.
A's note — Before the game, Buccola received numerous gifts, including a watch from the team management and a sweater from patients of the Veterans Hospital. Charlie Balassi gave his seemingly-annual singing performance while strumming a guitar.
Vancouver .......... 000 002 521 0—10 18 1
Victoria .............. 101 602 000 2—12 17 1
Anderson, Hedgecock (4), Gunnarson (7) and Sheely, Vucurevich, Blankenship (7) and Day.

YAKIMA, July 14—The Spokane Indians frittered away a five-run lead and a four-run bulge and were forced to go ten innings before defeating the league-leading Yakima Bears, 11-9.
With two batsman retired in the tenth, pitcher Larry Powell issued a walk, hit a batter and gave up singles to Lyle Palmer and Skip Rowland to give the Indians their winning runs.
A ctowd of 2,275 sent Yakima's home attendance to 75,305 as copared to the entire season of 73,600 last year.
Spokane ......... 023 000 400 2—11 14 0
Yakima ........... 000 203 122 0—9 16 0
Werbowski, Babbitt (7), Conant (9) and Parks; Sweiger, Sporer (7), Powell (9) and Tornay, Orteig (10).

SALEM, July 14—The Wenatchee Chiefs beat back Salem's challenge to their fourth-place holdings by squeezing out a 5-1 win in a tightly played contest at Salem.
A ninth-inning Senator mutiny fell one short of tying when Bill Caplinger whiffed Bob Cherry for the third out. Mel Wasley brought the home team into striking distance with a two-run bellringer in the eighth.
The Chiefs socred all their runs in the first four innings and were held hitless in the final five frames.
Wenatchee ...... 301 100 000—5 8 0
Salem ............. 000 010 021—4 10 1
Caplinger and Pesut; Fredericks, Foster (8) and Carlson.

TACOMA, July 14—Though rapped for a dozen hits, Big John Marshall made it win No. 18 with an 11-3 triumph over the hapless Tacoma Tigers.
Tigers' notes — Catcher Jack Warren was recalled from Tacoma by the Seattle Rainiers of the Coast League, who sold Sammy White to the Boston Red Sox. ... The Tigers have been requested by Vicksburg of the Southeastern League to return outfielder Bob Williams, after infielder Frank Bowa, sent there in a trade for Williams, refused to report.
Bremerton ......... 010 400 600—11 14 1
Tacoma ............ 011 000 010—3 12 4
Marshall and Ronning; Fortier, Johnson (9) and Sheets.

Wednesday, July 13, 1949

2007-07-22T15:33:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 60 28 .682 —
Vancouver ... 52 34 .612 7
Spokane ..... 47 41 .534 13
Wenatchee ... 41 48 .461 19½
Salem ....... 40 47 .460 19½
Victoria .... 38 49 .437 21½
Bremerton ... 39 51 .433 22
Tacoma ...... 36 56 .391 26

VANCOUVER, July 13—Charlie Mead and eight other Vancouver Capilanos proved to be too much for the Victoria Athletics as they pounded three pitchers for 16 hits in a 15-7 triumph.
Vic Buccola put the A's in front in the first inning when he lined the first pitch by Bob Costello over the right field. But the Caps launched their attack in the second.
Bud Sheely hit a two-run homer, then Charlie Mead batted one over the right field fence in the fourth with the bases loaded to highlight a six-run inning.
The A's picked up a single run in the sixth and three in the seventh, then tried rallying in the eighth but Mead made a great catch in right field to end the threat.
K Chorlton hit his first home run in organized ball, a solo clout that carried 350 feet over the left field wall.
Costello also got back the two runs he gave up in the first when he drove in a pair. He now has 3 RBIs on the season. He also made things interesting in the ninth by walking three batters and striking out the side.
The Caps lead the series 2-1, and action now switches to Victoria for the final four games.
Victoria ............. 102 001 300—7 9 3
Vancouver ......... 021 610 32x—15 16 3
Ward, Logue (3), Drew (8) and Morgan; Costello and Sheely.

YAKIMA, July 13—The Spokane Indians took their first whitewashing of the season at Yakima last night as Dewey Soriano and Bill Bradford collaborated on a four-hit shutout as the Bears pounded out an 11-0 victory. The win preserved the Bears' six-and-a-half game margin on the Caps.
Soriano developed arm trouble after two innings, but Bradford, picked up in excellent fashion to complete the performance.
The other Bears, principally Snag Moore, who whacked two doubles and a single in three official trips, laid down a heavy base-hit siege against three Spoke hurlers. The home club pounded a dozen hits including five doubles and a triple. It was Dick Bishop's second setback of the season.
Spokane ........ 000 000 000—0 4 1
Yakima .......... 000 410 33x—11 12 1
Bishop, Kimball (7), Adams (8) and Parks; Soriano, Bradford (3) and Orteig.

SALEM, July 13—Bob Drilling, recently obtained from Yakima, pitched the Salem Senators to a 6-2 triumph over Wenatchee as the Solons moved into a virtual tie for fourth place with the Chiefs.
Drilling had a shutout until the ninth, when the Chiefs struck for two runs on three hits and an outfield fly. Bob Cherry poled a two-run fence-topper in the first.
Wenatchee ....... 000 000 002—2 9 2
Salem .............. 200 000 40x—6 9 1
Libke and Pesut; Drilling and Carlson.

TACOMA, July 13—Bremerton Bluejackets moved within a half game of the A's with a 6-2 triumph over the Tacoma Tigers behind the pitching of lefty Joe Sullivan.
Sullivan striped the Tigers with a well-spaced eight-hitter and the Jacktars jarred two home-team twirlers for 14. Walt Pocekay led the visitors with two triples and a single in five at-bats.
Bremerton ......... 120 010 020—6 14 3
Tacoma ............ 100 001 000—2 8 2
Sullivan and Ronning; Clary, Johnson (9) and Sheets.

