Wednesday morning, September 7, 1949

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

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.

Monday, July 11, 1949

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.