Thursday, August 25, 1949

               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.

Sunday, August 7, 1949

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.

Monday, July 25, 1949

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.

Tuesday, July 5, 1949

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.”

Wednesday, May 25, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 24  9 .727 —
Salem ....... 19 12 .613 4
Vancouver ... 16 15 .516 7
Bremerton ... 17 18 .486 7½
Wenatchee ... 15 18 .455 8½
Victoria .... 15 20 .429 9½
Tacoma ...... 14 21 .400 10½
Spokane ..... 12 19 .387 11

VICTORIA, May 25—Ambling out of the Tacoma dugout in the sixth inning without the benefit of a warm-up, manager Bob Johnson took the hill tonight and blanked Victoria for four and two-thirds innings. He topped off his rather amazing mound chore in the tenth when he hoisted one of Rex Jones’ deliveries out of the park to give the Tigers an unexpected 10-9 triumph.
The A’s picked up 16 hits but three costly boots gave the Tigers five unearned runs.
Tacoma opened with two runs on a walk, two singles and the first of Ray Jacobs’ errors, but the A’s came back in their half of the first to take a 4-2 lead on five solid hits off southpaw Bob Kerrigan.
Pete Vucurevich was sailing along until the sixth when he walked two batters and then tossed wildly to third on Hank Sciarra’s bunt. Before it was over, Tacoma was ahead 6-4. Five hits and a walk, climaxed by John Hack’s bases-loaded double, made it 9-6 for the A’s.
Two doubles, a single plus Jacobs’ second boot scored two runs in the eighth and left Eddie Barr on third. He tied it when Jones’ wild pitch bounced in front of the plate to tie the game and sent it into the tenth, when Johnson won it.
Tacoma .......... 200 004 030 1—10 14 1
Victoria .......... 400 005 000 0—9 16 3
Kerrigan, Johnson (6) and Warren; Vucurevich, Cirimeli (7), Jones (8) and Day.

SPOKANE, May 25—Spokane Indians received some effective pitching from Bill Werbowski tonight to go with their terrific hitting and trimmed the second place Salem Senators, 15-3.
The Indians pounded two Salem pitchers for 17 hits. They took a 6-1 lead in the fourth and drove startling hurler Bus Sporer from the mound. Sporer hgave up three walks and two hits in the inning before he left.
John Bianco, Sporer's successor, worked the rest of the game, but was freely hit for 10 safe blows and nine runs.
It was the Indians' second win in five starts this week despite an awesome attack which has piled up an average of almost 12 runs per game. Despite the fact they scored 39 runs in their first three games this week, the Tribesmen came out on the short end twice.
Salem ........... 001 010 010—3 8 6
Spokane ....... 021 302 52x—15 17 3
Sporer, Bianco (4) and Beard; Werbowski and Rossi.

VANCOUVER, May 25—Vancouver Capilanos ended their series with Bremerton all square by pounding out a 12-4 victory in the last game of a four-game set.
The Caps jumped on three Jackets pitchers for seven runs in the first inning using only two hits, one of them being Bob McLean's grand-slam home run. It was his third of the season, and he is now batting .306 after getting off to a slow start.
Starting pitcher Seamster got only one out in the first inning, giving up four walks before being replaced by Lemay.
Briganti smacked a solo homer off George Nicholas, one of ten hits he allowed.
Bremerton ........... 001 100 101—4 10 3
Vancouver ........... 701 002 20x—12 10 5
Seamster, Lemay (1), Halstead (1) and Ronning, Corey (2); Nicholas and Sheely.

YAKIMA, May 25—The slumping Yakima Bears, who once owned a 23-4 record, lost their fourth straight game and their fifth in their last six starts as Wenatchee Chiefs swept the three-game series by winning, 7-4, tonight. The Chiefs came from behind with two runs in each of the last two innings, then called on Cy Greenlaw to stifle an uprising in the ninth when the Bears loaded the bases with one out.
Clint Cameron’s two-run homer in the eighth put the Chiefs ahead 5-4 and little Richie Meyers’ triple in the ninth touched off another two-run foray.
Wenatchee ........... 200 001 022—7 10 6
Yakima ................. 000 301 000—4 8 0
Weaver, Stevens (4), Greenlaw (9) and Tornay; Bradford, Dickey (9) and Pesut.


