Final Stats

Fuller stats are unavailable due to the CUPE strike that continues to shut down the main branch of the local library. However, this story will suffice for now. The batting numbers are out of focus on the page I'm reading from, so they're as accurate as I can make them out. The averages should be OK.

TACOMA, Sept. 12—Glen (Jeep) Stetter nearly skidded off the road but managed to hang on to win his second Western International League batting title, final figures released by the league office here Tuesday, disclosed.
Stetter, the chunky Spokane outfielder, dropped to .362 from his .374 of last week, but that was good enough to nose out Tacoma's Dick Greco, who checked in with a final figure of .361. Greco, the big Tacoma outfielder, was 11 points off the pace the preceding week, but Stetter could manage only seven hits in 26 trips to the plate during the week, and the slump nearly proved costly.
Stetter thus became the first Western International leaguer to win the crown twice, his other title coming back in 1946 when he was with Wenatchee. That year he hit .366.
Honors in the power department were monopolized by Greco, as the Tacoman not only led the league in home runs but in runs batted in. Greco was also the only batsman to rap out more than 200 hits during the capaign, his total reaching 203.
The Bengal outfielder clouted 36 home runs during the season which was 12 more than runner-up Gene Thompson of Victoria could muster. Greco held a commanding lead in RBIs, driving across 154 mates, while Jim Warner of Tri-City was second with 131.
Final averages (includes top 20 players who have participated in 100 or more games):
                   G   AB  H  RBI HR Ave.
Stetter, Spo. ... 136 500 181 111 15 .362
Greco, Tac. ..... 146 562 203 154 36 .361
McCawley, Yak. .. 105 400 238  81  7 .345
Thompson, Vic. .. 146 361 184 106 24 .334
Warner, T-C ..... 348 548 182 131 20 .334
Rossi, Spokane .. 141 507 167 109 18 .329
Clarkson, Van. .. 144 585 191  61 14 .327
Cameron, T-C .... 117 427 139  90 12 .326
Vanni, Spo. ..... 104 418 134  60  3 .324
Bryant, T-C ..... 139 547 175  94  2 .320
Quinn, Tacoma ... 145 581 183 112  9 .315
Ragni, Wen. ..... 100 202  92  40  3 .315
Zuvella, Yak. ... 180 301 104  61  4 .314
Gifford, Tac. ... 146 319 161  70  3 .312
Mohr, Spokane ... 109 456 142  47  0 .312
A. Spaeter ...... 145 621 193  53  0 .311
Hjelmaa, Wen. ... 142 5?? 16?  62  0 .311
Cheso, Yakima ... 140 521 162 108  5 .311
Pocekay, Wen. ... 150 578 178  9? 13 .308
Fracchia, Wen. .. 139 442 145  9?  6 .306

TACOMA, Sept. 12—Idle through the final week of the campaign, Cy Greenlaw, veteran Tri-City left elbower, backed into the Western International league pitching championship when Vancouver's Sandy Robertson met defeat in the wind-up game of the season.
Greenlaw finished with a 9-2 won-lost record for an .818 percentage, as against Robertson's 12-3 and .800.
Bob Kerrigan, Tacoma southpaw, emerged as the league's big winning with 26 triumphs against 7 defeats, establishing a new W-I record in the process. The old standard of 25 wins was set in 1948 by Joe Blankenship, who toiled for Victoria that year.
Kerrigan and Robertson both gained an interest in another record by posting 12 consecutive successes, thus equaling a mark set by Frank Nelson of Spokane in 1948.
Lloyd Dickey of Yakima captured the strikeout crown with 214, while Don Ferrarese established another league record by issuing 209 bases on balls, wiping out the mark of 186 passes given up by Claude Williams, also a Wenatchee elbower, during the 1941 season.
The final unofficial records, released Tuesday by the office of Robert B. Abel, league president:
                       W  L  SO Pct.
Greenlaw, T-C ........ 9  2  40 .818
Robertson, Van. ..... 12  3  53 .800
Kerrigan, Tac. ...... 26  7 114 .788
Soriano, Yak. ........ 6  2  39 .750
Domenichelli, Yak. .. 13  6  65 .684
Kipp, Tac. ........... 8  4  56 .667
Dickey, Yak. ........ 18 10 214 .648
Stone, T-C .......... 10  6  40 .625
Ragni, Wen. ......... 18 11 151 .621
McCollum, T-C ....... 21 13 120 .618
Bradford, Yak. ...... 14  9 143 .609
Larner, Yak. ........ 17 11 109 .607
Dahle, Wen. ......... 13  9 118 .591
Powell, Yak. ........ 13  9  84 .591
Loust, Tac. ......... 13  9  45 .591