Tuesday, July 12, 1949

2007-07-22T15:09:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 59 28 .678 —
Vancouver ... 51 33 .607 6½
Spokane ..... 47 40 .540 12
Wenatchee ... 41 47 .466 18½
Salem ....... 39 47 .463 19½
Victoria .... 38 48 .442 20½
Bremerton ... 38 51 .427 22
Tacoma ...... 36 56 .396 25½

VANCOUVER, July 12—The Vancouver Capilanos scored their runs in the first two innings, then had to hold off the Victoria Athletics in a 6-5 win tonight at Capilano Stadium.
The Caps got to Joe Blankenship for seven base knocks in the first and second inning, including a two-run homer in the first by Len Tran. Then Frank Prowse blanked them over the rest of the game on three hits.
The A's scored a run on three hits in the fourth inning and took Vancouver starter George Nicholas out of the game with a three-run fifth. Bob Snyder came in and retired ten men in a row before the A's came close to tying it in the eighth. Bob Day and Charlie Balassi in singled, then an out later, Frank Matoh singled in Day. Balassi tried scoring all the way from first on the play but he was thrown out on a throw from Dick Sinovic in deep centre-field to Len Tran at second to Bud Sheely at the plate.
Victoria ............. 000 130 001—5 12 1
Vancouver ......... 240 000 000—6 10 0
Blankenship, Prowse (3) and Day; Nicholas, Snyder (5) and Sheely.

SALEM, July 12—The Salem Senators nipped the Wenatchee Chiefs, 2-1, behind the four-hit hurling of Cal McIrvin.
He won his season debut for the Solons since arriving from Portland of the Coast league on the strength of Wayne Peterson's homer in the 11th. McIrvin was shaky throughout, giving up ten free passes and issuing four wild pitches.
Four straight walks in the second inning gave the Chiefs their only run.
Wenatchee .... 010 000 000 00—1 4 3
Salem ........... 000 100 000 01—2 12 2
McCollum and Pesut; McIrvin and Carlson.

TACOMA, July 12—Gordon Walden trussed up the Bremerton Bluejackets with eight hits while the Tacoma Tigers were smacking three Sailor chuckers for 15 including Dick Greco's 23rd four-sacker of the season as the Tigers plastered the visitors 9-1.
Tacoma ran off to a five-run lead in the opening frame on five base hits and a walk.
The win gave the Tigers a 2 1 edge in the week-long “cellar series” between the two sub-surface clubs.
Bremerton ........... 010 000 000—1 8 1
Tacoma .............. 502 100 10x—9 15 0
Kohout, Baldwin (3), Arnerich (8) and Ronning; Walden and Warren.

YAKIMA, July 12—Gene Gaviglio's three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth gave the league-leading Yakima Bears a 10-7 triumph over the Spokane Indians and protected their six-and-a-half game bulge over the Capilanos.
The Bears had scrambled into tie with a three run plunge in the eighth set off by four hits, including two-bagger by Gaviglio and Dick Briskey. The tribe outhit the Bruins 19-15
Spokane .......... 000 013 300—7 19 3
Yakima ............ 012 100 033—10 15 1
Conant, Babbitt (8) and Parks; Powell, Sporer (7) and Orteig.

Toss Calvey Suspension Back Into Prexy's Lap
YAKIMA, July 12—Western International League directors, at their summer meeting here today, neither overruled nor officially backed the action taken by President Robert Abel of Tacoma in the suspension of Shortstop Jack Calvey of Spokane for the remainder of the season.
Out of the closed meeting came an official statement saying the Calvey suspension had been considered by the directors and had been referred back to Abel for further consideration.
TO MAKE STATEMENT
Abel said he would have a statement by the end of the week.
Calbvey had been suspended and Manager Jim Brill heart and five Spokane players fined as the result of their part in an altercation with Umpires Max Skulik and Rocky Flammia in the Spokane-Wenatchee game of July 2.
The fact the club owners asked Abel to consider the suspensions was generally interpreted as an indication that a tempering of the suspension would meet with their approval.
Abel said no new evidence in the altercation had been presented but added that changing circumstances rated consideration.
Abel said it was not within the jurisdiction of the directors to alter the action taken by the umpire in forfeiting the game in question to Wenatchee. The league president said the directors did not even discuss the possible retraction of the forfeiture.
NO ACTION TAKEN
Neither was any action taken on the possible transfer of the Wenatchee franchise to the Tri-City area.
Les Babcock, Dick Logg and Don Becker, representing the Tri-City Athletic Association, appeared before the directors to present the aspirations of the Yakima valley communities for Western International League baseball.
Abel branded as premature any statement that a franchise shift is in the offing.
“Naturally, if the Wenatchee owners officially request the transfer and if the Tri-City sponsors show concrete evidence that a park is to be built for W.I. play, the directors will give the matter full consideration.”

Monday, July 11, 1949

2007-07-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 58 28 .674 —
Vancouver ... 50 33 .602 6½
Spokane ..... 47 39 .547 11
Wenatchee ... 41 46 .471 17½
Salem ....... 38 47 .447 19½
Victoria .... 38 47 .447 19½
Bremerton ... 38 50 .432 22
Tacoma ...... 35 55 .389 25

VANCOUVER, July 11—Gulping victories like a camel swilling water, the Victoria Athletics guzzled their 10th Western International league victory in the last dozen trips to the trough with a 6-0 decision over the second place Vancouver Capilanos tonight.
It was the first time in 83 games the Caps had been shut out.
Jim Propst fashioned a six-hitter in the first game of a week-long home-and-home series. He struck out 13 and walked six to raise his record to 8-2. The biggest threat he faced was in the ninth when Vancouver loaded the bases on walks but he got a called third strike on Len Tran to end the game.
The A's hopped on Vern Kindsfather for three runs in the second on Gil McDougald's single, consecutive doubles by Len Noren and John Hack, and Propst's single. Vic Buccola's homer in the third made it 4-0, and he made it 5-0 when he doubled in Charlie Balassi in the seventh.
The A's finished scoring in the eighth when Hack walked, moved ahead on a fielder's choice and came in on Len Tran's error.
Umpire Max Skulik tossed Victoria catcher Bob Day in the sixth for tossing his cap after a called third strike.
The A's surged into a fifth-place tie with the idle Salem Senators. The rest of the league played pinochle, except the Spokane Indians who barbecued the House of David, 12-7, before 5,310 whisker-watchers, the fourth-largest crowd of the year at Ferris Field.
Victoria ............. 031 000 110—6 10 0
Vancouver ......... 000 000 000—0 6 2
Propost and Day, Morgan (6); Kindsfather and Brenner.

(only game scheduled)

Spokane Indians Sign Former Dodger Player
SPOKANE, July 11—Ed Nulty, 24, former Brooklyn Dodger player, has been signed by the Spokane Indians baseball team, Business Manager Denney Spellecy said Monday.
Nulty caught 17 games for Brooklyn last season before he was given his outright release. He had decided to quit the game after several deaths in his family.
He has worked as an infielder and outfielder. He was expected to strengthen the Spokane lineup.
weakened by the suspension for the year of Shortstop Jack Calvey. Calvey's suspension will be reviewed Tuesday by Western International league directors.

