Friday, August 25, 1950

              W  L  PCT GB
Tacoma ..... 81 48 .651 —
Yakima ..... 82 50 .621 ½
Tri-City ... 70 60 .538 11½
Wenatchee .. 69 62 .527 13
Victoria ... 58 74 .439 24½
Salem ...... 55 75 .423 26½
Vancouver .. 53 74 .417 27
Spokane .... 52 77 .403 29

WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 25—The Tri-City Braves stretched their Western International league third place to a game and one-half by defeating the fourth-place Wenatchee Chiefs, 9 to 3 here Friday night. It was the seventh loss in a row for Wenatchee.
Tri-City ............ 200 700 000—9 15 0
Wenatchee ....... 001 000 002—3 10 1
Nicholas and Pesut; Dahle, Treichel (4) and Neal.

Salem ......... 101 200 004— 8 10 0
Spokane ..... 000 000 100—1 5 2
McNulty and Beard; Yerkes, Aubertin (6), Curran (9) and Weatherwax.

YAKIMA, Aug. 25—Yakima’s second-place Bears kept pace with the pace-setting Tacoma Tigers by trouncing Victoria 13-5 Friday night in a Western International Baseball League series opener.
Two wild Victoria pitchers—starter Jim Propst and his relief Aldon Wilkie—gave up eight runs to the Bears in the first two innings on three hits, seven walks and two hit batters. Propst walked five batters and Wilkie two. Both hit batsmen. Warren Noyes, third Victoria hurler, held the Bears in check except in the sixth when three hits produced four runs.
Rookie Bob McGuire and Lou Novikoff hit homers for Victoria, their second and 11th respectively. McGuire also hit a double and single and drove in two Victoria runs.
Frank Mascaro led the Yakima attack, batting in six runs with two singles and a double.
Victoria .......... 011 101 100— 5 8 0
Yakima .......... 260 104 00x— 13 9 2
Propst, Wilkie (2), Noyes (3) and Ronning; Domenichelli and Tiesiera.

TACOMA, Aug. 25—A six-hit pitching job by southpaw Tom Kipp, supported by some long-distance clouting which included Dick Greco’s 31st home run of the season, and another round-tripper by Sol Israel, gave onrushing Tacoma Tigers their eighth consecutive victory and their nineteenth in 21 starts as they defeated Vancouver Capilanos 8-1 in a Western International Baseball League series opener Friday night.
Capilanos bunched three of their hits to register their lone tally, and the uprising might have gone further but for Greco’s perfect throw to the plate to complete a double play after catching a fly ball to his sector with one out and the bases loaded.
Ronnie Gifford opened the Tacoma fourth with a single for the first hit off Vancouver’s Bob Snyder, whereupon Greco belted his four-bagged deep into “Greco’s Garden,” that fenced off section of centre field some 395 feet from the plate in the Tacoma park.
Vancouver ...... 001 000 000 — 1 6 1
Tacoma ........... 000 330 11x— 8 9 0
Snyder, King (5) and Heisner; Kipp and Sheets.

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
By The Associated Press
(includes games of Thursday, Aug. 24)

                      G  AB  H  RBI HR Ave.
Stetter, Spokane .. 117 419 154  88 12 .368
Greco, Tacoma ..... 128 487 174 132 30 .357
McCawley, Yak. ..... 86 327 110  65  5 .336
Rossi, Spokane .... 123 437 145  94 17 .332
Vanni, Spokane ..... 96 391 127  52  3 .325
Thompson, Vic. .... 128 482 156  97 22 .324
Warner, Tri-City .. 127 472 153 106 16 .324
Home runs (top five)—Greco, Tacoma, 30; Thompson, Victoria, 22; Rossi, Spokane, 17; Warner, Tri-City, 16; Mead, Vancouver, 15.
Runs batted in (top five)—Greco, Tacoma, 132; Westlake, Yakima, 110; Warner, Tri-City, 106; Quinn, Tacoma, 99; Thompson, Victoria, 97.
Pitching (top five)—Robertson, Vancouver, 12-2; Kerrigan, Tacoma, 22-6; Kipp, Tacoma, 6-2; Greenlaw, Tri-City, 8-3; Larner, Yakima, 16-9; Powell, Yakima, 12-7.

NON WIL MINOR LEAGUE NEWS
Three Minor Loop Hurlers Toss Perfect Games
New York, Aug. 26—(AP)—Three minor league pitchers hurled no-hit, no-run games last night, one registering the second perfect game of his career.
Dan Stephens, a 20-year-old lefthander, pitched Omaha to a 5-0 victory over Denver in the Western league for his second no-hitter. He hurled the first one in 1947 for Albany, Ga., of the Georgia-Florida league. Stephens walked three.
Righthander Higgins Duncan of Douglas, Pa., retired 27 men in order in defeating Fitzgerald, 4-0, in the Georgia State league. He struck out 13.
Tony Segzda pitched York, Pa., to a 6-0 victory over Sunbury in the Interstate league. The 21-year-old righthander gave up two walks.
WILfan note: Someone at AP should learn what the difference is between a no-hitter and a perfect game. If you walk someone, or allow any baserunner, it's not a perfect game. The second contest was one.