Thursday 23 August 2007

Tuesday, July 11, 1950

STANDINGS
W L Pct GB
Tacoma ...... 47 34 .580 —
Wenatchee ... 48 36 .571 ½
Yakima ...... 48 37 .565 1
Tri-City .... 48 38 .558 1½
Spokane ..... 37 46 .446 11
Victoria .... 38 48 .442 11½
Salem ....... 34 46 .425 12½
Vancouver ... 33 48 .407 14


VANCOUVER, B.C. July 11 — A tenth-inning homer by Clint Cameron Tuesday night presented Tri-City Braves with a 6-5 win over the Vancouver Capilanos, tying their Western International league series at one game apiece.
George Nicholas coasted into the eighth inning with a 5-1 before running into trouble. The Braves nicked him for three straight singles for a run and then Nick Pesut's three-run homer tied the score.
Dick Faber also homered for Tri-City's first tally in the second inning. It gave the Braves six homers so far in the series.
Jim Olsen, the winning pitcher, was ejected from the game in the 10th inning when he protested called ball. He was replaced by Cy Greenlaw for the last two outs.
Bill Brenner got on base in the last of the 10th but was hit by a batted ball while running from first to second.
Tri-City ........ 010 000 040 1—6 11 0
Vancouver ... 320 000 000 0—5 11 0
J. Nicholas, Olsen (1), Greenlaw (10) and Pesut; G. Nicholas and Heisner, Brenner (9).

TACOMA, July 11— Dick Greco, slugging Tacoma outfielder, belted his 18th and 19th homers of the season together with a double and a single in five times at bat, to lead the
front-running Tacoma Tigers to a 20-3 victory over the Spokane Indians here Tuesday
His first, a grand slam clout off Ward Rockey, spoiled the "Rockey Night" festivities put on by the former Olympia prep star's capital city fans.
Greco bolstered his league leadership in three departments with his four-for five evening, hiking his batting average seven points to .370, increasing his home run advantage over Spokane's Joe Rossi to five and extending his runs-batted in total to 81.
Rossi homered for the losers—his 14th round tripper of the campaign.
Spokane ..... 010 020 000— 3 6 3
Tacoma ...... 505 015 33x—20 21 0
Rockey, Roberts (1) and Rossi, Courage (7), Carter and Sheets.

SALEM, July 11— Wenatchee's Jay Ragni shut out the Oregonian on seven bingles to give the Chiefs a 2-0 victory in the opener of their Western International League series here Tuesday night.
His teammates got six hits from Ray McNulty but paired one with a walk and stolen base to score in the initial frame and tallied again in the ninth on Don Farrarase's single followed by Jerry Ballard's triple.
Wenatchee ........ 100 000 001—2 6 0
Salem ................. 000 000 000—0 7 0
Ragni and Neal; McNulty and Beard.

VICTORIA, B. C., July 11—Yakima Bears walked all over Victoria Athletics—a 13-0 cakewalk— Tuesday night after bowing 4-3 in the first game of their Western International league doubleheader.
Victoria snatched its first game win over Yakima with a three run surge in the eigth inning. The rally was highlighted by Bill Dunn's two run triple off Dewey Soriano. Bill McCawley's homer for the Bears in the ninth made it close.
Yakima's Bill Bradford held Victoria to four hits in the finale while his mates garnered 18.
Victoria leads the series 2-1.
First Game
Yakima ...... 000 100 2—3 7 1
Victoria ..... 000 103 x—4 8 3
Savarese, Soriano (6) and Tiesiera; Mishasek and Ronning.
Second Game
Yakima ....... 011 100 053—13 18 1
Victoria ....... 000 000 000— 0 4 1
Bradford and Tiesiera, Noyes, Wilkie (3), Burkich (9) and Ronning.

Stay-at-Home Sandy Leads W.I.L. Hurlers
TACOMA, July 11—Despite the fact that he failed to see action during the week Sandy Robertson, Vancouver right hander, continued to lead the Western International league pitchers statistics released by the league office here today disclosed.
Robertson's record of seven straight wins without a defeat put him in the No 1 spot ahead of Tri-City's Gene Roenspie who won one and lost one during the week to bring his mark to 8-2
for the season. Tacoma's Bob Kerrigan plugged along in third spot with a record of 14-6, having
won one and lost two during a busy week.
DICKEY STILL TOPS
Yakima's Lloyd Dickey continued his reign as strikeout king of the loop, upping his whiff total to 136 from 118, and Wenatchee's Don Ferrarese walked 17 batsmen in two games to raise the number of free passes he has issued to 143 to hold a commanding lead in the walking man department.
Records of the top 10 pitchers:
Name W L SO Pct.
Robertson, Van .... 7 0 25 1.000
Roenspie, Tac ..... 8 2 40 .800
Kerrigan, Tac .... 14 6 51 .700
Marshall, Vic ..... 9 4 85 .692
Ragni, Wen ....... 11 5 90 .688
Holder, Spok ...... 6 3 19 .667
Stone, T-C ........ 9 5 36 .643
McCollum, T-C .... 12 7 65 .643
Tierney, Sal ..... 12 8 78 .600
Larner, Yak ....... 9 6 64 .600

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