Pitcher Transferred
PORTLAND, Ore., July 12—The Portland Beavers today announced the transfer of southpaw Cal McIrvin to Salem in return for right-hander Ray McNulty.

Sunday, July 10, 1949

2007-07-22T14:57:00.001-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 58 28 .674 —
Vancouver ... 50 32 .610 6
Spokane ..... 47 39 .547 11
Wenatchee ... 41 46 .471 17½
Salem ....... 38 47 .447 19½
Victoria .... 37 47 .440 20
Bremerton ... 38 50 .432 22
Tacoma ...... 35 55 .389 25

First game
Bremerton ............ 000 000 001—1 7 2
Tacoma ................ 105 000 3(10)x—19 15 3
Pirack, Halstead (8) and Neal; Kerrigan and Warren.
Second game
Bremerton ............ 001 001 2—4 8 1
Tacoma ................ 000 100 0—1 5 0
Dahle and Ronning; Lazor, Fortier (7), Johnson (7) and Warren.

First game
Salem .............. 001 003 000—4 7 2
Spokane .......... 200 000 010—3 8 0
Osborn and Carlson; Weaver and Parks.
Second game
Salem ............. 040 000 000—4 12 1
Spokane ......... 000 422 00x—8 7 1
McNulty and Carlson; Werbowski and Parks.

First game
Yakima ............. 020 200 0—4 9 1
Wenatchee ....... 200 000 0—2 7 1
Dickey and Orteig; Caplinger and Winter.
Second game
Yakima ............. 102 000 020—5 12 2
Wenatchee ....... 010 000 100—2 9 2
Savarese and Tornay; Greenlaw and Pesut.

(Vancouver and Victoria idle due to Blue laws)

Saturday, July 9, 1949

2007-07-22T14:23:00.000-07:00

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.

Friday, July 8, 1949

2007-07-22T13:51:00.002-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 56 27 .675 —
Vancouver ... 49 31 .613 5½
Spokane ..... 45 38 .542 11
Wenatchee ... 40 44 .476 16½
Salem ....... 37 45 .451 18½
Victoria .... 36 46 .439 19½
Bremerton ... 36 48 .429 20½
Tacoma ...... 33 53 .384 24½

VICTORIA, July 9—The Victoria Athletics massacred the Tacoma Tigers for the second straight night, this time by a 21-1 score, as the A's won their 11th in their last 14 games.
Joe Blankenship held Tacoma to four hits, two of them in the first inning which produced the only Tiger run. It was his second straight four-hit game.
The A's responded with 19 hits and two big innings—the second, when seven runners crossed the plate, and the eighth, when they belted manager Bob Johnson for ten runs. He had taken over from Ray Fortier in the fourth and hurled four scoreless innings until then.
Both teams scored a run in the first and then came the Tiger-taming in the second. A single and two walks loaded the bases with one out and Johnson had the infield move in. Vic Buccola then hit the ball past the location shorstop Joe Kaney had been earlier and both runs scored. Frank Matoh walked to load the bases again and Vic Buccola lifted the ball out of the park for a grand-slam homer.
Len Noren homered to bring in three in the third inning and the game remained 11-1 until the eighth when seven hits, an error, a hit batsman and two walks added up the ten runs. One of the hits was a tripled by Gil McDougald, which cleared the bases. McDougald finished only a single shy of hitting for the cycle and batted in seven runs. Buccola went four for five and Bob Day had three hits.
Tacoma ......... 100 000 000—1 4 2
Victoria ......... 173 000 0(10)x—21 19 2
Fortier, Johnson (4) and Warren; Blankenship and Day.

WENATCHEE, July 8—Yakima's leading Bears powered and walked to a 13-8 victory over the Wenatchee Chiefs tonight to protect their five and a half game lead over the Vancouver Capilanos.
Three Wenatchee hurlers gave up 14 hits, including six doubles, and 12 walks. The Chiefs also got 14 hits but did not receive any free tickets. Nick Pesut homered for the Chiefs in the third.
Yakima .............. 232 231 000—13 14 2
Wenatchee ......... 122 111 000—8 14 2
Powell and Orteig; Greenlaw, Frick (2), Meyers (5) and Pesut.

VANCOUVER, July 8—Dick Sinovic's single broke up a 2-2 game in the 10th inning as the Vancouver Capilanos pulled off a 3-2 win over Bremerton.
Sinovic's hit immediately followed singles by Jim Robinson, Len Tran and Charlie Mead
Bob Snyder got credit for his 13th victory in a relief role. He replaced Carl Gunnarson in the tenth with runners on first and third and threw three pitches to force pinch-hitter Keith Simon to line into a double play. It was one of four turned by the Capilanos during the game. They were needed as Vern Kindsfather twice loaded the bases during the nine innings he pitched.
Mead was four for five for the winners.
Bremerton ........... 001 000 010 0—2 11 0
Vancouver ........... 000 100 101 1—3 13 3
Kohout and Neal, Ronning (10); Kindsfather, Gunnarson (10), Snyder (10) and Brenner, Sheely (10).

SPOKANE, July 8—Dick Bishop twirled his ninth victory against one defeat as the Spokane Indians downed the Salem Senators, 3-1. Bishop allowed only five hits.
Salem ......... 100 000 000—1 5 0
Spokane ..... 200 100 00x—3 8 4
B. Drilling and Carlson; Bishop and Rossi.

IT BEATS ME
By JIM TANG [Victoria Colonist, July 9, 1949]