NON W.I.L. MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

Hitter Is Real Fence-Buster
WAYNESBORO, VA.. May 26—First baseman P. I Griggs of the Waynesboro Generals walloped a home run yesterday.
Over the fence? No, through the fence.
Park officials said they will have to do something about that hole.

Thursday, May 5, 1949

STANDINGS
               W L Pct. GB
Yakima ....... 9 3 .750 —
Salem ........ 8 4 .667 1
Bremerton .... 8 5 .615 1½
Wenatchee .... 6 7 .462 3½
Spokane ...... 5 6 .455 3½
Tacoma ....... 5 8 .385 4½
Vancouver .... 3 6 .333 4½
Victoria ..... 4 9 .308 5½

YAKIMA, May 5—The league-leading Yakima Bears increased their advantage by scoring three runs in the ninth to top the Vancouver Capilanos, 6-5.
Edo Vanni and Al Jacinto opened the last frame with singles and George Nicholas was replaced by Bob Snyder, who put the winning run on base by walking Babe Gammino. A single by Gene Thompson brought in Vanni, and Jacinto scored when on Enrique Fernandez' wild throw to the plate to tie the game.
Snyder walked Ted Jennings intentionally, but Ray Orteig came up, let the count go to 3 and 2, then bashed the next pitch for a single to score the winning run.
The Caps had taken a 3-0 lead in the first inning, thanks to a smashing double by Bud Sheely with loaded bases. Ray Tran doubled in the sixth, and Sheely hit his second two-base hit of the night as the Caps scored two more runs.
Vancouver ........... 300 002 000—5 10 1
Yakima ................ 200 000 013—6 11 2
Nicholas, Snyder (9) and Sheely; B. Drilling, Dickey (8), D. Drilling (9) and Orteig.

BREMERTON, May 5—The Bremerton Bluejackets trounced Spokane, 7 to 3, tonight dumping the champion Indians into the second division.
Jay Ragni smacked a three-run homer and Bill Taylor added a two-run shot.
Spokane ............ 002 100 000—3 9 1
Bremerton .......... 003 101 30x—7 11 1
Howard, Bishop (7) and Parks; Halstead, Pirack (4) and Ronning.

SALEM, May 5—Hits by Bob Keeler, Vic Buccola and Frank Finnegan, the latter's driving in two runs, gave the Victoria Athletics a 3-0 lead in the third inning but it wasn't enough as the Salem Senators pulled off a 5-4 win tonight.
Manager Bill Beard's two-run single was the big blow as the Solons tied it in the fifth. Two Victoria errors and hits by Bob Cherry and Al Spaeter plated the final two Salem runs in the seventh. Doubles by Dick Morgan and Sol Israel closed the margin in the eighth, but Buzz Sporer came in to choke off the rally.
Victoria ............ 003 000 010—4 8 4
Salem .............. 000 030 20x—5 8 0
Boemler and Day; Olson, Sporer (8) and Beard.

WENATCHEE, May 5—Joe Orrell, ex-major-league right-hander, hurled the Wenatchee Chiefs to a 6-1 win over Spokane with a neat three-hitter. Orrell whiffed 11 and walked only one batter. The only Tacoma tally was a home run by Dick Greco.
Tacoma ............ 010 000 000—1 3 1
Wenatchee ....... 101 200 11x—6 12 0
Kerrigan, Gleason (8) and Warren; Orrell and Pesut.

NON-WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS

New Triple Play Record May Be Set
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., May 6—Billy Herman Jr. set what is believed to be a world's record for organised baseball here last night when he started his second triple play in two consecutive games.
Baseball Commissioner A. B. Happy Chandler, who was among the crowd of 1420 here for the local opening of the Kitty league, said it was the only such performance he could remember.
Herman, second baseman for Clarksville and son of the former Chicago Cub infielder, took a line drive from Roger Werner's bat in the seventh inning with runners on first and second base. He whipped the ball to Shortstop Dick Matchat at second and Matchat threw to Don Stevens at first for the third out.
Herman had started a triple play the previous night at Hopkinsville.