Thursday, August 31, 1950

              W  L  PCT GB
Yakima ..... 86 52 .623 —
Tacoma ..... 84 51 .622 ½
Tri-City ... 74 62 .544 11
Wenatchee .. 73 64 .533 13
Victoria ... 60 79 .432 27
Vancouver .. 57 77 .425 27½
Spokane .... 56 79 .415 29
Salem ...... 55 81 .404 30½

YAKIMA, Aug. 31 — Yakima's Bears eased into first place in the Western International league by a slim one percentage point when they dropped the erstwhile leaders from Tacoma. 9-5 in a free scoring rubber game here Thursday night. The win gave Yakima the series two games to one.
The game was played before the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Yakima. A paid attendance was 4,859.
Tacoma ..... 000 001 310—5 9 0
Yakima ...... 300 050 10x—8 14 0
Knezovich, Anderson (2), Carter (5), Loust (7), Conger (8) and Fischer; Bradford, Powell (7) and Tiesiera.

KENNEWICK, Aug. 31—Veteran Lou McCollum won his 19th Western International league game of the season Thursday night, pitching Tri-City to a 5 to 3 win over the Spokane Indians.
McCollum, who has lost 11, scatered seven Spokane hits, all singles. The win gave the Braves the series, two games to one.
The Braves' Dick Faber broke a 3-3 tie in the seventh with a lusty two-run single off reliefer Jack Curran who came on for Spokane when starter Jim Holder weakened.
Clint Cameron gave the Braves a 1-0 lead in the fourth with a powerful homer.
Spokane ...... 000 001 100—3 7 0
Tri-City ....... 000 120 20x—5 9 1
Holder, Curran (5), Roberts and Rossi, Weatherwax (2); McCollum and McKeegan.

SALEM, Aug. 31—Tom Breisinger muzzled the Salem Senators on three hits Thursday night and also contributed some fancy stick work as the Wenatchee Chiefs roared to a 10-0 victory to make a sweep of the three-game series.
Wenatchee ... 000 144 001—10 12 2
Salem .......... 000 000 000—0 3 2
Breisinger and Neal; Osborn, Woodson (5), Burak (5) Lineberger (6) and Beard.

VICTORIA, Aug. 31—Victoria Athletics spanned a four-game losing streak and moved past Vancouver into fifth place in the WIL standings tonight when they edged the Capilanos before a crowd of 2,000 at Royal Athletic Park.
Marty Krug, Jr. batted in both Victoria runs as Aldon Wilkie, who pitched a no-hit, no-run game against the Caps the last time he faced them, bested rookie Dick Alvari in a well-played mound battle. Krug scored Wilkie with the first run of the game in the third when he bounced out and then lined a double to right centre in the seventh to score Bob McGuire from first and break a 1-1 deadlock.
The A’s made at least one hit in each inning but hit into three double plays. Len Tran picked up two of the six hits allowed by Wilkie to lead Vancouver batters.
Vancouver ...... 010 000 000—1 7 1
Victoria .......... 001 000 10x—2 9 3
Alvari and Brenner; Wilkie and Danielson.

WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
(Including games of Wednesday, Aug. 30)


   G  AB  H  RBI HR  Ave
Stetter, Spo. .... 122 439 162  98 14 .369
Greco, Tac. ...... 134 596 183 139 32 .362
Rossi, Spok. ..... 129 458 154 100 18 .336
McCawley, Yak. .... 92 348 117  68  5 .336
Thompson, Vic. ... 135 510 169 101 23 .331
Clarkson, Van. ... 131 532 175  71 10 .329
Runs batted in—Greco (Tacoma) 139, Warner (Tri-City) 115, Westlake (Yakima) 111, Quinn (Tacoma) 102, Thompson (Victoria) 101.
Home runs—Greco (Tacoma) 32, Thompson (Victoria) 23, Rossi (Spokane) 18, Mead (Vancouver) 18, Warner (Tri-City) 17.
Pitching—Robertson (Vancouver) 12-2, Kerrigan (Tacoma) 24-6, Greenlaw (Tri-City) 8-3, Powell (Yakima) 13-7, Domenichelli (Yakima) 11-6.