A man who made no enemies, Ted Norbert, is missing from the Victoria baseball scene again after two full seasons and parts of two others as manager of the Victoria Athletics. He watched last night’s game from the press box, rather wonderingly, as the A’s showed power they could not find earlier in the season, and is schedule to leave today for his Portland home.
Just what his future in baseball is no one knows. He has hopes that something may come out of a meeting with Joe Devine, head West Coast scout of the New York Yankees, and there is a possibility he may be able to hook on as a scout with some other organization. At this stage of the season, there is little chance he will be managing again until next year. Before saying good-bye last night, he asked this corner to express his thanks to Victoria baseball fans.
“The people here have been swell to me,” he said. “I want you to tell them how much I appreciate my years in Victoria. It’s something I will never forget.”
The amazing about-face of the Athletics after Norbert was dismissed is just one of those things, and quietened almost all of the resentment occasioned by the managerial change. Ironically enough, Norbert attained his greatest degree of popularity this year when his club made its poorest showing. In 1947 he was roundly second-guessed and, to a lesser extent, the same was true last season. This year, the fans seemed inclined to believe it was the fault of the parent organization for not providing Ted with better material.
Many of them were indignant and several letters on the subject reached this department, one of them suggestion that the “true” story be told. There isn’t much of a story. The Yankees decided that a change was in order and it goes without saying that they have a right to name a manager of their own choice. The players here are possible future Yankees and the parent club has to see that every prospect in its farm system is brought along in the Yankee pattern. Whether or not Ted was doing this is a matter of opinion; but the opinion of the Yankees is what dictated the change.
I have often disagreed with Ted’s managerial strategy, but there was certainly nothing personal in it. Along with thousands of other Victorians, I would like to wish him all future success. No one took his job more seriously. Probably his biggest fault was a losing endeavour to please everybody. It’s impossible.
Random Harvest
Judging by results of the past two weeks, if Ted Norbert could have survived a few days longer, he might still be at the helm of the A’s. The club was slowly finding itself and its sudden surge cannot be more that partially attributed to a change in managers. However, the big test is yet to come. The Athletics have been tamping on the second-division clubs. If they can beat Vancouver Capilanos next week they will prove that this is no flash in the pan . . . Del Owens is pitching for Norfolk in the Piedmont League, which is the club Earl Bolyard was managing before he was switched to Vancouver. Bolyard reports Owens was the best man on the staff and had a 6-2 record last week . . . Vic Mastro, unable to make it with Kansas City, quit baseball when the Yankees shipped him to Binghamton . . . Strangely enough, so far this season it appears that as Ray Jacobs goes, so go the Athletics. The club has looked its best when the big outfielder is at his best . . . John Hack may not be a shortstop, but he is a pretty effective fill-in and packs more of a threat in his bat than a lot of infielders . . . Russ Walseth deserves a world of praise for sticking it out and playing good baseball while handicapped with an injured leg which would bench most players . . . The Tigers certainly looked like a dispirited club last night, and did everything wrong, which is usual when a club is in a slump. Jack Warren forced a runner in the second to end the inning, swinging at a 3-0 pitch with Dick Greco and Bob Johnson up next; in the eighth, no one covered second on Gil McDougald’s ground ball and both runners were safe when Al Spaeter took Glen Stetter’s throw away off the bag, and Ed Barr, who walked to open the inning, was out trying to steal in the ninth when his club was trailing 18-2 . . . Jerry Mathieu missed a bad one when he called a foul tip a ball and refused to change the decision, even though Base-Umpire Tommy Restell signalled that it was a foul. It’s things like this that keep him in trouble.

Thursday, July 7, 1949

2007-07-22T13:30:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 55 27 .671 —
Vancouver ... 48 31 .608 6½
Spokane ..... 44 38 .537 11
Wenatchee ... 40 43 .482 15½
Salem ....... 37 44 .458 17½
Bremerton ... 36 47 .434 19½
Victoria .... 35 46 .432 19½
Tacoma ...... 33 52 .388 23½

VICTORIA, July 7—The Victoria Athletics put on a 19-hit show for 2,700 fans at Royal Athletic Park tonight,trampling the unfortunate Tacoma Tigers 18-2.
The A's have won seven of their last eight and the Bengals have dropped the last ten.
Victoria hit four home runs, two triples, four doubles and nine singles off Bob Kerrigan and Bill McCord, former sandlot righthander. Ray Jacobs hit his 10th and 11th home runs and a single to bat in five runs. Vic Buccola connected for two circuit blows and a single, batting in four, whiel Charlie Balassi rapped out a triple and two singles which drove over four teammates.
Pete Vucurevich game up a first inning home-run to Glen Stetter but he was only in trouble once after that. Jerry Ballard opened with a double and was safe at third when Frank Matoh dropped the throw from the catcher. Ed Barr was and went to second as Ballard scored on Joe Kaney's double. But despite further action, the Tigers couldn't score again. Pinch-hitter Gordon Jones singled to load the bases. Vucurevich grabbed Al Spaeter's liner then doubled Barr off third. Stetter singled to load the bags again, but Jack Warren bounced out to Vucurevich to end the inning.
A's Note — Frank Finnegan is going farther than the 435-foot homer he spanked on Tuesday night. He has been to Twin Falls in the Class C Pioneer League to make room for Len Noren.
Tacoma ........ 100 000 100—2 8 4
Victoria ........ 024 210 45x—18 19 2
Kerrigan, McCord (7) and Warren; Vucurevich and Day.

VANCOUVER, July 7—Former Stanford University southpaw Dave Dahle gave up both Vancouver runs in the second inning, then closed the door as the Bremerton Bluejackets trounced the Vancouver Capilanos, 10-2.
The Tars won it with a five-run outburst in the fourth inning and continued to add to their total.
Walt Pocekay hit a home run, triple and two singles to lead the Bremerton attack, Al Ronning hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Bill Taylor wound it up with a three-run circuit in the ninth.
It was Dahle's second straight win over the Caps.
Bremerton ......... 000 511 003—10 12 1
Vancouver ......... 020 000 000—2 6 3
Dahle and Neal; Gunnarson, Anderson (5) and Brenner.

SPOKANE, July 7—Yakima's leading Bears failed to gain ground on the second-place Capilanos tonight, as they dropped a 12-7 slugfest to the Spokane Indians.
The winners pushed over eight runs in teh first three innings off Buzz Sporer. Jack Parks, playing right field, hit two home runs for the Tribe while Ken Richardson added a third. Dick Briskey homered for the Bears.
Yakima ........... 001 105 000—7 12 3
Spokane ......... 053 001 03x—12 17 3
Sporer, Sweiger (3), Bradford (7) and Tornay; Babbitt, Werbowski (7) and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, July 7—Wenatchee strengthened its grip on fourth place in the Western International League by defeating the Salem Senators, 6-0, behind the four-hit pitching of veteran Lou McCollum.
Home runs accounted for four runs, Dick Faber sitting one with two aboard and Clint Cameron connecting for his 11th with the bases empty.
Salem ............. 000 000 000—0 4 2
Wenatchee ...... 010 141 00x—7 11 1
Sciarra, Foster (5) and Carlson; McCollum and Pesut.

Wednesday, July 6, 1949

2007-07-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

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.

