Friday, August 4, 1950

              W  L  Pct GB
Yakima ..... 69 42 .623 —
Tacoma ..... 62 44 .585 4½
Wenatchee .. 62 49 .559 7
Tri-City ... 60 49 .550 8
Vancouver .. 46 61 .430 21
Victoria ... 47 63 .426 21½
Salem ...... 45 61 .425 21½
Spokane .... 43 65 .398 24½

KENNEWICK, Aug. 4—Tri-City outhit and outwalked Spokane for a 16-10 Western International league victory over the Indians Friday night.
In all, the two teams piled up a total of 28 base hits and 15 men walked. Two men on each side were hit by pitchers.
Spokane, suffering from chronic pitching troubles, sent a different hurler to the mound each of the first four innings. Starter Jack Conant was charged with the loss and Cy Greenlaw, who saw the Brabes through the first eight innings, was named the winner.
Tri-City shortstop Buddy Peterson was the star performer of the game, driving in six runs with a home in the first inning, and a double and a single.
Spokane .... 401 101 021—10 13 0
Tri-City ..... 340 500 04x—16 15 3
Conant, Aubertin (2), Yerkes (3), Rossi (4) and Rossi, Weatherwax (4); Greenlaw, Olsen (8) and Pesut.

SALEM, Aug. 4—Salem's Senators whipped the Victoria Athletics, 10-3, in the second game of a double-header Friday night to make a clean sweep of the twin-bill. Salem took the first game, 5-3.
John Marshall came back on two days rest to lose the opener and leave his record at 12-7. Marshall engaged in almost continual argument with plate umpire Dutch Bergman.
The game was highlighted by a triple play turned by Salem in the first inning. Bob McGuire walked, went to third on Marty Krug Jr.'s single, and scored as gene Gaviglio bobbled Lou Novikoff's ground ball. With runners on first and second, Thompson lined a pitch right at shortstop Wally Scott. Scott's throw doubled Krug at second and Gaviglio's relay caught Novikoff at first base.
Al Ronning singled in Jim Moore to give the A's a 2-0 lead in the second inning and singles by McGuire, Krug and Novikoff made it 3-2 in the third after the Senators broke through for a run in the second.
A pair of singles, a walk and a costly error by Moore sent in three Salem runs in the third and the A's could never catch up as Bill Osborn blanked them through the last four innings.
The A's outhit the Solons again in the nightcap, but could not cope with Jim Propst's walks. He gave up six of them in the second inning along with a single to force in four runs. Two more came in off Propsyt in the fifth and four off John Brkich in the last two innings completed the Salem scoring.
Hal Danielson drove in all of Victoria's runs, singling in Moore and John Hack in the seventh and walking with the bags loaded in the ninth.
Ralph Lineberger, 21-year-old rookie, who has been trying for his first victory, made it with a route-going performance.
First Game
Victoria ......... 111 000 0—3 9 1
Salem ........... 013 001 x—5 7 2
Marshall and Ronning; Osborn and Allison.
Second Game
Victoria ......... 000 000 201—3 9 1
Salem ........... 040 200 22x—10 8 1
Propst, Noyes (6), Brkich (7) and Danielson; Lineberger and Beard.

YAKIMA, Aug. 4—President Dewey Soriano shifted from the front office to the pitcher's mound Friday night and pitched the Yakima Bears to a 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Capilanos in the first game of a doubleheader. The start was Soriano's first of the season, although he holds three previous victories in relief stints.
Everything went fine for Vancouver starter Carl Gunnarson until the fourth inning when they nicked him for three runs and the ball game.
The second game saw a combined 32 hits as Yakima outlasted Vancouver, 13-11. Kevin King started for the Caps and gave up eight hits, two wild pitches, three free passes and four runs before Bill Whyte replaced him.
Gunnarson came back to the hill after Yakima nailed Whyte for eight hits, six runs and two bases on balls. The veteran portsider fared no better than before, as the Bears jumped on him for eight hits and three runs, and beat him a second time.
First Game
Vancouver ... 001 000 0—1 4 0
Yakima ........ 000 310 x—4 8 0
Gunnarson, Alvari (4) and Heisner; Soriano and Tornay.
Second Game
Vancouver .... 001 230 000—11 12 2
Yakima ......... 203 003 05x—13 20 6
King, Whyte (2), Gunnarson (6) and Heisner; Powell, Larner (9) and Tiesler.

WENATCHEE, Aug 4—Tacoma Tigers strengthened their hold on second place Friday night by rallying for five runs in the ninth to down the third-place Wenatchee Chiefs, 11-10. The Chiefs had gone ahead, 10-8, in the previous inning with a four-run cluster, highlighted by relief pitcher Hank Sciarra's three-run homer.
Tacoma ......... 101 320 105—11 17 1
Wenatchee .... 001 300 240—10 13 3
Knezovich, Loust (8), Anderson (9) and Sheely; Blaneksnhip, Sciarra (8), Treichel (9) and Len Neal, Billings (4).

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
(Includes games of Thursday, August 3)


   G  AB  H  RBI HR Ave.
Stetter, Spok. ... 97 354 127  73  9 .349
Greco, Tacoma ... 105 401 141 102 23 .352
Vanni, Spokane ... 81 333 113  42  3 .333
Thompson, Vic. .. 105 405 135  88 18 .333
Zuvella, Yak. .... 75 252  82  49  3 .325
Rossi, Spokane .. 103 364 117  72 16 .321
Runs batted in—Greco (Tacoma) 102, Thompson (Victoria) 88, Westlake (Yakima) 86, Quinn (Tacoma) 84, Mead (Vancouver) 82, Cheso (Yakima) 81, Warner (Tri-City) 80.
Home runs—Greco (Tacoma) 23, Thompson (Victoria) 17, Rossi (Spokane) 16, Mead (Vancouver) 12, Stetter (Spokane) 9, Pocekay (Wenatchee) 9.
Pitching—Robertson (Vancouver) 11-0, Kerrigan (Tacoma) 16-6, Ragni (Wenatchee), 15-7, Marshall (Victoria) 12-6, Roenspie (Tri-City) 8-4, Domenichelli (Yakima) 9-5, Stone (Tri-City) 9-5.