Tuesday, July 5, 1949

2007-07-22T13:04:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 54 26 .675 —
Vancouver ... 47 30 .610 6½
Spokane ..... 43 37 .538 11
Wenatchee ... 39 42 .481 15½
Salem ....... 36 43 .458 17½
Bremerton ... 35 46 .432 19½
Victoria .... 33 46 .418 20½
Tacoma ...... 33 50 .398 22½

VICTORIA, July 5—John Marshall tossed a four-hit shutout at the Victoria Athletics tonight as his teammates rolled up 13 runs in a Bremerton win.
Marshall now has almost half of the Tars' 35 victories so far this season. He struck out eight of the A's to runs his league-leading total to 111, doubled in Bremerton's first two runs in the second inning and walked twice during the Jackets' seven-run uprising in the sixth.
It was Victoria's first loss in their last six starts.
Victoria ......... 000 000 000— 0 4 3
Bremerton ..... 024 007 00x—13 10 1
Drew, Tobias (6) and Morgan; Marshall and Kenning.

VANCOUVER, July 5—George Nicholas, ace of the Vancouver staff, had an easy time of it in a 5-1 win, as the Tacoma Tigers went down to their eighth straight defeat.
Nicholas had a two-run double in the second inning to give himself all the runs he needed. The Caps adfded another pair in the third on an error, a walk and Bud Sheely's double.
The final chapter in Vancouver's scoring game when Bob McLean led off the fourth with a double and scored on Ray Tran's single.
It was the third straight win for the Caps.
Vancouver .......... 022 100 000—5 9 1
Tacoma .............. 000 000 010—1 8 2
Nicholas and Sheely; Walden, Clary and Sheets.

SPOKANE, July 5—Spokane picked on Yakima President-Owner Dewey Soriano for its 6-1 victory tonight.
The Indians scored all their runs in the first four innings with Jack Parks' three-run homer the big blow. Soriano retired to the privacy of the dugout when the Indians counted their final two runs and was charged with his second defeat in 14 starts.
His successor, Ted Savarese, hurled runless ball the rest of the way.
Soriano is still undefeated as president of the Bears, but his pitching record wears the stain of its second defeat in 14 Western International League starts.
Ken Kimball and Bill Werbowski teamed to hold the visitors to six hits.
Yakima ............. 101 002 000—4 6 4
Spokane ........... 013 200 00x—6 12 0
Soriano, Savarese (4) and Orteig; Kimball, Werbowski (7) and Rossi.

WENATCHEE, July 5—Salem Senators closed the gap between themselves and the first division by nipping the Wenatchee Chiefs, 9-8, here.
Bob Cherry paced the Chiefs with a three-run homer in the third and batted in the tying and winning runs with a single in the eighth when the visitors locked up the game with a three-run
contrived from three walks, Cherry's single and a home club error.
Bud Peterson also homered for Salem.
Salem ............... 003 012 030—9 12 1
Wenatchee ........ 330 010 100—8 12 1
Foster, Sciarra (7) and Carlson; Winter, Libke (8) and Pesut.

Other Indians May Face Ban
SPOKANE, July 5—More Spokane Indians might be suspended by the Western International League aftera near riot in Wenatchee Saturday night, president Bob Abel indicated.
Umpire Max Skulik gave the game to Wenatchee in a forfeit.
Abel said in an interview with the Chronicle that he was investigating a report that Paul Zaby, Spokane outfielder, chased one umpire with a bat and that another kicked umpire Roscoe Flammia in the back.
Abel wired Manager Jim Brillheart of Spokane asking for a full report on the incident. He said he already had a report from Wenatchee.
Jack Calvey, Spokane shortstop, was suspended immediately after the game. Abel declined to say how long Calvey might be suspended, but declared “it will not be any week or ten-day suspension.”
Abel said he probably will visit Wenatchee to get further details of the game.

Calvey Thumbed for 1949 by WIL President
TACOMA, July 5—Jack Calvey of Spokane was suspended for the rest of the season for his part in a boisterous mutiny against the umpires Saturday night.
League president Robert Abel notified the Indians by telegram. The game was forfeited
to Wenatchee after four Spokes were thumbed from the game.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Fred Haney Has Reason to Change Numbers
By The Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, July 5—Manager Fred Haney of the Hollywood Stars in the Pacific Coast league has had his telephone number chanced and made private.
“I didn't mind genius advice up to midnight,” he explained, “but I finally got fed up with those
four a. m. calls from drunks and insomnia sufferers. It got so that all the sheep I was counting wore baseball caps and kept running in and out of telephone booths.”

Monday, July 4, 1949

2007-07-22T05:59:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 54 25 .684 —
Vancouver ... 46 30 .605 7½
Spokane ..... 42 37 .532 12
Wenatchee ... 39 41 .488 15½
Salem ....... 35 43 .449 18½
Bremerton ... 34 46 .425 20½
Victoria .... 33 45 .423 20½
Tacoma ...... 33 49 .407 22½

TACOMA, June 4—The Vancouver Capilanos jammed 9-4 and 5-0 victories down the throats of the Tigers on Monday.
Hunk Anderson trundled a four-hit shutout in the short second game while the Caps were peeling eight off Dick Greco, who was summoned from the outfield to bolster Tacoma's five-man hurling staff. Two were doubles by Orrin Snyder.
Anderson walked two and struck out six.
In the opener, Bob Costello went the route while his mates backed him with 16 singles. He got into trouble in the eighth inning when Glen Stetter homered and Bill Sheets cleared the bases with a double after three walks.
Jim Robinson and Ray Tran were the big guns for Vancouver in the game, as Robinson went four for six and Tran, four for five.
First game
Vancouver .......... 300 150 000—8 16 0
Tacoma .............. 000 000 040-4 7 1
Costello and Brenner; Fortier, Clary (5), Johnson (9) and Sheets.
Second game
Vancouver .......... 210 002 0—5 8 0
Tacoma .............. 000 000 0—0 4 0
Anderson and Sheely; Greco and Sheets.

BREMERTON, July 4—The Victoria Athletics, who marked Decoration Day by tumbling into the Western International League cellar, celebratged another American holiday—Independence Day—by emerging from the darkness thereof.
With 3-2 and 10-8 wins over the Bremerton Bluejackets, the A's bounced past Tacoma's skidding Tigers into seventh place. The twin conquest gave the Canadians a record of eight wins in 10 games under temporary manager Vic Buccola.
Joe Blankenship arrived moments before game-time and was hurried into the first contest. He responded with a four-hitter.
The A's scored single runs in the first, fourth and fifth, the last being a homer by Charlie Balassi. It proved to be the winning run as Walt Pocekay doubled in a run and scored on Jay Ragni's single in the sixth.
In the second game, the A's scored four times off Keith Simon in the first and never lost the lead, though the Tars fought back with their own four-run inning in the sixth to make the game 10-6 and added single runs in the seventh and eighth.
First game
Victoria ............. 110 110 0—3 9 0
Bremerton ......... 000 002 0—2 4 0
Blankenship and Day; Sullivan and Ronning.
Second game
Victoria .............. 402 301 000—10 12 0
Bremerton .......... 002 004 110—8 10 3
Logue, Ward (7) and Morgan; Simon and Neal.

SPOKANE, July 4—The Wenatchee Chiefs sprayed 39 base hits in pulping Spokane, 14-1 and l-10, on Monday. Though he was tagged for 11 hits, Cy Greenlaw went the route in the afterpiece. Spokane played without shortstop Jack Calvey and with the threat of disciplinary action over the heads for attacking umpire Max Skulik on Saturday.
First game
Wenatchee ........... 200 051 510—14 19 1
Spokane ............... 000 010 000—1 5 0
Orrell and Pesut: Weaver, Neely (5) and Rossi.
Second game
Wenatchee .......... 230 103 213—15 20 3
Spokane .............. 330 040 000—10 14 4
Greenlaw and Pesut; Bishop, Babbitt (7), Werbowski (7) and Rossi.

SALEM,July 4—The Salem Senators traded wins with the league-leading Yakima Bears Monday, dropping the opener, 9-3, but snatching a 10-8 victory in the late game. The pay-off blast, among the 12 hits spattered by Salem in the nightcap, was a three-run first-frame homer by Mel Wasley.
Bill Swieger, who whittled a three-hitter just three days ago, effectively spaced nine Salem hits for the Bears' opening game triumph.
First game
Yakima ........... 000 331 2—9 14 2
Salem ............. 100 220 0—5 9 0
Swieger and Tornay; Olson, Fredericks (6) and Carlson.
Second game
Yakima ............ 110 201 021—8 12 3
Salem .............. 300 401 02x—10 12 4
Savarese, B. Drilling (4) Bradford (8) and Orteig; Nulty and Beard.

Sunday, July 3, 1947

2007-07-22T05:37:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 53 24 .688 —
Vancouver ... 44 30 .595 7½
Spokane ..... 42 35 .545 11
Wenatchee ... 37 41 .474 16½
Salem ....... 34 42 .447 18½
Bremerton ... 34 44 .436 19½
Tacoma ...... 33 47 .413 21½
Victoria .... 31 45 .408 23½

First Game
Yakima ........ 101 000 0—2 4 0
Salem .......... 001 200 x—3 8 0
Bradford and Tornay; Fredericks and Carlson.
Second Game
Yakima ........ 301 001 010—6 9 1
Salem .......... 000 001 000—1 6 2
Powell and Orteig; G. Peterson and Beard.

TACOMA, July 3—The Victoria Athletics scored four times in the 15th inning to defeat the Tacoma Tigers, 8-4, in the first game of a double-header.
The A's swept with an 8-2 win in the night game, thanks to Tobey Tobias' four-hitter.
The first game was tied at 4-4 when Victoria scored two in the eighth after Tacoma went ahead with three runs in the seventh. Then came the 15th when starter Bob Kerrigan was kept in to complete the game and surrender all the runs. Only six of them were earned.
Jones, pinch-hitting for Kerrigan, homered in the 15th but it was all the A's could muster off Pete Vucurevich, who scattered six hits and walked three in six innings of relief for the win. He also tripled and scored in the big inning.
Ray Jacobs hit a solo homer for the A's, while Vic Buccola was four for seven and sent in two runs.
In the night game, Tobias allowed singles to Glen Stetter and Dick Greco, and singles to Bill Sheets and Johnson, the only hit to bring in a run, over the course of the seven-inning contest. He also walked one and bit Greco on base by hitting him.
Russ Walseth had three hits and three RBIs for Victoria, while Gil McDougald homered a tripled to helped a pair reach home.
First game
Victoria .......... 010 001 020 000 004—8 14 3
Tacoma .......... 010 000 300 000 001—5 13 6
Ward, Vucurevich (8) and Day; Kerrigan and Warren.
Second game
Victoria .......... 213 000 2—8 11 1
Tacoma .......... 010 010 0—2 4 1
Tobias and Morgan; Lazor, Johnson (3) and Sheets.

First game
Wenatchee ........... 000 102 000 0—3 10 0
Spokane ............... 000 200 010 1—4 13 0
McCollum and Pesut; Conant and Rossi.
Second game
Wenatchee ............. 010 200 200—5 11 2
Spokane ................. 014 000 10x—6 4 3
Frick, Caplinger (4) and Winter; Werbowski and Rossi.

BREMERTON, July 3—Bill Taylor rapped a one-out single in the tenth inning to break a tie game to give the Bremerton Bluejackets a 5-4 win in the second game of a Sunday double-header over Vancouver. The Capilanos won the first game, 8-2, behind the three-hit pitching of Vern Kindsfather, who walked five and struck out two.
Ray Tran hit a two-run single for Vancouver in the opener and Orrin Synder smacked a solo homer, while Charlie Mead had three singles to bat in a pair of runs,
Mead doubled in two runs in the nightcap.
First game
Vancouver .......... 300 410 0—8 12 0
Bremerton .......... 000 002 0—2 3 0
Kindsfather and Brenner; Kohout, Baldwin (7) and Ronning.
Second game
Vancouver ........... 200 000 020 0—4 8 1
Bremerton ........... 002 101 000 1—5 12 0
Hedgecock, Snyder (9) and Sheely; Dahle and Neal.

ON THE INSIDE
BY DON BECKER SPORTS EDITOR
Babe Hollingberry, president of the Wenatchee Chiefs of the Western International baseball league, was in Kennewick Friday. He was seen conferring with city officials and civic leaders. The rumors are still flying, and no one seems to be denying them. Yet no one seems to want to go on record as to what the whole conversation was all about. "No comment" was the general observation of those in the group. What gives, Babe?
- Tri-City Herald, Sunday, July 3, 1949

Saturday, July 2, 1949

2007-07-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 52 23 .693 —
Vancouver ... 43 29 .597 7
Spokane ..... 40 35 .533 12
Wenatchee ... 37 39 .487 15½
Salem ....... 33 41 .446 18½
Bremerton ... 33 43 .434 19½
Tacoma ...... 33 45 .423 20½
Victoria .... 29 45 .392 22½

VICTORIA, July 2—Bremerton reliever John Marshall was pelted with cushions as he attempted to get into the stands at a heckler tonight, the main sidelight to the 9-7 Victoria Athletics win over the Bluejackets.
He was sent into a 7-7 game with one out in the ninth and Vic Buccola on second. He curved a called strike to Gil McDougald and then watched his next pitch sail out of the park.
The fan incident began as follows: Bob Day rammed Tars' catcher Al Ronning while unsuccessfully trying to score in the seventh. Dugout hecklers jumped on Day in the eighth as Lil Arnerich stole a base. Day yapped back and Marshall came onto the field and had to restrained by teammates. Marshall was then jeered as he took to the mound, and then again when he failed to hold the game. On his way back to the Bremerton clubhouse, he poked at the screen in front of a fan. This was the signal for the cushion shower.
The A's scored single runs in the second and third, the first without a hit and the second on Frank Matoh's home. They trailed 6-2 in the fifth but went ahead on five runs—all coming on homers. Gil McDougald hit his firstw ith two out after Vic Buccola walked. Ray Jacobs hit a tremendous fly into Prembroke Street after Day and John Hack had singled.
Jim Propst had a fish and foul day, giving up 11 hits in going the distance, and walking 10. But he struck out eight, five times to end an inning, and left 14 stranded.
A's notes — Joe Blankenship has been sent to the club from Beaumont in the Texas League. It'll be his fourth season with the A's after setting a WIL record by winning 25 last year. ... Also joining the club is Len Noren, one of the most highly-regarded prospects in the Yankees system. Noren played last season with Ventura and spent the early part of the season with Newark but ended up in Binghamton. He appeared in 137 games for Ventura in 1948, making 151 hits for a matting mark of .290. He had 26 doubles, ten triples, two home runs and 64 RBIs.
Bremerton ....... 003 030 010—7 11 3
Victoria ........... 011 050 002—9 9 3
Pirack, Marshall (9) and Ronning; Propst and Day.

Tacoma ......... 000 320 021—8 16 3
Vancouver ..... 012 400 12x—10 17 2
Fortier and Warren; Nicholas and Brenner.

SALEM, July 2—The Western International league leading Yakima Bears took a 7-5 decision over the Salem Senators tonight to even up the clubs' current series at two games each.
Both teams collected nine hits during the fray but the Bears' claws had more authority to them.
Babe Gammino put the visitors out in front in the first inning as he hammered a two-run homer off Hank Sciarra and the Bears followed up with three more markers in the second frame with Gene Gaviglio's double being the key blow.
The Senators picked up a run in the initial inning off Lloyd Dickey and climbed into the thick of things in the third with three more off four hits and an error.
Hits by Dick Briskey, Dickey and Gaviglio gave the Yaks another run in the sixth—and that one proved to be the clincher.
Yakima President Dewey Soriano came in for Dickey in the ninth to snuff out a Salem threat.
The teams play doubleheaders Sunday and Monday.
Yakima .......... 000 000 002—2 8 1
Salem ............ 000 020 21x—5 6 1
Dickey, Soriano (9) and Orteig; Sciarra, Osborn (7), Sporer (9) and Beard.

WENATCHEE, July 2—The Wenatchee Chiefs won a 9 to 0 Western International League game from the Spokane Indians by forfeit here tonight.
But only after six Spokane players were ejected from the game by Umpire Max Skulik, and Skulik had entered the shower room with his uniform ripped by irate Spokane players.
The fracas began in the sixth inning when Skulik ejected Lyle Palmer, Indian centre fielder, for protesting a called third strike too vehemently. As inning later, Jim Neely, warming up in the bupplen, was thrown out by Umpire Rocky Flammina for continuing the protest. He was followed by Manager Jim P. Brillheart. In the eighth, Bill Werbowski, Tuck Stainback and Jack Calvey were ordered out. It was Calvey's refusal to leave that precipitated the Spokane team's descent on Skulnik.
At that point, first of the eighth with no oneout, the game was tied 8-8. Home runs were hit by Jim Warner and Richie Meyers of the Chiefs.

Friday, July 1, 1949

2007-07-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 51 23 .689 —
Vancouver ... 42 29 .592 7½
Spokane ..... 40 34 .541 11
Wenatchee ... 36 39 .480 15½
Salem ....... 33 40 .452 17½
Bremerton ... 33 42 .440 18½
Tacoma ...... 33 44 .429 19½
Victoria .... 28 45 .384 22½

VANCOUVER, July 1—The Vancouver Capilanos barely swept a double-header today, scoring four runs in the ninth to win the first game 9-8 and shutting down a five-run ninth by the Tigers to defeat Tacoma 15-14.
The Caps won the opener when Bob McLean homered with the bases loaded with one out in the last inning. It was his second homer of the game, the first one was a solo blast.
Jerry Ballard provided much of the Tacoma offence, bringing in five runs, swatting a homer and two singles.
In the night encounter, 13 Capilanos went to the plate to score eight runs in the first inning, two of them triples by Jimmy Robinson. Starter Bill Seward was rudely welcomed to the WIL, walking two and giving up two hits and a wild pitch before being yanked for Ken Clary without retiring a batter.
The Tigers put infielder Joe Kaney on the mound in the eighth behind 12-9 and the Caps scored three runs. Those runs were needed as Tacoma scored five times in the ninth to fall a run short of tying the game. Bob Costello came on to get Dick Greco to hit into a game-ending double-play with the tying and winning runs on base. The contest lasted three hours 45 minutes and it was close to midnight by the time it wrapped up.
All four Tigers hurlers threw a wild pitch.
Caps' notes—The Caps get a new outfielder, the fifth on the team. K Chorlton has been optioned from Seattle, just having signed his first pro contract with the Rainiers. He is a University of Washington student. He was being scouted by the Boston Braves, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. His first name is just the letter 'K.'
First game
Tacoma ............ 023 020 100—8 10 1
Vancouver ........ 331 000 104—9 14 0
Lazor, Clary (9) and Warren; Costello, Kindsfather (7), and Sheely.
Second game
Tacoma ........... 330 002 045—14 20 4
Vancouver ....... 800 003 13x—15 14 1
Seward, Clary (1), Walden (1), Kaney (8) and Sheets; Snyder, Anderson (8), Gunnarson (9), Costello (9) and Brenner.

First game
Yakima .......... 100 000 1—2 4 1
Salem ........... 000 000 0—0 2 2
Swieger and Tornay; Olson and Beard.
Second game
Yakima ......... 000 000 002—2 8 1
Salem .......... 000 020 21—5 6 1
Drilling and Tornay; Sporer and Carlson.

VICTORIA, July 1—John Marshall picked up both wins in a Dominion Day double-bill, tossing a four-hitter for Bremerton in the first game for an 8-2 victory over Victoria and taking the mound in the first inning of the second in a 14-11 triumph.
The only extra base hit Marshall allowed in the first game was Frank Finnegan's double, as he struck out six and walked six.
Jay Ragni singled in a pair of runs as Bremerton scored five times in the fourth inning. Only three of Bremerton's eight runs were earned as the Athletics bumbled the ball four times.
Bill Taylor singled three time for the Tars.
In the second game, Marshall came on to stop a Victoria rally in the eighth when they scored four times to bring the game to within a run. He was charged with one of the runs.
Victoria had 17 hits, including home runs by Tobey Tobias and Gil McDougald, who had four RBIs, but left 12 on base.
Bill Taylor had three hits, including a double, to bring in five runs, while Jay Ragni smacked the ball safely four times, once for two bases, and brought in four runs.
Marshall gave up two hits and a walk in two innings work.
First game
Bremerton ........ 100 500 002—8 11 1
Victoria ........... 110 000 000—2 4 4
Marshall and Ronning; Jones, Logue (5), Drew (9) and Day.
Second game
Bremerton ........ 400 502 300—14 15 3
Victoria ........... 211 111 040—11 17 2
Simon, Marshall (8) and Neal, Ronning (4); Tobias, Vucurevich (3), Logue (9) and Day.

First game
Spokane ......... 100 321 1—19 19 4
Wenatchee ..... 300 011 3—8 13 1
Bishop and Parks; Caplinger, McCollum (3), Peterson (4) and Pesut.
Second Game
Spokane ........ 003 000 000 00—3 8 3
Wenatchee .... 001 000 110 01—4 15 1
Babbitt, Werbowski (11) and Parks; Stevens,, Caplinger (9) and Winter.

Thursday, June 30, 1949

2007-07-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

STANDINGS
W L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 50 22 .694 —
Vancouver ... 40 29 .580 9½
Spokane ..... 39 33 .542 11
Wenatchee ... 35 38 .479 15½
Salem ....... 32 39 .451 17½
Tacoma ...... 33 42 .440 18½
Bremerton ... 31 42 .425 19½
Victoria .... 28 43 .394 21½

VANCOUVER, June 30—Dick Greco homered twice in a 17-hit attack as the Tacoma Tigers mauled the Vancouver Capilanos, 17-4.
Greco also tripled and ended up with five RBIs.
Bob Williams homered as well for the Tigers, while Charlie Mead and Jimmy Robinson put the ball out of the park for Vancouver, the two homers being the big bats in the Caps' seven-hit game.
Tacoma hit six doubles.
The Tigers put four on the board in the first inning and never trailed. Vern Kindsfather was pulled after only two-third of an inning. He gave up four hits and a walk and all the runs against him were earned.
Gordon Walden went all the way for the Tigers.
Tacoma ........... 402 310 070—17 17 1
Vancouver ....... 200 110 000—4 7 3
Walden and Warren; Kindsfather, Anderson (1), Gunnarson (4) and Sheely.

SALEM, June 30—Ray McNulty pitched sensationally tonight as the Salem Senators grabbed a 12-inning, 1-0 victory over the Western International League-leading Yakima Bears in the opening game of the clubs' series.
McNulty, shading Bears' Ted Savarese in a suspense-filled hurling duel, gave up only two hits over the long route, whiffed eight and didn't walk a man. After Dick Briskey doubled off him in the third inning, McNulty didn't allow another hit until the 12th, when Savarese touched him for a single.
Savarese himself twirled a fine ball game. He doled out six blows, but two of them came in the final frame and proved fatal.
Yakima ............. 000 000 000 000—0 2 0
Salem ............... 000 000 000 001—1 6 2
Savarese and Orteig; McNulty and Beard.

VICTORIA, June 30—The Victoria Athletics connected for four home runs, three doubles and eight singles and took advantage of 11 bases on balls to come from behind and defeat Bremerton 15-7 before 1,300 fans.
Al Ronning gave the Bluejackets a 3-0 in the fourth when he hit one over the Pembroke Street fence. Victoria tallied once in the fourth the sent former Stanford University southpaw Dave Dahle to the showers with a seven-run fifth. Ray Jacobs came up with the bags loaded and two out and hit a long high fly that cleared the fence with plenty to spare. Dahle walked Frank Finnegan and a single to Russ Walstead before being replaced with Stan Halstead. His opposite number, Pete Vucurevich, surprised everyone by swatting a three-run homer.
Bremerton rallied for four runs in the sixth. Halstead was pulled for a pinch-hitter, so Baldwin took the mound for the Tars. The A's unloaded for nine hits off him, including home runs by Bob day and Frank Matoh, to add seven runs in the next three innings.
Bremerton .......... 000 304 000—7 9 2
Victoria .............. 000 174 21x—15 15 1
Dahle, Halstead (5), Baldwin (6) and Ronning; Vucurevich, Drew (6) and Day.

WENATCHEE, July 1 The Spokane Indians and the Wenatchee Chiefs compiled 19 runs between them, Wenatchee coming out on top 10-9 after spotting the resurgent Indians
three runs in the first inning.
The score was 8-6 at the end of the first three rounds of play.
Spokane ............. 033 012 000—9 10 5
Wenatchee ......... 314 000 011—10 11 2
Leeley, Kimball (9) and Parks; Weaver, Greenlaw (9) and Pesut.

NON WIL MINOR-LEAGUE NEWS

Tells Secret Of .500 Average
PORTLAND Me., July 1—After 60 New England league games Bob Montag of the Pawtucket R.I. Slaters is hitting .502.
Bob, who is 24, gives much of the credit to Jim “Rip” Collins of the old St. Louis Gas House gang.
The “Ripper” managed Pawtucket, which is in second place by percentage points, until a few weeks ago. The parent Boston Braves' then promoted him to its Class A Eastern
league club at Hartford, Conn.
How does he do it?
The husky rightfielder from Cincinnati, O., says “It's a constant mental battle with the pitchers.”
For example:
“When the pitcher gets a strike on me, I spread right out in the box. They think I'm expecting a curve, but I want to see that fast one.
“Another time I'll fall away from a fast curve if the pitcher throws it again. I'm set to break it to pieces.”
And they really pitch to him. A lot of lesser lights in the class B circuit get walked more often than Montag.